Lord Buckethead, standing against British Prime Minister Theresa May in the country’s Wednesday general election, won a staggering 249 votes. The “intergalactic space lord” who “enjoys planet-conquering” and “dominating inferior species” (and UK TV light entertainment classic Lovejoy) fought for office in the Maidenhead, Kent constituency hitherto and henceforth considered a safe seat for May’s Conservative party.
Though Buckethead did well, May retained her seat by thousands of votes.
Lord Buckethead scores 249 votes ??? #GE2107 pic.twitter.com/WZ8P9WGFMA
— James Breko Brechney (@breko) June 9, 2017
The nation as a whole, however, is unexpectedly up for grabs: May, convinced by opinion polls that a snap election would yield a landslide mandate for her Brexit agenda, instead found herself reeling against a resurgent Labour Party, led by the suddenly and unnervingly competent old-timey socialist Jeremy Corbyn. Though her party seems likely to retain the largest vote and perhaps a very slim majority in Parliament, her cred is toast. And Corbyn’s success is energizing the left, and not just in Britain…
I say this in the spirit not of gloating but wistfulness: Bernie would've fucking won.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 9, 2017
The far-right UKIP party seems to be utterly vanquished, too, a sweet outcome for anyone left of Mussolini.
That said, given the assumption Corbyn’s Labour party will hang parliament without quite gathering enough seats to topple the Tories, are you ready for Prime Minister Boris? Just imagine how great he’ll look in photo ops with Trump.
