He don't want to hit all the hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the Huai offices in Culver Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with antigens, be James Harkin and Andy Murray, and this is Uk General Election special podcast, the only a general election special thought passed out there. That makes absolutely no mention whatsoever of the Uk General election, so once again we've gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go. starting with fact, number one James Harken, okay, my fucked this week is that the first thing was a parliament. So the first thing called a thing. First thing called the thing: was a parliament parliament, this

is an etymology thing and let symbology okay. So let me get this right. The oldest known parliament, which is still going, is the althing at which is in Iceland that has been going since the tenth century and that was called althing from the icelandic, which they used for parliaments and then in old English. They used this word thing to mean the parliaments as well, and then they used thing to mean a place where people got together and decided all laws and stuff like that, and then a thing was something you brought to the parliament. If you had a problem like it was your you know, my fingers that my neighbor is stealing my goats

and then a thing became any old thing and then it became what it is. Today, why, yes yeah maternal sense here the journey of us gaining? So basically I thought we just talk about the history of parliaments in Iceland. Parliament sincerely. I because Ireland, like I said, was the oldest ever parliaments. It was nine thirty and it was basically everyone would turn up to this particular part of Iceland. It's actually the place where the north American on the European Continent continents are right. Next to each other, you can jump for once the other I've been there is quite cool our and that place is called thing failure and yeah. It was that it was going from nine thirty to seventeen. Ninety nine that it was abolished for a few years and then reinstated in eighteen. Forty four it's been continuous ever since I lie the simplicity of the icelandic terms like having it in things, failed didn't Ladys denying that decisions on law rock to type

which is in the middle of thing fields when they met as originally yeah. That's so good! I just really like icelandic politics, mainly because of one character. I've come across and looking at the site and he's shaking his head. John ignore the identity on producing a surname right. Did you read about John than our night talking oarsmen tacit key? Basically, he set up a statistical party called the best path and I got the idea of the best party- was He was just going to challenge all of the things that he thought was wrong. That politicians were doing so part of his political promises was that he said that everyone would get free, towels and swimming pools, yet a polar bear of her Reykjavik, Zoo, okay, all kinds of things for weeks, lings. What do you think that make? But I know, but I'm voting for and he wanted to Disney land theirs.

well and but he and he actually got in, which is really exciting. He's like a post, punk guy as well it when it's a gay pride day. He dresses up in drag and one of the problems was with the free towels. He did it justice, joke about them when he got in. He realized that actually they had to make a lot of cuts, because there have been really bad economic problems in Iceland all right, so he couldn't give free pet cells to people after all, so he couldn't keep his mouth double the price of tunnels. They asked him about any said. He I had to raise everything that could be raised. All service fees and no free tells fact double the price. Why might by favouring figure all about him? Is that upon being elected, he said that he would not enter a coalition government with the who had watched the series- the wire me so another think about icelandic politics. They had the world's first openly gay had said

It was Joe on a secure, Dar thought here and she was lesbian and she was head of government from the first if every two thousand and nine sprinkle yeah a few other things I some really good at they ve had more Nobel prizes per capita than anywhere else. Apart from a few very, very, very small places that have a FEMA if there's any one guy in the country. That is what I want a country where one hundred per cent of people haven't. They have the most expensive big in the world. Why they expensive, just because in all the food over there and also it's a to do with that and their currency being very, very strong, yeah everything's, quite expensive, and Iceland isn't much. We talking we're talking five ten. That will last time I got the figures, which was a few years ago now and they've had a few troubles since then it was six dollars.

sixty seven, each for a big MAC, and that was compared to the equivalent of three dollars. Thirty, two in the! U why? Oh wow is twice as expensive as that with fries meal, I can either attend tonight. Do you know about icelandic horses know that very cool? Are they yes and they're? Very lonely. Is the most isolated breed in the world, so you're not allowed to import a horse into Iceland ever okay and you can leave if you're a horse, but once you leave, you can't go back yeah because they they are worried about the icelandic horses, getting diseases or foreign horses infecting them. This is the puzzle one of the oldest Lowell in the world. It was supposed to be the creed

