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"If you don\u2019t usually vote, then vote unusually. Vote for me!"

For TMR's General Election Special\u2014in anticipation of the UK General (S)election on 12th December\u2014we welcome to the programme once again Alan "Howling Laud" Hope, leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

Back in 2017, "Howling Laud" joined us to discuss the history, aims and achievements of the UK's most well-known unconventional political party. This time we scrutinse the party's recently-published Election Manifesto and ask why it makes sense to "vote for insanity"\u2014whichever party that happens to be.

In 1999, following the death of the party's founder Screaming Lord Sutch\u2014who had led the party through its previous incarnations, such as "National Teenage Party" and "Go To Blazes Party"\u2014OMRLP members voted for their new leader, choosing jointly a cat called Cat-Mandu and his owner Alan "Howling Laud" Hope. Although Cat-Mandu died in 2002 and now serves as one of the party's "spiritual leaders", "Howling Laud" proudly continues as the UK's longest-serving party leader.

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