This is Baron von Magpie Bum’s first foray into the world of politics, having found his spiritual home at the Official Monster Raving Loony Party 2014 conference. Von Magpie Bum is an ex punk rocker gone bad. He now amuses himself and others with Morris dancing and singing in a Welsh male voice choir. Generally not at the same time, or he falls over. The Baron is a South Wales man through and through, able to communicate in most of the local dialects, from Newport to Abertillery. The Baron is currently busy fund-raising for the £500 deposit to represent the Loony Party in the 2015 election. Follow him on Twitter @MagpieBum
These are his key policies:
- Put all parliamentary representatives on national minimum wage.
- Due to the fact that the letter K is often silent, it will be replaced with a honking sound.
- The use of stocks will be reintroduced to punish people who litter our beautiful Islwyn countryside. The offenders will thereafter be required to wear a pointy hat with the letter W on the front (similar to the old dunce’s hat). The W could stand for ‘Wastrel’ or whatever else people interpret it as.
- Unicorns will be declared a protected species, in line with the Official Monster Raving Loony Party Manicfesto
- Jobs for unemployed people will be generated by introducing traditional Welsh Pickled Onion farms to the Islwyn area