If nine eight, which I mean no one, no one's quite sure- because records are obviously quite scant, but some it's quite it's quite difficult because they lost about seventy percent of their horses and seventeen. Eighty two because of a volcanic ash poisoning- oh yeah yeah, so there was slim pickings there, but they've they have recovered since seventy. Ninety two yeah it's difficult with icelandic history, because it kind of morphs into the sagas quite a lot right so and Hill. Nineteen eightys, the icelandic sagas were taught us history. What a lot of my love my story, though so they found, for instance, the history of the fact that it was, I slander, people first go to America. There's argue logical evidence which exactly backs up what was in the sawhorse, which said that I think is kind of half true and half. Maybe your piece, the yes vote, has kind of like come Sweden. We have mentioned the fact that swedish king,

about. I was eight or nine of them a fictional because they come from their legends. Don't nice, though King Swedish, king, Charles the island as a sixteenth or seventeenth is actually anyone be eleven. And here's another old old law, speaking of parliaments and laws, as you were, since thirteen thirteen, it's been illegal to wear a suit of armor in the houses of parliament, and it still is an eagle say. He can't do that. Why not, I guess cause it was. It would have seemed like a decorate like maybe a duration of wool, like you again to all the widely ITALY, legal to have a suit of armor that, but they do have still on the. In the for the Mps and also in the lifts they have puts, feel soul would the lifts. Apparently there was a guy way through their souls remembered the fourteenth century. They had been left to put this. Let us do so. It's going out of fashion. You write about.

Hundred years later, but he didn't, it was fashionable in the houses of parliaments are still very in it. Also, how long is the journey of belief? Yeah it's going to take the sword of the old lesser. They were a slur in the fourteenth century know I do now. I think it's just must be a customary thing, apparently quite love plastic, so that hooks onto the hanging. in the cloak credits going on a black. There is the idea that we mention this before that you're not allowed to die, or that is illegal to die out of common yeah yeah It's not. This is not true because they're not so you can dilate. Of course, yeah he's going to stop here. Most of the it's illegal to die, no money? Sorry, not illegal, but is not recognised, sitting and I in parliament. Yet no one actually knows whether about methane comes from. Who really that you'll find my ass

well, gee speaking of the english houses of parliament, the origin of the phrase in the bag. I think one of the best estimates of where that comes from is from the partition bag, which is the bag that is hung on the back of the speaker's chair Is this not true or no looking at me rarely with true, because I just think it from there being bags yeah. It was that pig, it's a yeah automated I mean. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's true where's that I can't tell you because it's just don't praise yeah, so why it so silly Harlem said I should clarify. I mean the metaphorical meaning of in the bag, to mean that I want it to happen, is going to happen from a paw in parliament as a bag velvet by the hands of the back of the speakers Chen. It was if you wanted to lodge a petition in parliament and you would

to announce it out how since the fairy just anathema logical, very where's, your petition in the bag the pig back, ok time for fact, number two, and that is just didn't scheme. Yet my thought is that one of the law Just majorities and a brazilian local election was won by rhino. Sir Reiner elected well annoyingly. She didn't get elected. So this is a right. Also, good with a rhino asylum policy and as a nineteen, fifty eight, the council elections, and she just got this massive, Jersey. So this campaign was started by a bunch of students a few days earlier,

I have to go out into the ballot paper and a hundred thousand people voted for Catherine ECHO and the second highest vote number of votes. Anyone go in the election was ten thousand, but she didn't get elected. To office land. Why? That's? Ok, she's, a some someone little detail of bureaucracy which rhinos who came second guy and yeah. It doesn't care echoing rubbish as well baby. So the idea was the some voting, something so hideous and ugly and stupid, and yet it's appropriate going be better this job than than a politician. While I have acceptance speech

was on who doubted me along the way coming for you yeah, so on animals being elected things, okay, and I can highly recommend the Wikipedia page list of nonhuman electoral candidates, which is very strong and has some examples please well, there's the and I'm quoting directly at this New Zealand's Mcgill. A caddy serious party is the name of the party that entered the goat in a local election and then it says, but their attempt to have a hedgehog stand for. Was unsuccessful, also in two thousand and one a called sausage was thanks in advance and must say- and I mean in the municipal elections there and he got four percent of the votes, which is a lot more than quite a lot of fringe candidate, and then a few years later he went on their equivalent of big brother, which is called secret store. All I remember that yeah and because the the point is that when you enter, you have to have a secret and his secret was that he was

the election he had to enter assumed name, so he entered the house with the nickname secret, because that was the nickname the if the whole house was about everything candidate. Having didn't they all have the nickname secrets. What else is on that list? I one if you there, there was a sock called at. Isaak, who attempted to run for the federal Party during the federal election of two thousand and eleven. How does he fare? He attempted to run so I don't think they allowed him to be. It's a shame. Actually, one of the people who's running against Ed Miliband in this election after the official monster raving Loony Party, is called Nick. The flying brick by brick he's a human.

