Wessex Regionalist’s and the Wild Weather Brewery
It’s nice to hear that our old friend Colin Bex has been re-elected as the leader of Wessex Regionalist Party. Colin and the Loony’s are great friends and always up for it when we meet at by-elections. He takes keen interest in our Co-ALE-ition beers and has attended every launch so far. It looks like… Read More
Last Thursday’s By-Election, Runnymead, Chertsey Meads
Well done Crazy Conservative hold Mark NUTI (The Conservative Party Candidate) 489 (42.2%) David BELL (Labour Party Candidate) 329 (28.4%) Grahame LEON-SMITH (UK Independence Party (UKIP) 327 (28.2%) Crazy CRAB (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 15 (1.3%)
Introduction to Wild Weather and Mike Tempest, our latest Co-ALE-ition brewery partner
Official launch of HowlinGale our 6th Co-ALE-ition ale
The official launch of HowlinGale will take place at the Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Hampshire) on the evening of Thursday 3rd April 2014 at 7pm. After the brewery launch we will be going into Reading afterwards to celebrate further at up to three different multi award winning CAMRA real ale pubs who will have HowlinGale available… Read More
CAMRA never lies down
Howling has officially become the first ever political party leader to become a member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and he is already actively campaigning and making a real (ale) difference. Howling has given his full support to the campaign to freeze beer duty in the budget later this month but has gone… Read More
The Pommelers Rest – Thurs 27th Feb 2014
This year is the 30th anniversary of ‘The Official Monster Raving Loony Party’ used as a name to stand in an election. Our first election was on the 24th February 1983 when Screaming Lord Sutch stood in Bermondsey and polled 97 votes. We celebrated by having a ‘meet the brewer‘ in the Pommelers Rest which… Read More
Raise your glasses to the new loony Co-Ale-ition
The Hampshire News & Mail newspapers have published a great story about our sixth Co-ALE-ition beer ‘HowlinGale’ read it here
New “HowlinGale” Ale
Here is the final version of the pumpclip for the latest Co-ALE-ition ale which will be officially launched in March. Derrill Carr approached Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Berkshire) early in February to see if they would be willing to re-brand their dark old ale called “Black Night” for the Loony Party. He had identified… Read More
MAY ELECTIONS!
The May elections will soon be upon us. There will be Town, Parish, District, definitely, and maybe County in some places. If any of you intend standing for our party, you must get a certificate of nomination from our nominations officer. Please bear in mind you cannot stand as a loony candidate without permission. It is all free, no… Read More
The Wythenshaw and Sale East By-election Thurs 13th Feb 2014
Well, the run up to Christmas and the New Year was busy enough, launching our range of Co-ale-ition beers and what have you, phew ! I flew out to Malta for a rest, but no rest for the wicked, a By-election was called for the 13th of Feb. I initially intended to be the candidate… Read More