The McGillicuddy Serious Party (McGSP) functioned as a satirical political party in New Zealand. For many years, from 1984 to 1999, McGillicuddy Serious provided "colour" to New Zealand politics to ensure that citizens not take the political process too seriously. The party's logo, the head of a medieval court jester, indicated McGillicuddy Serious's status as a joke party. Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... A jester or fool is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages. ... This is a list of political parties that have been created for frivolous purposes. ...

The party stood candidates in the 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1999 General Elections; the 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998 Local Body elections; along with various local body and parliamentary by-elections and even some university student association elections.

Origins

The McGillicuddy Serious Party formed in 1984 in Hamilton as the political arm of Clan McGillicuddy (established in 1978). Members of the Clan had stood as candidates in 1983 local-body elections in the Waikato, but the McGSP was established in time to contest the 1984 General Election. The party had a strong Scottish theme, and the kilt was considered to be one of the party's symbols. Initially many candidates were students of University of Waikato. They also included a number of street-performers and comedic musical groups, such as the Serious Ukulele ensemble and the Big Muffin Serious Band. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hamilton is New Zealands fourth-largest metropolitan area. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Formal Highland regalia, kilt and Prince Charlie jacket for Black tie. ... The University of Waikato is located in Hamilton and Tauranga, New Zealand, and was established in 1964. ...

Challenge for the Crown

After discovering that he had some (rather obscure) relationship to the Stuart pretenders, Clan McGillicuddy advanced Bonnie Prince Geoffie the reluctant as replacement for Queen Elizabeth II. The Clan attempted to settle the matter by trial by combat, challenging the New Zealand Army to a winner takes all pillow fight. Although HRH's official armed defenders declined the offer, the McGillicuddy Highland Army occasionally fought the loyalist forces of Alf's Imperial Army, a pro British pacifist warfare group who supported The Wizard of New Zealand and McGillicuddy's rival for the silly vote, the Imperial British Conservative Party. The party sometimes became the subject of aggression from unexpected quarters — in 1990 Green party candidate Warrick Pudney challenged his Te Atatu rival to a paper-sword fight in Aotea Square (the fight was declared a draw, both combatants were treated for paper cuts). Unarmed insurrection having failed, the Clan reluctantly turned to the ballot box, contesting general elections from 1984 to 1999. stuart is a small (in all ways)boy who lives in manchester. ... A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne[1]. Deposed monarchs are not seen as pretenders, as the term only applies to those who have never occupied the throne. ... Bonnie Prince Geoffie the Reluctant Unwilling claimant to the throne of New Zealand, as a rather tortiously removed descendant of the Stuart pretenders. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor) (born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms. ... The Judicial Duel. ... McGillicuddy Highland Army vs. ... Alfs Imperial Army presents for a photo during the PISS campaign, 1989-04 Alfs Imperial Army was the creation of The Wizard of New Zealand in 1972 at Melbourne University in Australia. ... The Wizard of New Zealand The Wizard of New Zealand is also the Archwizard of Canterbury, a living work of art at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Robert MacDougall Art Gallery, and Cosmologer at the University of Melbourne. ... The Imperial British Conservative Party was a farcical political party founded by the Wizard of New Zealand. ... This article is about the green parties around the world. ... Te Atatu is the name of two suburbs in Waitakere, one of the four cities that make up the Auckland urban area in northern New Zealand: Te Atatu Peninsula and Te Atatu South. ... Aotea Square is a large paved area regarded as the centre of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Candidate selection

Party candidates for election were at one point selected through trial by combat, with newspaper swords and water balloons, the loser of the combat becoming the candidate. In 1990 this policy was replaced by standing several candidates for the same seat (it being illegal for the same candidate to contest two seats, doubling their chances of election, but legal for a party to have two candidates standing in the same electorate, halving their chances). In 1996 a giant game of musical chairs took place in Cathedral Square, Christchurch to select the Canterbury regional electorate candidates. Whoever remained sitting on one of the labelled chairs when the music stopped became the candidate for that seat. Candidates for proportional representation (list) seats were selected Cinderella-style by trying to fit into labelled shoes. Cathedral Square in Christchurch, with Christ Church in the background. ... The New Zealand region of Canterbury mostly comprises the Canterbury Plains. ...

McGillicuddy policies

The McGillicuddy Serious Party selected its policies on the basis of their absurdity and their impracticality.

Central McGillicuddy Serious policies in every election included a return to a medieval lifestyle, known as the "Great Leap Backwards" and the restoration of a monarchy supposedly based on the Scottish Jacobite line, in the name of Bonnie Prince Geoffie "the reluctant". The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... Restoration can be one of several things, depending on context: In criminal justice, restoration is another term for restorative justice. ... Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, wearing the Jacobite blue bonnet Jacobitism was (and, to a very limited extent, is) the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (including after 1707,when the de facto government deemed those thrones to... Bonnie Prince Geoffie the Reluctant Unwilling claimant to the throne of New Zealand, as a rather tortiously removed descendant of the Stuart pretenders. ...

