I’m not a member of a political party at the moment, though obviously I have been in the past.
Here’s the policies that would be to the fore in the kind of political party that I would like to see and which would get me back into making a more active engagement in politics:
- A burning desire to reduce absolute poverty across the United Kingdom
- An ambition to reduce relative inequality across the country.
- A narrative that focuses more on justice than nationhood.
- A reforming zeal for the institutions of government – House of Lords, PR and the EU Parliament to begin with but not limited to these.
- A localism that seeks to put power in the hands of local communities.
- An internationalism that seeks to redeem colonialism by unashamedly promoting progressive values (equality of men and women, LGBT rights, anti-corruption, anti-bribery) as it seeks to trade with the world.
- An ability to articulate what freedom for the individual means in a digital age.
- An acceptance that social security is here for the good of us all.
- A celebration of the relative peace and prosperity that the European Union has brought to a once warring continent
- A stable, mixed-mode economy.
- A secure National Health Service.
- Disestablishment of national churches
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