But really, at that point, was it true then even that people were saying, well,

America's period is over? There's always been a section of the Republicans who are isolationists.

Now, it was very big before the Second World War, in fact, made it difficult for the US to join the war.

And the Japanese, of course, made it easy.

But since then, especially in the MAGA crowd, Make America Great Again, there's quite a lot of people who want to stay out of the Middle East, want to stay out of involvement in the world in general and make America great.

And what he's done by instituting this war in the Middle East is alienated a lot of them.

which is adding to his problems in the upcoming elections.

So that sphere of influence perhaps is less antagonistic if people are trading together.

What do we know about John?

Well, there's, well, there's a long tradition of, if you like, joke candidates in by-elections, and sometimes in general elections, and they add to the gaiety of the occasion.

Um, and normally, uh, you know, they get very few votes.

The last time Count Binface, uh, ran was in the general election in 2024, and he only got to 300-odd votes.

But this time, it looks as though he's gonna get a lot more.

But there's 34 candidates altogether in this, uh, uh, by-election.

And as you know, we've got first past the post in, in England, and so it's gonna be a scramble.

Uh, because they tried to s- you know, put themselves as, as standing up for the, the common man, and now are they finding it difficult to, to place themselves as different, uh, to establishment parties, especially when you have a white collar scandal?