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The Moon And Serpent Party, Drugs And Magic In The UK Local Elections

The Moon And Serpent Party brings drugs, magic, jetpacks and Alan Moore to the UK local elections in Essex next month

Two years ago, I noted that the British political party, The Psychedelic Movement, had changed its name to The Moon And Serpent Party, named after Alan Moore's various publishing and recording projects. It has stood candidates in elections, but has never seen anyone elected yet. They commonly call for the legalisation and establishment of widespread cannabis cafes, the legalisation of psychedelic therapy, restoring the legal punishment of exile, allowing churches to use ayahuasca in their ceremonies, the restoration of shamanic Christianity, and giving every 18-year-old around the world a plane ticket. Recent manifestos include a promise to install 24-hour cannabis cafes offering THC brownies and cookies and to ignore any laws that may prevent it. But also to protect local libraries. And now Jason Pilley, leader of  The Moon And Serpent Party, is standing in the upcoming UK local elections as a councillor for St. Luke's Ward in the Southend-On-Sea council. This is a genuine political party electoral leaflet, postage paid for by your taxes and distributed to voters in the ward in question.

• "THANK YOU to everybody who voted for The Moon & Serpent Party in 2025's local elections! As the 2026 election approaches, let's take a moment to reflect on all that The Moon & Serpent Party has achieved since winning every seat on Southend Council last year."
• HIGHER STREET
  Over the previous century a trillion pounds has been spent enforcing the Prohibition of cannabis, and a further trillion pounds of cannabis sales has been driven from the legal economy into the pockets of criminal gangs. Now that we have rejuvenated Southend's nightlife by allowing Bob Marley-blasting cannabis cafés to open in discrete locations, flower-powered adults (21+) can lounge around giggling at how witch-burningly stupid this Prohibition was.
• LEAVING ART EVERYWHERE
  The anarchist squatters we invited to occupy the Kursaal are offering free DMT trips below the dome. Cars drive themselves on underground roads, vistas of transport arise: Moon & Serpent Party jetpacks and taxi-drones coming soon! Stay safe up there! With the McDonald's on Eastern Avenue shut down for being too near Cecil Jones School, plans to build Southend Cathedral in its place are advancing.
• MAGIC INSISTS
  Futurists and Luddites at the Speakers' Corner in Cluny Square argue over whether these miniature nuclear-reactors powering our houses represent the golden dawn of Superabundance or catastrophes waiting to happen. Moon & Serpent Party experts will be splitting the quark in months.
• DISGRACEFUL SCENES
  Violence rocks Southend seafront again as rowdy mobs of Neo-Platonists battle with Pantheist ultras. Fortunately because Essex Police no longer have to spend half their time hunting and destroying cannabis plants they are able to redirect their efforts into keeping our streets safer.
• THE SABBATH IS ONCE MORE SACRED
  Everybody wants to go to church now that telepathine sacraments make you think there is a "Moon & Serpent Party."
• SOUTHCHURCH HACKERS BUILT A NEW UNIVERSE
  With school and the Scouts integrated every child is learning to cook, to use tools and tie knots and tend wounds and light campfires, to repair clothes & punctured bikes & stubborn car engines, to box and to budget, to read maps and hike for miles, to speak in public and know where north is.
• VOTE JASON PILLEY FOR ST. LUKE'S WARD MAY 7th. SPONSORED BY:
• THE SPACE BAR, CANNABIS CAFÉ nearby, OPENING HOURS 00:00-00:00 Mon-Sat Come for the cosmos, stay for the cake.
• ELEUSINIAN MYSTERY TOURS "Behold, the kingdom of God is within you." St. Luke's Gospel 17:21

Currently, the ward is represented by Martin Berry and Kathy Murphy, both non-aligned, and Jane Norman of the Labour Party. This time around, the candidates are independent candidates Brian Ayling, Confelicity candidate Jamie Franklin Chapman, Conservative candidate Kenneth Smith Davidson, Green Party candidate Tilly Hogrebe, Labour Party candidate James George Morrison, Reform UK candidate James Christopher O'Rourke, Liberal Democrat candidate Kranthi Sajja and, yes, The Moon And Serpent Party candidate, Jason Stephen Pilley…

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