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|seats2_title = House of Lords |seats2 = |seats3_title = European Parliament English Seats |seats3 = |seats4_title = London Assembly |seats4 = |seats5_title = Local government England Seats |seats5 = |seats6_title = Police & Crime Commissioners |seats6 = |website = (www.englishdemocrats.org ) |colorcode = }} The English Democrats is a fringe English nationalist political party committed to establishing an independent England.〔(English Democrats seek independence for England )〕 The party proposes a devolved English Parliament as a step towards full national independence. It presents itself as an English equivalent to the Scottish National Party. Many of the party's leading members are defectors from the far-right British National Party and it has targeted former supporters of the party as part of its election strategy.〔 The party has had limited electoral success. At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.〔 However, he announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013.〔 ==History== In 1998, in response to calls for the devolution of power to Scotland and Wales, Robin Tilbrook aimed at reforming the defunct English National Party, which had ceased operating as a party by 1981. This project included members of the Campaign for an English Parliament, a pressure group that lobbies for a devolved English Parliament. The party was relaunched as the "English Democrats" in September 2002, after merging with several other smaller political parties. In October 2004 the party merged with the Reform UK Party, which was a small splinter group from the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The New England Party merged with the English Democrats in February 2007. The English Democrats were co-founders of the English Constitutional Convention, now defunct. In December 2004 it was rumoured that Robert Kilroy-Silk, the former UKIP MEP had entered into negotiation to join the English Democrats. However, Kilroy-Silk formed Veritas instead. In 2007, columnist and TV medical doctor Vernon Coleman announced he had joined the English Democrats.〔(Why I’ve joined the English Democrats by Vernon Coleman (on own website) December 2007 )〕 The party's most significant electoral success came when Peter Davies (a former UKIP and Reform UK member), its candidate for Mayor of Doncaster, was elected. Having received 16,961 votes in the first round, 189 votes behind the independent Michael Maye, Davies was returned in the second count on transfers of second preference votes, with 25,344 votes to 24,990. However, Davies announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013 citing "a big influx of new members joining from the British National Party".〔''BBC News'' ("Doncaster mayor quits English Democrats 'because of BNP'" ), 5 February 2013〕 One of its councillors, Mick Glynn, resigned the following day after the party's chairman Robin Tilbrook launched a personal attack on Peter Davies, thus reducing its number of elected representatives to two.〔England Watch blog ("Another English Democrat Councillor Resigns." ), 7 February 2013〕 The English Democrats lost their remaining councillors in the 2015 local elections. On 18 September 2015, the English Democrats merged with Veritas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「English Democrats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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