The party, with its garish outfits and garish policies, has become part of British political tradition.
"If you don't know what to think, vote pink" - the party's slogan for the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election failed to secure victoryIt's 40 years since the Official Monster Raving Loony Party fielded its first candidate in a parliamentary election. Since then no election count has been complete without a garishly-dressed, garishly-named member of the party standing alongside other hopefuls.
None has ever been elected as an MP - in fact, the party's current leader Alan "Howling Laud" Hope has said that if any candidate gets too many votes, they will automatically be kicked out on the grounds that they have been insufficiently loony.Yet despite the party's mission to never be too popular, a handful of its policies have become law.
In reaction to their policy becoming mainstream, the party now wants five-year-olds to be given the vote. "If you can hold a crayon you can vote," their website declares. One politician in 1984 accused the candidates of bringing the "whole election process into disrepute".
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