Rye Spangle

The Freedom Party
The Populist Party

Does anybody know if any of the above parties will be resuming activities/contesting elections in the future? Or have they folded?

Thanks

Vortex

The Freedom Party is I believe defunct. Adrian Davies, their chairman, is the best person to answer the question though. He posts on here and may come back on this directly.


I don't know anything about the Populist Party.

Populist Lee

I don't think Adrian Davies has posted here for a few weeks.
I wonder when he'll return.

The PP have not folded, to the best of my understanding.
Form RP8 was returned the the Electoral Commission only last month.

I believe PP members are quite busy doing those jobs and activities that suits their abilities best.
Not every PPer should stand out and be noticed.

If any member wishes to contest an election the Governing Committee will always consider the request sympathetically.

There'll be a meeting in the East of London at the end of this month where I know the main subject for discussion will be the consequences of the 1st May Elections and how the PP intends to enter the Elections *process* with the aim of effecting a knock-out of rifle-sniper accuracy to someone or other.

Adrian Davies

The FP has become inactive, mainly because of personal problems affecting the marriage of two leading W. Mids. members and officers, who had for many years formed a brilliant husband and wife team. Their involvement allowed us to punch far above our weight electorally. Unfortunately, their personal difficulties have meant that they are not at present actively involved in politics.

Both Mike Newland (FP treasurer) and I have put a great deal of time, money and work into the FP over the years. Disappointingly, most people on the patriotic right have preferred either to follow the insipid UKIP leadership of Nigel Farrago, who personally functions as an establishment sponsored safety valve, or to make excuses for the corrupt and tyrannical Welshpool clique led by Nick Gri££in and 5IMon Darby, now in charge of the BNP, the first of whom is probably mad, and the second likely working for quite other people than the party of which he has become deputy chairman.

Mike and I are now both somewhat preoccupied with our business and professional commitments, and neither of us is inclined to spend much more time in the role of Cassandra, so it is unlikely that the FP will become active again in the near future. The FP does however remain a registered party at this moment in time.

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stathan

I see......so to sum up with a little less rambling.....your party is inactive because more people prefer to choose UKIP than your little baby.

Coupled with the fact that some married couple in the West Midlands have packed it in resulting in the whole party shutting down.


Perhaps theres a hint of a clue in the above as to why more people choose to follow 'The insipid leadership of Nigel Farage' than the non existent leadership of fantacist Adrian Davies.

Independent Working Class

You 'Tory Reserves' just love to scoff at others don't you?

Answer me this, how will turning UKIP into a carbon copy of the 80's Conservative Party (with the exception of EU policy - but that will not solve everything) solve the severe, nation threatening problems this country is facing?

The sooner UKIP melt back into The Conservative Party it will leave a gap for a true Populist Party to sort out the mess.

Good luck to Adrian and Mike.

Adrian Davies

Thanks for that. Most members of UKIP are decent patriots, but the leadership is desperate to keep the party within the parameters of tolerated dissent, trying to run with the fox and hunt with the hounds, proclaiming its "anti-racism", while pitching for the large and growing anti-immigration vote (opposition to immigration, btw, doesn't involve saying that people from other cultures are on that account bad or inferior, but does involve saying more than that "Britain is full", true though that may be. To my mind a nation essentially consists of people of common descent.)

Our country needs a broadly based populist party (lower case "p", no disrespect intended to the PP!). Neither UKIP (insufficiently radical and anti-establishment) nor the BNP (not sufficiently acceptable to middle England) fit the bill. Unfortunately, while between them they occupy the ground that such a party needs to hold, it is difficult to see such a party emerging. Efforts to date, such as the FP, have been handicapped by a lack of financial resources, and the tendency of patriots and dissidents from the liberal consensus to display brand loyalty to the existing players.

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Populist Lee

I'm sure no Populist [upper case "P" in this instance] will regard the above as disrespect, Adrian.
Perhaps, at the end of the day, all the PP will be doing is laying a few foundations . . .
And without sufficient foundations, how can the Future be assured?

UKIP?
Well . . .

Populist Lee

. . . I am sure that when the Conservatives win the next General Election with a thumping majority, the full force of political reality is going to hit UKIP full square in the face very unpleasantly.

I wish Adrian and Mike all the best as well.

Adrian Davies

I fear that this outcome is increasingly likely. Delighted though I am to see Red Ken booted out (I gave Boris my second choice vote as the lesser of two evils) I do not think that a Cameroonian government will solve our country's ills, but we are all too likely to get one, with a thumping great majority!

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