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Beginning in 1964, Sutch—of Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages—stood under a whole raft of party names, mainly as the National Teenage Party candidate. At that time the voting age was set at 21 and the name "National Teenage Party" was intended to highlight what Sutch and others saw as the hypocrisy in the situation that, while teenagers were unfairly denied the right to vote on the basis of their supposed immaturity, the "adults" running the country were involved in such shenanigans as the Profumo Affair. Sutch himself was in his mid twenties in 1964.
The "Raving Loony" tag only came when Sutch returned to politics in the 1980s, after leaving the USA thoroughly disillusioned with what he saw as an increasingly violent "Land Of The Free" under Ronald Reagan. A similar concept appeared in the "Election Night Special" sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1971 in which the Silly Party and the Sensible Party competed against each other. Monty Python also popularised the word " loony" in the sense that Sutch was using in the name of the OMRLP, but it is possible that Sutch inspired Monty Python by managing to stand against Harold Wilson in 1966 and in the City of London election in 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January. There had also been a "Science Fiction and Loony" candidate in the 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s CambridgeThis article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. The city of Cambridge is an old English University town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and i by-electionA by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. By-elections are held in most nations that elect their parliaments through single-member constituencies, whether with or without a.
It should also be stressed however that there were two others important in the formation of the future OMRLP. The first was John Dougrez-Lewis , who stood at the CrosbyCrosby is an area of Sefton, Merseyside, North West England. It was formerly an Urban District until absorbed into the new Sefton district in 1973. Crosby itself was formed from the urban districts of Great Crosby, Little Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth by-election of 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D (which was won by the Social Democratic PartyThe Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a United Kingdom political party which existed between 1981 and 1990. It was created in 1981 by a centrist breakaway group from the Labour Party who thought the Labour Party had moved too far to the left to be electab's co-founder Shirley WilliamsShirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby PC (born July 27, 1930), is a British politician. Originally a Labour MP, she was one of the Gang of Four rebels who founded the now-defunct SDP (Social Democratic Party) in 1981. She is now the leader of the). He stood at the by-election as Tarquin Fintim-Limbim-Whimbim-Lim Bus Stop-F'Tang-F'Tang-Olé-Biscuit-Barrel (a name taken directly from Monty Python) on the behalf of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society (an anti-political party and charity fundraising group) despite a legal challenge to stop him from standing by a far-right candidate from Middlesex Polytechnic. Dougrez-Lewis was Sutch's agent at the notorious Bermondsey by-election of 1983 where the OMRLP was first unfurled.
The second person who helped found the party was Commander William Boaks , a retired World War II hero involved in the sinking of the Bismarck, who had campaigned and stood for election for over 30 years on limited funds, always on the issue of road safety (he had been prosecuted several times as a result of his campaigns against several prominent figures who had mysteriously managed to escape prosecution for drink-driving offences). Boaks foresaw the problems that increased traffic and more roads would cause the country well before anyone else did, and by the time his predictions of unnecessary child deaths, pollution and congestion were proven correct he had died as a result of head injuries received three years earlier from a motorcycle collision. Boaks acted as one of Sutch's counting agents at Bermondsey and also proved influential on Sutch's direction as the leading anti-politician--"it's the ones who DON'T vote you really want, because they're the ones who think". Boaks subsequently retired from standing at elections due to his injuries, content that someone else was now taking up the baton against the Establishment he had railed against for three decades.