Count Binface and the theatre of elections in Britain

🫧 Open on Bubbles Let’s try not to be mugs — Count Binface, from the Wikimedia Commons It’s trivially easy to stand for Parliament in the UK . You need ten electors to nominate you and £500 for a deposit – and it’s actually been getting easier. The deposit was introduced in 1918 (£150 – quite a lot of money then). Before that, since the 1832 Reform Act , in fact, discouragement was provided by the requirement for candidates to pay the expenses of the returning officer 1 (and before that you needed to be a l