Other policies at various times included:

Free dung

The abolition of money

Replacing money with chocolate fish as legal tender.

The demolition of The Beehive

The demolition of New Zealand's parliament buildings, and all other buildings on a last up, first down basis.

Raising the school leaving-age to sixty-five

After Parliament raised the school leaving-age by one un-ambitious year.

Full unemployment (or at other times, full employment through slavery)

Restricting the vote to minors

i.e. ONLY those under 18 years of age could vote. Announced when Parliament lowered the voting age to 18 years.

Student loans for Plunket (or at other times, Kindergarten attendance)

Prior to the 1984 election, David Lange's Labour Party promised to maintain free tertiary education, but Labour's Education Minister, Phil Goff, introduced student fees when elected. National Party education spokesman Lockwood Smith promised a return to free education if elected, but did not carry out this promise. Most McGillicuddy supporters were students, and not pleased that both major political parties had decided free tertiary education was unsustainable, but deliberately lied about their intentions to attract votes.

Abandoning male suffrage

New Zealand, the first nation to achieve women's suffrage, made a big deal of the centenary of this at the time of the 1993 elections.

Full hedgehog suffrage

After a goat was successfully entered into a local body election on Waiheke Island, the party unsuccessfully attempted to stand a hedgehog for parliament, apparently solely in order to make 'prick' jokes.

Votes for trees

New Zealanders are notorious environmentalist, and the University of Auckland's ex-Marxist law lecturer Klaus Bosselmann actually seriously advocated giving trees (and other bits of the environment), some legal standing. The McGillicuddys were divided about whether native trees should be able to vote in Maori electorates, whether male trees as well as female trees should vote, and what the status of shrubs was.

The demolition of the Auckland CBD

In order to create a giant sundial, using the Sky Tower as the gnomon. Or at other times, to protect the Sky Tower by placing a condom over it. There was controversy about the unfortunately ugly sky tower, and the social impact of the casino it advertises.

Replacing the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps with Mounted Knights

Claimed to be more modern. The New Zealand Army's outdated equipment was a constant source of quips and embarrassment in the 1990s — at the time Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles operated FV101 Scorpions and M-113s.

Building dreadnoughts in the Tamaki Estuary

A reference to the Royal New Zealand Navy's controversial purchase of Anzac class frigates.

An All Whites victory in the Soccer World Cup

Both the Labour Party and the National Party used the All Blacks' victory in the 1987 Rugby Union World Cup in their 1990 campaigning — the All Whites stood about as much chance of winning the Soccer World Cup as Brazil have of winning the Rugby version.

An indecent society

Jim Bolger's National Party used the slogan "A Decent Society".

A potato famine

Prime Minister Jim Bolger's somewhat pock-marked countenance bore an unfortunate resemblance to the common garden potato. Much to his displeasure, he became widely known as "Spud"; the Royal New Zealand Air Force, with a typically Kiwi lack of reverence, christened his Boeing 727 'Spud One'.

Limiting the speed of light to 100km/h

50 km/h in Mt Roskill, (Auckland's Bible Belt), because folks there preferred to be less enlightened.

Linking the North Island and South Island

by bulldozing the Southern Alps into Cook Strait.

Post-natal abortion

The fundamentalist Christian Heritage Party used abortion as a major policy.

Free Tongan citizenship

National's Brian Neeson accused Dan McCaffrey, Labour's 1990 candidate for Te Atatu, of promising some Pacific Islanders New Zealand citizenship if they joined the Labour Party. Tonga was at the time selling its passports to all comers, leading to a clamp-down by other countries on people travelling under Tongan passports. McCaffrey's McGillicuddy Serious opponent, Kit Boyes, offered free Tongan citizenship to everyone who didn't vote for him. McCaffrey threatened defamation proceedings against a bemused Boyes, who was McGillicuddy spokesperson for legalised theft (taxation) — and also, unfortunately for McCaffrey, a law student.

Air bags for the New Zealand Stock Exchange

Following the 1987 stock market crash.

Replacing the Queen's chain with hemp

The Labour Party had a policy of protecting and extending the Queen's chain, forcing farmers and iwi to allow public access to waterways. Candidate Dominic Worthington proposed replacing the chain with more environmentally sound hemp, the Queen, of course, was to be replaced with Prince Geoffie the reluctant, and rather than limiting the chain to protecting water in aqueous form, the King's hemp would also be used to hold together water in solid form, such as the ice in New Zealand's glaciers and Antarctic territory, in particular, the Ross Ice Shelf (which environmentalists are concerned may collapse and raise sea levels). Ultimately it was planned that technology would regress far enough for it to become plausible to use the King's hemp to lasso water in gaseous form (i.e. clouds).

Fixing accountants in concrete and using them as traffic barriers

Occasionally accompanied by a pledge to steal some of the Monster Raving Loony Party's other policies as well — so possibly a reference to New Zealand political parties accusing each other of stealing policies, or possibly just silliness.

