Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/10/dick-braine-to-lead-britains.html
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the fuck is dick braine?
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Head of the British Nazi party is a Dickbraine!
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He’s the third leader UKIP have had.
Richard. The Third.
It’ll come to you.
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Finally, some truth in advertising from UKIP.
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Let’s hope he doesn’t balls it up.
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A right cock-up, that’d be.
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Some parents need a good slap for the names they saddle their kids with. Others deserve to be shouted a round of drinks.
I’m not sure which applies here.
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Closest rival being Boaty McBoatface.
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So, Batten, down the hatches?
I’ll see myself out.
(And obviously, this story is going in my file-o-names)
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Nominative determinism?
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Thank goodness they didn’t name hime s/t like Knob Head!
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The close runner up, from the MRL party, a Mr I. M. Gonna Killyou, from Stoke, gathered a 2% share of the vote with promises of free food, a free car, and guaranteed housing for everyone.
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In somewhat related news, in the other week’s by-election in Brecon, The Monster Raving Loony Party pushed UKIP into sixth place.
Just about the only positive news coming from this whole political shitshow is that the far-right lunatics still in UKIP are fading into complete and utter irrelevance.
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Looks like UKIP is irrelevant because all their supporters switched to the “Brexit Party” for some reason
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It’s a shame they didn’t beat them into ending their party, like they did with the SDP in the May 1990 Bootle byelection
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His parents called him Richard. He’s choosing to go by Dick.
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You don’t really get to pick your own nickname - it’s bestowed by those around you, and tends to stick like seeds to velcro because it’s reflective of something you did or some characteristic of you. Also, Dick is a very very traditional nickname for anyone named Richard (in the way that redheads often get called Blue).
I know this because I tried to bestow the nickname Mr Awesome upon myself. It didn’t work.
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