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As well as launching the career of future Doctor Who star Tennant, the show received the ultimate accolade when it won a Bafta, and Franceschild memorably took to the stage and shouted the series catchphrase: "We are loonies and we are proud!"

While bad temper has abounded in the political world over the past week or so, the Loonies have been holding their own wacky conference in Belper, Derbyshire.

Among the new policy suggestions before the Loonies conference last week were these gems: | Mega car wash will be created by punching holes in the roof of the Channel Tunnel; | OAPS will qualify for a Summer Ice Lolly Allowance if temperatures exceed 70C; | Puddles deeper than 3in will be marked by a yellow plastic duck; | Terrorists will be made to wear bells and horns so we know where they are; and | Unruly teenagers will be superglued together as if you can't beat them, join them.

The military accuses McKenna of killing his men and places him in a transport with a group of wisecracking prisoners lovingly referred to as "the Loonies" (Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, Augusto Aguilera, Thomas Jane and Alfie Allen).

Quinn, who has been confined for psychiatric evaluation by the government as a way to keep him from revealing what he's seen, escapes with a group of fellow former soldiers, dubbed 'the Loonies,' and heads out to save his son, discovering a much greater conspiracy at work.

When things go awry, she goes rogue together with the Loonies. Munn, the most prominent member of the cast, has played Psylocke in 'X-Men: Apocalypse' and was a host of 'Attack of the Show!'

Robert says mourners can come "dressed as loonies" or wear the party colours of yellow and black.

The Loonies have not had an elected representative since RU Seerius was voted on to Sawley Parish Council, in South Derbyshire, back in 2005.

DAVID CAMERON once called UKIP a bunch of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" so we shouldn't be surprised to see a stream of Tory MPs defecting to UKIP.

It was less than half what the Monster Raving Loonies got by turning up for a few days with apparently much less hard work.

DAVID Cameron's disastrous dissing of UKIP as fruitcakes and loonies has taken a bizarre twist - a Loony's defected to his party.

Their description of members who booed at the mention of Tony Blair's name at the Labour Party conference as "loonies" is a gift to opposing propagandists.