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English Democrats

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The English Democrats (ED) is a minor, far-right, Eurosceptic, English nationalist political party[1][2] founded in 1997 by wealthy solicitor Robin TilbrookWikipedia from the Campaign for an English Parliament pressure group as a continuation of the defunct English National Party and reformed under its current name in 2002 following the formation of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly to push for a similarly devolved parliament for England (thereby solving the West Lothian Question). Other policies include a points-based immigration system;[3] and "an end to political correctness".[4]

The English Democrats party has been associated by some critics with the BNP. Although the party's policies do not contain the same racist angle, there is an overlap in terms of membership. There have been reports that almost 43% of English Democrats candidates in the 2012 local elections have been involved with the BNP, but this claim has not been confirmed.[5] They received some negative public attention in 2009 when they shared a platform with the far-right England First Party,[6] and have been widely criticised in the blogosphere for failing to keep Steve Uncles on a lead.

The party's main political success was in getting one of its members, Peter Davies, elected as mayor of Doncaster in 2009. He left the party in early 2013, citing the amount of ex-BNP members in the English Democrats as the reason.[7]

The party has subsequently sort to opportunistically expand it's influence, absorbing Robert Kilroy-Silk'sWikipedia vanity UKIP splinter VeritasWikipedia in 2015, forming a formal election pact under the name Patriots Alliance with the far-right remnants of the once mighty UK Independence Party itself in 2023, and co-running candidates with far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group Patriotic Alternative in the 2024 UK general election.

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  1. ↑ English Democrats The Electoral Comission
  2. ↑ English Democrats UK Parliament
  3. ↑ http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-immigration.html
  4. ↑ http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-political-correctness.html
  5. ↑ http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1735/english-democrats-in-our-sights
  6. ↑ http://richardaitkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/three-reasons-not-to-vote-english-democrats/
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21335384
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