Happening Happy Hippy Party

The Happening Happy Hippy Party, or HHHP, was a British political satire website and ezine that ran between 1997 and 2002, emerging during the dotcom boom in British satire. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Political satire is a significant part of Satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politicsusing political cartoons politicians and public affairs An ezine is a periodic Publication distributed by Email or posted on a Website. The " dot-com bubble " (or sometimes the " IT bubble " was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10 Apart from outliving its competitors, what made it distinctive was that it posed as a spoof political party, with policies like easing the burden on Britain's National Health Service by making accidents illegal and improving Britain's climate by towing the island 200 miles south. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral The National Health Service is the name commonly used to refer to the four Publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom collectively or individually (although

Writers and Content

The members/writers were largely confined to the south of England (principally the seaside town of Gosport, where the HHHP was based). History The Rowner area of the peninsula was known to have been settled in Saxon times mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as Rughenor (Rough bank or slope Regular contributions were made by American comedy writer Emily Wilson-Jones, and the Party attracted a large American/Canadian following. Features at the site included a "Bushism Generator", which generated random entertaining quotes from US President George W. Bush and a teapot webcam, part of the Party's ongoing fixation with tea. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States.

During one of its television appearances in 1999, the HHHP's leaders reputedly attempted to declare their college an independent state, citing the growing of watercress in one of the science department's laboratories as sufficient agricultural produce to sustain it. Watercresses ( Nasturtium officinale, N microphyllum; formerly Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, R Although the college concerned did not object, the sequence did not make it into the broadcasted edition of the Meridian Broadcasting show Cybercafe. Meridian Broadcasting (now legally known as ITV Meridian is the holder of the ITV franchise for the south and south east of England.

Praise and Criticism

When it closed in 2002 the HHHP had appeared several times on British national television and generated approval from as diverse sources as the Adam Smith Institute and Private Eye. The Adam Smith Institute is a Think tank based in the United Kingdom, named after the father of modern Economics, Adam Smith. Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. During its tenure it received over 200 applications from people who had misunderstood that it was not a real political party.

The HHHP did attract criticism, however. An ITV show about the internet, Cybernet, slammed the principally student-written site as "childish" and "puerile" humour. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent This review was broadcast on British national television in 2002, and co-incided with the decline of the party.

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