British Freedom Party de-registered as an electoral body

(NewsPoint) According to reports the far-right British Freedom Party has removed itself, or been removed from the Electoral Commission. According to the Electoral Commission, the British Freedom Party was de-registered on the 11th of December of this year and the reason given was they were 'Statutorily De-registered'.

The clarify that: "Deregistered parties will either have a status of Voluntarily Deregistered if they chose to remove themselves from the register or Statutorily Deregistered if they were removed by the Electoral Commission for a compliance breach."

Hope Not Hate, a blog working against the EDL and other right-wing, racist, organisations have reported that:

The party was de-registered when its leader Paul Weston and party official Dr George Whale did not respond to the commission's repeated requests for confirmation that the party was still active, and comes after the party fared worse than they expected in the recent PCC elections in Bedfordshire, where it claimed its 10% of the poll would translate into millions of votes across the country