A party that calls itself “the Best” has won local elections in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik.
The Best Party, founded by comedian Jon Gnarr, secured 34.7% of the vote, ahead of the Independence Party’s 33.6%.
Its campaign video featured candidates singing to the tune of Tina Turner’s “Simply The Best”.
Key pledges included “sustainable transparency”, free towels at all swimming pools and a new polar bear for the city zoo.
The party also called for a Disneyland at the airport and a “drug-free parliament” by 2020…
Commentators suggest it has benefited from voters’ loss of trust in government and the establishment in the wake of the country’s banking collapse in 2008.
Can we get John Stewart to campaign for Chairman of the Teabaggers?
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I like Tina Turner, and I like Reykjavik, but this is one of the strangest videos that I have ever seen.
[It’s probably the polar bear for the Reykjavik Zoo that would have bought my vote.]