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I just want to know who was the weirdo in the yellow and black 'clown suit' standing behind Corbyn during one of his news conferences.

Probably the candidate for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Sadly, they weren't standing in my neck of the woods, because if you read their manifesto you'll see its the most consistent and coherent of the lot (E.g. "Atheism will be given charity status, being a non-prophet organization").

The constituencies for the main party leaders always attract half a dozen or so, er... alternative candidates.

I thought you were one of the members of the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Can't be a pioneer unless you pioneer something. If I could wish for anything to happen in politics, it would be to get rid of parties with uninspiring, pretentious names like "The Conservatives" or "New Labour" or "The National Socialist Party". At least when you vote for "The Monster Raving Loony Party" you get what it says on the tin! http://www.omrlp.com/

With those choices, why not vote for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party this year? I mean, they couldn't do any worse than the current UK government.

The scary thing is is that Mandelson is a capable man in a house of incompetent loonies and he may just get his way with this.

Actually, I think I'd prefer a House full of Loonies to one that tries tricks like this.

It's funny, if you can't convince some random people, you're not allowed into the race. USA is not that free, is it? Probably it's the sign of the times.
In UK we have parties like Monster Raving Loony Party and The Blah! Party, they are allowed in all of the electoral races and if they get the majority, one of their people can be the Prime Minister. In all cases the Royal family is a basket case so maybe we're all used to it now.

The British equivalent is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, which has had a handful of policy successes - most notably the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18.

I live in a Tory\Liberal marginal seat, so a vote for NuLabour[sic] is as much use as a vote for The Monster raving loony party Fortunately my political views are no where near those of the Labour party, but the joys of the first past the post system are not lost on me. Instead of this pointless move, why aren't they doing something useful, like introducing the single transferable vote system. That would re-engage more people than this gimmick.

At least you don't have the Monster Raving Loony Party on your ballots. (Yes, they do actually contest the odd seat here in the UK every election...)

You don't want to go around talking like that, special branch and MI5 will be at you door before you know it. Our only hope is to vote Monster Raving Looney. At least then we'll have honest politicians ;p

So who would you vote for? The 1984 Party, The State-Wreckers, The soft saps or the racist thugs?

Yes! Vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party!

Except for member of the Official Monster Raving Looney Party (who are too nuts to be paranoid), that would be most of the population of the UK. Hmmm. Maybe we could tie this in with the Mars landings. But then you'd have to find a way to brew a decent cup of tea at such a low atmospheric pressure.

You guys need to be introduced to the Monster Raving Loony Party. Check out their policies: although written in a serious manner, some of them are quite silly, such as reducing class size by making the children sit closer together ;) Somehow their rock star leader has become the longest standing party leader in the UK, and they consistently field candidates across the country in every election.