Howling Laud Hope

Howling Laud Hope

Alan "Howling Laud" Hope was born in Mytchett, Surrey and has been leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party since 1999. Following the death of Screaming Lord Sutch, Hope was jointly elected with his cat, "Cat Mandu", as OMRLP leader in a ballot. However, since June 2002 he has been the sole leader, owing to Cat Mandu's death in a road accident.

Hope was elected unopposed to Ashburton Town Council in Devon in 1987, where he eventually rose to be Mayor in 1998 [cite web |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1997.html |title=Results of By-Elections to the 52nd United Kingdom Parliament |accessdate=2007-01-19 ] .

Hope stood as a candidate in the Brent East by-election, 2003, where he gained just 59 votes in a contest eventually won from Labour by Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat candidate. This did not discourage him, however, and Hope stood in Aldershot in the general election on May 5, 2005, where he took sixth (and last) place with 553 votes. He stood in the Blaenau Gwent Westminster by-election, 2006, coming last with 318 votes, and in the Sedgefield by-election, 2007 where he came tenth out of eleven with 129 votes.

Contrary to a number of articles in the "Guardian" newspaper [cite news|title=Cat pushes for prime minister|author=Matthew Tempest|date=2001-05-21|work=The Guardian|url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election2001/story/0,9029,494155,00.html] , Hope is not the only OMRLP candidate in history to have won elected office.

Cat Mandu

"Cat Mandu" was a British ginger tabby cat, and pet of Howling Laud Hope. He was jointly elected leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party with Hope after the death of Screaming Lord Sutch in 1999, and served until his death as a result of a traffic accident in July 2002. [cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,8543,-10504199264,00.html | work= Guardian Online| title=Election 2001: Cat Mandu| accessdate=2008-05-23]

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External links

* [http://www.loonyparty.info/ Official Monster Raving Loony Party - official website]


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