On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 06:26, main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:

Iran is not going to be invaded by the UK, social list subscribes already now there is a single issue party to stop that, with several other parties against. There is however no party actively supporting FLOSS in East Anglia. Votes for a Linux Party would show support for a positive progressive idea, in an election filled with negativeaty.

The Our World our Say Advertisement said

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Note the "Mission" section would seem to cover the current software Patent situation neatly, I've written to ask what they intend to do, I'll let you know their reply.

On the other hand as Ipswich always used to be a few hundred, sometimes less thatn two hundered either way that would seem to be the obvious target. I don't think you'd/we'd win though just possibly get one of the other candidatez in by taking away votes.