As our candidates for the local elections are standing under a variety of descriptions on the ballot papers, there has been some confusion about the actual party name. In fact one caller to our offices today actually refused to accept that we really are a genuine political party.

To set the record straight we wanted to use the name "Lewisham People Before Profit"as our official party name. Unfortunately, there is already another party called the "Democratic Socialist Alliance - People Before Profit" based in Stockport and the Electoral Commission ruled that our proposed name was too similar to this existing party's name.

So the party is registered with the Electoral Commission under the name "Lewisham For People Not Profit" with an official emblem containing the words "Lewisham People Before Profit" which will appear on the ballot papers.

This information can be found on the Electoral Commissions website at the following links

Register of Political Parties

and

Register of Political Parties (Emblems)