The Freedom Party is a small right wing political party that doesnt really exist. In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...

Born of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus the party was founded in December 2000, by former members of the British National Party (BNP) who were disaffected with the party's refusal to moderate its position on race and after an internal feud between the BNP leadership and Steve and Sharron Edwards, both former BNP activists in the West Midlands. Sharron Edwards is now the deputy chairman of the Freedom Party, and represents Womborne Ward on South Staffordshire District Council, while Steve Edwards is its national agent. The chairman is Adrian Davies. Michael Newland is the treasurer. The Revolutionary Conservative Caucus was a pressure group founded that attempted to introduce the ideas of the French New Right into the British Conservative Party. ... This article is about the modern party. ... Adrian Davies is chairman of the British Freedom Party, and the barrister who represented the World War II historian David Irving at his libel case appeal where Irving was accused of being a Holocaust revisionist. ...

Most of the leadership are prominent in the Bloomsbury Forum, a right-wing discussion group.

The party is primarily anti-immigration, although it claims to place more of an emphasis on culture rather than race. It is more moderate on issues such as race than the British National Party, a party with which it has a stormy relationship. It believes in free enterprise, although is also protectionist. At present it has one councillor in the West Midlands. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Free Enterprise is am economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market. ... Protectionism is the economic policy of promoting favored domestic industries through the use of high tariffs and other regulations to discourage imports. ... The West Midlands is a geographical term describing the western half of central England, known as the Midlands. ...

In 2004 the Freedom Party was involved in founding the English Lobby, a pressure group and electoral coalition which campaigns for the recognition of St George's Day and the creation of an English Parliament. The Third Way and English Democrats are also supporters of the group. The party has since withdrawn from the Lobby. Saint George oil painting by Raphael St. ... A devolved English Parliament, giving separate decision-making powers to representatives for voters in England similar to the representation given by the Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly, is currently an issue in British politics. ... Third Way General Election poster displayed by Party supporters in their windows The Third Way is a British political party which was formed on 17 March 1990. ... The English Democrats Party, previously the English National Party, is an English Civic Nationalist political party in England which seeks the establishment of a Parliament for England with at least the same powers as those granted to the Scottish Parliament. ...

Freedom Party only candidate in the 2005 general election was Adrian Davies, who contested South Staffordshire. The death of a candidate led to this election there being postponed from May 5th to June 23rd. On that day, the Freedom Party polled 473 votes, 1.7% of all those cast. The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... South Staffordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

The party did not contest any seats in the 2006 local elections. Steve Edwards who normally contests the Tipton Green ward in Dudley has put his support behind a muslim Conservative Party candidate. Some believe that this will undermine the BNP's chances of electoral success in the area.

The party is focusing all of its efforts on next years (2007) elections, in a bid to get Sharron Edwards re-elected and gain more council seats.

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• UK Freedom Party