Good weather

But only if voters behaved.

To break their promises

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Decline and plummet

McGillicuddy Serious attracted a surprising level of support, and became one of the larger parties outside parliament. On a number of occasions, particularly following the introduction of the MMP electoral system, it was predicted that McGillicuddy Serious might actually win parliamentary representation, although this never happened. When the major parties boycotted the Tauranga by-election 1993, the McGillicuddy Serious candidate finished second to Winston Peters. (A very, very distant second.) Votes for McGillicuddy were most often protest votes, something that the party encouraged with one of its slogans: "If you want to waste your vote, vote for us." The Additional Member System (AMS) is a voting system where some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from party lists. ... The Tauranga by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Tauranga, a city in New Zealands North Island. ... The Right Honourable Winston Raymond Peters (born April 11, 1945) is a New Zealand politician and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, outside cabinet. ... A Protest vote is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate the casters unhappiness with the choice of candidates or the current political system. ...

As time went on, McGillicuddy Serious began to encounter the problem that often appears in joke parties — a debate about exactly how serious it should be. The original founders of the party essentially saw it as "a bit of fun", aimed at providing humour and entertainment. This remained a major part of McGillicuddy Serious throughout its history. Later recruits to the party however, sometimes saw the party's satire in a more serious context, regarding it as a tool with which people could ridicule and challenge the political establishment. In particular, a number of anarchists joined the party, seeing it as an antidote to the traditional order. The dichotomy, in essence, was between "satire for fun" and "satire to make a political point". Many of the party's original members resented what they saw as a usurpation of the party for more avowedly political and anarchist purposes. They believed that even anarchists are not immune to being satirised, and that for the party to become openly "anarchist" would thus make some area of politics "off limits" to satire. They saw this as an anathema. In addition they saw having a clearly identifiable stance as lessening the party's effectiveness as satirists. Other members however saw no problem with the expression of more openly anarchist viewpoints. Anarchism is derived from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (ruler, chief, king)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished. ... Anathema (Greek Word -Ανάθεμα-: meaning originally something lifted up as an offering to the gods; later, with evolving meanings, it came to mean 1. ...

Disbandment

The 1999 election campaign proved a disappointment. The McGillicuddy Serious Party gained only 0.15% of the vote, a considerable drop from its previous performances. Shortly after the election, the party was disbanded, with its leader Graeme Cairns walking around the square in Christchurch in winter with a sign hanging from his neck reading 'I am a liar' while informing people that he was "The only honest politician". The 1999 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 46th session of the New Zealand Parliament. ... Graeme Cairns is a New Zealand musician, artist, and political candidate. ... Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the third largest urban area in the country. ...

McGillicuddy candidates

A number of former McGillicuddy Serious members went on to stand as candidates for "real" parties, particularly the Greens — Nandor Tanczos and Metiria Turei, both Green MPs, formerly held McGillicuddy Serious membership. Other prominent McGillicuddy candidates from this first generation of McGillicuddy electioneering included founder and Party Leader Graeme Cairns, "Laird of Hamilton"; Mark Servian; KT Julian, a long-time Party Deputy Leader; Adrian Holroyd; Cecil G. Murgatroyd (who subsquently stood against Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke under the Imperial British Conservative Party banner); Sam Buchanan; Steve Richards; Donna Demente; and Penny Bousfield. Current Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand logo The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is a political party in the New Zealand parliament. ... Nandor Tanczos talking with a student at the University of Auckland Nandor Stephen Tanczos (born 1966) is a member of the New Zealand Parliament, being a list MP for the Green Party. ... Metiria Turei is a member of Parliament for the Green Party of New Zealand. ... Graeme Cairns is a New Zealand musician, artist, and political candidate. ... Cecil G. Murgatroyd (1958-2001) Murgatroyd was a long-running satirical political candidate in Australia and New Zealand, both of which he had citizenship of. ... Robert James Lee Hawke (born 9 December 1929) was an Australian trade union leader turned politican who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Imperial British Conservative Party was a farcical political party founded by the Wizard of New Zealand. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Donna Demente is a New Zealand artist. ...

Younger pretenders

Some of the party's original members became upset when their lifetime membership was cancelled. In July 2005 a 'McGillicuddy Serious party' put out a press-release announcing plans to participate in the 2005 General election — one initial policy was to replace MPs with harmless jargon-generators. The press release was put out by a former member without the knowledge of the Clan McGillicuddy's senior members and of the McGSP's former leadership. The new McGillicuddy Serious Party was a relaunching of the old McGillicuddy Serious Party, a satirical political party in New Zealand. ...

After intense discussions within the Clan McGillicuddy, no further press releases appeared, no official party was registered, and neither the party nor any candidates appeared on the 2005 ballot.

See also

• List of frivolous political parties
• Alf's Imperial Army
• Imperial British Conservative Party
• McGillicuddy Highland Army
• The Wizard of New Zealand

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