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Official Monster Raving Loony Party | |
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| Leader | Alan "Howling Laud" Hope |
| Founder | David "Screaming Lord" Sutch |
| Founded | 16 June 1982 |
| Headquarters | 59 New Barn Close, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 5HU |
| Membership | 1,434[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Colours | Yellow and black |
| Website | |
| loonyparty | |
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party (OMRLP) is a political party[2] established in the United Kingdom in 1982 by the musician David Sutch, also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, or simply Lord Sutch.[3] It is notable for its deliberately bizarre policies and it effectively exists to satirise British politics, and to offer itself as an alternative for protest voters, especially in constituencies where the party holding a safe seat is unlikely to lose it.
- ^ "Official Monster Raving Loony Party : Membership". Loonyparty.com. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ "View registration". The Electoral Commission.
- ^ "Screaming Lord Sutch – History & Timeline". The Loony Archive. Archived from the original on 26 August 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2014.