Jeremy Corbyn accused of being latest politician to steal policies from Monster Raving Loony Party with extra Bank Holiday plan
Joke group said the Labour leader’s plan to make St George's Day a public holiday was something they proposed years ago
JEREMY Corbyn stands accused of being the latest in a long line of politicians who have stolen policy ideas from the Monster Raving Loony Party.
They say the Labour leader’s plan to make St George's Day a Bank Holiday was something they proposed years ago.
Mr Corbyn suggested April 23 would become one of four extra public holidays if his party was to win the snap election on June 8.
But a spokesman for the joke party said: “If we ruled you would already be having that day off. Once again the other parties are using our policies, many years after we proposed them.
“This happens all the time. The conclusion is clear, vote Loony for yesterday's policies... tomorrow."
The satirical party, whose leader Howling Laud Hope is standing against Theresa May in her Maidenhead constituency, has long been an unlikely source of Government policies.
Founded by musician David Sutch, better known as ‘Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow’ in 1980s, it offers a protest vote against the mainstream parties.
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But its ideas like pet passports and all-day pub opening hours – once seen as wacky – have ended up coming true.
Though not all have been so well-liked by their rivals, and ideas such as renaming the constituency of South Hams to ‘South Hams Egg And Chips’ have never come to fruition.
In 2015 they planned to introduce a 99p coin and would halve the dole queue overnight by making jobseekers stand two abreast.
Their current policies include purchasing a padlock to safeguard the triple lock for pensioners, and keeping the Falklands but “give Jeremy Corbyn to Argentina”.
But they were the first party to campaign for all day opening of pubs, which became law in 1995.
At the General Election two years later they had a manifesto pledge for all-night opening too – with 24-hour drinking passing into law in 2005.