The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

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

James Whale MBE and his wife Nadine ‘at home’ for their Christmas Special. Visitors include Ash Gould as the Grinch, Britain’s only Jewish Elvis impersonator, Elvis Shmelvis, quiz master Andrew Eborn and ‘A Gent’ Chinners from the Monster Raving Loony Party at 25mins

It is around this time of year that rumours begin to circulate about who, of the good & not so good, will receive Knighthoods, Gongs, Bells or Whistles. Will Saint David Spice be rewarded for not sending angry Knightly emails? Will Sadiq Khan get a gong for his services to knife crime?

The Loony Party has always been one step ahead with its own OFFICIAL #NewYearsHonours, which recognise those truly worthy of sutch acclaim, with the likes of Lord Brian May, Lord Tony Blackburn & Lord James Whale all being made OFFICIAL Ministers before any inferior gong came their way.

Our new Ministers will be unveiled at the tail end of December 2024 but as a token of our esteem, one of the six will be revealed at 1pm on Christmas Day on the Lord James Whale Show on TalkTV which can be viewed via their live YouTube channel

Keep your eyes peeled & toenails suitably polished via this website & our Social Media accounts, for any further updates that we may deem necessary to divulge.
Chinners

The Loony Party returned to Belper in Derbyshire for our fortieth conference. It was our third visit to the George & Dragon, the two others had been held before lockdown. We were welcomed by new landlord Dan Newton and it all went loonily well.
I arrived ten days before and the TV, radio, and newspapers quickly found me. A few of the party arrived earlier in the week determined not to miss any part of the occasion.
Friday started with a great live set from local band ‘Manpant’, so local that the landlord Dan and previous landlord Craig are in the band. They were followed by a ‘burlesque spot’ from our very own ‘Loony Lady Lux’. Then ‘Moon Bullet’ completed an excellent night of entertainment.
We set off at noon on Saturday to explore the town’s delights and the pubs all welcomed us. Morris Side the ‘Black Pigs’ always add a sense of fun and colour dancing around town. There were sixty of us wandering around town thoroughly enjoying ourselves.
The buses stopped to let the passengers enjoy the spectacle and once again the shoppers said ‘please come back every year!’
We returned to base for our world famous ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’, it takes place in a wardrobe! This year there was a massive split in the cabinet as so many had jumped in and out and it ended crumpled in a heap in the corner of the car park.
I gave my speech recounting all that had happened throughout the year and congratulated our twenty two candidates for their astonishing efforts in the July General Election. My 25 years as ‘party political leader’ are now recognised as the longest serving  in Britain. I have stood in 36 Parliamentary elections, 10 of those being ‘General Elections’, which is another British record.

In the evening we were woken by, ‘ACDC Done Dirt Cheap’ with their excellent set, but before the main band we had a surprise guest, our old friend ‘Dave Savage’ turned up with guitar in hand and started the whole evening off. Superb surprise.
I had invited an extra special guest who lives very near, Roy Wood of ELO, Move and Wizard. He sent a nice letter of apology for not being able to make it as he was going to America to see his daughter. But he wished us all the best and said ‘keep up the good work’.
I would like to thank Radio Alty from Manchester for covering the event for two days. Most of all though I would like to thank you all for being there, it was great fun, you make it happen!
We’ll meet again
Howling Laud Hope – Loony Leader

It is with great sadness that I have to say goodbye to Colin Dale.
I had known Colin since the early days of Screaming Lord Sutch, they went to the same school together. He was a DJ on Radio Sutch out in the English channel. He was a Londoner, spent time in Bucks, but then ended up living in Wales still doing his own version of Radio Sutch from his front room. He stood for UKIP at one election, but then in May 2010 he stood for The Monster Raving Loony Party in Buckinghamshire against John Bercow and gained a very respectable 856 votes. He actually came to Witney in 2010 to support me against David Cameron in the same election for a couple of days. That was the last time I saw him, although we had spoken many times on the phone, we both agreed that perhaps we were the last two standing from that late 50s early 60s era. He was a man who said what he thought, and stood by every word, but was also the first to give an apology if he was wrong. A true Rock’n’Roller to the core. To him Bill Haley was the king, I cant argue with that. So long Colin or The Baron as he was known way back when. From all of us in the Loony Party and many more.
Howling ‘Laud’ Hope

My campaign in Ely & East Cambridgeshire launched amid a heady blend of untamed Loony optimism and polite bafflement from electors with the rallying cry ‘A new candidate for a new constituency and a total change from everything that hasn’t gone before!’
Living opposite a village pub, nominations were collected in double-quick time with papers filed on 6 June. East Cambs Council elections team were extremely supportive and very patient as I showered them with questions on everything from whether beer mats in a pub constitute promotional materials, to which caption a yellow rubber duck’s ‘expenses’ go into.
Canvassing as a Loony is different. While other candidates faced doorstep aggro, I received approval for standing, smiles, laughter, widespread agreement with our Manicfesto (along with a promise to plant 68 million magic money trees to pay for it all) and general reassurance that people wouldn’t be voting for me!
Highlights of the campaign? An excited 17 year old politics student telling me I was his very first ‘real’ parliamentary candidate and that he’d written a paper on the importance of the OMRLP; people actually understanding what we actually stand for; the many memories of Screaming Lord Such (lots of rock fans of a certain age!); finding Loony enclaves all-round the constituency; and, as our Hustings came to a close, being handed a note by our Chairman (a very eminent ex-Cabinet Secretary) that read ‘Guess who will get the last word?’
Oh, and unseating a, now former, Cabinet minister – without a recount, despite the 495 majority. How did I do? Well, with 271 votes I came 6th of 9 candidates even beating the SDP into 7th place!
Thanks to my amazing local Loony supporters without whom I might have had a nice quiet time of it, those nationally and internationally who provided encouragement and particularly to The Incredible Flying Brick, Chinners, the Baron and of course Our Inspirational & Glorious Leader, Alan along with everyone at LoonyHQ for distributing rosettes, badges, guidance and confusion. Will I do it again next time? You bet!
See you all at Conference.
Hoo-Ray Henry

Thu 26 – Sat 28th Sept will be our 40th conference. We are heading back to The George and Dragon Hotel in Belper, Derbyshire which is a great venue. We have been there before, so we know we will be well looked after by a great crowd of people.
Thurs is meet and greet for the early arrivals. Friday great live bands ‘Moon Bullet’ plus ‘Man Pant’. Saturday two more live bands ‘Done Dirt Cheap’ and ‘Gripper and the Gurnards’ which will play after the 12 noon town pub crawl, the leaders speech, our world famous cabinet reshuffle and other shenanigans.
‘Bad Axe’ will be there performing his usual set which is not suitable for the ‘Woke’ brigade. Accommodation is very good in and around the town, the venue itself has a couple rooms on a first come first serve basis.
Only 8 weeks away, so get in quick. Camping also available by arrangement.
I’ll be there for 10 days, from Thurs 19th making sure all goes to plan. So if any of you want to make a longer break of it, you won’t be on your own.
See you all there.
Howling ‘Laud’ Hope – Loony Party Leader 07946 292 557

Due to the not so clever move by the previous Government in calling an early General Election, we sadly had to delay a few things to concentrate on the impending Loony Mudslide. One sutch thing was our Loony Kings Birthday Honours, which we can now gladly rectify .? . .

We hear by declare, that Lord Tim Smith has been spiritually appointed as the Minister of Snowy Ponds, Kalidoscopes & Starry Skies.
This maybe True, False or awaiting confirmation/Denial by the ABC
A Gent Chinners