Community Action Party
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| Community Action Party | |
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| Leader | Peter Franzen |
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| Founded | March 2002 |
| Headquarters | Golborne, Greater Manchester, England |
| Ideology | Environmentalism, Localism (politics) |
| International affiliation | None |
| European affiliation | None |
| European Parliament Group | None |
| Official colours | None |
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| www.community-action.com | |
The Community Action Party is a British political party mostly active in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. It advocates 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 supports a zero tolerance policy toward crime, and is against the introduction of identity cards and recent anti-terrorist legislation on civil liberties grounds.
The party put up candidates in four constituencies in the 2005 general election. It does not have any representation in the House of Commons, but has a number of councillors in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. In 2004 it made a large break through in Wigan winning 18 seats, a gain of 13. However the party has since suffered from a split in its ranks and the loss of councillors in resulting elections reducing their number to 10. They have slowly expanded outside of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan into the boroughs of St. Helens, Salford and Warrington
