Williamson was a founder of the National Liberal Party in 1999. He has contributed to the
Third Way, This was the name adopted to describe its guiding principles, as laid out by Williamson and TP Bragg in an independently produced 2005 booklet. As a result of taking up the manifesto, the Third Way supported an overarching British culture that could be embraced by immigrants, a system of
federalism for the UK with the possibility of a future break-up, an
isolationist foreign policy, environmentalism, the wide use of
Swiss-style citizens' initiatives and
distributism. The Declaration is divided into two, with its environmental, spiritual and philosophical manifesto written by Bragg. Williamson was a candidate for the Third Way in the
2006 local elections in
Havering London Borough Council, where Third Way ran 14 candidates. With 954 votes, Williamson was not elected in what was one of the main areas of activity for the group. Williamson had been running a community group, officially not connected to Third Way, in the area for some time. His leadership of the group in
Elm Park and his past in the National Front were covered in an issue of
Private Eye, with Williamson claiming in the magazine that his group had the support of the local MP
John Cryer. Cryer subsequently disavowed the group and condemned Williamson in
Searchlight. Williamson was also the London East and East Central organiser for the
Campaign for an Independent Britain. Among Fiore's ideas was that far right white nationalist groups should form alliances with national liberation movements and separatists. Williamson and Harrington pioneered this in the National Front in the 1980s, but apart from allowing them to claim they were not racists because they had black allies, the policy was not a success. The National Liberal Party has kept up this strategy, appealing for ethnic minority votes by focusing on national struggles abroad and with particular emphasis on injustices in Sri Lanka and India. ==Elections contested==