UK Parties: The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

[T_i_B]

A thread about a party we can all support!

Vote for insanity. You know it makes sense!

http://www.omrlp.com/

[djean111]

1. If only our loonies were so harmless.

Our loonies seem to espouse death and destruction and poverty.
I love the idea of everybody downloading the Monster Mash in the same week so as to get a chart position!

[T_i_B]

2. There is an American Monster Raving Loony Party

http://usloonyparty.tripod.com/
http://usloonyparty.tripod.com/manifesto.html

As well as the Official Monster Raving Loony Party USA branch

http://www.loonyparty.com/2808/1465/usa-branch/

Our Intrepid and Illustrious Leader Howling ‘Laud’ Hope has been invited
to be the co-ordinator of the ‘Official Monster Raving Loony Party’ of
‘A Merka’, to be their first ‘Representative without Borders’.
He was invited by the United States of Amerka Ambassador, The Mayor
of Myassa, Florida.The Right Honourable Rantin N.Ravin-Faux Vl.
He has accepted the position with the greatest of loonism and respect !
There will be a Loony Delegation converging on the Dragon Convention in
Atlanta, Georgia on Aug 31-Sept 3rd,led by Lord Rantin the Mayor.

[djean111]

3. Oh, thank you! Much better than The Rent Is Too Damn High issue.

Maybe they have t-shirts.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Monster Raving Loony Successes:

Although forever on the political periphery – “If any of us actually get elected, we’re instantly expelled from the party; that’s in the party constitution,” Von Thunderclap says approvingly – lots of Loony policies have actually made it onto the statute books.

All-day pub opening hours, “passports for pets” to avoid them having to go through quarantine after returning from holidays abroad, lowering the voting age to 18, and the abolition of the 11+ exam because it’s “the wrong age to take an exam that affects you for the rest of your life” are all measures we have in place today.

As with so many elements of the party, this is down to Sutch. In 1963, when he was a rock ‘n’ roll musician in a band called the Savages, he ran as a candidate for his National Teenage Party in the Stratford-upon-Avon by-election triggered by the Profumo Affair. He proposed most of the policies listed above.

It was a satirical stunt essentially suggesting young people should have the vote if their politicians act like teenagers. During the campaign, when the Tory candidate was asked his opinion on Sutch’s policies on a television debate, he replied: “They’re nothing more than the rantings of a raving lunatic.” This comment gave birth to the Monster Raving Loony Party two decades later, when Sutch and Hope founded the party in 1982.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/12/what-are-monster-raving-loony-party-s-election-plans

[shenmue]

5. Huzzah!

[T_i_B]

6. 2017 General election kick

To be brutally honest, the Monster Raving Loony Party are a lot more sensible (not to mention a lot less spiteful) than most of the clowns running for office these days.

As a little aside, on the eve of the last general election I changed the name my local quiz team to Monster Raving Loonies as a one off and promptly won the quiz with full marks!

[LeftishBrit]

7. Well, it's better than the Unofficial Monster Raving Loony Party that's governing us right now!

[T_i_B]

8. 2019 general election kick

First of a fair few threads I intend to kick to the top.

Might as well start with the Monster Raving Loony Party seeing as how bonkers British politics has become.