Ah! The Cloggies! A truly great creation by Bill Tidy - thanks for the Wikipedia link - very funny itself and well written.

The Cloggies were also used as characters in, if I remember rightly, the real ale magazine produced by CAMRA. I recall one strip where the Cloggies leader was breathalised by the law, having drunk 40 pints of Watneys Red Barrel - and was found to be under the limit...