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About Us: What Is Southampton Independents?

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Southampton Independents was originally formed as a campaigning group of residents, formed by residents in 2017. And it wasn't like the big political parties.

For a few years, in order to contest 2018 City Council and 2017 Parliamentary elections for Southampton people, Southampton Independents was a registered political party. Political parties are regulated by the Electoral Commission.

It was definitely not with Labour, the Tories, the Greens, Reform UK or the Lib Dems. We were independent of party politics at Westminster, and still are. Our focus is Southampton.

Southampton Independents has campaigned, investigated and reported on the issues that matter to Southampton residents. The organisation itself and this website has mostly been led by its co-founder Andrew Pope, working with other local residents, businesses and organisations to campaign and investigate.

Southampton Independents has proved that we help residents to stand up by standing up for local residents and with local residents, to help them to help themselves.

We have won campaigns in Southampton. We have won campaigns for Southampton. We have won campaigns with Southampton.

We have campaigned on a wide range of local issues, listening and acting on local residents' concerns, including:


You can see more proof of our of our commitment to Southampton by looking through the evidence of our work on this website. You can click the links above and use the Search facility at the top or side of the website, depending on whether you are using a desktop or phone browser.

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