Penguin gets more votes than Lib Dem candidate

[paulnolan]

Comments

[4eyedblonde]

I know nothing of British politics but this is hilarious

[redstar826]

same here. I know nothing except "Yay! Penguin!"

[screamingintune]

excuse you, his name is Professor Pongoo. He deserves his proper title!

[paulnolan]

Summary: the Lib Dems were the third, supposedly progressive party, an also-ran until their current leader Nick Clegg managed to woo the nation into them standing a chance during the election campaign. Election night comes and there was no overall majority, so two parties had to team up to become the government in order to actually have power. It turned out the Lib Dems allied with the (right wing, anything but progressive) Tories to do this, which pissed off the people who voted for them. No good has come of it, to put it mildly. End result (as shown here) the Lib Dems have become so loathed that even the joke candidates stand more of a chance than them in some places.

[zizzo_no_ai]

And this really sucks, because it seems like it's pretty much left us with no progressive party (whether they're only nominally progressive or not). People are saying they'll vote for Labour or Conservative "so as not to waste their vote" instead of possibly transferring to the Green party or whoever else.

[octoberstarlite]

idk, I mean I've read that the Greens had an increase in votes. I know not enough to get them immediate results, but for long term growth maybe?