Of the 56 Indian origin candidates who contested the general elections in UK on June 8, 2017 was Bombay born Freddy Vachha (pictured, Photo: guardian-series.co.uk) from the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Contesting the seat in the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup, a Conservative stronghold, Vachha managed to secure 1,619 votes against sitting candidate James 
Brokenshire who was reelected with 29,545 votes, according to a report in The Evening Standard of June 8. The other candidates in the constituency were Danny Hackett of the Labour party who won 14,079 votes; Drew Heffernan of the Labour Democrats, 1,572; Derek Moran of Green Party, 820; Michael Jones of British National Party, 324; and Chinwe Nwadikeduruibe of Christian Peoples Alliance, 83.
At a debate amongst the candidates prior to the elections, Vachha, a businessman, physicist, mathematician, software publisher and forensic accountant, declared, "We are a party of hope for the future…Vote for UKIP is a vote for Britain as a successful, innovative and agile beacon of hope in an unpredictable and dangerous world.” UKIP however failed to secure any seat in the 2017 elections. UKIP advocated Britain leaving the European Union, opposed immigration and multiculturalism. Describing Britain as the fourth most densely populated country and the fifth most powerful economy in the world, Vachha asserted, "Socialism doesn’t work… Although I am a proud first generation immigrant, let me tell you I would not have come to the broken Britain of today.”
"Vachha currently works as day-trader on the London Stock Exchange, as chairman and managing director of the UK division of Florensis, a multinational horticultural group, as a financial consultant specializing in international tax and forensics, and as trustee of many enterprise zone syndicates invested in economically depressed parts of the UK,” according to Hackney Citizen of May 4, 2016.
To Vachha, the main problems facing Londoners are housing, jobs, affordability, access to local services, health, contamination, overcrowding, public transport, congestion, crime and the overall quality of life. He was hoping to use his experience in detecting fraud and waste for the good of the UK community. As he was quoted by the Ilford Recorder when contesting the elections in 2015, "I’m a determined fighter, and in what substantially was Churchill’s constituency, I can but paraphrase him: ‘Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the opposition.’”
The constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup was created in 1983 by combining a small part of the abolished seat of Bexleyheath with the abolished seat of Sidcup. According to Wikipedia, it has "incomes above the national average, a high proportion of semi-detached and detached homes and low unemployment with a lower than average dependency on social housing.”