Socialist Party

Socialist Party 	Socialist Party 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
Final Commissar for External Affairs	GaelicBolshevik 	 	 	
Final Commissar for Internal Affairs	Aph 	 	 	
Final Deputy Commissar 	Stiff Little Fingers 	 	 	
Founded 	November 2006 	 	 	
Dissolved 	March 2018 	 	 	
Merged into 	Labour Party 	 	 	
Ideology 	Democratic socialismTrotskyismMarxismLeninismEurocommunism	 	 	
Political position 	Left-wing to Far-Left 	 	 	
Colours 	Red 	 	 	
Website 	Website 	Website 	Website 	Website
Socialist Party 	Socialist Party 	Socialist Party	Socialist Party	Socialist Party
 	 	 	 	
Elections 	Elections 	Elections 	Elections 	Elections
"We want to achieve a new and better order of society. Not a handful of the rich, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. This new and better society is called a socialist society." - Vladimir Lenin
The Socialist Party formed towards the end of the Third Parliament in order to promote socialist ideals within the Model House of Commons. They are historically the most successful party outside of the "Big Three" (Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat), and have averaged approximately 6 seats an election since their foundation, never passing below 3 seats and with a peak of 11 in the Eighth Parliament. 
Immediately after forming, they were strongly successful by third party standards. Having been created just as the original Green Party and Respect Party had disbanded, they picked up this now uncontested niche of the political market, and then took some support from Labour.
There was a great change in fortune following the shift by Labour towards the centre in the Eighth Parliament. The result was that instead of Labour and the Socialists dividing the left-wing vote and the Liberal Democrats having the unchallenged pick of the centre-left vote, Labour and the Liberal Democrats divided the centre-left vote and the Socialists took the left-wing vote essentially unchallenged. The Socialists picked up 11 seats, an all-time high for their party, and formed Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition - for the first time - against a minority Conservative government. This title was somewhat ironic given the Socialist policy of disestablishment of the monarchy (British Republicanism). In March 2009, Alasdair set up the party's own newspaper titled 'The Socialist'. Two more issues have been released since. 
For the Ninth Parliament's General Election, Labour moved leftwards to reclaim their lost vote. Whilst the Socialists defeated Labour by a narrow margin, it was the Liberal Democrats who became the largest centre-left party. In the same Parliament, the Conservatives picked up 19 seats having benefited from from the popularity of the real-life Conservative Party and the fact that the right was divided to a far lesser extent than the left. Seeking to oppose this, the Liberal Democrats proposed a LibDem-Socialist-Labour coalition. This triggered the constitutional crisis that left the Ninth Parliament without government, as the Conservatives disputed the legitimacy of a three-party coalition offer.
Following the Ninth Parliament, the Socialist Party began to lose seats and saw defections to the Labour Party. By the Twelfth Parliament, the Socialists had recorded a fall to 4 seats. The Socialists began to recover, however, recording a gradual increase in seats through Parliaments Thirteen to Fifteen, and after Faland began to caucus with them in the Fifteenth Parliament they reached 8 seats, their second-highest. 
This ascendancy was briefly halted when, in the Sixteenth Parliament, the Green Party re-formed, further dividing the furthest left end of the electorate. When the Socialists extended a coalition offer to the Labour Party at the start of the Sixteenth Parliament, the Labour Party, having moved leftwards in the previous term, accepted, and together they formed a Labour-Addzter-Socialist coalition. The Socialist Party followed this up with a one seat increase to six in the Seventeenth Parliament and formed the first ever coalition of opposition with the Green Party. However in the early election for the Eighteenth Parliament the Socialists performed less well, raking in only four seats and 7.71% vote share.
In the Nineteenth Parliament, the Socialists became members of a three-party coalition between themselves, Labour and Greens. 
Fast forwarding to the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Parliaments, the Socialists suffered their biggest defeats to date, winning only 3 seats, after a term of producing no legislation at all; this continued in the Twenty-Second Parliament with them winning only two seats. 
However, these defeats woke up the party, and following a large influx of members around the time of the General Election, new recruits TheDefiniteArticle and GaelicBolshevik formed the representation in the MHoC and finished the parliamentary term with one of the most productive Parliaments in terms of legislation, and holding senior roles in the MHoC: the MP DMcGovern becoming both Commissar for External Affairs and Chair of the somewhat controversial Crisis Committee. TheDefiniteArticle became Deputy Commissar shortly afterwards and new recruit Mactotaur became Commissar for Internal Affairs.
In the 23rd General Election, the Socialist Party bounced back by winning five seats in the MHoC, which in part led to the Labour Party's defeat by a single vote by the Conservatives, who formed the Conservative-Liberal coalition government. TheDefiniteArticle defected to Labour after senior Labour members cBay and cranbrook_aspie joined the Socialist Party, with the latter becoming CI and former becoming DC.
In the 24th General Election, the Socialist Party lost a seat but due to the Green Party forgetting to submit their manifesto and so not being able to stand, Labour won 17 seats and formed the Labour-Socialist government. The Socialist Party then voted for a new logo co-made by DMcGovern and cranbrook_aspie. cBay then resigned as DC and MP for the Socialist Party, leaving Mactotaur to take his place as DC and frankielogue elected to fill the MP seat.
Talk about unique leadership structure here.
== Electoral performance ==
Election 	Votes	Vote %	% Change	Rank	Seats	Seat Change	Outcome of Election
November 2006 	 	9.70% 	N/A 	5th 	 	N/A 	Monster Raving Loony Party Minority
May 2007 	 	11.11%	1.41% 	5th 	 	1 	Monster Raving Loony Party Minority
December 2007 	 	10.84%	0.27% 	6th 	 	1 	Labour-Monster Raving Loony Party Coalition
June 2008 	 	11.34%	0.5% 	5th 	 	1 	Liberal Democrats-Labour Coalition
November 2008 	 	20.00%	8.66% 	2nd 	 	5 	Conservative Minority
May 2009 	 	13.38%	6.62% 	3rd 	 	4 	No formal government in place
November 2009 	 	10.72%	2.66% 	5th 	 	1 	Liberal Democrats-Conservative-Centre Coalition
May 2010 	 	10.56%	0.16% 	4th 	 	No Change 	Conservative-Liberal-UKIP Coalition
October 2010 	 	7.75% 	2.81% 	5th 	 	2 	Conservative-Libertarian Coalition
April 2011 	 	9.80% 	2.05% 	4th 	 	1 	Labour-Liberal Democrat-Centre-UKIP Coalition
October 2011 	66 	13.81%	4.01% 	3rd 	 	2 	Labour-Liberal Democrat Coalition
March 2012 	94 	13.17%	0.64% 	4th 	 	No Change 	Conservative-UKIP-Independent Coalition
September 2012	51 	8.19% 	4.98% 	6th 	 	2 	Labour-Socialist-Independent Coalition
April 2013 	69 	11.35%	3.16% 	4th 	 	1 	Conservative-UKIP-Libertarian Coalition
September 2013	36 	7.71% 	3.64% 	7th 	 	2 	Conservative-Liberal-UKIP Coalition
March 2014 	98 	12.73%	5.02% 	3rd 	 	3 	Labour-Socialist-Green Coalition
September 2014	58 	9.28% 	3.45% 	5th 	 	2 	Green-Labour-Liberal Coalition
May 2015 	24 	6.56% 	2.72% 	6th 	 	2 	Labour-Liberal Coalition
Green-UKIP-Liberal
October 2015 	13 	5.44% 	1.11% 	6th 	 	1 	Labour-Liberal Coalition
April 2016 	17 	9.19% 	3.75% 	5th 	 	3 	Conservative-Liberal-National Liberal Coalition
November 2016 	11 	7.33% 	1.86% 	5th 	 	1 	Labour-Socialist Coalition
June 2017 	12 	5.80% 	1.53% 	6th 	 	1 	Labour-Liberal-Socialist Coalition
December 2017 	5 	4.20% 	1.6% 	5th 	 	1 	Conservative-Liberal-UKIP
== Commissar for External Affairs (CE) ==
The position of First Commissar (Commissar of Recruitment and External Affairs) was established in August 2008. In June 2014, the title was changed to Commissar for External Affairs in order to eliminate the hierarchical difference between it and the Second Commissar role. As the name suggests, the Commissar for External Affairs was responsible for ensuring the party was well represented in the House through overseeing legislation and establishing good links with other parties.
