One Love Party

The One Love Party is a British political party that stood in the 2016 London mayoral election with candidate and party co-founder Ankit Love. The party is contesting the 2016 parliamentary by-election from Tooting.
History
The party was formed by Love and Cambridge University graduate Finn Grant and was named in accordance with their view that London needs a revolution. The party general secretary is Pax Brown (born Giacomo Brunelli). The party was formed from a hostel in Hackney in October 2015, when Ankit Love was homeless.
Policies
The party wishes to put in place new legislation to combat air pollution (which they refer to as Chemical Air Wastes of Mass Destruction) and reduce industrial emissions to zero. They wish to rapidly adopt clean sources of energy such as solar, electric and hydrogen power technologies. They also plan to introduce flat-pack skyscrapers that can be erected in 19 days - building one million new homes by 2020, and to legalise cannabis. They also want to build 220 km of bicycle super highways suspended above railway lines designed by Norman Foster. The first route from Stratford station to Liverpool Street station is forecast to cost £220m.
The party proposes the reunification of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to end potential of nuclear conflict vis-a-via Jammu and Kashmir.
Results
Love came last in the mayoral vote with 0.2% of the vote and the fewest votes of any candidate ever since the position was created in 2000. They had received 4,941 first preference votes, and 28,920 second preference votes.

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