People wonder how politics works in Britain ~ and like elsewhere in the world it does not. Here then a guide to the parties here in our disunited kingdom, and I've used a seat in Edinburgh as it's as good as any other.
First off the recent local elections were extended in Wales and Scotland to devolved nation elections, and in short the Scots and Welsh want to be separated altogether from the English, given our own politicians are drongos.
Viewing from left to right:
Long-haired guy. Don't know, get off.
An independent, invariably individual crackpots exercised by pot-holed roads.
Labour Party, exclusive to metrosexuals within the M25 motorway around London.
Lib Dems, for rich people who've gone off the Conservatives.
Conservatives, the oldest party in the UK and clearly demented.
Reform UK, more Conservative than they and more working-class than Labour.
The Gannets, campaigning for a heavier fish diet.
Scottish National Party, who normally win here but didn't in this case.
Green Party, big in Europe whom they'd like to re-join and smoke pot.
And if ever there was an argument for less democracy, this was probably it. As the gannet said as it left, "Good-bye and thanks for all the fish".
