I know this might be hard to believe, but politics
really isn't all doom and gloom. There's a lot of fun to be had in politics,
and it can even be funny. The only issue is that the funny parties aren't
normally that serious and probably won't make it in to power.
In the UK, there are three political parties that
are commonly referred to as 'joke parties'. They are parties that don't ever
expect to form a government, but create manifestos anyway, whether it genuinely
is for a joke, or whether they are looking for ways to 'stick it to the man'.
There are many people out there who believe that joke parties actually
represent the views of the people who feel like none of the parties represent
them, but that's something I'll save for another time. This is a simple,
light-hearted blog.
These three parties are the Monster Raving Looney
Party, the Fancy Dress Party and The Militant Church of Elvis Party, and here
are some of their funniest (and in some cases, craziest) policy proposals:
1)
Make Unicorns a protected species
(Monster Raving Looney Party)
2)
Save public lavatories from
extinction (The Militant Church of Elvis Party)
3)
Building new schools using
revolutionary inflatable classrooms, making it
easier for delinquent pupils to let
the entire school down (Fancy Dress Party)
4)
Reduce the national debt by selling
the castles back to the French (Monster Raving Looney Party)
5)
Use a smaller font size to
automatically reduce unemployment statistics (Fancy Dress Party)
6)
Tax Payers to receive Nectar points
from HMRC (Monster Raving Looney Party)
7)
Provide intelligent students with a
dimmer switch, so they can stop being so bright (Monster Raving Looney Party)
8)
Abolish student top-up fees because
students should be entitled to full pints the same as everyone else (Fancy
Dress Party)
9)
Besides leap years, there needs to be
hop, skip years (Monster Raving Looney Party)
Forget all the major parties with their practical
manifestos, these ones are definitely a lot better, and no one can deny that it
would be funny to see some of these become law.
I know who I'm voting for...
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