Okay, imagine the disappointment. When you thought he was a he voted for him, and then it turns out to be a haven or maybe it's a pleasant surprise. It was like I voted for a break because it was the lesser of two evils. He turned out to be a person is great news yeah. He voted for you because of the housing crisis, since you mentioned the most raving loony party, so going back to the Kakkar ECHO Rhino Fight, Canada's equivalent of the monster raving Loony Party was called the Rhinoceros party Our I counted, the women of the suggested coincidence it's? No, it was named after Cocker ECHO, so they had some quite fun. Policies in the and they determined to repeal the of gravity too. I didn't exist. So as I know, Although we are doing in the ceiling which provide so they provide higher education by building taller schools. They said they'd the thousand islands, to make sure America didn't steal any, and then they had this platform this

action platform and nineteen? Eighty four, the Rhino Party of Canada, why they declared war on belt, These are my warm Belgium, because, in an episode of tin, tin of Roy NO had been blown up and it turned out that rhino was million. The rhinos Grund mother, we as the Rhine. I was the nominal leader of the Rhine, a Party of Canada, others, fictional rhino was the union is in the run. A sorry without real rhino, yellow his mother was a fictional right happen, so you're they said they declared and then the ambassador to Canada from Belgium decide so he made an out and saying I saw I had a crisis on my hands and the they declared war, saying that when you read the only way they wouldn't actually go to war with Belgium was if the. If Belgium handed over a case of muscles on a case of Belgium, bear to the Rhine, authorise delivered to the Rhine offers is kind. Quarters, as I said on the belgian ambassador, to actually made announcement saying I will

on this over. I don't want grant international crisis and they turned up in money, ill and they all met and they have a really great day. Easing muscles and drinking beer and war was a versatile yeah. What thanks? So we should really declare war on anyone who we are, free beer from everyone. The champagne region you haven't, they ve been pissing me off for a while just about Brazil, which is why the writer was elects, is and funny people gangs of elected dive, honest so extraordinary that recently, I think that's your last year, the highest number of votes ever recorded in a congressional. Numberzilla husband so he just been elected to Congress for South Paolo and yeah he's got the highest number of votes ever received by anyone is up out of his election platform included. Always slogans accrue to things like if it can't get any worse vote, terror Rica? What does a federal

congressmen. Do, I really don't know but vote from an alert. You know, if elected, I promise I'll help will result in families, especially mine, and he's just a complete joke and got more votes than anyone else in Sao Paulo has ever said. It's amazing. They really like giving it the proper election candidates that yeah and presumably Quahog canvassing is a cloud because you called me saying to people, check, my head, yeah you're, going to be always really surprised by the fact that, as someone who I've read tons of comedy biographies comedians, Finally, my heroes in so many comedians go into politics insulted in America. The moments Alfred can you society nightlife rider. He's now is now politician. Eddies are too said that he wants to run rattler end seems to be our Mary currently in the in the election. Went on talking about here, I I'm-

surprise. I there's an old comedian in America, Cold Gracie, Alan Racy Alan. I was one of the top comedians of her day in America, household names and she ran. She went on a thirty four city tore. She was running for president. She, candidate of the surprise Party, but the ones can you like and the sex party. Now, why was that? Firstly, the fancy dress party yeah yeah, the House Party. We have actually buy housing variable yeah. This is what my favorite thing just relevant to conversation we had earlier, so she had a kangaroo as a massacre and her slogan was it's in the back yeah, so speaking of famous people becoming going politics, of course, Ronald Reagan was a famous actor before he became president.

