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Yes another very good turn out,lots of fun,lots of frivolity and absolute Looniness,all left smiling and happy.
A good day for Fleet Town,a lot of the hotels and guest houses benefited and the townspeople took us to heart,a lot joined in and joined the Party officially.
All began with a general build up on the Friday,alot of people coming from far away,but by 3 o’clock most had arrived with stories to tell of the past years activities.
This evenings entertainment didn’t go quite
as well as planned as Elvis had to inform us that he couldn’t be there.
Nevertheless ‘The Big Fibbers’ played their hearts out and held the evening together.
Saturday saw the arrival of more of our party faithful,it was good to see our Party Chairman ‘The Jersey Flyer’ after a short break due to his mountaineering exploits.The local Newspaper was on hand to film the annual ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ (for those that dont know its all done in a bedroom cabinet) as were ITV Meridian South-today programme,who
gave us a nice spot on the 5.30 news, also featuring the now famous ‘Chinners Derby’ Spacehopper racing.
Sat Nav fuelled Spacehopping is the future way forward for visiting the Loonyverse.
Following this excitement the Party Leader ‘Howling Laud Hope’ called the conference to order and gave a resume’ of his antics over the last year.We also learned that our once glorious Joint Leader ‘Catmando’
{due to refurbishment of the Dog and Partridge in Yateley), had his final resting place disturbed,so there promptly followed a minutes Meowing.
The Jersey Flyer proudly showed off the newly minted 99p coin which is now in circulation,now,they did cost £12 each to mint,you can buy one for £10 of which £5 will be donated to ‘Help the Hero’s.
Deputy Leader ‘Top Cat (Banana Man) Owen also gave a rousing speech.
Johnny (Cocoa Bean) Cartwright read and recorded the minutes.
By now Nick ‘The Flying Brick’ Delves had arrived from Derby,our treasurer.
He just reported that we were still ‘IN THE BLACK’ so that was good enough.
Other members were allowed to add things to the proceedings as and when they wished.
Evenings entertainment was started with a surprise visit from Linda Landers and her group the Skywriters,Linda is a member and was a very good friend of ‘Lord Sutch’. Our house band ‘Whats Next’ came on next and
were as good as ever,Chris and Ken and the boys have been around on and off with us since the mid 80s.During the interval sterling performances were recorded by Harrie Taylor,’she’ was excellent,also Dave collins gave
a wonderful rendition of old time Rock’n'Roll. Then Surprise,Surprise
Miss Polly Titian teamed up with the Big Fibbers and gave us her self penned version of ‘Theres a Hole in my Pocket Dear Tax Man’ to a tremendous round of applause.’Whats Next’ then pumped up the atmosphere to end a very successful two day gathering bringing the house down with excellence.
Thanks to William Hill our sponsors for sending Joe, he thoroughly enjoyed himself.
Our thanks once again to John and Suzzanne of the ‘Links Hotel’ Fleet for making us welcome,to Jamie Stackhouse for printing posters,and all the wonderful people of Fleet for helping us make this the success that it
was.
An End Note :There may be a Loony winner in the Lord Mayor of London race !

This year’s conference is over, but while we wait for a full review here are half a dozen photos.

Keep watching this site for more photos as they appear.
Also check out http://www.itv.com/meridian-west/meridian-news-west86084/ as their coverage of our conference starts at 01:39; I’m not sure how long this will be available on the ITV website.

Due to the success of venue last year it has been decided to hold this ‘Prestidious’ and ‘World Wide’ event on the same stage.
The ‘Links Hotel’ Fleet will once again host this weekend of Political Looniness and Frivolity on Fri 23rd — Sat 24th Sept,all welcome.
Although Ginny and Scott the previous landlords have moved on,they made us very welcome,the current landlords John and Suzanne are throwing there all at it and are very much looking forward to the famous
‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ which is earmarked to take place Fri afternoon.especially for media coverage, any one can join in,fancy dress a must or at least a silly hat.If you should miss this it has been known before now,to have a
reshuffle of the cabinet that we shuffled the day before on the Sat.
Both days start at 12 noon,usually a Fleet Town walk about Sat afternoon visiting various Hosteleries.
Our guest artiste last year,much to everybodys surprise was ‘Adam Ant’ even now people still talk about that saying how good he was,we tried for ‘Boy George’ this year who said that he would love to do it in memory of ‘Screaming Lord Sutch’ but unfortunately was in the Far East at this time.
So watch out in the future,you never know !
However musical entertainment for the two nights wont be lacking, Fri night
see our old friend and Party Member, DALE FONTAINE and his ECHO’S of ELVIS locally known as Dave the plumber of ‘The Village’ fame from Crondall who always does us proud,Also the return of the ‘BIG FIBBERS’ performing their internet smash hit ‘Who put Pepper in the Vaseline’ b/w ‘Armadillo’s are
Taking Over Texas’.
Sat night once again the Fabulous ‘Loony House Band’ ‘WHATS NEXT’
doing what they do best ‘entertain you’ and any surprise guests that may wander in ? ? ? ! !
See you all there,dont miss it ,this time !

A very successful event,was pleased to be invited to officiate on behalf of the Loony Party.
My thanks to the organisers Andy Cameron,Bob Hickson, John Horner and Daz Lamb.
Plus all the other people who extended me
the warmth and friendliness of that Northern Hospitality,it does exist you know !
This organisation raised £3,000 for THE CHRISTIE charitable fund last year and are on the way to beating that this year,although final figures are not known yet,its a charity that uses money for cancer research.
I suppose the down side was that a chappie called Cameron won it,no not David
but Andy,much to the dissapointment of Daz who sprung a leak.
Bob Hickson our Party Member was my Personal Host,I left him rounding up new
members,of which I am pleased to report should prove quite fruitful.
A good time was had by all,its rumoured that I could be back next year,if so, it would be nice to think that more of the Party could be in attendance,albeit not forgetting those of you that did. Thankyou.
SEE YOU ALL AT THE CONFERENCE !

Authorities are concerned about the effect the London Riots may have on the 2012 Olympics.

Sorry for the further delay in sorting out memberships, I was not as recovered as I thought I was. I am now definitely on the mend and will clear the backlog as soon as I get the new batch of Loony Licences printed

Get well soon Baron