Completely OT: Cat elected leader of British political party

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Great cat! See photo at site.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000154642417163&rtmo=gZSNbZfu&atmo=YYYYYYbp&pg=/et/99/9/25/ncat25.html

ISSUE 1583 Saturday 25 September 1999

Cat is Loony leader by a whisker By Electronic Telegraph Correspondent

A GINGER tomcat was elected joint leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony party yesterday.

Mandu, four, won the post at the party's 19th annual conference in Ashburton, Devon. He now leads the party with the former deputy leader Alan Hope, 57, who used his chairman's casting vote to make the decision after he and the cat tied on 10 votes each. "Now we have a cat on board we shall be scratching around for new policies," said Mr Hope, who said he wanted Mandu to stand in by-elections.

The co-leaders succeed Screaming Lord Sutch the party's founder and leader, who committed suicide aged 58 in June. Mr Hope said Lord Sutch, who tried to enter his dog for a by-election, would have approved of Mandu's success.

Mandu had two rivals in the contest: Mr Hope, his owner, and Bony Moroni, from Huddersfield, West Yorks, who was elected deputy leader.

1 September 1999: Depression 'too much' for Sutch

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 24, 1999

Answers

I'm surprised a mummified SLSutch didn't stand, Old Git :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), September 25, 1999.

You're talking about an icon of my heyday, Andy! I mean, when he was a pop star, before he became a politician (for lack of a better word). He was definitely ahead of his time with his colorful clothing and outrageous behavior. I wish readers would go to the site and read the hot links at the bottom of the article (I left one, there are more) to see how the Monster Raving Loony Party conducted itself. The US really does need something like this to release the tension of elections when all you can do is vote for the lesser of all the evils.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 25, 1999.

Me too. I used to really enjoy the run up to the election night when SLS had to be invited along to "Question Time" to ensure fair representation - and proceeded to take over the show more often than not :) I have a great jpg photo of the pussy by the way - any idea how I can post it?

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), September 25, 1999.

in canada, there is the Rhinocerus Party, whose emblem is the endangered black rhino. they add a bit of levity to the political process.

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), September 25, 1999.

As we all know...Cats Rule, Dogs Drool...

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), September 25, 1999.


So if Y2K DOES turn out to be a BITR, how about we form our own fruitcake/tinfoil hat party? We could ahve great fun at the convention, like guess the number of beans in the white plastic bucket, mystery dip (cans that have lost their labels buried in a tub full of sawdust), explosion bowling (all those bottles of cheap bubbly you were going to use as barter bowled over by large freeze-dried meatballs or #10 cans of baked beans), dunk the polly--other suggestions?) Here's the URL for the Monster Raving Loony Party.

http://www.surfbaud.co.uk/loony/

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 25, 1999.


Great idea Old Git. How about a SPAM Slam against the wall to see how far it can ricochet?

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 25, 1999.

Those Brits are really on to something here. I've always suspected that cats were a superior form of intelligent life, and this can only further justify the sentiment.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), September 25, 1999.

OJ says guilty as charged

-- (OJ@simpso.com), September 26, 1999.


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