Welcome to the home of the Pirate Party of the United Kingdom

The Pirate Party of the United Kingdom is an, as yet, unregistered single-issue political party in the United Kingdom. We seek to gain reform for the following principles for the benefit of citizens.

*IMPORTANT NEWS*

Appointment of Party Officers

The following have been assigned the due positions after a period of application and voting:

Andrew Peter Robinson (Andy_R) - Party Leader
John McKeown (rancidpunk) - Nominating Officer
Philip Hunt (cabalamat) - Campaigns Officer
Miah Gregory (mace) - Data Controller
Eric Ralph Alan Priezkalns (epriezka) - Treasurer

All grace periods where votes of no confidence may not be cast will last until December 31, 2009

Our press release for the Digital Britain report released by the government on the 16/06/09.

For more information contact press@pirateparty.org.uk

Here in ODT and Here in PDF

If you aren't 18 yet

Doesn't matter, you're welcome to join the website and help out on the forum and IRC, however you won't be on any members lists and won't be allowed to donate until you are 18.

About the Website

You don't need to make an account on the main website unless you want to comment on a blog post. Please visit our forum and register there in order to communicate with us and find out what is going on.

Vote!

A new section of the forum has recently been released. The Vote! section, in the Polices forum, allows Pirate Party members to poll and discuss specific party issues. All polls last for a week, unless otherwise stated.

To be able to vote, reply and start new polls, you need to be a Pirate Party member. To become one, post a short introduction in this thread, and you will be added by admin. At this point, it is not automated, so do not expect to be able to vote instantly. Thank you for your patience.

Introduction to Principles

The Pirate Party of the United Kingdom wants to ensure respect for citizens’ privacy rights, fundamentally reform copyright law and change to the, damaging, patent system.

Why the name?

Pirate Party is the name chosen by most, if not all, similar political parties in other countries throughout the world, most notably, the Swedish Piratpartiet, which was the original Pirate Party.
A second point to raise is that in this digital age the number of people in the United Kingdom who have shared files "illegally", and thus are branded "Pirates" by the Government and other bodies, is very large. It is easy to see that we are a party that represents a vast number of peoples issues and whose policies actively seek to benefit those people.

General Contact and External Sites

A number of contacts are available. Click here for contact e-mails and other Pirate Party UK sites)