Are there not two Christian parties? What is the difference?
Several Christian parties have come and gone, mostly in England. The CP is the only effective Christian Party in Scotland and Wales.
The Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) tried to break into Scottish & Welsh politics. See the previous answer. It had a total of 16 candidates standing throughout Scotland’s eight regions in the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election; the Scottish Christian Party had 73 candidates.
The CPA stood in the Highlands and Islands, but we know of no activity whatsoever by the CPA in this Region. Possibly the CPA hoped to pick up votes from the SCP campaign. This introduced confusion into people’s minds, and God is not the author of confusion 1Cor 14:33. The CPA refused an offer from the SCP to divide the eight Regions of Scotland so that we would not stand against each other at the 2007 Election.
In an article in The Herald on 13/3/2007, Teresa Smith, leader of the CPA, said about the SCP: “I can’t stress enough that we have nothing in common with these people.”
During the 2007 Holyrood campaign, the media in the Scottish central belt gave the CPA more political credibility than the SCP. However, the SCP beat them soundly in every one of the eight Regions of Scotland. Our sister party in Wales, the Welsh Christian Party, also beat the CPA in all five Regions of Wales. Every other Party beat the CPA in four of the five Welsh Regions, and the CPA was second bottom in the fifth Region. The media’s assessment has been shown to be far off the mark.
Since this defeat, the CPA has changed its leadership and it has officially apologised to the SCP for the attitude during the last Scottish election. The Christian Party now has a better relationship with the CPA and we pooled our resources and fought together in the 2008 London assembly election as Christian Choice and supported Alan Craig the leader of the CPA in his bid for the London Mayoral election. The result was very similar to the Highlands and Islands, gaining almost 3% of the vote, positioning the Christian voice ahead of the other minor parties and just one step below electoral success. The Lord seems to say that we need perseverance and a further push. Since then we fought on a joint ticket in the European Parliament 2009 election where we got 1.6% with 249,493 votes.
In 2011 the Scottish Christian Party stood in all eight Regions of Scotland for the Scottish Parliament Election. The CPA stood five candidates in two Regions, whom the SCP did not actively oppose.
We are not aware of any activity by the CPA in Scotland or Wales since then.
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Several Christian parties have come and gone, mostly in England. The CP is the only effective Christian Party in Scotland and Wales.
The Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) tried to break into Scottish & Welsh politics. See the previous answer. It had a total of 16 candidates standing throughout Scotland’s eight regions in the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election; the Scottish Christian Party had 73 candidates.
The CPA stood in the Highlands and Islands, but we know of no activity whatsoever by the CPA in this Region. Possibly the CPA hoped to pick up votes from the SCP campaign. This introduced confusion into people’s minds, and God is not the author of confusion 1Cor 14:33. The CPA refused an offer from the SCP to divide the eight Regions of Scotland so that we would not stand against each other at the 2007 Election.
In an article in The Herald on 13/3/2007, Teresa Smith, leader of the CPA, said about the SCP: “I can’t stress enough that we have nothing in common with these people.”
During the 2007 Holyrood campaign, the media in the Scottish central belt gave the CPA more political credibility than the SCP. However, the SCP beat them soundly in every one of the eight Regions of Scotland. Our sister party in Wales, the Welsh Christian Party, also beat the CPA in all five Regions of Wales. Every other Party beat the CPA in four of the five Welsh Regions, and the CPA was second bottom in the fifth Region. The media’s assessment has been shown to be far off the mark.
Since this defeat, the CPA has changed its leadership and it has officially apologised to the SCP for the attitude during the last Scottish election. The Christian Party now has a better relationship with the CPA and we pooled our resources and fought together in the 2008 London assembly election as Christian Choice and supported Alan Craig the leader of the CPA in his bid for the London Mayoral election. The result was very similar to the Highlands and Islands, gaining almost 3% of the vote, positioning the Christian voice ahead of the other minor parties and just one step below electoral success. The Lord seems to say that we need perseverance and a further push. Since then we fought on a joint ticket in the European Parliament 2009 election where we got 1.6% with 249,493 votes.
In 2011 the Scottish Christian Party stood in all eight Regions of Scotland for the Scottish Parliament Election. The CPA stood five candidates in two Regions, whom the SCP did not actively oppose.
We are not aware of any activity by the CPA in Scotland or Wales since then.
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