Monster Raving Loony Party Conference – No 32

Our 32nd Conference went as smoothly as it always does, I arrived in Blackpool 10 days before the event, just to iron out any mishaps or unforeseen difficulties. It was nice to see some early arrivals on the Thursday this year as well. There was but just one, but of no great circumstance. We didn’t have a cabinet to shuffle in. Apparently it got blown over in the high winds and got burnt, I never found out until the Thurs of the weekend. Luckily enough Vince Ripper was on hand to find another. Great to see him up and about after major heart surgery, we all agreed ‘he looked well’ and will be back with the ‘Rodent Rat’ show next year. Two years running now in Blackpool, I did two radio shows amongst other promotions, and our Blackpool Gazette feature was phenomenal, two whole pages of pictures and story. No wonder they want us back next year. Once again the town took to us with open arms on our open top bus tour.
That seems to have become one of the highlights of our modern day conference, thanks to Blackpool Transport and their star driver Tony Davies. The weekend’s entertainment was up to its usual standard, ‘The Full Fat Boogie Band’ on Friday night, excellent. ‘Chinners’ and ‘The Howling Laud’ both got up and did a spot with them, to the great excitement of all those that attended.
Saturday saw the grand photo shoot by ‘Dan Dan the Photo Man’ from the local press, before climbing aboard The Loonical Mystery Tour. Then back to party HQ ‘Uncle Toms Cabin’ for the world famous cabinet reshuffle, one again no splits in the cabinet but a door was heard to creak. Our leader retained his position, not like all the other so called political parties. Plus all other members came out with flying colours.
We even had two Elvis’s, ‘Paul Campbell’ the Welsh Elvis opened up Sat night, followed by the Big Fibbers, then Dales Rowles and his BB Blackdog Band followed by The Wattingers, all very very good. ‘Mr Badaxe’ then gave his usual rousing performance much to the delight of everyone.  Not all over yet, the front door opened and in walked another Elvis, Eddie Vee had been performing professionally in Blackpool that very same night and insisted that he did a spot for us, well we weren’t about to say “no” were we. He also put in an excellent performance, with a stirring ovation, to finish off yet another wonderful ‘Loony Party Conference’ weekend.
Don’t forget we are the only Party that knows how to Party, if a smile was a vote, we’d win by a landslide!
All the best to our party member ‘The Mad Hatter’ who will be standing in the Witney By-election on Thurs 20th October, keep an eye out for him!
The Howling ‘Laud’