Community Action Party
Defunct political party in the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Community Action Party was a minor political party in the United Kingdom, mostly active in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. It advocated free health care and education provision, a managed public transport infrastructure free to all at the point of use and a moratorium on the use of green belt land for building. It also supported a zero tolerance policy toward crime, and was against the introduction of identity cards and recent anti-terrorist legislation on civil liberties grounds.
Community Action Party | |
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Leader | Michael Moulding |
Chairman | Bill Burrows |
Treasurer | Tracy Lavelle |
Founded | March 2002 |
Headquarters | Golborne, Greater Manchester, England |
Ideology | Environmentalism Localism |
Political position | Centre-left |
Website | |
www.community-action.com (archived) | |
In 2004 the party made a breakthrough in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, winning 18 seats, a gain of 13. The party later suffered a split, defections, and a loss of councillors in elections, reducing their number of councillors in Wigan Borough to five.[1] They slowly expanded outside the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan into the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens,[2] the City of Salford, where they gained a seat in 2008, and Warrington Borough.