and but when he was running, the tv stations couldn't show his films, because if they did, they would have to allow equal time to the other candidates so if he has a movie which is like ninety minutes longer hundred miles long, the other guy has one hundred minute party election broadcast. I think they should they should have forced one of the other guys to make available. yeah that'll be in a western, oh yeah. That's a great idea in the Secretary of State was called Donald Reagan, wasn't a yeah okay and that one similar thing witches some animals vote in their own elections, so they're not getting votes in our elections. during their old things, so monkeys have police evaded. While they have their equivalent. Let's say so. They have peacemakers who

as the trouble will kind of come in and sought out what it sounds like they're more like. Can? U N peacekeepers yeah? They are a bit like that, but, unlike the, U N peacekeepers that democratically elected and inferior monkeys better teeth to a more dominant member of the group, that's getting. Did, while monster are likely to have responsibility. Such is breaking up fights and if you remove, they peacekeepers from the grid But then also of nonsense happens and goes crazy amazing another animal who vote sometimes is Buffalo I'm. So if you have a load of buffalo and an area, and they need to decide which way to go they'll all kind of stand up in town and light, Doolittle Stretch thing and then they'll sit down and then put their heads in a certain direction and then once everyone's done, that which have a direction is the most common, the most democratically chosen, is a direction. They'll go out: how does a can they see, they can see

the other. How did I see, however, does the verdicts normally have someone looking over here you're right. I have like a person like collating the Carroll well you're ballot by shoving ahead in the world. Ok as anyone got anything else before we move on to speaking about political animals like in a non humans I do that. So I was got really into reading about David Cameron and George Osborne's pets and their relationships with each other unless they really do have a fascinating relationship, so as the official Moussa isn't that traditionally, who is the Prime Minister's cat he's supposed to keep the mouse out myself downing Street, so that was Cameron's cat too is called Larry was opposed last year that David Cameron has rebuffed calls for Larry to resign because he's too lazy there was. Prime ministerial dinner recently in a mouse, appeared assets. So large that was not doing his job, though a photograph taken

Larry. He was lying asleep in the corner for the entire duration of that dinner, so Larry thought cuts and go the George Osborne, it was a stray and is an awesome moussa. So ended up sort taking from Larry and Larry Infrared became joint mountains. I think Larry was that, as you know, the face of a cabinet mouthing frame is doing all the hard work and catching the mice and violent phrased. Payroll live alone. And you to believe it waterfront used to appear all over London. She just liked to wander. She used to be a straight overnight sort of of an election events and that kind of sound like the Cheshire cat, as well as the bills, like. You know, when a president or a prime minister's visiting your house, the sort of secret come into a super, the how it comes a mouse good Cameron lies here. Larry uses this evening about the cargo and yet

Classic was once found, I'm wandering the streets of Vauxhall by a woman at about five. In the morning he was working for a homeless charity who was trying to help out homeless. People who were sleeping rough, so she found Breyer and she called up the number on phrase it will collapse. Like always a chance of this second coming up account. Please- and she was quoted as saying I did slightly ironic that I've been up at five am trying to help twenty four people have been sleep. I rough into him and we couldn't find anywhere to send them, and then this can't get chauffeur driven home and and she did use it for some strong political satire as well. She tweeted found on the streets of Vauxhall, not everyone is as lucky as Freya George? Please stop causing homeless services. So if you want to make a hard hitting political point, I think find an Mps cats- and there also sounds like fry needs. A twitter account to rebuttal Homesite

what so, I'm not worth going back into her house cause. She kind of sounds like she's pissed off at friar, you're, right, she's, taking on fire who's, really the victims that phrase written I've been sent away to the countryside because they got a dog think that means phrase dead my god, I tell you all than usual, that she's been sent away and looked after really coffee by never saw the days with the last. They lie The ok time to move on the fact number three, that's my back. My back this week is Finland's. Parliament sometimes makes decisions in their Sona political decisions. Political decisions, such as decisions Sure we get out now Saunders, they'd love zones. So they saw that in the parliament that they do their parliament has a sauna. They just absolutely loves owners,

funds amazing speech by Guy called MR parties are still up a secretary of state and he gave this each of the International Sona Congress, which shall yeah they have- and this was in two thousand and ten, and it was actually in Tokyo that he gave us. So I'm just going to read you a bit of his speech. Ladies and gentlemen thereabout, three million saunas in Finland. More than one for every two of the five point, three million fins and did you know that Finland is a country where there are more saunas than cars practically. The houses in the rural areas have saunas of their own, it's hard to imagine a finished summer cottage by a lake without a sauna, and he goes on. into talking about how Nokia has built Saunders for their employees in companies, James said fins carry their saunas with them when they go all ninety eight yeah they over ninety eight finished diplomatic and consular missions in different parts of the have their own saunas. Ok

