David B Morris
2 min readJun 10, 2024

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I had an advance learning of how you do election due to viewing of Monty Python at a young age. I remember with fondness their famous segment where the Silly Party stood against the Sensible Party with fringes including the Slightly Silly Party (Kevin Philips Bong) Silly me, I actually thought that the pythonites were having a go at us, I didn't realize that was how your elections worked until Teresa May had to stand against Lord Buckethead in a snap election in 2017 (which John Oliver covered with delight)

I have in seriousness looked at perhaps more British papers online than the average American and I'm quite aware of the major problems that your current government is facing. I heard a lot about the 'Rwanda Plan' in the online version of the Guardian before Jon Oliver told us what it actually was. It really does make building the wall and making Mexico pay for it sound like a work from Mensa by comparison. And honestly, the people you have in some of your papers. I mean, the ones who still believe that Brexit was a good idea but the execution was faulty - that's next level. That's like saying communism has always worked and the Soviet Union was just the victim of the West (And make no mistake there are some people in America who truly believe that.)

My dad, for the record, has always been a fan of Question Time. I believe Robin Williams once describe the House of Commons like 'Congress with a two-drink minimum." These days of course, Congress has an open bar and the Freedom caucus is doing cocaine at their desks.

You know reading your description some times really wish we have your kind of system. Though to be honest, I think the Monster Raving Looney Party would reject Marjorie Taylor Greene as too crazy for them.

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David B Morris
David B Morris

Written by David B Morris

After years of laboring for love in my blog on TV, I have decided to expand my horizons by blogging about my great love to a new and hopefully wider field.

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