Crosby by-election, 1981

Tarquin Fin - tim -lin -bin- whin - bim -lim -bus -stop- F'tang - F'tang - Olé - Biscuitbarrel ( b. 1959 as John Desmond Lewis ) is a British politician, who in 1981 at the by-election in the constituency Crosby took in the English county of Merseyside. The unusual name of the candidate is based on a sketch by the British comedy troupe Monty Python.

After the Conservative MP Sir Graham Page died on 1 October 1981, a by-election in his constituency was necessary. One of the candidates for the vacant parliamentary seat was John Desmond Lewis, a student at St John 's College, Cambridge, who had founded the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society ( CURLS ). Lewis had officially requested a name change before the High Court of Justice and joined since then under the name of Tarquin Fin - tim -lin -bin- whin - bim -lim -bus -stop- F'tang - F'tang - Olé - Biscuitbarrel on. This fantasy name comes from an episode of the BBC television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the 19th episode of the comedy show this character occurs in the sketch Election Night Special as a candidate of the ( fictional) Silly Party in the parliamentary elections in Luton and the surprise winner against the candidate of the Sensible Party.

Lewis has been authorized under its new name the election and stepped on 26 November 1981 as one of nine candidates for the election. Winner of the election was the Social Democrat Shirley Williams. Fin - tim -lin -bin- whin - bim -lim -bus -stop- F'tang - F'tang - Olé - Biscuitbarrel, whose name was abbreviated by the local returning officer, at the announcement of the election results ' Mr Tarquin Biscuit - Barrel " reached with 223 votes (0.4% of the votes cast ) in fifth place.

Fin - tim -lin -bin- whin - bim -lim -bus -stop- F'tang - F'tang - Olé - Biscuitbarrels Cambridge University Raving Loony Society was commissioned in 1983, founded by Screaming Lord Sutch Monster Raving Loony fun party Official party ( OMRLP ) on, for which he took up in Cambridge at the general election in 1983 and reached the last place with 286 votes. Previously, he served as campaign manager for Sutch at its first candidate in Bermondsey / London. After 1983, no longer came Tarquin Fin - tim -lin -bin- whin - bim -lim -bus -stop- F'tang - F'tang - Olé - Biscuitbarrel in appearance, but he also has more than 25 years after the election in Crosby of the best known members of the OMRLP.