as a leading yeah. Our representatives here in Tokyo take pride in their Tucson. As the but see sooner in Tokyo, was the first finnish sauna built in Japan, but certainly not the last one. I am sure there are many finnish sauna in today's Japan and the japanese guests and friends keep doing to them. They love Saunders, I got govern. All though, apparently this was a statement made by not statement a comment made by only rain whose a finnish poses new, serving as a European Commissioner for financial affairs, and he said that we increased emphasis on gender equality is becoming harder and harder how political discussions and meetings and soon as because they all make its owner. So Finns. Don't gentlemen, as soon as medal of honor in a different zone at women. I guess there is something nice about doing a debate with all your clothes off, because it's like you're naked, you're, you're kind of letting yourself be shown. as you don't have anything else around you. You know, there's a story about

What to see in the british pound yellows minorities, it's a book ass, their anything. He read the system what about Caesar doing that, the Roman Senate. I think it was he someone said he's got a knife, I'd give them crocodile Dundee and he lifted up his toga to show his thigh, where you would apparently keep a knife and there was no knife there, so that was. pretty saucy Sophie get a knife considering what happened later, to be honest christian. That is, you know, just as a country or even as I was to say that during the cold war, Khrushchev visited Finland for present president of birthday and the two,

Have them stayed in a cell until five in the morning and they came out and they'd resolved a whole bunch of international issues. So the Christian came out and expressing preparedness to support finance desire to integrate and cooperate with the west, which is obviously quite radical thing, but they didn't want to do it at that stage. So yeah stay up till five am and a sauna with a soviet, and they will give you concessions it's a long time to be in a sona, I mean they might have gone at four. Thirty am I actually didn't know the stuff that Prime Minister would have been a ho couldn't breathe. So the good thing about Kaukonen is in the seventy eight elections. He won obviously, and they had a thing where they read out. The vote counts on the radio, as in they read out who everyone in the country votes was, and they did it in groups of five, and so this, like this long standing kind of joke in Finland, which

it's like, and can you that the best radio well Techadon? But you know so did they just not have any creative programming ideas for a few weeks, I think it was to show like show that there wasn't any dubiousness or anything they're saying right, the hair. All the votes were going to Peco oh, my god, imaginary, so we can have to start again or is it this time definitely you know they say night signs the job with Canada so when this is true about them?

I give them overseas, says that when finished troops have peacekeeping jobs overseas, they take a sauna with them. Even if the country they're going to is boiling hot- when they got to the Sinai Desert in the nineteen fifties they took, they built thirty, five thousand us with including women. access to cool down. Maybe a does the water if you wanna know I'd just think, is kind of like the fact that people in the North pole use refrigerators to keep things walk and to stop things for freezing Maison. So it's kind of like that, yeah, that is very cold, is actually a hot tub in the south pole.

For one a natural yeah yeah is basically this volcanic e sort of area on one of the islands of the South Pole ends the warders, its naturally heated, and so people actually go people or station that go and actually sit in. This natural hot time, the Italians over that bring their own jacuzzi anyway. This is like well, we gotta have our among the juicy brothers used to make plain. and propellers that was the original line of work. I guess it you could see really isn't it yearly, yeah yeah, exactly I'm dumb yeah, then one of them had a son who was very ill and needed. I think the the the massage qualities that a jacuzzi would happen. So they rigged up a very, very basic jacuzzi. It was just kind of like the pipe bubbling through some water to to his son, and it kind of took off like that plane yeah. So in Austria, there's a town called Linz in Austria,

and says health and fitness centres that that has had to deploy undercover naked security guards to infiltrate saw none of the much over other. They gotta stop bright, hanky panky going on this on and so that employees to sit there naked and the soldiers and then, if people start from other parts of Europe where they get there My god traditionally gave birth and soundness did that yeah because he was a young lay whispered say. Well, I never well. It makes on the other, Women traditionally gave birth in them because the the walls of traditional smoke, sauna were lined with soot and that had kind of bacteria resistant properties, supposedly which made them a bit more hygienic just line the walls of a room. That's a comfortable temperature was so in Moscow

