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In all honesty, the entry itself seems pretty sensible to me.
There's some not-so-absurd stuff concealed in their manifestos. Short and to the point: "All third world debt will be cancelled. They're not going to pay anyway. You know that. I know that. Don't deny it".
And in a country where DORA 1918 forced pubs to close in the afternoons for the next 70 years to ensure we don't lose the war against the Kaiser, who exactly are the Loony politicians?
I think we all know who they are. Sensible government is just a socially constructed fiction (just my 2 pence worth). sjc
Good to see you here, Uri. I had been wondering when you'd take a break from the excessively serious and spend a little time with the hysterically funny. Cheers. -- Ed Poor
Is there a list entry for joke political parties? David Gerard 00:20, Jan 9, 2004 (UTC)
I am still unsure what these people portend for British democracy...But this article is side-splittingly funny to any observer of UK politics. Bravo! Bravo! My vote for featured article candidate for 1 April next. Vote for the Raving Loonies! You know you are one!:-)
Lord Sutch had a bit part in the first program of the TV Satire The New Statesman.
Has he done any other shows?
Syd1435 06:03, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
If there was a TV "by-election special", Sutch & Tempest used the broadcasting regulations to ensure that they got on the show as well as the other candidates. This led to several shows never occuring thanks to pompous producers thinking it beneath their station to have Sutch on, whilst it being right and proper to have the so-called "Natural Law Party" on (whom were basically misusing broadcasting & electoral mail-drop rules in order to gain cheap advertising for transcendental meditation)
Sutch did a number of TV adverts for Sekonda watches, Monster Munch, etc; but this was a sideline to his main job of lead singer with The Savages. He also turned up in one of "Viz" comic's parody photo stories as Father Christmas - don't ask why!
Mark_Boyle 3rd February 2005
Right, due to recent events, I've added some extra material that will be of contemporary interest.
Mark_Boyle 24th April 2005
I've attempted to improve the biased wording of the "Sutch's death, and after" section. I would request that Mark Boyle discuss this before reverting it again, and please read the NPOV policy. Biased wording included:
This is clearly not neutral wording.
— Matt Crypto 11:13, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
A lot of changes made, thanks in the main to alterations by "Matt Crypto" & a plethora of other pseuds. I suggest when they presume to give me a lecture on "bias", they bother to do independent research themselves, or be party to the events as they unfolded. Save this sort of nonsense of editing out what others on the pretext of "bias" to the pages concerning the Anti-Nazi League, BNP, etc please!
The points I felt need to be made are thus:
1. CURLS – having spoken at length with John Dougrez-Lewis & Sutch several years ago, I am fairly confident as to what CURLS was - or was not for that matter. Have expanded a little more on this, but as it was a sideshow to events, have curtailed too great an elaboration.
2. The electoral deposit is NOT £1000, it remains at £500. It is £1000 for the European Elections. Had it been £1000, it is doubtful that the OMRLP would have managed a single candidate in May 2005, when added to the increased demands required for candidates wishing to take advantage of the free mail drop the Post Office provides.
3. The seat Stuart Hughes stood for was simply Honiton, NOT Tiverton & Honiton which is a new seat created in 2005 from redrawn boundaries.
4. Perth, Rosanna Cunningham, etc: Since I was there for the by-election, I am far better placed than “Matt Crypto” to refer to matters. To talk about “removing bias” in this instance is downright fatuous – a line has to be drawn at some point & to state events without any background information is tantamount to spin.
