| Dear Mister Thoms # 25, 1992

Manifesto launch: Lord Sutch

The Official Monster Raving Loony party issued its manifesto yesterday, a four-page photocopied document with the slogan “Vote for insanity-you know it makes sense”.

It included a pledge to allow anyone attending court, not simply judges and lawyers, to wear wigs and gowns and to reduce income tax to zero for anyone below the national average wage.

They also propose extending the Chunnel tunnel to Switzerland and decimalising time. Crocodiles will be introduced into the Mersey and the Thames as part of a plan to create six giant Loony theme parks.

(The Daily Telegraph 19.3.92 p. 7)