[5] They claim that they had previously been lifelong Conservative and Labour Party voters respectively, Leon-Smith serving as a councillor for 6 years,[6] but had become disillusioned by the breaking of the link between pensions and average earnings by the Conservatives and Labour's failure to restore it.

[7] The party won 42,861 votes in the South East in the European Parliament election, 2004[8] and stood candidates against Tony Blair and Michael Howard in the 2005 UK general election.

[10] In the run up to the 2005 General Election the Senior Citizens Party had meetings discussing an electoral alliance with the English Democrats.

[11] In May 2006, Leon-Smith and Pattinson stood for the party in the Runnymede Borough Council election, receiving 261 votes between them.

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