Furthermore, anyone that can be bothered to check the relevant back issues of the “Perth Advertiser” (which can be found in the National Library of Scotland as well as within Perth Library itself) can gauge for themselves just how ill-tempered this campaign was (& particularly Cunningham's animosity towards Sutch). This is not “bias”, it is a matter of historic fact, as anyone that had a billboard in their garden for a candidate set alight will attest to…
If I was wishing to do a “hatchet job” on Cunningham, as implied, I could easily have mentioned Cunningham’s temper-tantrum over having to share a BBC TV programme with the OMRLP, Green, UKIP & Natural Law Parties in the first place - & hence why the Tory candidate John Godfrey chose to specifically goad her on the ITV show days later with “Well I have to confess that Sutch has spoken far more sense in this campaign than the other parties, particularly the SNP,” knowing full well how she would overreact on camera (he was not disappointed, & I have a copy of the show on tape to prove it). Relations deteriorated between the SNP/Labour & the TV crews enough that by the time of the STV by-election programme in Kinross High School, the camera crew & journalist Fiona Ross (daughter of former Labour minister Ernie Ross) were ostentatiously wearing “Vote Loony” stickers in order to annoy both their candidate's election agents.
Mark_Boyle 23rd May 2005
There were some Loony Society candidates in the '83 general election. Was this label used by the grouping which later became the OMRLP? If so, I'll put in a redirect. Warofdreams talk 11:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
This is a common error caused largely thanks to the initial lazy research by DODS, reliant on the likes of Mssrs Butler et al that would rather not be doing any analysis on minor political parties at all.
Granted, their task was made more difficult at the outset because local election literature (& subsequently local newspapers) would describe candidates by their election leaflets, & some candidates also got the party name slightly wrong (hardly surprising, considering how unwieldy it was). Basically, "Loony Society" & "Loony Monster" candidates are one & the same: Official Monster Raving Loony Candidates. Amongst the variants are "Oxford Raving Lunatics", "Cambridge University Raving Loony Society", and "Loony Green Chicken Alliance".
Similar problems are caused when trying to research the Rainbow Alliance of George Weiss, which started off as "Captain Rainbow's Universal Abolish Parliament Party" & whose members have stood on a variety of names with even the word "Rainbow" occasionally dropped (eg. in the cases of Cynthia Payne & Captain Rizz). With the registration of political parties Acts, this is less likely to occur now & provide less of a headache when studying the newspaper archives!
Mark_Boyle 3rd October 2005
There has been repeated vandalism on this page the last couple of days, and some quite serious accusations made (by individuals whose grasp of written English leaves something to be desired, particularly in the correct use of the apostrophe...), in some cases libellous.
May I remind them that if they do not have the evidence to verify their claims (one of the said claims - "treating" voters - is a criminal offence punishable by up to 5 years in prison under the UK Representation of the People's Act). It would be easy enough for any of the people concerned to have the IPs listed for said posters checked and legal action for defamation taken.
This may be about "Loony" politics, but let's at least try to keep things on an adult level, shall we? This is one of the few "broad-church" pieces on "Loony" politics on the web, & it would be unfortunate if it were to be removed because a few individuals could not bear to see anything remotely critical being said about past or current party members.
Mark_Boyle 26th February 2006
I dislike the choice of header titles. Would it be best if they were merged into subheadings in such things as defeats and/or history. Computerjoe 's talk 15:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't look like anyone else thinks so. Mark_Boyle 22nd July 2006
Does the party still exist in an active sense? I'm a UK citizen and I've noticed a decline in MRLP media coverage- not sure if this is a sign of the media simply trying to ignore them, or of the party declining, or of my own living-under-a-rock-ness... It would be a terrible shame for the party to cease to exist- their ideas make more sense than some of the stuff our current leaders have been belching out... Weenerbunny 08:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
212.139.251.237 04:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)N.B. Toby Jug was not, at any time, my election agent in the Bromley & Chislehurst by-election campaign; he falsely claimed to be my "campaign manager" in various communications which he made to the local media in Bromley without my knowledge or authorisation.
I do not have any general problems or issues with the Liberal Democrats, apart from their behaviour in Bromley.
