On the current state of UK centre-right minor parties

Patrick O'Flynn in the Spectator asks When will there be another right-wing insurgency?

As noted there, there are a number of small parties, particularly spawned from UKIP (which continues to shuffle on in a zombielike fashion. TBH they should have wound up the party after the UK exited the EU) As well as that party's corpse there is also the rebranded Brexit party, Reform UK, plus the Heritage party, and Laurence Fox's Reclaim party. A quick search turned up this brief summary of the three groupings.

As O'Flynn notes 'Where Ukip looks like a has-been, various other entities risk becoming never-weres'

and

' a political party going is a time-consuming undertaking. Local branches of active members must be formed to establish footholds in actual communities and render the entity real rather than merely a series of tweets.'

In addition, there is the problem that three groups risk splitting votes and duplicating infrastructure, so maybe the best option would be for them to form pacts (as Reclaim and Reform have done in London), or a full-on merger.

I've always liked the name National Democratic Party (NDP),,,

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