[10][11] At its height in 2018, the party was Thurrock Council's official opposition group and had two members in the European Parliament.

[13] Although Tim Aker joined his council colleagues in the new group, he subsequently stated that he would continue to represent UKIP in the European Parliament for the purposes of Brexit: "UKIP has a job to do in the European Parliament in seeing we get the Brexit we voted for.

This situation led to some uncertainty about the status of some of the group's members as a number of them work for Aker.

[14] Aker subsequently left UKIP and sat for Thurrock Independents in the European Parliament.

[16] During the 2019 United Kingdom local elections, Allen Mayes took the Tilbury Riverside ward of Thurrock from Labour.