The Official Monster Raving Loony Party - New Site, New Leader (Mandu the cat). News, results, marketing, membership and links to local and international branches.
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party (Cambridge Branch) - Minimalist site. Includes past manifesto and a list of the party's achievements (or rather government policy changes which the OMRLS claims were taken out of their manifesto).
Baron von Thunderclap - Information about the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's shadow Transport minister and bicycle enthusias (who is also the tallest Loony in the party) and the Sussex OMRLP branch.
Screaming Lord Sutch - Information on the late founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party, his music and poltics. Site includes video and audio.
Nick Delves - Parliamentary candidate for Derbyshire West. Includes policies and information about elections.
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-- Author Unknown We must become the change we want to see.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- Albert Einstein You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
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-- Gore Vidal Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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-- Peter To teach is to learn twice.
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
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-- Anon. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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- unknown Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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