The party adopted a mixture of joke and genuine policies: for example, that dog food should be luminous so that dog faeces would glow and people would not step in it at night, or that pensioners should receive free bus passes and street cleaning should be more frequent.
[4] The party's headquarters were the Fawlty Towers hotel in Sidmouth, owned by Hughes, with its facade painted as the Union Flag.
[1] The party managed to stand a full slate of candidates for the Cannock Chase District Council elections in Staffordshire in 1990.
In 1993, Hughes was elected to Devon County Council, representing the Sidmouth Rural ward.
Hughes officially joined the Conservative Party just before the 1997 United Kingdom local elections.