The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

All confirmed. We will do our full Screaming Lord Sutch Tribute show only once this year and that will be at the Teddyboy Tempest weekend at Drayton Manor Resort, Tamworth (which runs from the 14th to the 16th November).
We are scheduled to play on the Friday night at 11.00pm and our show will capture the best in Lord Sutch’s rock ‘n’ roll theatricals and madcap Raving Loony antics.
Appearing in our line up that night will also be 2 legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll music: Steve Carter on guitar and Dave Thorncroft on Sax… Both of whom have a long history playing along side Lord Sutch back in the day.
Further details and tickets here: https://www.ducktails.uk/product/teddy-boy-weekender/
Dave Savage

Some time a go I had a phone call from Robin Oakey asking about our Loony Party, I invited him to attend our last conference in Belper and he asked if we would hold a Conference at his venue ‘The Barn’ in Ledbury. Last weekend I visited along with Lawd Lawson, OB Joyful and our Mem Sec Baron Von Thunderclap. It is a rustic and unique barn in the middle of a bustling town. We spent four days there and Robin and his team are great hosts, we enjoyed every moment of it.
We were entertained by an excellent Screaming Lord Sutch tribute act called Jesse Merry, plus an Undertaker/Mortician called John O’Looney, yes that was his real name, telling story’s that you wouldn’t believe! I made my party speech on the Sunday to every ones delight.
I note that The Baron has reported that I have forsaken my White Suit. I had traveled halfway there and suddenly realised ‘****’ I’ve left my suit at home, so had to improvise. Luckily Robin had a ‘Merlin the Wizard’ coat which he loaned to me, it fitted very well and after seeing it was made for me he said ‘It’s yours!’
So its looking like, unless anything changes, thanks to Robin, it will be Loony Party Conference time 2025 in Ledbury, Heredforshire. Sept 25-26-27. More updates nearer the time.
Howling Laud Hope Party Leader

Main point no more ‘man in the white suit’. Howlin’ is now the ‘man in the blue kaftan’. He borrowed it for this gig and liked it so much a deal was done and he’s now adopted it.
The weekend started badly when both Dangerous Dave and the rejuvenated Lord Sutch pulled out due to throat infections so the music was cancelled.
Some local musicians picked up the baton and put on a bit of a show before Lord Sutch fresh from a 25 year residency at Pinner new cemetery made enough of a recovery to attend.
Despite only managing a reduced set due to his bad throat it was enough to prove what a great musician he is starting with the favourite ‘Jack the ripper’ followed by many self penned tracks. Just like our spiritual leader he’s a great showman but has the advantage that he can actually sing!!
Our hosts at ‘The Barn’ were lovely, even sending out for a mass fish and chip meal to feed 10 of us.
The locals were also very friendly (although there may be a backlash from some of the parents whose children we gave kazoos to!) and the town is lively with plenty of pubs. Perhaps a good venue for our conference?
Baron Von Thunderclap

Howling ‘Laud’ Hope is a guest of honour at The Barn in Ledbury, Herefordshire where he will give a party political speech.
There will be live music on the Saturday night, admission is £10.
Everyone is welcome. It’s very likely that The Barn Ledbury will be the venue of our 41st annual conference Sept 25-27th 2025.

In late November 2024, we were contacted by the seasoned (a pinch of salt & a sprig of Thyme) university film quartet Group 2. They wanted some representatives for their latest feature length documentary about the OMRLP. After much deliberation it was decided that our Glorious Leader, Howling Laud Hope and a fifth of a Deputy Leader, Agent Chinners would be our victims for this prestigious task. Here we proudly present the OFFICIAL final version with a 99 minute ‘Directors Cut’ version scheduled for release in the Autumn of 2029.
Chinners

Notice for Members old and new, or anyone who would like to represent ‘The Official Monster Raving Loony Party’.
Some Local Elections will take place in your area on Thursday 1st May although some have been cancelled. Whether it be Parish, Town, District, or County, all are free of charge with no deposit required. Papers will have to be in by Tues 1st April, they can be got from your local Town Hall or Council Office

You can’t just stand, you must get permission from the Party’s Nomination Officer to stand for The Loony Party. Call him on 07946 292557 or by e-mail a.hope70@yahoo.com
If you are new to the game, we can talk you through it, no problem!!
Howling ‘Laud’ Hope – Loony Party Leader

Look out, look out, there’s a Loony about!
Hopefully you all had a good Christmas and New Year. 2024 was an interesting year for us once again. I started off in January as usual out in Malta, not quite as busy as normal, still suffering from the lockdown, as a lot of holiday places are, but still the Brits over there look forward to my arrival and Loony stories.
February got us off to a good start with three By-elections. The Raving Rodent stood in Rochdale, Nick the Flying Brick stood in Wellingborough, and I was down for Kingswood Bristol, but my agent for that area was rushed to hospital and couldn’t get my nomination papers in on time.
Of the two that we did, we didn’t come last, which for some reason upsets a few that take it all too seriously. In general most people though like the fact that we are there and able to do what we do.
March, I was invited to be guest speaker at Britain’s top 6th form college down in Eastleigh Hampshire. Pleased to say that we now have a very good Loony enclave down there, some saying that they will stand in future elections. They booked me because they had seen that I had already spoken at Eton and Oxford.
May, there was another By-election in Blackpool South and I was the candidate, once again not coming last. On same day there were ‘local elections’ where I stood for my District Council of Hart in Hampshire, didn’t get on but still retain my seat on the Fleet Town Council where I live.

July was the big one, a general election was called, much sooner than we all thought, but it didn’t catch us out, we managed to field twenty two candidates. Well done to you all, and all those who helped. In fact quite a few of those candidates made it up to our annual conference in Belper, Derbyshire. Talking of which our conference 2025 has not quite been finalised as yet, but will be within the next 6 weeks.
A big round of applause for Agent Chinners for his appearance on the James Whale show
Once again I would like to thank our team, Nick the Flying Brick, RU Seerius, Agent Chinners, Baron Von Thunderclap and Knigel Knapp.
But as always a big thank you to you, our party members, supporters and sympathisers, without you it wouldn’t be half the fun.
For more intricate detail of stories in this message go to www.loonyparty.com
All that is left for me to say is ‘Happy New Year’ to you all, see you in 2025 somewhere or other, I’ll be bound.
Howling ‘Laud’ Hope – Loony Party Leader