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I don't think they will stand under their own colours.
A bit of background:
It is three decades since the Social Workers last stood calling themselves the Social Workers Party. That was just a couple of years after they had declared themselves 'The Party'. (Before that, they had more modestly called themselves the International Socialists.) They were trounced in those elections. They did off-puttingly badly - and were beaten even by Socialist Unity, a little far left grouping cobbled together around the Social Workers' smaller rival, the International Marxist Group.
The Social Workers did not take part in local council or parliamentary elections again until they joined the Socialist Alliance - eight or so years ago.
To everyone's surprise a Socialist Alliance candidate (and Social Worker) was elected to the council in Preston. He won thanks to the support of the local mosque.
From that surprise victory was born the Social Workers next big idea: Islamo-Trottery. By getting together with the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood (Muslim Association of Britain), the crackpot reactionaries of Birmingham Central Mosque, assorted Muslim businessmen and George Galloway, the Social Workers would ride to the political big time - or so they hoped.
It didn't work. The Muslims and Galloway got fed up with the bossy Trots. Al-Respeq split and the Social Workers were left with a rump. They stood in May as the Lost List and did miserably badly.
If they stand again in the near future it will again be as the Lost List - or possibly as the Lost Alternative - but they don't like doing miserably badly in elections (who would?), so they are likely to stand much less than they did in the old days of the Socialist Alliance or when they were in al-Respeq.
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