I’m not even from the UK and I know it need to be fixed before the situation gets worse.

Oh he's left handed? Ma man!

Yes, Parliament has absolute and unlimited power (except binding future Parliaments, and maybe arguably some matters relating to Scotland): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty_in_t...

(not a lawyer)

Not a Brit, not a lawyer...

The promise could be re-interpreted in some funny ways. For example, Count Binface didn't specify when nationalizing Adele would occur.

They could create another[0] special case in UK copyright law with a minor twist: Instead of eventually entering the public domain, the copyright of Adele's works would transfer to the UK government which would donate any proceeds to a charity that builds affordable homes.

Silly, but it'd mean two promises kept.

[0] https://neverlandofficial.com/discover/peter-pan-copyright/

Parliament theoretically has unlimited power, practically I think this stops short of reintroducing actual slavery. Lawyers would be busy arguing in international courts; but hopefully 50℅ of the electorate might actually bother to vote.

Lawyer here.[0] Definitely possible.[1]

[0] not a lawyer [1] what does “nationalise” even mean?

A simple bill of attainder would do it, but she'd have recourse to the ECHR to appeal it, which would in practice bind the UK. If we thought she wasn't going to be chill with it, we'd first need to withdraw from the ECHR. As it happens, withdrawing from the the ECHR is a prime Farage objective.

i like that he ironically hedges this one

> A promise not to accept £5 million gifts from crypto billionaires (on Earth).

He was challenged on this by Alastair Campbell who asked him how much this will cost the exchequer

His immediate response.

“Well, if the exchequer wants a 99 flake, it’ll cost them 99p.”

Yes. Unless you're a male resident of Uxbridge of drinking age.

>nationalise Adele

Well it would certainly make her less productive

Your brain is spot on. This would make much more sense.

Back in the day, maybe "Nationalize Freddie Mercury".

The history of ceefax is worth reading when you have a spare moment. If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, there's Prestel with its 1980s "electronic mailbox".

Apply MP wages to nurses is actually a solid idea I recon.

Back when I was in college, student union elections had a candidate called RON on each vote. RON was Re—Open Nominations. Basically “none of the above”, which would cause a restart of the election for than role if it got the most votes.

It's mostly negative polarization driving things these days, so I don't think that idea makes as much sense as it once did.

In this particular case, the main stream parties did not take part (i.e. field candidates) because the current MP (Farage) resigned just to retake his own seat - basically trying to distract from his dodgy dealings with crypto bros and convicted fraudsters.

I would have voted Count Binface too (as the least absurd candidate).

> Every election should have a funny absurdist person like this absorbing all the blank and null votes to give the other candidates more incentives to convince the electorate.

We have absurdist clown candidates in America, the difference is they actually win... even after failed attempts at insurrection.