on this year, a man got his testicles stolen. While yes What about you, but equally with a little luck, as I gotta put you count, didn't look it's a false color, we are not about the power in a locker was it was, a mistake that someone else leave their testicles and he just picked up the wrong pair later walking down the street these on my trailer bit, the man yeah, it might have been, can you just, them any better testicles. It actually says that you really horrible. Neither this guy. He was

and he started out in a bar, and this woman approached him inside talking to him and he explained to the news station that was interviewing him. We drunk, and then she says she suggested we go to a solar. Do a soldier- and the next thing here members is waking up out in the next morning at first The only items he noticed were missing is towel, the only notice were missing when tablet can be money. Oh, my god, my god. I've got a barely you're busy. So shall I got my phone? I've got my business, I my wallet- oh my god,

it's? I know, that's a terrible story. It is really terrible. The news station difficult, though, do remember that he chose to go into a zona. With this woman, he met at a bar and the new reported a lot of crime yeah it's about making jokes about another poor man. I know I really hope he's not listening and he's laughing wherever he is at every dinner party. You have to tell you, tell your boss know, it's so boring these guys have heard it come on. How did he not noticed that it had been done by a medical expert? The doctor said that it had been done very professionally wow. You can get upset. Tell you how to do that anyway, these days so companies, whoever stole his phone.

This is why we voted to leave with a third of the wallet and then they're like. What's this oh wow, this is one of those adversaries check your testicles of refuge at the arcade time. For our final back of the show, and that is Andrew Hunter Murray. My fact is that in british electoral history, eight candidates have been awarded no votes at all in the general election competition, company and a whistle blowing I'm. So this fact comes from a book. I shall then, if you guys I've heard of his got a book of heroic failures. Stephen pile at such a classic comedy book is the official hamburger, the not terribly good club, great. Britain,

if your main area of incompetence under the subsidiary area of incompetence that hasn't the club was shut down after it received thirty thousand applications for membership and was therefore too successful to exist before that. Stephen Powell, the author of the book, was himself expelled from the club for publishing a best selling book. So this the first

hero to achieve. This was a guy called Lord Garver and he was standing as the liberal candidate in Reigate and eighteen. Thirty, two and and turnout was about sixty six percent, which was about one hundred and fifty one people in that constituency at the time and of the one hundred and one people who voted everyone voted for the other guy. But there's a note in the electoral records was I looked up and it says Lord Gaffer was proposed. Without his knowledge, I haven't been able to find any more, so he didn't really have a chance to campaign if he didn't know that he was a Catholic and in Ghana and ninety ninety two there were candidates who got zero votes quite a few of them, even though they'd voted for themselves, and so they didn't

Oh how? Obviously it was the allegations of electoral fraud, but yeah yeah was it a survey? As you haven't said, I was reversed and yet I voted for myself. How is this possible ops of over yourself? You are allowed supposedly an old american elections of the nineteenth century you weren't actually allowed to enter the polling building. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Did you just have to make a paper, the airplane on the impulse it through the bars into the building it'll, be all kinds of crowds gathered outside, isn't that busy? But I need to check it. You say pauses, and that's just reminded me of you do have pups. Are polling booths, then you can the UK because anything can kind of be a polling booth. It normally schools all churches. Just say there was a bedroom yeah there's one person who this appalling booth in the sun's bedroom and they get take the bad out and take all the furniture out amazing. Just like a local cause. They don't have a local pub. However, I think it is safe. Alice, was kind of selfish. Isn't it

you're gonna. Do that put it in your own bedroom Are you going to voting that a six year olds, we got energized about this election, though remind me of the I believe that we should say what the division by me ass: a division bell which enhances the parliament, calls and peace to the house to vote so that still traditionally rings and still does ring in pubs near the house, the parliament, so that Mps who were drinking pines It can be like oh whoops. He is going to be at the in the House of Commons and cast my vote in five minutes. Apparently, when the division Bell rings in the pubs, tourists in the pub think that it's firearms and frequently evacuate the building. Is another advantage of going to those pub yeah yeah just leave yeah great way of getting a seat, but this is quite weird thing: control of stuff. So if there's a dead heat an election, then it gets just in a general election in the constituency. Then again

decided by either the tools of a coin or drawing strolls, I think, are causing a deck of cards so twice. running in ninety. Ninety eight and ninety. Ninety two, the local councillors, has been decided by cutting a deck of cards away, does up so cool. I really hope it was the same person who both times yeah this time, I'm going to do. Oh yeah someone's break this debt. That's that's like Hong Kong. I got this from a. I have feelings as James' fact. I got it from our squire database political candidates in Hong Kong. If they finish in a dead heat, the election is decided by luck of the draw from a bag of numbered ping pong balls. Then they have ping pong balls in whether they have that, I think in like the national real values. You blowsy election, good news. Your million may have in Florida in his eyes Texas Texico New Mexico one place where they do from a of poker,

