[pp.int.general] The United Kingdom Party is Officially Recognised

[Max Lalouschek | Piratenpartei Österreic]

Hey Andrew!

That is great news! Congratulations from Austria :)

I wish you the best of luck for the coming elections. Don't be too 
disappointed when it doesn't work out at the first attempt, good things 
sometimes take time :) The most important thing for a party are people 
who are commited, who are able to lead the party through difficult 
times. I'm board member of the pirate party Austria (= a nice but quite 
conservative country) since almost three years, so I know what I'm 
talking of ;)

Anyway, I wish you successful elections nevertheless!

Greetings from Vienna

Max Lalouschek

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Treasurer of Pirate Party Austria

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Andrew Robinson schrieb:
> We've been holding back on announcing the good news, as we needed a
> little time to get our membership and donation systems running, as
> well as beta testing new website and sorting out the formalities of
> registration to hold personal data on members under our local data
> protection law, but...
>
> As of the 30th July, the Pirate Party UK has been officially added to
> the register of political parties in the United Kingdom.
>
> This means we can have Pirate Party candidates standing at the next
> General Election (although there is more paperwork to complete before
> we can contest seats in Northern Ireland). We now have a huge task
> ahead of us, as we try to grow the party as quickly as possible. The
> election is less that a year away, to fight it properly, we would need
> to find 646 candidates, each requiring a £500 deposit to get their
> names on the ballot paper, and of course that doesn't include any
> budget for advertising and campaigning!
>
> See http://registers.electoralcommission.org.uk/regulatory-issues/regpoliticalparties.cfm?frmGB=1&frmPartyID=900&frmType=partydetail
> for confirmation.
>
> - Andrew Robinson
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