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  • Denmark had a joke candidate who won a term in parliament 1994-1998: Jacob Haugaard.

    He ran representing the Party of Intentionally Workshy Elements (slogan: If Employment is Healthy, Give it to the Sick), on a programme of:

    • More tailwind on cycle paths [clearly a Danish issue]
    • A standard work day of 8 hours spare time, 8 hours of sleep and then 8 hours of rest.
    • Army field rations to include Nutella.
    • Shorter supermarket queues

    When he got in he was clearly terrified, but over time he did participate and take part. I don’t think he could quite believe it.

    I loved his parting shot, after his term ended, when his portrait (like that of all MPs) was hung in Parliament and he said: “Let this serve as a warning that any idiot populist can get elected”.