Talk:The New Party (UK)

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The New Party is the same organisation as the "Scottish People's Alliance" that bombed in the 2003 Scottish elections.


Sources? Anything at all? Charles Matthews 19:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

http://www.newparty.co.uk/ plus [1] [2] suggest that it is not a total invention, though it does not look like something serious. It may have something to do with the Scottish Peoples Alliance which failed in the Scottish parliamentary election, 2003. --Henrygb 22:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] The New Party - Press

If you look at the 'in the media' section of the Party site 2 further articles are available -- a piece from ePolitix on the Party's recent flat-tax proposal and another from The Scotsman discussing the New Party's recent campaign launch.

[edit] History and Origins of the New Party

I have added a section on party history to put some of this into context. I will add references (mainly newspaper/BBC News reports) in due course. I've also deleted the sentence alleging that detractors have accused the party of cryptofascism because of its immigration policy, and because of sharing a name with Oswald Mosley's party, basically because no citation is given of any concrete accusation, and I don't know of any. However, the New Party chairman Robert Durward was once accused of being a fascist because of comments he made about the army running public services (comments which were taken rather out of context) which may be worth recording somewhere in this article, and I'll add such a reference in when I get round to it, unless someone else gets there first.

I have deleted the following contribution to this article:

"The party follows typical liberterianism and general centre-right wing politics in the United Kingdom. It is clearly comparable to UKIP with the exception of populist policies - especially those on immigration. The party's lack of policy has led, perhaps, to its compelte lack of support."

I've deleted it as it adds nothing new except (a) spelling mistakes; and (b) the anonymous author's opinion. Dennett p 11:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Note on the name **Peoples Alliance**. There is no apostrophe in the name. As a matter of style the party took a decision not to use an apostrophe, with cheerful disregard to the norms of English grammar. Apparently the London store Harrods did the same thing (i.e. ditched the apostrophe). Dennett p

[edit] Tidying Up

Lots of people have been by adding bits and pieces about Global Warming. I have collected these together under the new GW section - removed some duplication and corrected other bits of grammar and one dodgy reference suggesting that the New Party supports The Great Global Warming Swindle - I can't find the original reference anyway and the context makes it pretty clear where the NP stands in any case. Dennett p 05:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More tidying up

I've moved the content of the Global Warming section into the History section as it deals with a court case rather than policy as such. The policy section needs updating and expanding anyway. Some of the biographical detail about Robert Durward I have moved to his own entry. Dennett p 06:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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