It must be Texas, yeah, Texas, Hold'Em yeah. I was but that's a game with skill and it's the deal one hand, the zoo, Mexico, our okay, Mexico. Yes, it does yeah cause you couldn't have. It would be good if you could have games of skill whoever's best at probably should be an MP actually written chess sword fight, that's how he there ok, so I just want some bad candidates, intellectual! Yes, please, I've heard of bill boats have known he was left one commander in the Navy, and he was also the worst election candidate ever and he campaigned in twenty eight elections and got seven thousand seven hundred votes, a total wow, which is not very many. He lost his deposit, all twenty eight times in nineteen, fifty one he tried to stand against the Prime Minister Clement Attlee, but

accidentally stood in Walthamstow EAST instead of the West, whose party was called the land sea, air, road and public safety, democratic, Mahler, kissed, white resident and women's party earlier I was quite racist, unfortunately, but he am he was. He campaigned against mostly against traffic accidents and in favor of road safety, and he bought an old boxer which he painted black and white to make it a mobile zebra crossing, I love cars. Some people would climb over the top of his class across the road, so yeah and and nineteen fifty to his election campaign, involved fitting his car with a mast and mainsail, at which point he was arrested and fined for using a vehicle for advertising purposes in the center of town. But you weren't allowed to do that and he said one time nominated. I don't go back to the constituency for one thing:

sounds great, brilliant telephone great story, I really like about em a guy called John Wilkes. He was running. He stood for parliament in Barrack upon tweed by people. Bunch people heard this. And then there were the opposition. They were like no way are. We gonna allow this guy to get in, so they sailed up the east coast to scupper his plans. They basically chartered a boat, got into it and headed up to to ruin his chances they're going to vote against him. Oh yeah they're going to vote against him, but he found out about this and he bribed the captain of the ship. So instead the ship took them to Norway, yeah They still not study. Why honey we ate and by that time, to continue Yes, so his on the US from the book of her own failures, would you like to hear about mad jack mitten? Oh yes, let's hear,

If you don't hear the other ops, no, no, alright, yeah and so John Mason was a nineteenth century aristocrat and he was extremely eccentric in a lot of ways. But one of the things that wanted to do everyone in his family got elected MP for break if you never leave this shows we had loads lights him his father than it has conveyed on it, so his campaigning seems to have mostly consisted of him walking around his constituency with ten pound notes stuck on his hat, People could just go up and click pick them off and someone else would replace a hypnotist and to replace any knows that were taken off. He spent ten thousand pounds doing that, which was a fool What actually virgin he won the seat by three hundred and eighty four votes to two hundred and eighty cents all these people going cheapskate twenty and then on the first day he attended parliament. It was hot and he found it bore and so he left and he never went back

I merely is interesting- is walking about town covered in terms both of which I was never resistant, you do, I'm the ten pound note replace a line bosses. Have we don't really honey? I can see the five minutes that I've literally the only thing I can do so another nineteenth century high MP, who I like, is well. He was from seventeen ninety four to eighteen, thirty, the MP for Devin was a Tory called John one bastard, who was then then followed as an Mvp, would have him by his nephew, Edmund Bastard. But what I like about John fasted, Dave. I hadn't thought about that. The code of Conduct, Yad New, Edmund Bastard, sorry, fire the nursery rhyme old mother habit, my colleague hope it.

because you can't see yourself in a mother bastards, how did he inspire so get his sister in law was amongst Sarah Comfort, Martin, who he instructed to run away and right one of your stupid little rhymes. Why don't you? is behaving badly in the town was on think she was going out with it floundering with amounts. Shouldn't have been right, so they told us go away rights, tubular, I'm sure oh mother Hubs- and that was that is inspiring said westerners it was her muse, the mysterious other person on your list. Although the Earl of Leicester who the fifth Earl of Leicester, who was a member of the House of Lords, he didn't say anything for twenty two years he was going to speak about

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