Illusory Politics

Maybe, at the next general election, we can set it up somehow that there is a parallel ballot, whereby those voting for extremists like Reform UK, the whatever-fuck-it-is -called Corbyn/Sultana party and the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, (should he carry through his threat to stand against Ed Milliband, although he won't, as he's all piss and vinegar), are actually part of a 'shadow election', which elects a 'shadow parliament'.  This make believe parliament, housed in a replica of the real parliament, can elect whoever it likes as Prime Minister and can carry on as if it is actually running the country when, in fact, it is all fake.  After all, the likes of Farage are only really in politics because of their egos.  Despite all evidence to the contrary, they actually believe that they somehow have the intelligence and know how to run the country.  They want that feeling of power which will further boost their already over-inflated egos.  So why not let them think that they are?  That they have completely banished the moderates are in sole charge?  Along with a fake House of Commons, we could have a fake Downing Street and a series of fake TV news broadcasts chronicling their 'triumphs'.  Whole state visits and meetings with foreign leaders could be faked for them, with actors playing the likes of Trump, Macron and Putin.  Damn it, perhaps we could even let Farage think that he's ended the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Now, I know what you are thinking: isn't this some kind of subversion of the democratic process?  Well, technically, yes.  But the fact is that if these people were to be allowed to hold power for real thanks to the idiocies of the UK electorate, then the whole democratic system would be at dire risk, (just look at what is happening in the US after they insanely allowed Trump back into the White House).  The only question is, what would we do with this whole fake parliament and government after five years?  Run the scam again, even though it would be costly to do it once, let alone multiple times?  Of course, with technology rapidly advancing, an alternative would be to place all of these fake MPs into an immersive AI simulation, where the alternative parliament and government can exist in virtual reality.  Like in The Matrix films.  Again, we couldn't keep them there indefinitely, so we could run the simulation to be more realistic, in that all of their policies and overall amateurish approach to politics ends, as it inevitably would in real life, in disaster, with them all losing their seats at the next simulated general election as a consequence.  Then they could be released back into the real world, thinking that they had been kicked out of power and not questioning the existence of a parliament in which they don't exist.  Hopefully, they'd be suitably chastised by such a (simulated) humiliation at the (simulated) ballot box.  But somehow, I doubt it.  Egos like that can't be so easily dented.  Even by reality.