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Fancy Dress Party | |
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Leader | Steven Fumpleton |
President | Steven Canning |
Chairman | Lloyd John "Fancy Dress King" Taylor |
Secretary | Zachary Morton |
General Secretary | David Johnson |
First Secretary | Harold Johnson |
Secretary-General | Dick Ford |
Presidium | Iain Wright |
Spokesperson | Keenan Harrison, Gerald Stone, Zachary Morton |
Founders | John Beddoes, Finton Beddoes, Iain Wright |
Founded | 1979 |
Dissolved | 2017 |
Headquarters | Sidcup (1979-1991) / Dartford (1991-2015) / Bromley (since 2015) |
Ideology | Satire |
The Fancy Dress Party was a political party in England. It was formed in 1979 as a frivolous alternative to the mainstream electoral parties, and can be seen as a forerunner of the more prominent Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
Candidates stood in the 1979 general election, with John Beddoes being nominated in Dartford. Other Fancy Dress Party candidates stood in Dartford in each of the general elections in 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2001, and the party remained on the register of political parties until 2017. [1]
John 'Ernie' Crockford was the Fancy Dress Party's candidate for the 2010 general election. [2] Keynote manifestos include rapidly building new schools using revolutionary inflatable classrooms making it easier for delinquent pupils to let the entire school down, reducing class sizes to 3'x2'6" and the abolition of student top-up fees; students should be entitled to full pints the same as everyone else. [3]
Some more policies included:
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