Pirate Party surpasses Labour Party on Facebook

11th September 2009 17:33 | by Philip Hunt

It appears the Pirate Party is more popular than the Labour Party, at least on Facebook. Our group there -- at the time of writing -- has 6364 supporters, whereas Labour's has only 6356. And the Pirate Party has only been in existance for a month.

The only UK political party to have more supporters than PPUK on Facebook is the BNP (currently 7383 supporters). This is likely to change, with PPUK overtaking the BNP, not least because there are more filesharers in Britain than fascists.

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12th September 2009 20:38 by SimbaLogical

Are the BNP supporters ALL fascists?

i thought they were "white" separatists.

21st September 2009 14:22 by SimbaLogical

The BNP group has been cancelled

21st September 2009 17:26 by Philip Hunt

Yes, I've just noticed. There are other BNP groups on Facebook, so I'm not sure why just that one was closed.

23rd September 2009 20:11 by SimbaLogical

According to the grapevine, the BNP fbook was roughly 50% filled with fake accounts, with no activity or friends etc

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