Remember when you were at school, the kid who refused to tell anybody their middle name? Then, on a visit to the school nurse, one of your classmates happened to see the kid’s middle name, typed onto a form. And suddenly, you all immediately understood why the kid was shy about letting people know it?
Well, it is Euro Elections time, and there’s no hiding for those with zany names.
I live in London Region. Here are my favourites:
The Lib Dems have Dinti Wakefield Batstone and Christopher David Glossop Le Breton
Pro Democracy: Libertas.eu have Herbert Widford Crossman and Susannah Ellen Muffley Prins. The last name gives me weak stims.
Any other good ones?
UPDATE
Joseph K in the comments provides the following gems:
Benjamin Caraduc Tallis, Libertas NW
Silke Thompson-Potterbohm, Labour SE
Jason Kitcat (I kid you not!) Greens SE
Ven also provides this particularly glorious one:
Here in Eastern England, Jasmijn De Boo is the leader of an “animal rights” (groan) party called “Animals Count”; I believe for once the Glenda Slagg line about “crazy name, crazy person” might have a ring of truth about it.
However, she is from the Netherlands: country in which a silly name is your birthright, and which once had a Prime Minister called Wim Kok.