{"id":184398,"date":"2012-05-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/12\/lamest-political-party-in-the-history\/"},"modified":"2012-05-12T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T01:00:00","slug":"lamest-political-party-in-the-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/12\/lamest-political-party-in-the-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamest Political Party in the History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NSXAi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NSXAi.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Professor Pongoo<br \/>Pole to poll: Professor Pongoo won more votes than the Liberal Democrats in a council election in Edinburgh. Photograph: Ali Tibbitt\/ STV<br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p>While there are significantly less viable parties out there, Canada&#8217;s Rhineroceros Party, and the Monster Raving Looney Party in the UK, but because they fancy themselves as being in the big leagues in Britain, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/may\/04\/penguin-more-votes-lib-dems\">Liberal-Democrats win the prize<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>If there was a symbol of the Liberal Democrats&#8217; discomfiture as their vote plummeted across Scotland and the rest of the UK, it came in the shape of a penguin.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pentland Hills ward for Edinburgh city council, the Lib Dem candidate won fewer votes than Professor Pongoo, or independent candidate Mike Ferrigan, who ran his campaign in a full penguin suit.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Pongoo, who stood to raise awareness of social and environmental issues, took 5.6% of first-preference votes to the Lib Dems&#8217; 4.7%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the brighter side \u2026\u2026\u2026  Ummmm \u2026\u2026\u2026 There is no brighter side.  You were outpolled by a bloke in a f%$#ing penguin suit!<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing more embarrassing would be to be out-polled by the&nbsp; Fabian Socialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor PongooPole to poll: Professor Pongoo won more votes than the Liberal Democrats in a council election in Edinburgh. Photograph: Ali Tibbitt\/ STV While there are significantly less viable parties out there, Canada&#8217;s Rhineroceros Party, and the Monster Raving Looney Party in the UK, but because they fancy themselves as being in the big leagues &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1000,984,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-elections","category-europe","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}