When I said that I didn't have any general problems with the Lib Dems (apart from in Bromley) I was referring to the personal level of normal good-natured campaigning, not to the policies. For example, The activists and candidates of all parties were always reasonable and courteous in Southall. Meanwhile, I have corrected the figures given for the two by-elections on 19th July: The elections office at Sedgefield council has confirmed that Alan Hope got 129 votes, not the 147 which has been erroneously reported on some websites. I got 188 votes (not 152) which was a good result, rather than "disappointing".
No, it is not "stretching credulity" to say that I got a "good result"; the 188 votes which I got in Ealing Southall was substantially more than the 132 I got in Bromley, despite not having enough time to arrange any significant number of leaflets. It is also the first time in 17 elections that I managed to beat 3 other candidates at the same time.
P.S. I have corrected the number of votes which Alan and I got in the two by-elections (the correct figure for Sedgefield, as confirmed by Sedgefield Council and by Alan himself, is 129, and my figure is 188). I am surprised that it was necessary for me to do so for a second time after they had been reverted back to the incorrect 147 and 152 for unknown reasons.
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It is my recollection that John Lewis stood as Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel before he had linked with Sutch. That implies that the Raving Looney part of the name came from Lewis and his CURLS. Can anyone verify the timeline ? (I think the description of CURLS is slightly generous. It started, at least, as just being student pranks.) -- Beardo 15:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello there. A trivial correction - the real name of 'Eddie Vee' of York is Graham Cambridge, even though he is entered as 'Eddie Vee' in the telephone directory. This can be confirmed by the local Electoral Register. I hope the party is all right now the deputy leader has resigned. I used to be a member of the York Branch.
Premier Subscriber 23:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
The York Branch debacle sadly epitomised much of the post-Tempest OMRLP, potential & resources squandered thrown to Hell for the sake of the egos/careers of third-rate pub entertainers Mark_Boyle 20 July 2007
I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN FROM THE LOONY PARTY BY ANYONE. I'VE NEVER BEEN THE PARTY PRESS OFFICER AT ANY TIME. I'VE NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ASSAULT ON MY PARTNER, JULIE SMITH, YES I DO TAKE MEDICATION FOR MANIC DEPRESSION. LORD TOBY JUG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.242.99 ( talk) 19:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Secondly, a reference has been given to the incident and the claims made - I suggest you give reference to some form of retraction that was given, else the matter stands. Mark_Boyle 2 September 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Boyle ( talk • contribs) 22:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I recieved an apology from the Gravesend News shopper newspaper and from reporter Alison Little, in a phone call in September 2006. —Preceding
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Sorry Brian, but there's a big difference between an alleged phone call apology and an actual printed retraction. Was one made? If so, when? Mark Boyle 21:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
s:OMRLP general election manifesto 2001 is being considered for deletion. It looks like it is a manifesto of this party, but it is not well described. It would be helpful if some Wikipedians could help us investigate it, and work out the copyright status of the documents. If we can keep this one, we could record all the bizarre manifestos of this party. John Vandenberg 09:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, if I get any protocol incorrect. The policies described are from RU Seerius who is as much of a policy maker as any of us in the 'Loony Committee'. You are attributing them to me 'The Flying Brick' and my website at http://nickdelves.co.uk/loony_blog.htm which is incorrect. RU Seerius's site is http://www.aravingloony.co.uk/ but he spends little time on that now as he has been the webmaster at the official http://www.loonyparty.com (formerly omrlp.com) since 2007 when Stewart left. RU's policies were and are very much official policies. RU Seerius was the candidate for Erewash I used to be the candidate for West Derbyshire.
I'm sure this is the wrong place to ask but when are you going to update the Wikipedia Loony Party Page with the multiple by-elections we have contested since I stood in Crewe 2008? I was a counting agent at all bar one if you need know anything?
