Pirate Party UK

Pirate Party UK
Party leader	Harley Faggetter
founding	July 30, 2009
Headquarters	Manchester
Alignment	Pirate Politics , Freedom Rights , Privacy , Direct Democracy , Copyright and Patent Reform
Number of members	766 (as of April 2015)
Website	www.pirateparty.org.uk

The Pirate Party UK (PPUK, Welsh : Plaid Môr-Leidr DU ) is a political party in the United Kingdom . It is part of the international movement of pirate parties .

Political principles

The core concerns of the Pirate Party UK are: The end of excessive surveillance of citizens by government and large corporations. Ensuring freedom of speech and freedom of participation in human culture for all members of society. The reform of copyright and patent law with the aim of legalizing non-commercial file sharing, reducing the excessive length of copyright protection and preventing patents from being used to hinder or manipulate innovation.

The Board of Directors of Pirate Party UK has decided that the party will focus on these three key issues for the time being. On March 22, 2010, the party presented its general election program 2010, which sets out how the party will implement its core objectives if elected.

history

Parallel to the establishment of the Swedish Piratpartiet there were in Britain's efforts to establish their own Pirate Party. After the success of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European elections in 2009 , interest in founding a party rose rapidly and on July 30, 2009 the party was officially registered. It can thus vote in England , Scotland and Wales . After the official registration, the number of members rose rapidly, in some cases 100 people per hour joined the party.

The first election that the Pirate Party participated in was the election to the British House of Commons on May 6, 2010 . A total of nine candidates ran for the party in England and Scotland. A tenth candidate originally planned could no longer submit his registration documents in time as a result of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and the resulting disruption to air traffic, as he was stuck abroad at the time. None of the candidates could get a seat. However, due to the British majority voting system, the party had no hope of a seat in parliament. The candidates received between 0.2% and 0.6% of the vote, the best result of 0.62% was achieved by Tim Dobson in Manchester Gorton.

On September 26, 2010 Laurence Kaye was elected as the new leader of the party. He replaced Andrew Robinson, who had held this office since the party was founded. In the repetition of the general election in the constituency of Oldham East and Saddleworth on January 13, 2011, party leader Kaye won 0.3% for the PPUK. In the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2011 , the PPUK ran in two regions and each received 0.3% of the vote.

In the 2012 local elections, the party ran in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh with a total of six candidates. In total, the party received 551 votes. Party chairman Loz Kaye achieved the best result with 127 votes or 5.2% in the Manchester-Bradford constituency .

In the 2015 general election , the party nominated candidates in 6 of the 650 constituencies. These achieved between 0.3% and 0.8% of the votes. In the early general election 2017 , the party was able to put up ten candidates.

The party was one of the founding members of Pirate Parties International (PPI) in 2010 . In February 2015, she resigned from the PPI after disagreements.

Election results

year	choice	be right	Share of votes	Seats
2010	General election 2010	1,340	0.0%	0/650
2015	General election 2015	1,130	0.0%	0/650
2017	General election 2017	2,321	0.0%	0/650
2019	General election 2019	not participated		0/650

Web links

Commons : Pirate Party UK  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the party
• Party information on the UK Electoral Board

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
2. ↑ http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/14/our-core-beliefs/
3. ↑ http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/22/pirate-party-uk-launches-its-2010-election-manifes/
4. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6027919/Hundred-people-an-hour-joining-Pirate-Party-UK.html
5. ↑ http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/press/releases/2010/mar/30/pirate-party-uk-announces-parliamentary-candidates/
6. ↑ http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/press/releases/2010/apr/27/nine-candidates-nominated/
7. ↑ Pirate statistics ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Election results for the Manchester City Council ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ↑ Election results for the Glassgow City Council (constituency Glasgow Govan) ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
11. ↑ Election results for the Glassgow City Council (constituency Glassgow Anderston) ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
12. ↑ Election results for Edinburgh City Council (constituency Edinburgh Meadows / Morningside) ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ^ Election 2015 smaller parties: Pirate Party. BBC News, April 14, 2015, accessed April 26, 2015 . 
14. ↑ https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blogs/editor/ppuk-leaves-ppi