The Northern Independence Party (NIP) applied for registration with the Electoral Commission in February. It was established to campaign for exactly what its name suggests, under the slogan of “We’re not English, we are Northumbrian” – last heard, I believe, in the ninth century.
It has since racked up more than 45,000 Twitter followers and released a mini manifesto to the Huffington Post , promising policies including public control of energy and water companies, more pilots of a universal basic income, lowering the state pension age and, more unexpectedly, “an increase in the penalties for sheep worrying”. (Lot of farmers […]
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