The state's budget last month reimposed a barmy entry tax on goods from elsewhere in India.
His fringe supporters became known as the "barmy army" and the bid was a failure.
So what if a few of our Barmy Army welcome the bad weather with exuberance?
The role of police and crime commissioners (PCC) is a "barmy idea", Coventry's council leader has said.
The Conservative candidate to become Warwickshire's PCC, Fraser Pithie, said it "was not a barmy idea" to elect PCCs.
"The Barmy Army don't have a history of causing problems abroad, " he said.
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"It's barmy, the idea of changing the leader is bonkeroony, " he told BBC Radio 4's the World At One programme.
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Paul Burnham, chief organiser of the Barmy Army, says it would not surprise him if the Ashes is a sell-out.
The notion of a car-free London is easily dismissed as one of those barmy ideas dreamt up by idealistic environmentalists.
House prices were as barmy as in America and Britain, rising by almost two and half times from 2000 to the peak.
"You have to be barmy to buy your smokes in France, " says Christophe Nonnenbacher, as he lights up in a cafe in central Strasbourg.
There were only a handful of Australian fans watching, though the Barmy Army were in full force lapping up every misfortune that befell the hosts.
Barmy Army leader Paul Burnham expects huge numbers of England fans to flock to Australia even though they might not have tickets for this winter's Ashes.
What once seemed a canny convergence play now looks like a barmy risk, for both the borrowers and the banks, chiefly Italian and Austrian, that lent to them.
There is only one thing more bizarre in this story than the barmy billionaire himself, and that is the rest of the world's willingness to suspend its disbelief.
Many state funds are allowed to assume an investment return of 8% a year, which is barmy when government bonds yield less than 2% and dividends only a little more.
But the mayor, not to mention those 1.1m children, may well rue the time and political capital he wasted last year on barmy plans to relocate baseball stadiums and make New Yorkers polite.
In some ways, this is a totally barmy way for a bank to behave: the banks are borrowing at 1% from the ECB and then lending the money back to the ECB at 0.25%.
The perfect holder would be scrappy, British, politically savvy and ready to jump on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 to tell a tabloid editor, in terms, that his front page "barmy EU" story was cobblers.
Barmy visa rules keep away traders.
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While fans who booked tickets and travel through the ICC's official tour provider are having their trips rescheduled or being offered full refunds, Burnham said well over 100 Barmy Army members, who had booked independently, face losing considerable amounts of money.
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