The Sovereigns

The People of the United Kingdom

Patrons

Rodney Atkinson, Vladimir Bukovsky, Lady Fieldhouse, Professor Antony Flew,   Frederick Forsyth CBE, Toby Horton, Professor Patrick Minford CBE, Lady Neill of Bladen, Leolin Price CBE QC, Lord Stoddart of Swindon,

The late Norris McWhirter CBE MA, Sir Julian Hodge K.St.G.,K.St.J., LLD and Sir Alfred Sherman were Founding Patrons. 

Management Committee

       Rodney Atkinson Esq                          Mrs. Lynn Riley                          Edward Spalton Esq

What we believe

Without our Parliament we can do nothing
Without our Democracy we can justify nothing
Without our Country we are nothing

We have fought two General Elections to date

The British Declaration of Independence is the new name for the South Molton Declaration. We invited the candidates of all parliamentary parties to commit to a Bill asserting the Sovereignty of the British People by voting for an Act of Parliament.

In 2001 some 100 MPs or Candidates either signed or gave their full support without signing. The numbers in 2005 improved by more than 50%

We commissioned a MORI Poll which had the following devastating results:

42% of all voters would switch their vote to another candidate who had signed or WOULD NOT VOTE AT ALL if their own candidate refused to sign. 34% of Labour voters would either vote for a different candidate who had signed (24%) or would not vote (10%) and 41% of Liberal Democrat voters would either vote for a different candidate (31%) or would not vote (10%) if their own candidate did not sign. An extraordinary 55% of Conservatives would not vote for their preferred candidate (40% would switch to a candidate who had signed and 15% "would not vote") if their candidate did not sign. No fewer than 72% of younger Conservative voters (age 18-24) would either vote for a different candidate who had signed (40%) or would not vote (32%) if their preferred candidate did not sign.

The small turnout of 59% of the electorate (a 14% drop on the 1997 Election) shows how people increasingly refuse to vote for those who refuse to govern. This was a vindication of our Constitutional Campaign then - and of the British Declaration of Independence today.

But most important of all we set out the strategy by which our democratic nationhood and the sovereignty of the British people will be asserted in Parliament. We have provided the means by which voters and candidates could remain with their traditional politics and yet re-assert the sovereignty of the people and reclaim their parliamentary authority.

Our aim is to go into the next General Election with a majority of candidates committed to the BDI Bill so that the electorate has a viable choice between the democratic and anti-democratic alternatives.

THAT STRATEGY LIVES ON - WITH EVEN GREATER POWER -

THE BRITISH DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE