page_title: Lindi St Clair
section_title: Corrective party
hierarchical_section_title: Lindi St Clair / Corrective party
caption_attribution_description: English: Marion Akin aka Miss Whiplash campaigning on behalf of the Correction Party for the Ribble Valley byelection in 1989.
context_page_description: Marian June Akin, formerly known professionally as Lindi St Clair or Lindi St Claire, is a British author, leader of the Corrective Party, and campaigner for prostitutes' rights.
  Originally a prostitute, but now retired and confirmed as a Christian, in 1993 St Clair accused the Inland Revenue in the High Court of England of being "Her Majesty's pimps", and living off immoral earnings, after its classification of prostitution as a trade in a high-profile court case.
  St Clair stood for election to Parliament 11 times.
context_section_description: Described as the fastest growing fringe party in 1993, the Corrective Party was a radical British political party that campaigned for social justice, civil liberties, animal rights and sexual freedom.
  St Clair attempted to become elected to the House of Commons, in eleven by-elections, on one occasion threatening to expose the depraved lives of hundreds of MPs. The Corrective Party shared its election agent with the Monster Raving Loony Party.
  In June 1991 she was involved in a controversy when Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was investigated for using taxpayers' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning 'Miss Whiplash' (*Not* Lindi st Clair), who was using a flat he owned (the Treasury contributed £4,700 of the £23,000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister).
caption: St Clair campaigning as a prospective Member of Parliament on behalf of the Corrective Party for the Ribble Valley by-election in 1991.
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