Resignations
In March 2007 the EFP's two councillors announced their intention to quit. Michael Johnson stated that he would be joining a new party created by himself and Tony Melia For Darwen, while Mark Cotterill signalled his intention to stand down as a councillor and party leader at the 3 May local elections. Johnson's move followed a rift with the party after he objected to an anti-Islamic cartoon of Jesus on YouTube, while Cotterill—who remains a leading EFP activist—has put his decision down to a work-related move to Preston.
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