What exactly does the Monster Raving Loony Party stand for?

Question

A quick resume, no links please.

I'm not going to join or vote for them, I'd just like to know!

Answer 1

Vote for insanity......you know it makes sense.

Some of their manifesto policies...The party calls for those sitting the driving test to be able to phone one friend, take a 50:50 choice of route or ask the other drivers in the traffic jam for advice.

And the party would restrict all under-21 drivers to Reliant Robins and 2CVs to stop 'boy racers'.

Its manifesto promises to reduce class sizes by making children stand closer together and by making desks smaller.

"All bus shelters will have central heating. This will be turned on full in summer and off in the winter, just like the buses," its transport policy says.

Hunting would not be banned but it would be made fairer - the loonies would only allow one dog per fox.

And they would introduce fluorescent dye into dog food so that people wouldn't tred on it in the dark.

All good stuff.

Answer 2

I think you've already got the answers you were looking for. The trouble is when their candidates get elected and try to take things seriously. This happened in East Devon some years back when a guy was elected to the council as a Monster Raving Loony, but then started to take it seriously. The "official" Loonies chucked him out, so he set up a rival Loony Party, and a couple of years later defected to the Tories (honest!).

He is still a Tory Councillor, and was interviewed by the police recently over an allegation that he took property washed ashore from the Napoli (ironic if true, because he had been on TV criticising those who were looting the wreck).

Answer 3

These are the policies from their "Manicfesto" (yes that is the spelling they used) for the 2005 General Election.

1. Abolish income tax - since it was only meant to be a temporary measure during the Napoleonic Wars.

2. Refuse to sign up to the euro, but invite the rest of Europe to join the pound.

3. Drivers can go straight over a roundabout when there's no traffic coming "to make driving through Milton Keynes more fun".

4. Traffic cops "too stupid" for normal police work to be retrained as vicars.

5. Withdrawal of MPs' £118,000 expenses allowance, and the money "in future be distributed to the poor and needy so that they can waste it instead."

6. Any MP whose constituency sells off a school playing field for development will be required to relinquish their own back garden as a replacement sports facility for the school.

7. All motorways to become massive cycle tracks instead.

8. All speed cameras will be abolished and replaced by a new device fitted to cars which will automatically slow down to the speed limit when driven though an infra-red beam.

9. The introduction of a 99p coin to "save on change".

It strikes me that their policies seem considerably more sensible than those of the BNP.

Lord David Sutch 1940 - 1999 RIP

Answer 4

Free beer for the workers 12 months holiday a tear and no overtime.

I did hear that they got onto a local council by default some years ago and actually performed a better and more conscientious service than the regular parties. Perhaps this is wishful thinking. I don't think they could do much worse then blair and the Brown Clown anyway

Answer 5

They were going to tow Britain south towards the coast of spain so we got better weather

Answer 6

I think it was a group that tried to resurrect the rotten corpse of Jerry Falwell, to get it prepared to run for the US presidency in 2008. They figure that a rotten fundie carcass has got as good of a chance as the rest of the GOP candidates.

Answer 7

All that's best about British Democracy.