There were 12 CEs in total with Herbal Bug being the first one and GaelicBolshevik being the last one. No CE served as Prime Minister.
CEs who also served as CIs during their membership are marked with an asterisk.
Commissar for External Affairs	Commissar for External Affairs	Took office 	Left office
 	Herbal Bug 	August 2008 	November 2008
 	ukebert 	November 2008 	January 2009
 	Alasdair 	January 2009 	November 2009
 	Nothos 	November 2009 	March 2010
 	iwilson 	March 2010 	August 2010
 	SciFiBoy 	September 2010	December 2010
 	Stricof* 	December 2010 	April 2012
 	Abiraleft 	April 2012 	October 2012
 	Faland* 	October 2012 	September 2013
 	Republic1 	September 2013	May 2015
 	Stiff Little Fingers* 	May 2015 	January 2016
 	GaelicBolshevik 	January 2016 	February 2018
== Commissar for Internal Affairs (CI) ==
The position of Second Commissar (Commissar of Legislative Affairs) was established in August 2008. In June 2014, the title of Second Commissar was replaced with Commissar for Internal Affairs, as mentioned, to make it equal to the First Commissar position.The Commissar for Internal Affairs was responsible for running internal elections, reminding MPs to vote and more commonly, sending party updates.
There were 15 CIs in total with Grape190190 being the first one and Aph being the last one. No CI served as Prime Minister.
CIs who also served as CEs during their membership are marked with an asterisk.
Commissar for Internal Affairs	Commissar for Internal Affairs	Took office 	Left office
 	Grape190190 	August 2008 	February 2009
 	Jangrafess 	February 2009 	November 2009
 	Jace Falco 	November 2009 	March 2010
 	Stricof* 	March 2010 	August 2010
 	xXedixXx (now StatusRed) 	September 2010	March 2011
 	badger-man 	April 2011 	October 2012
 	PoGoHoPz 	October 2012 	April 2013
 	Stiff Little Fingers* 	April 2013 	September 2013
 	Faland* 	September 2013	April 2014
 	O133 (now Saracen's Fez) 	April 2014 	September 2014
 	Black Hippy 	October 2014 	May 2015
 	DaveSmith99 	May 2015 	May 2016
 	Mactotaur 	May 2016 	September 2016
 	cranbrook_aspie 	September 2016	November 2017
 	Aph 	January 2018 	March 2018
==Deputy Commissar (DC)==
In June 2014, the title of Deputy First Commissar was replaced with Deputy Commissar, with the role now backing up the CE and CI.
There were 13 DCs in total with paperclip being the first one and Stiff Little Fingers being the last one. 
DCs who also served as Senior Commissars (CE or CI) during their membership are marked with an asterisk.
Deputy Commissar	Deputy Commissar 	Took office 	Left office
 	paperclip 	unknown 	unknown
 	DayneD89 	unknown 	unknown
 	Abiraleft* 	unknown 	unknown
 	Stricof* 	unknown 	unknown
 	SciFiRory* 	unknown 	unknown
 	Saoirse:3 	unknown 	September 2013
 	nixonsjellybeans 	September 2013	May 2015
 	KevK92 	May 2015 	May 2016
 	TheDefiniteArticle 	May 2016 	August 2016
 	Aph (acting) 	August 2016 	September 2016
 	cBay 	September 2016	December 2016
 	Mactotaur* 	December 2016 	October 2017
 	Stiff Little Fingers*	January 2018 	March 2018
==Third Commissar (C3)==
The position of Third Commissar (Commissar for Party Discipline) was created in August 2008. However, it was abolished in September 2013. 
There were 7 Third Commissars with ukebert being the first one and nixonsjellybeans being the last one. 
Third Commissars who also served as Senior Commissars are marked with an asterisk.
Third Commissar	Third Commissar 	Took office 	Left office
 	ukebert* 	August 2008 	October 2008
 	Jace Falco 	November 2008	March 2009
 	paperclip 	March 2009 	November 2009
 	Vienna Cannon 	November 2009	March 2010
 	Abiraleft* 	March 2010 	November 2010
 	Olivia_Lightbulb 	December 2010	November 2011
 	nixonsjellybeans*	April 2013 	September 2013
== External Links ==
* 'The Socialist' Newspaper
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