Wessex
First Victory for Natural Law Party in Wessex!
Natural Law Party wins vote in mock election at Portsmouth Grammar School
HMS Victory, Portsmouth
Wessex News Release
April 1997
In recent months the Natural Law Party has been giving presentations to large audiences of pupils in both the state and private education sectors across Britain and as a result is achieving a huge wave of support from the younger generation for its innovative programmes designed to take the nation into the new millennium.
New evidence of this phenomenon emerged last week when Portsmouth Grammar School held its own mock election in the run up to the general election. Pupils had the opportunity to vote for the seven parties running in the General Election. Paul Wells came in home first on behalf of the Natural Law Party ahead of the rest of the field beating the Conservatives into second place by eight votes. The other parties in the election were Green, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Independent Socialist and Referendum.
General Election candidate for the NLP for Portsmouth South William Treend was delighted with the result:
"This just goes to show that where people are given the opportunity to hear in detail the platform of the Natural Law Party there is an overwhelming response to our practical programmes and our conflict free approach to politics and government."
Earlier this year Mr Treend and regional party leader Mark Griffiths, a Hampshire Chartered Surveyor, gave a two hour presentation to sixth form students at the grammar school. According to Mr Griffiths: