Labour Party of Northern Ireland
- Labour Party of Northern Ireland
The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) was formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland Assembly member, and Billy Blease, a member of the British House of Lords. They stood several candidates in the 1985 local government elections, none of which were successful.
In 1987, the group merged with the Northern Ireland Labour Party, Ulster Liberal Party and the United Labour Party to form a party known as Labour '87 or Labour Party 1987 with the aim of campaigning for a united Labour Party. This group also gained the support of the Newtownabbey Labour Party. It hoped to build links with the British Labour Party, but these came to nothing.
The group ran unsuccessful candidacies in local elections and the 1989 European Parliament election, after which the Labour '87 coalition seems to have been dropped. The LPNI survived a little longer, but appears to have dissolved in 1990. [ [http://www.stratagem-ni.com/nipeers.php Stratagem: Northern Ireland Peers] ]
The next attempt to form a labour organisation in Northern Ireland was the Labour Coalition, which won seats on the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. This soon split, and group around Malachi Curran founded a new "Labour Party of Northern Ireland". This group ran candidates in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998, including David Bleakley. It remains active, and Curran stood unsuccessfully in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007.
References
*http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/lorgan.htm
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