Community Action Party

The Community Action Party is a minor political party in the United Kingdom, 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.

In 2004 the party made a breakthrough in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, winning 18 seats, a gain of 13. The party has since suffered a split, defections, and a loss of councillors in elections, reducing their number of councillors in Wigan to five. They have slowly expanded outside of Wigan into Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, the City of Salford, where they gained a seat in 2008, and Warrington.

Founding

The party was founded in 2002 by Peter Franzen, a former surveyor and antiques shop owner from Golborne,

Electoral history

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