3. How will we set about achieving these aims?
Answer: This is the hard part, but we believe we may be actually accelerating a trend that is already under way. The massive recent growth of the Green Party indicates that people are no longer regarding a vote for a smaller group dedicated to decent policies as ‘wasted’. Other small parties are similarly eroding the grip of the Two-Party system, notably the National Health Action Party, outraged that this Government on the one hand promised to keep the NHS intact, and on the other, has been indecently selling bits of it off to rich entrepreneurs for profit. There is already a movement to make MPs accountable if they tell a lie in the HOC or elsewhere. There is a feeling out there that there needs to be a massive change at this next election in order for democracy to be restored. The rise of UKIP, a party that, on face of it seems dedicated to bringing racist policies back into play and blaming immigrants for all the ills that beset the UK, indicates the desperation of the British people to make a radical change. But, though there may be good men and women aligned with UKIP, as there are in all parties, we believe that Farage’s right-wing rhetoric will ultimately be seen by decent educated people for what it is – a dangerous false dawn.
How will we work towards a decent alternative ?
We will ask people to be COLOUR BLIND as they vote in the polling booths at next election. We will ask them to vote for an individual who they believe will act decently, transparently and accountably in their interests, if they are elected. We will ask them to disregard the party lines and vote tactically to oust candidates who have been shoe-horned into a constituency by a major party to sit in Parliament and vote according to how their leader tells them to vote.
We will work seat by seat, completely openly, to encourage decent prospective MPs to do deals in order to force out the career politicians and party-liners. We will, as Common Decency, support prospective MPs from ALL parties if we are sure they will adhere to the principles of Common Decency. We’ll do it by publicity, personal endorsement and by helping the funding of their campaigns that otherwise would be dwarfed by the massive reserves of cash available to the major parties. Surely elections should not be determined by how much publicity money can be thrown behind a candidate? This is another reform we would like to make – remove the ability of the rich to unfairly influence the outcome of an election. (Perhaps this could be done by banning donors and the funding of election campaigns from a public fund.) and we will do it by at last giving a reason to vote for all those who at present do not feel their vote will count for anything.
It will not be perfect; but it can be a whole different universe from what happened at the last election. We believe our plan, as it evolves, can change Britain for the better and give us all a voice in the way Britain is run.
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One big thing that needs to be changed is to ban freemasonry entirely. See a documentary on how freemasonry is abused by its brethren in Dorset in this BBC documentary that the chairman of our activist organisation helped to produce for the BBC exposing the authorities whose members are freemasons that have abused and ripped of the dorset people for decades. http://www.dorsetpolice.tv/2012/02/22/bbc-southern-eye-anything-declare/ Then there is animal cruelty which is close to your heart Brian, you have spoken how parliament have ignored your massive campaign to save Badgers, and you will be aware that if the conservatives get in again that they are going to allow culling in dorset. I have read reports of your intentions to stand in West Dorset against Oliver Letwin who besides being an MP, agrees that a Badger cull is necessary, and as he is the Minister for Govt. Policy he will be responsible for any forthcoming cull in Dorset, you must get him out of office as we are attempting to do in our current campaign. NO-LET-WIN IN 2015 http://www.ministryofjustice.info/oliver-letwin-mp-fit-purpose/
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Brilliant concept. Well done Common Decency. We thankfully have a decent and credible independent standing in Southampton Test. Take a look www.voiceforvoiceless.co.uk @chrisv4v
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Great idea! We went to a hustings 3 weeks ago, and asked all the prospective parliamentary candidates for Horsham some quite tough questions. Two stood out for us, Martyn Davis (Labour) and James Smith (Something New). James Smith was anti-fracking, modernist, thoughtful. Martyn Davis would not make the anti-fracking commitment. Time for 'Something New'!
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Most of what you want to achieve is what Nigel Farage and UKIP stand for. As an observer for the last five years I see him as a fighter for democracy in Europe, in the European parliament voicing his concerns about the European project destroying democracy and resulting in ugly right wing groups becoming popular out of desperation. The very thing the EU project was supposed to be against. When did UKIP become right wing and racist? About the time they started to challenge the status quo in politics here in the UK. Don't be fooled by the manipulative government and the corrupt media.
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Although the idea is great in principal I don't have too much optimism of it working in practice. Although I believe that most people are decent they can be at times naive. After watching the last TV election debate, Cameron and Miliband were obviously nothing more than trained puppets with appalling acting skills, yet they still get a majority of the vote. How can people be the judge of their candidates when they are almost programmed by the well oiled machine of US style PR and corrupt media manipulation. Yes, we need to look locally at individual representatives for their constituents but we also need to see the big corporate picture and who is really controlling our governments through donations, mechanisms such as the EU project and whatever else to support corporate greed. This is something that needs to be exposed and people need to stop trusting at face value what they are told by the mainstream media. This will encourage them to look further to find the truth and that is how we will get change.
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Following on from my previous comment. If we can expose the truth about what is behind the corporate controlled legacy parties, we might then convince the 30% or whatever of non voters it is worth while to trek down to the polling stations. To have any impact we would have to coordinate strategical voting to remove any party that is corporate controlled and anti democracy, and hence not decent. . I know the campaign is about individual representatives and not the parties but as it stands they are controlled by the party whips and hence the corporations that control the party. So we have to take on the party to make any impact.
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George, I would like to defend the guys at common decency. I think that their intentions are good and not about personal gain. We all want the same thing here. You are right about UKIP. They do represent many of the ideals described in the Pillars defined by common decency. The problem is that as soon as UKIP started to challenge the status quo of corporate puppets in government here in the UK, a smear campaign has been launched against them. And it has been successful. I have to say that it has not been helped by recent comments by Farage.. Trying to make a point by example, but not a good idea to single people out, wherever they are from, with HIV. Even though his point about who pays for it is probably correct. He should probably be proposing some other ways like supporting charities that can help at the same time as protecting British citizens or residents who have paid into the system and should be priority for the NHS. But ultimatiely, as I am sure you have done yourself, if people would dig sightly under the surface of mainstream media propaganda and political rehtoric, they would find that the very reason Farage got into politics was because he was concerned about losing our democracy. He has also voiced his concerns, in the European Parliament, about the rise of right wing parties as a result of the failures of the EU. Unfortunatley people who have only see him through the media in the last year get a very different picture.
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Thank you for all your comments to our site, You must tell us all about your candidates and post them onto the candidates page on the website https://www.commondecency.org.uk/may-7th-2015/2015-candidates-2
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