Nick 'The Incredible Flying Brick' Delves
Flying brick ( talk) 17:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Anybody know if perhaps Lord Sutch was inspired by the Loony Party featured in a Monty Python sketch? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.79.229.185 ( talk) 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Thought you'd be interested to know that your former deputy leader stood in the local elections yesterday as a Blah! Party candidate picking up only 38 votes out of a possible 5,604 in her Holme Valley North ward. Finishing 7th out of 7. 80.5.191.207 ( talk) 13:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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My site has a full copy of the OMRLP Manifesto. We're driving towards having all English-language political manifestos of every political party in the world on our site in the same/similar format - it could be a useful resource for Wikipedia. OMRLP Manifesto Declaring my interest: I own the site so shouldn't add the link myself. Jdfjurn ( talk) 09:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
The tag is wrong and more polices should be included. Kiko4564 ( talk) 18:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Added {{POV-check}}
for a lot of the reasons stated above. Statements such as "There were also however some not-so-complimentary comments, the worst coming from Roseanna Cunningham, at the time MP for Perth and a columnist for the Scottish Sunday Mail. Cunningham claimed newspapers were more interested in the death of someone she felt had contributed nothing to politics nor society whilst 'ignoring' the death that same week of Cardinal Basil Hume (in fact most had given long obituaries to Hume) who she felt had done more (she did not name any specific achievements)." do not seem very neutral.--
89.181.245.88 (
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The tone of the article is inappropriate, regardless of the subject matter. A complete rewrite wouldn't go amiss... -- Money money tickle parsnip ( talk) 20:33, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Translated: anyone who dares disagree with Bullamore can expect to find every edit they ever made to Wikipedia stalked by him and any footnotes removed so he can claim it is a "POV". See also the mess he's been making of the music section for the last decade. Mark Boyle
i do see the page needs some more references, happy to add some and if someone then wants to do the larger job a rewrite then at least they'll have the sources to do so. anyway cheers i enjoyed reading the page and didn't realise sutch was no longer with us RiP Mujinga ( talk) 13:33, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
I came to this article just now having seen in the news that the OMRLP polled more votes than UKIP in yesterday's Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, and frankly large parts of the article were unsourced drivel that don't do anything to educate anybody (particularly those outside the UK) as to what the party is and what it does. I would draw everyone's attention to the biography of living persons and verifiability policy. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
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Though it has its own page talking about it being a split off from this party, I notice the only mention on this page of the Raving Loony Green Giant Party is saying some of its members attended the funeral of the party founder. Surely this is a significant enough thing to be included in describing the party history.-- 108.86.120.80 ( talk) 22:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
The archive copy does not appear to show the period prior to 2007 when the OMRLP councillor was a member.
The link to the original diverts to random spam sites.
Is this an issue with my device, or are other readers affected? I am reluctant to try to edit if the problem is mine and not Wikipedia's.^^^^ 37.160.61.92 ( talk) 10:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
This peculiar and very poor article seems to have been written by someone with a personal grudge against Alan "Howling Laud" Hope, judging by its repeated claim that the party is actually run on a daily basis by various other people, though since apart from putting up candidates at elections it doesn't appear to do very much of anything I don't see why this matters. It also mentions that Anthony Blyth, the alleged true leader of the Loonies, is the owner of "the Ommaroo", an utterly baffling statement which isn't explained in any way. Luckily there is one other mention in Wikipedia of this strange word, so I now know it's a hotel on Jersey. Though I still don't know what the word means, or why it it matters in this context that Anthony Blyth owns a hotel in the Channel Islands. Unless of course Anthony Blyth wrote the article and is trying to sneak in a wee bit of advertising? Which, judging by its favourable references to himself in constrant to its treatment of Alan Hope, seems not improbable. Anyway, if the Ommaroo Hotel is somehow genuinely relevant, you might like to include a brief explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.29.141 ( talk) 14:25, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
In the popular culture section is says: "...all while dressed vaguely as a bee." What a peculiar choice of adverb. How does one dress vaguely? 92.40.179.157 ( talk) 12:07, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
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In all honesty, the entry itself seems pretty sensible to me.
