Talk:Official Monster Raving Loony Party

message: I've attempted to improve the biased wording of the "Sutch's death, and after" section. I would request that Mark Boyle discuss this before reverting it again, and please read the NPOV policy. Biased wording included:
* "Cunningham huffed" (I changed this to "Cunningham commented")
* "But the bizarre spectacle of an atheist Scottish Nationalist praising the deceased leader of England and Wales' Roman Catholics had a simple explanation - sour grapes."
This is clearly not neutral wording.
— Matt Crypto 11:13, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: POV fixing

message: There were some Loony Society candidates in the '83 general election.  Was this label used by the grouping which later became the OMRLP?  If so, I'll put in a redirect. Warofdreams talk 11:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Loony Society]]

message: There has been repeated vandalism on this page the last couple of days, and some quite serious accusations made (by individuals whose grasp of written English leaves something to be desired, particularly in the correct use of the apostrophe...), in some cases libellous.
May I remind them that if they do not have the evidence to verify their claims (one of the said claims - "treating" voters - is a criminal offence punishable by up to 5 years in prison under the UK Representation of the People's Act). It would be easy enough for any of the people concerned to have the IPs listed for said posters checked and legal action for defamation taken.
This may be about "Loony" politics, but let's at least try to keep things on an adult level, shall we? This is one of the few "broad-church" pieces on "Loony" politics on the web, & it would be unfortunate if it were to be removed because a few individuals could not bear to see anything remotely critical being said about past or current party members.
Mark_Boyle 26th February 2006
:: First of all, it is extremely frivilous to seek legal action against anyone vandalising a wiki. Although it may make it to court, no judge would ever allow for any severe action to be taken against the vandals. That, and people can change their IP addresses. --Holamitch (talk) 04:34, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Vandalism]]

message: I dislike the choice of header titles. Would it be best if they were merged into subheadings in such things as defeats and/or history. Computerjoe's talk 15:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section Titles 

message: I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN  FROM THE LOONY PARTY BY ANYONE. I'VE NEVER BEEN THE PARTY PRESS OFFICER AT ANY TIME.
I'VE NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ASSAULT ON MY PARTNER, JULIE SMITH,
YES I DO TAKE MEDICATION FOR MANIC DEPRESSION.
LORD TOBY JUG  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.242.99 (talk) 19:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  First of all Brian/Toby, stop typing everything in capital letters. Learn to use the keyboard properly like everyone else on Wiki does.
Secondly, a reference has been given to the incident and the claims made - I suggest you give reference to some form of retraction that was given, else the matter stands. Mark_Boyle 2 September 2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Boyle (talk • contribs) 22:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  LORD TOBY JUG 

message: s:OMRLP general election manifesto 2001 is being considered for deletion.  It looks like it is a manifesto of this party, but it is not well described.  It would be helpful if some Wikipedians could help us investigate it, and work out the copyright status of the documents.  If we can keep this one, we could record all the bizarre manifestos of this party. John Vandenberg 09:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Most of that "General Election Manifesto" is in fact the one that was on the website of Nick "The Brick" Delves, who was a General Election candidate in Erewash in Derbyshire. It was not the actual OMRLP manifesto, though it contains a large part of it. Mark Boyle (talk) 21:31, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  manifesto 

message: Anybody know if perhaps Lord Sutch was inspired by the Loony Party featured in a Monty Python sketch?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.79.229.185 (talk) 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I take it you then read the main article? That would answer that question for you. Mark Boyle (talk) 21:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monty Python 

message: Thought you'd be interested to know that your former deputy leader stood in the local elections yesterday as a Blah! Party candidate picking up only 38 votes out of a possible 5,604 in her Holme Valley North ward. Finishing 7th out of 7. 80.5.191.207 (talk) 13:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes indeed, it was noticed that her "personal" vote did not hold up. Whether that means that her talk about a personal vote was hot air, or whether she was a victim to the traditional squeeze on minor parties when there's a strong opposition to the governing party remains to be seen. The forthcoming Crewe By-election might prove interesting though, as there's been a lot of dirty tricks by the major parties, and traditionally this tends to produce some form of backlash from disgruntled voters. Whether the OMRLP will benefit only time will of course tell Mark Boyle (talk) 21:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boney Maroney in the 2008 elections 

message: My site has a full copy of the OMRLP Manifesto. We're driving towards having all English-language political manifestos of every political party in the world on our site in the same/similar format - it could be a useful resource for Wikipedia.
OMRLP Manifesto
Declaring my interest: I own the site so shouldn't add the link myself. Jdfjurn (talk) 09:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full Manifesto 

message: The tag is wrong and more polices should be included. Kiko4564 (talk) 18:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more info. 

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thread_title: File:Lordsutch01a.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: Though it has its own page talking about it being a split off from this party, I notice the only mention on this page of the Raving Loony Green Giant Party is saying some of its members attended the funeral of the party founder.  Surely this is a significant enough thing to be included in describing the party history.--108.86.120.80 (talk) 22:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There used to be an entire section called "Divisions" that had more to say about the RLGGP split-off until someone unceremoniously axed it. Admittedly, the section was unsourced, but removing it entirely was too heavy-handed. The fact that the OMRLP, despite being a joke party, has still had serious internal rifts and arguments is definitely relevant information that should be included in the article. Jah77 (talk) 14:07, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should say something about the Raving Loony Green Giant Party 

message: The archive copy does not appear to show the period prior to 2007 when the OMRLP councillor was a member.
The link to the original diverts to random spam sites.
Is this an issue with my device, or are other readers affected? I am reluctant to try to edit if the problem is mine and not Wikipedia's.^^^^ 37.160.61.92 (talk) 10:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to archive of Sawley Parish Council 

message: This peculiar and very poor article seems to have been written by someone with a personal grudge against Alan "Howling Laud" Hope, judging by its repeated claim that the party is actually run on a daily basis by various other people, though since apart from putting up candidates at elections it doesn't appear to do very much of anything I don't see why this matters. It also mentions that Anthony Blyth, the alleged true leader of the Loonies, is the owner of "the Ommaroo", an utterly baffling statement which isn't explained in any way. Luckily there is one other mention in Wikipedia of this strange word, so I now know it's a hotel on Jersey. Though I still don't know what the word means, or why it it matters in this context that Anthony Blyth owns a hotel in the Channel Islands. Unless of course Anthony Blyth wrote the article and is trying to sneak in a wee bit of advertising? Which, judging by its favourable references to himself in constrant to its treatment of Alan Hope, seems not improbable. Anyway, if the Ommaroo Hotel is somehow genuinely relevant, you might like to include a brief explanation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.29.141 (talk) 14:25, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the hell is an Ommaroo? 

message: In the popular culture section is says: "...all while dressed vaguely as a bee." What a peculiar choice of adverb. How does one dress vaguely? 92.40.179.157 (talk) 12:07, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dressing vaguely