Church of the Militant Elvis Party

Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Leader	David Bishop
Founded	15 May 2001
Headquarters	Nottingham, England
Ideology	Political satire
Website
	grumpyoldelvis.co.uk at the Wayback Machine (archived December 10, 2022)
	Politics of the United Kingdom; Political parties; Elections;

The Church of the Militant Elvis Party is a frivolous political party in the United Kingdom. The leader of the party was David Bishop (1944–2022), who went by the nicknames of 'Lord Biro' and 'Bus-pass Elvis'. The party had seven registered campaign groups: 'Bus-pass Elvis', 'Elvis Defence League', 'Elvis turns Green', 'Militant Elvis Anti-Tesco Popular Front' (MEAT-PF), the 'Elvis and the Yeti Himalayan Preservation', and 'Militant Elvis Anti-HS2'.

The party was concerned with the depletion of the Amazon rainforest, climate change, the power of Tesco on the British high street and the power of large corporations. A book on Elvis Presley noted that "an obviously ironic attitude toward Elvis is used in the service of rather serious anti-imperialist political objectives". It deregistered in December 2008, but re-registered in March 2010 and stood in the 2010 general election in Kettering, gaining 112 votes.

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