Green Party (UK) 54,299 votes. 1985 was a time of political change in the UK. After the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), there were noises being made that the UK needed a "green" party. In response to the rumours that a group of Liberal Party activists were about to launch a UK 'Green Party', HELP (the Hackney Local Ecology Party) registered the name "The Green Party," with a green circle, designed by Steve O’Brien, as its logo. The first public meeting, chaired by David Fitzpatrick (then an Ecology Party speaker), was 13 June 1985 in Hackney Town Hall. Paul Ekins (then
Croatian Bloc (political party) around Sanader during the 2003 parliamentary elections. Croatian Bloc failed to enter Croatian Parliament. On May 31, 2008, the Croatian Bloc Council decided to disband the party. The party ended its activities on 31 August 2008, with its members joining Only Croatia, a marginal eurosceptic right-wing party. Croatian Bloc was officially erased from the party registry on 2 January 2009. Croatian Bloc (political party) Croatian Bloc ( or HB) was a right-wing political party in Croatia. Its name was often followed by the phrase "Pokret za modernu Hrvatsku" meaning "Movement for a Modern Croatia". It was founded in September 2002