Catherine Blaiklock

Attempt to join Conservative Party (August 2019) Blaiklock applied to join the Conservative Party on 23 July, the day of Boris Johnson's victory in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, and received a membership number on 6 August. However, a few days after her public disclosure of her application, the Conservative Party, who said her application was subject to final approval, rejected her application, with Blaiklock saying: "And it was central office who cancelled it even though the local branch knows who I am".

English Democrats (2021–2026) On 3 July 2021 in The Salisbury Review, Blaiklock announced she had joined the English Democrats. She spoke at their autumn conference that year, and following the murder of Southend West's previous member of Parliament, Sir David Amess, in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October, they subsequently nominated her in early January 2022 to stand for them at the constituency's by-election, held on 3 February. Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and other mainstream political parties chose not to contest the seat out of respect, and Blaiklock came fourth with 320 votes (2.15%).

In the 2024 general election, she stood in Great Yarmouth, receiving 171 votes (0.4%). The seat was won by Rupert Lowe, the Reform UK candidate. Lowe has since founded Restore Britain after he was suspended from Reform UK on 7 March 2025.

Blaiklock stood for the English Democrats in the 2025 Runcorn and Helsby by-election, coming 12th, receiving 95 votes and losing her deposit.

Views Blaiklock posted articles on The Conservative Woman where she discussed introducing hanging for drug dealers and argued that food banks are contributing to obesity in low-income families, who should be eating potatoes, being cheaper and healthier. She has also been noted for her anti-Islam statements written on a range of conservative websites.

Personal life Blaiklock’s first husband was Gyaljen Sherpa whom she met in 1997 at Everest base camp in Nepal, (The Nepali in Need website notes that Gyaljen Sherpa summited Everest and was involved in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.) Her second husband is a British Jamaican, Christopher Kirkpatrick. Her husband managed the guest house on a day-to-day basis, and the BBC reported in February 2019 that its Tripadvisor page has been the subject of politically motivated attacks and "malicious trolling", requiring intervention by Tripadvisor.