Nomenclature squatting

[jondwhite]

The BBC reports

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27128417

Quote:

First we had the candidate for the "Literal Democrats". A name so similar to the Liberal Democrats that just enough voters made a mistake and changed the result.

Now UKIP is complaining to the Electoral Commission about the registration of a party for May's European elections in the South West of England with the name "An Independence from Europe".

Adding the "An Independence.." puts them at the top of the ballot paper in an alphabetical list, whereas the UK Independence Party (UKIP) is at the bottom. … Under the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998, any political party can lodge its name and logo with the official registrar at a cost of £150.

[ALB]

You read it first here !http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/euroelections-2014-south-east-region?page=5#comment-12927And they are not just standing in the South West but in all the English regions. It is not clear who's behind it but it must be the Tories or maybe some group of capitalists who are worried that UKIP might win a proper general election and take Britain out of the EU so harming their economic interests.

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