There's some not-so-absurd stuff concealed in their manifestos. Short and to the point: "All third world debt will be cancelled. They're not going to pay anyway. You know that. I know that. Don't deny it".
And in a country where DORA 1918 forced pubs to close in the afternoons for the next 70 years to ensure we don't lose the war against the Kaiser, who exactly are the Loony politicians?
I think we all know who they are. Sensible government is just a socially constructed fiction (just my 2 pence worth). sjc
Good to see you here, Uri. I had been wondering when you'd take a break from the excessively serious and spend a little time with the hysterically funny. Cheers. -- Ed Poor
Is there a list entry for joke political parties? David Gerard 00:20, Jan 9, 2004 (UTC)
I am still unsure what these people portend for British democracy...But this article is side-splittingly funny to any observer of UK politics. Bravo! Bravo! My vote for featured article candidate for 1 April next. Vote for the Raving Loonies! You know you are one!:-)
Lord Sutch had a bit part in the first program of the TV Satire The New Statesman.
Has he done any other shows?
Syd1435 06:03, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
If there was a TV "by-election special", Sutch & Tempest used the broadcasting regulations to ensure that they got on the show as well as the other candidates. This led to several shows never occuring thanks to pompous producers thinking it beneath their station to have Sutch on, whilst it being right and proper to have the so-called "Natural Law Party" on (whom were basically misusing broadcasting & electoral mail-drop rules in order to gain cheap advertising for transcendental meditation)
Sutch did a number of TV adverts for Sekonda watches, Monster Munch, etc; but this was a sideline to his main job of lead singer with The Savages. He also turned up in one of "Viz" comic's parody photo stories as Father Christmas - don't ask why!
Mark_Boyle 3rd February 2005
Right, due to recent events, I've added some extra material that will be of contemporary interest.
Mark_Boyle 24th April 2005
I've attempted to improve the biased wording of the "Sutch's death, and after" section. I would request that Mark Boyle discuss this before reverting it again, and please read the NPOV policy. Biased wording included:
This is clearly not neutral wording.
— Matt Crypto 11:13, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
A lot of changes made, thanks in the main to alterations by "Matt Crypto" & a plethora of other pseuds. I suggest when they presume to give me a lecture on "bias", they bother to do independent research themselves, or be party to the events as they unfolded. Save this sort of nonsense of editing out what others on the pretext of "bias" to the pages concerning the Anti-Nazi League, BNP, etc please!
The points I felt need to be made are thus:
1. CURLS – having spoken at length with John Dougrez-Lewis & Sutch several years ago, I am fairly confident as to what CURLS was - or was not for that matter. Have expanded a little more on this, but as it was a sideshow to events, have curtailed too great an elaboration.
2. The electoral deposit is NOT £1000, it remains at £500. It is £1000 for the European Elections. Had it been £1000, it is doubtful that the OMRLP would have managed a single candidate in May 2005, when added to the increased demands required for candidates wishing to take advantage of the free mail drop the Post Office provides.
3. The seat Stuart Hughes stood for was simply Honiton, NOT Tiverton & Honiton which is a new seat created in 2005 from redrawn boundaries.
4. Perth, Rosanna Cunningham, etc: Since I was there for the by-election, I am far better placed than “Matt Crypto” to refer to matters. To talk about “removing bias” in this instance is downright fatuous – a line has to be drawn at some point & to state events without any background information is tantamount to spin.
