UK OK

To be honest, I’m struggling to get too excited by the UK election results, which were broadly as expected, i.e. Labour romped home while the Tories were routed. The latter, however, still have about 120 seats, and Reform got four [correction: it actually wound up being five] including one for Nigel Farage. That’s four five more than should’ve been acceptable to anyone, but the UK never was immune to fascism, crypto- or otherwise, was it… of course, some wits have said that Farage winning his seat was actually the worst thing for him cos now he’ll have to actually do something to keep his constituency happy rather than just lurk in the background… but I fear he’ll be fine with that; he’s finally got an actual place in government, however small, which I don’t think he’ll give up easily, and he’ll be perfectly happy to do things as long as he can make things worse for the people he hates.

And frankly Labour under Keir Starmer inspires me about as much the Democrats under Biden and the ALP under Albo. As I saw someone say on Mastodon, the Conservatives may have lost but the conservatives won:

A song that, alas, will almost certainly never not be relevant. On the plus side, though, most of the worst examples of the Tories lost their seats, so we can bid not especially fond farewells to Liz Truss (who blamed the party’s loss on having to obey laws that stopped them from booting out them damned furriners; I expect to see her in Farage’s gang sooner rather than later), Michael Fabricant’s lunatic hair and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s general 19th century undertaker’s demeanour… and speaking of whom:

Much like the giant fellow in the top picture, it feels like Baked Bean Man here entered the electoral race purely to force Mogg to appear in a photo like this with him. It would, frankly, be worth having to stand right next to the cunt like that.

Meanwhile, my favourite non-winner of the day:

Well done, that bin. And let’s not forget:

Less than 200 votes for Pissy Parker! That was worth the effort, wasn’t it, K-J Kunt? Slightly bothersome that she got even that many people on her side who couldn’t see through her, but at least several thousand more people did. All told, not entirely satisfying but at least it’s also not exactly the far right surge we saw in France recently… not yet, anyway.