1.  A new constitution was adopted transforming a loose federation of affiliated organisations into a centralised national political party.

2.  For as much as I reject the demo mentality, I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties.

3.  The core activists in both the local groups and the national party tend to be radical in their politics.

4.  The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.

5.  The candidates of the main parties are selected locally, though the national party in each case retains some veto power.

6.  Also Joan Ian and Mrs Green erm we all thought they joined locally and the national party have no record.

7.  It it has to be fixed by either us or the national party.

8.  Although opinion polls show the public disapproves, the national parties are on a record fund-raising binge.

9.  And in recent years, the national parties have ever more aggressively wooed big donors, pouring their contributions into issue ads to bolster chosen candidates.