Furthermore, anyone that can be bothered to check the relevant back issues of the “Perth Advertiser” (which can be found in the National Library of Scotland as well as within Perth Library itself) can gauge for themselves just how ill-tempered this campaign was (& particularly Cunningham's animosity towards Sutch). This is not “bias”, it is a matter of historic fact, as anyone that had a billboard in their garden for a candidate set alight will attest to…
If I was wishing to do a “hatchet job” on Cunningham, as implied, I could easily have mentioned Cunningham’s temper-tantrum over having to share a BBC TV programme with the OMRLP, Green, UKIP & Natural Law Parties in the first place - & hence why the Tory candidate John Godfrey chose to specifically goad her on the ITV show days later with “Well I have to confess that Sutch has spoken far more sense in this campaign than the other parties, particularly the SNP,” knowing full well how she would overreact on camera (he was not disappointed, & I have a copy of the show on tape to prove it). Relations deteriorated between the SNP/Labour & the TV crews enough that by the time of the STV by-election programme in Kinross High School, the camera crew & journalist Fiona Ross (daughter of former Labour minister Ernie Ross) were ostentatiously wearing “Vote Loony” stickers in order to annoy both their candidate's election agents.
Mark_Boyle 23rd May 2005
There were some Loony Society candidates in the '83 general election. Was this label used by the grouping which later became the OMRLP? If so, I'll put in a redirect. Warofdreams talk 11:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
This is a common error caused largely thanks to the initial lazy research by DODS, reliant on the likes of Mssrs Butler et al that would rather not be doing any analysis on minor political parties at all.
Granted, their task was made more difficult at the outset because local election literature (& subsequently local newspapers) would describe candidates by their election leaflets, & some candidates also got the party name slightly wrong (hardly surprising, considering how unwieldy it was). Basically, "Loony Society" & "Loony Monster" candidates are one & the same: Official Monster Raving Loony Candidates. Amongst the variants are "Oxford Raving Lunatics", "Cambridge University Raving Loony Society", and "Loony Green Chicken Alliance".
Similar problems are caused when trying to research the Rainbow Alliance of George Weiss, which started off as "Captain Rainbow's Universal Abolish Parliament Party" & whose members have stood on a variety of names with even the word "Rainbow" occasionally dropped (eg. in the cases of Cynthia Payne & Captain Rizz). With the registration of political parties Acts, this is less likely to occur now & provide less of a headache when studying the newspaper archives!
Mark_Boyle 3rd October 2005
There has been repeated vandalism on this page the last couple of days, and some quite serious accusations made (by individuals whose grasp of written English leaves something to be desired, particularly in the correct use of the apostrophe...), in some cases libellous.
May I remind them that if they do not have the evidence to verify their claims (one of the said claims - "treating" voters - is a criminal offence punishable by up to 5 years in prison under the UK Representation of the People's Act). It would be easy enough for any of the people concerned to have the IPs listed for said posters checked and legal action for defamation taken.
This may be about "Loony" politics, but let's at least try to keep things on an adult level, shall we? This is one of the few "broad-church" pieces on "Loony" politics on the web, & it would be unfortunate if it were to be removed because a few individuals could not bear to see anything remotely critical being said about past or current party members.
Mark_Boyle 26th February 2006
I dislike the choice of header titles. Would it be best if they were merged into subheadings in such things as defeats and/or history. Computerjoe 's talk 15:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't look like anyone else thinks so. Mark_Boyle 22nd July 2006
Does the party still exist in an active sense? I'm a UK citizen and I've noticed a decline in MRLP media coverage- not sure if this is a sign of the media simply trying to ignore them, or of the party declining, or of my own living-under-a-rock-ness... It would be a terrible shame for the party to cease to exist- their ideas make more sense than some of the stuff our current leaders have been belching out... Weenerbunny 08:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
212.139.251.237 04:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)N.B. Toby Jug was not, at any time, my election agent in the Bromley & Chislehurst by-election campaign; he falsely claimed to be my "campaign manager" in various communications which he made to the local media in Bromley without my knowledge or authorisation.
I do not have any general problems or issues with the Liberal Democrats, apart from their behaviour in Bromley.
When I said that I didn't have any general problems with the Lib Dems (apart from in Bromley) I was referring to the personal level of normal good-natured campaigning, not to the policies. For example, The activists and candidates of all parties were always reasonable and courteous in Southall. Meanwhile, I have corrected the figures given for the two by-elections on 19th July: The elections office at Sedgefield council has confirmed that Alan Hope got 129 votes, not the 147 which has been erroneously reported on some websites. I got 188 votes (not 152) which was a good result, rather than "disappointing".
No, it is not "stretching credulity" to say that I got a "good result"; the 188 votes which I got in Ealing Southall was substantially more than the 132 I got in Bromley, despite not having enough time to arrange any significant number of leaflets. It is also the first time in 17 elections that I managed to beat 3 other candidates at the same time.
P.S. I have corrected the number of votes which Alan and I got in the two by-elections (the correct figure for Sedgefield, as confirmed by Sedgefield Council and by Alan himself, is 129, and my figure is 188). I am surprised that it was necessary for me to do so for a second time after they had been reverted back to the incorrect 147 and 152 for unknown reasons.
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It is my recollection that John Lewis stood as Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel before he had linked with Sutch. That implies that the Raving Looney part of the name came from Lewis and his CURLS. Can anyone verify the timeline ? (I think the description of CURLS is slightly generous. It started, at least, as just being student pranks.) -- Beardo 15:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello there. A trivial correction - the real name of 'Eddie Vee' of York is Graham Cambridge, even though he is entered as 'Eddie Vee' in the telephone directory. This can be confirmed by the local Electoral Register. I hope the party is all right now the deputy leader has resigned. I used to be a member of the York Branch.
Premier Subscriber 23:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
The York Branch debacle sadly epitomised much of the post-Tempest OMRLP, potential & resources squandered thrown to Hell for the sake of the egos/careers of third-rate pub entertainers Mark_Boyle 20 July 2007
I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN FROM THE LOONY PARTY BY ANYONE. I'VE NEVER BEEN THE PARTY PRESS OFFICER AT ANY TIME. I'VE NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ASSAULT ON MY PARTNER, JULIE SMITH, YES I DO TAKE MEDICATION FOR MANIC DEPRESSION. LORD TOBY JUG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.242.99 ( talk) 19:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Secondly, a reference has been given to the incident and the claims made - I suggest you give reference to some form of retraction that was given, else the matter stands. Mark_Boyle 2 September 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Boyle ( talk • contribs) 22:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I recieved an apology from the Gravesend News shopper newspaper and from reporter Alison Little, in a phone call in September 2006. —Preceding
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Sorry Brian, but there's a big difference between an alleged phone call apology and an actual printed retraction. Was one made? If so, when? Mark Boyle 21:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
s:OMRLP general election manifesto 2001 is being considered for deletion. It looks like it is a manifesto of this party, but it is not well described. It would be helpful if some Wikipedians could help us investigate it, and work out the copyright status of the documents. If we can keep this one, we could record all the bizarre manifestos of this party. John Vandenberg 09:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, if I get any protocol incorrect. The policies described are from RU Seerius who is as much of a policy maker as any of us in the 'Loony Committee'. You are attributing them to me 'The Flying Brick' and my website at http://nickdelves.co.uk/loony_blog.htm which is incorrect. RU Seerius's site is http://www.aravingloony.co.uk/ but he spends little time on that now as he has been the webmaster at the official http://www.loonyparty.com (formerly omrlp.com) since 2007 when Stewart left. RU's policies were and are very much official policies. RU Seerius was the candidate for Erewash I used to be the candidate for West Derbyshire.
I'm sure this is the wrong place to ask but when are you going to update the Wikipedia Loony Party Page with the multiple by-elections we have contested since I stood in Crewe 2008? I was a counting agent at all bar one if you need know anything?
