And while that Patrick was rejected - as expected - there was no such bad luck for Patrick Rogers, the leader of the BPP and now the party's candidate in Pickstock.
Rogers - who's been running as an independent since 1998 - has never had much success at the polls - but he's sees the change of political culture as a long term project.
Today he explained how the BPP has had to vary its strategy over the last few elections:
Rogers got 84 votes in Pickstock in the 2015 election - less than 5% of the vote.
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