See loony left on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1986: Headline in The Guardian, 18 Nov 1986",
"text": "Tories Play Loony Left Card"
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"ref": "1988, Michael Urben, Biography and Education:",
"text": "The Earl of Halsbury ([Hansard] 1986 p310) spoke of how he had been ‘warned that the loony left is hardening up the lesbian camp and that they are becoming increasingly aggressive'.",
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"text": "1988: John Twitchin, Introduction to The Black and White Media Book\nThe term ‘anti-racist' has become associated with ‘left-wing sentimentality', not to say ‘loony left extremism'."
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"ref": "1989: Fred Sedgwick, Here Comes the Assembly Man: A Year in the Life of a Primary School (referring to an event in 1988)",
"text": "I sold the story to The Sun for school funds. They led with TROUBLESOME TOT over another piece about LESBIAN LOONY LEFT IN RIOTS."
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"ref": "1992: Kenneth (EDT) Plummer, Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences, referring to \"leaflets distributed by the Conservative Party local constituency association in Surbiton before the May 1991 elections\"",
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"ref": "1995, Peter Dorey, British Politics Since 1945:",
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"ref": "1996: Mark McKenna, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 (quoting Dr John Hewson, Leader of the Opposition)",
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"ref": "1998, Julia Sudbury, Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organizations and the Politics of Transformation:",
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"ref": "1999, Barbara Olsen, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton:",
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"ref": "2006, Peter Schrag, California: America's High-Stakes Experiment:",
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