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| Loony Lord Toby Jug, PARTY PRESS & MEDIA OFFICER of the OFFICIAL MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY. |
Politics UK
Something different tonight, a bit of light relief.
PoliticsUK would like to welcome Loony Lord Toby
Jug, PARTY PRESS & MEDIA OFFICER of the OFFICIAL MONSTER RAVING LOONY
PARTY.
OK here we go...
Is your title a hereditary title and what is your
involvement in the Official Monster Raving Loony Party?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
I won my title back in 1997 at an all night poker
game with Labour members at the Newham North West Constituency Labour Club in
East Ham in East London, after chewing the cud with local Labour Party
activists. I'm the party's Media Officer and leader of the Cambridge &
Huntingdon branch of the OMRLP.
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UK
Why was the Official Monster Raving Loony Party set
up and what does it stand for?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
We were formed by Screaming Lord Sutch in 1963 and
originally called The National Teenage Party; we became the OMRLP in 1983. we
were set up to represent all those people who don't vote in elections who are
fed up with silly and stupid ideas and policies of the Unofficial Loony Party's
by creating even sillier policies to ridicule them, were the Official protest
vote and party.
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UK
How many branches of the OMRLP are there?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
We've branches in most towns and cities across the UK;
we've a US branch, a Maltese branch, and an Australian Branch.
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What is the predominant age range of supporters for
the party?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Our supporters are from every age, but the majority
are under 50 with lots of teenagers just discovering politics and our party as
their first ever choice of vote at election time
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UK
What sort of person makes a good candidate to
represent the OMRLP?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Someone who thinks for themselves outside the
bubble, alternative thinkers and colourful characters who cares about the
country and politics but feels disfranchised by the policies of the
Lib-Lab-Con-trick party's
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If the party was given the chance to enter Downing
Street as a coalition government, which party would you make a coalition with
in order to do this?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Under no circumstances would we enter into a
coalition with any of the Unofficial Loony party's their all far too Loony for
us!
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UK
What is the Party’s relationship with the Labour and
Conservative parties?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Cordial, they side up to us at elections to try and
look interesting and then cry to us when they loose...eventually they steal our
policies and implement them
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UK
“It’s the ones who don’t vote you really want,
because they’re the ones who think” – Do you think this still applies today?
Loony
Lord Toby
Jug It still applies today as much as when we first
said it all those years ago, but we also believe today that the only wasted
vote is one that isn't used, better to protest that vote by voting Loony than
not voting at all and then moaning about the state of the country afterwards.
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What three political absurdities does the OMRLP want
to highlight for 2012?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Cameron, Clegg and Miliband...
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UK
Do you have a London Mayoral Candidate and if so,
what policy would they like to see implemented for London?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Our prospective candidate is musician Chris Dowling,
we're busy trying to raise the funds for the £10,000 deposit at the moment,
which is a ridiculous sum that puts politics out of the reach of the common
man, We're standing on a platform of Votes for the Homeless and Floating bicycles
which we launched on the Thames at the 2010 general election to ease London's
traffic congestion problems.
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UK
How would your party resolve the country’s current
economic gloom?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
We will pay off the national debt with credit
cards...
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What involvement have you had with Huntingdon’s only
mental in-patient facility and its imminent closure?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
My step dad was a user with dementia so very much
so, only real madmen close hospital wards.
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UK
What traditional industries would you like to see
supported more?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
We'll bring back long lost traditional Victorian
trades such as Penny Farthing Wheel Repairers, Witch ducking Stool
Manufacturers, and Bog Snorkelling Ditch Diggers.
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UK
Last question from PoliticsUK: How is the party going
to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
With a Giant Monster Raving Loony Party of course!!
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UK
Sarah Nicholson asks: Is it disturbing to find that
you are saner than the government of the day?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
No Sarah, we don't find it disturbing at all, we've
all known it for years, it's only the Men in Grey Suits who find it disturbing.
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UK
Jack Barker asks: What is your party's policy on
climate change?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
To combat climate change and global warming all
buildings should be fitted with air conditioning units on the outside!
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Jack Barker asks: Should a person with a beard wash
it with soap or use shampoo?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
We recommend using lard of goose fat, at gas mark 7
for 25 minutes
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UK
Sarah Nicholson asks: Why can’t I have a candidate
from your party to vote for in Wavertree?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
Well Sarah, we nominate you as our Official
candidate for Wavertree...
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UK
Jack Barker asks: Has political correctness really
gone mad?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
It sure has, but then as we've always said it's a Mad, Mad, and Mad World anyway.
It sure has, but then as we've always said it's a Mad, Mad, and Mad World anyway.
PoliticsUK
Jim Buntin asks for an explanation as to how he won that poker game, if he really did please?
Jim Buntin asks for an explanation as to how he won that poker game, if he really did please?
Loony
Lord Toby Jug
The Jokers in the pack helped me win my title that day!
The Jokers in the pack helped me win my title that day!
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UK
And on that note, we would like to thank Loony Lord Toby Jug for attending the Q&A and we hope that members enjoyed reading.
And on that note, we would like to thank Loony Lord Toby Jug for attending the Q&A and we hope that members enjoyed reading.
Thanks to all for your time.
