Is O'Brien a joke candidate?

Eric picked up a heftier than usual Boar this morning to discover it contained the election manifesto booklet - useful, as he has just run out of bog roll. It is doubtful that the Union asked Marvel Comic's permission to use Spider-Man's image to promote this guff, Eric hears they can be quite protective about this sort of thing.

A couple of candidates failed to submit their manifestos for inclusion in their booklet, rather sadly in the case of Phillip T. Woolley as his pledge to reduce lameness by 75% quite excited Eric.

The only other major candidate not to submit a manifesto for inclusion was Joe O'Brien, who's running for CDCO. Eric cannot work out if Joe is for real or not. His official campaign page shows him pictured with a bottle of Tesco Value gin (gets you shitfaced for 6 quid, bargain) yet he has some original ideas that, whilst perhaps unfeasible, Eric hasn't heard of before. Perhaps more of a half-arsed campaign than a joke one.