[pp.int.general] Party formation dates

[Philip Hunt]

2009/12/8 Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com>:
> Some of you may know, others may not, but I'm working on a book (it's
> one thing I stepped down from PPI to give me more time to work on).
> One chapter may be about the Pirate Parties. however, I don't have any
> 'dates' for parties, which could help me with the spread. Namely,
> timelines.

For Pirate Party UK...

> I am after some dates, mainly of formation.basically
> 1) Date of 'formation' - when you basically existed as a group,
> formally.

The pirateparty.org.uk website was up on or around 22 May 2009.
Previously, there was a Facebook page, Twitter feed and blog from
around 7 May 2009.

> 2) Date of official recognition - when you were formally recognised by
> the government as an official political party.

11 August 2009

> 3) date of first contested election. (I think I have these, but it
> goes into the record for the future regardless)

We haven't contested any elections yet.

-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer, Pirate Party UK