Nick 'The Incredible Flying Brick' Delves
Flying brick ( talk) 17:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Anybody know if perhaps Lord Sutch was inspired by the Loony Party featured in a Monty Python sketch? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.79.229.185 ( talk) 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Thought you'd be interested to know that your former deputy leader stood in the local elections yesterday as a Blah! Party candidate picking up only 38 votes out of a possible 5,604 in her Holme Valley North ward. Finishing 7th out of 7. 80.5.191.207 ( talk) 13:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
References
My site has a full copy of the OMRLP Manifesto. We're driving towards having all English-language political manifestos of every political party in the world on our site in the same/similar format - it could be a useful resource for Wikipedia. OMRLP Manifesto Declaring my interest: I own the site so shouldn't add the link myself. Jdfjurn ( talk) 09:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
The tag is wrong and more polices should be included. Kiko4564 ( talk) 18:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Added {{POV-check}}
for a lot of the reasons stated above. Statements such as "There were also however some not-so-complimentary comments, the worst coming from Roseanna Cunningham, at the time MP for Perth and a columnist for the Scottish Sunday Mail. Cunningham claimed newspapers were more interested in the death of someone she felt had contributed nothing to politics nor society whilst 'ignoring' the death that same week of Cardinal Basil Hume (in fact most had given long obituaries to Hume) who she felt had done more (she did not name any specific achievements)." do not seem very neutral.--
89.181.245.88 (
talk) 03:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
The tone of the article is inappropriate, regardless of the subject matter. A complete rewrite wouldn't go amiss... -- Money money tickle parsnip ( talk) 20:33, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Translated: anyone who dares disagree with Bullamore can expect to find every edit they ever made to Wikipedia stalked by him and any footnotes removed so he can claim it is a "POV". See also the mess he's been making of the music section for the last decade. Mark Boyle
i do see the page needs some more references, happy to add some and if someone then wants to do the larger job a rewrite then at least they'll have the sources to do so. anyway cheers i enjoyed reading the page and didn't realise sutch was no longer with us RiP Mujinga ( talk) 13:33, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
I came to this article just now having seen in the news that the OMRLP polled more votes than UKIP in yesterday's Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, and frankly large parts of the article were unsourced drivel that don't do anything to educate anybody (particularly those outside the UK) as to what the party is and what it does. I would draw everyone's attention to the biography of living persons and verifiability policy. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
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Though it has its own page talking about it being a split off from this party, I notice the only mention on this page of the Raving Loony Green Giant Party is saying some of its members attended the funeral of the party founder. Surely this is a significant enough thing to be included in describing the party history.-- 108.86.120.80 ( talk) 22:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
The archive copy does not appear to show the period prior to 2007 when the OMRLP councillor was a member.
The link to the original diverts to random spam sites.
Is this an issue with my device, or are other readers affected? I am reluctant to try to edit if the problem is mine and not Wikipedia's.^^^^ 37.160.61.92 ( talk) 10:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
This peculiar and very poor article seems to have been written by someone with a personal grudge against Alan "Howling Laud" Hope, judging by its repeated claim that the party is actually run on a daily basis by various other people, though since apart from putting up candidates at elections it doesn't appear to do very much of anything I don't see why this matters. It also mentions that Anthony Blyth, the alleged true leader of the Loonies, is the owner of "the Ommaroo", an utterly baffling statement which isn't explained in any way. Luckily there is one other mention in Wikipedia of this strange word, so I now know it's a hotel on Jersey. Though I still don't know what the word means, or why it it matters in this context that Anthony Blyth owns a hotel in the Channel Islands. Unless of course Anthony Blyth wrote the article and is trying to sneak in a wee bit of advertising? Which, judging by its favourable references to himself in constrant to its treatment of Alan Hope, seems not improbable. Anyway, if the Ommaroo Hotel is somehow genuinely relevant, you might like to include a brief explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.29.141 ( talk) 14:25, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
In the popular culture section is says: "...all while dressed vaguely as a bee." What a peculiar choice of adverb. How does one dress vaguely? 92.40.179.157 ( talk) 12:07, 27 March 2022 (UTC)