The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, to give it its full moniker, has already livened up the Henley by-election campaign by its promise, if elected, to fill the Thames with crocs, but its campaign memorabilia also shows an originality sadly lacking among other candidates.
While the Loonies attract all kinds of looks - disgust, pity, admiration, to name a few - among potential voters, as candidate Mr Bananaman swanned around Henley in his large, yellow Mad-Hatter top hat, the Loonies self-styled leader, Alun 'Howlin' Laud' Hope, was busy during the campaign handing out large metal lapel badges.
These showed a gloriously, yellow haystack-topped Boris Johnson, before he came over all posh and statesmanlike and became London mayor (and got a haircut), with the caption, "Vote Loonies". Nice bit of exploitation that. With all that talk of 'we will sue' from Tories over Lib-Dem campaign literature featuring Boris, you could be forgiven for thinking that the adorable Loonies could shortly expect a stiff letter from solicitors Sue, Grabbit and Run. But then again, the so-called main parties, in the so-called two-horse race, could surprise us all and show a bit of a sense of humour.
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Defection Alert! Defection Alert!
Oxfordshire Liberal Democrat Cllr defects to the Conservatives!
Defecting Cllr slams LD leader Nick Clegg.
The real reason for the defection is the LD candidate in the by-election being imposed upon the local party!
And wasn't it in 2007 anyway?
Or is this another one?
Another one!
There should be a press release soon.
I did think of supporting the Raving Loonies this time round but in the end was swayed by Ms Harrington's position on Lisbon. Thank God it's over and my recycling bin can be put on 'normal' setting.
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