They were motivated by a belief that the sale of the Isle of Wight to the English crown in 1293 was unconstitutional.

[2][3] The party contested the Isle of Wight constituency in the 1970 general election when candidate R. W. J. Cawdell, a councillor for Ryde,[4] polled 1,607 votes (2.8% of the Wight vote).

[1][5] That year it narrowly lost a local government election.

[3] In 2006, Ray Stokes attempted to revive the VNP, emphasizing two aspects: an economically opportunistic deployment of islandness and a conservative, nostalgic impulse.

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