People from Cambridgeshire may know of the Monster Raving Loony Party from countless appearances on TV and radio, though the latest print campaign by the organisation has been turning heads in the county – and all due to an apparent accident from one of its representatives.

Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Lord Toby Jug told the Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots News & Crier that he had launched his county council election campaign by dropping his promotional posters in the River Great Ouse.

While publicly attempting to contest a seat in his hometown of St Ives, Lord Toby revealed that he’d lost control of the posters on the bridge to Holt Island Nature Reserve, where he was apparently holding a “political summit”. He told the paper: “I lost all my posters in the water. They are going up the Ouse looking for floating voters.”

Luckily, things worked out; Lord Toby was accompanied by Lady Jezebel Fortescue Luxury Yacht, the party’s minister for floating voters, who is helping with the campaign.

Lord Toby went on to claim that his campaign was going “very well”. He continued: “We have had lots of promises of votes from a vast array of people. People are complaining about street lights not being lit at night and women not feeling safe, so we are proposing that all the lampposts are painted with flourescent paint to light up the area. That is common sense.

“Since I am the best known politician in the area I am calling for the demolition of the Cromwell statue in St Ives and replacing it with a statue of me which will be a tourist attraction and boost the local economy.”