Fancy Dress Party
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The Fancy Dress Party is a political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in England
England
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. They were 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
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a registered political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983 by musician and politician David Sutch , better known as Screaming Lord Sutch.-History:...

. Their most famous policy was to use a smaller font size to automatically reduce the unemployment
Unemployment
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Candidates stood in the 1979 UK general election, with John Beddoes being nominated in Dartford
Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)
-Elections in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:-Notes and references:...

. Other Fancy Dress Party candidates stood in Dartford in each of the general elections in 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2001
United Kingdom general election, 2001
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, and the party remains on the register of political parties. John 'Ernie' Crockford was the Fancy Dress Party's candidate for the 2010 general election. Keynote policies include cutting police paper work in make your own doily classes, 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.
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