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The British Unicorn Party is registered with the Electoral Commmission as a minor party in England and Wales. The BUP was de-registered in August 2008 for failing to return an annual confirmation of registration. The Party re-registered and campaigned as a third party in the 2010 general elections in Orpington UK Parliament constituency and the Islington South UK Parliament constituency. The party decided not to field any candidates in those constituencies. The British Unicorn Party campaigned about medical negligence in the NHS in both constituencies. In early 2010 the BUP circulated 10,000 leaflets in Petts Wood and Orpington with photos of doctors and condemned the Liberal Democrat PPC candidate for Orpington, David Mc Bride, for failing (along with many other local councillors, MPs and local newspapers) to help the BUP party leader in battling the local hospital/doctors for commonly prescibed treatment for his disabling vertigo/balance illness prior to the founding of the BUP party in 2005. The BUP Party leader Paul O'Callaghan questioned whether the 8,771 loss of votes by Mc Bride between the Liberal Democrat Orpington general election figures for the 2010 general election and the 2005 general election Orpington (UK Parliament constituency), had resulted from local people reading the BUP leaflet.