Corrective Party
Described as the fastest growing fringe party in 1993, the Corrective party was a radical British political party which campaigned for social justice, civil liberties, animal rights and sexual freedom.
St Clair attempted to become elected to the House of Commons, in eleven by-elections, on one occasion threatening to expose the depraved lives of hundreds of MPs. The Corrective Party shared its election agent with the Monster Raving Loony Party.
In June 1991, she was involved in a controversy when Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was investigated for using taxpayers' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning Miss Whiplash, who was using a flat he owned (the Treasury contributed £4,700 of the £23,000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister.
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