Thanks for the email. Please don't take my candidacy as a declared Independent, too seriously. It is simply a campaigning device to get the real politicians to do what I want them to do, in line with LU policy that I so like and agree with. More radical than the Green Party, my former home and, I just love Bob Whitehead's FFPT, his careful research on it and his help, for me, over antisemitism in the Labour Party.
I think, I'm unlikely to waste £5,000 but being a declared candidate does have an advantage. One reporter, Mark Cardwell wrote something, 'The Commitment' contacted me yesterday and FoE has included me as a result of my 'declaration'. I may be taken a little more seriously and my questions over my many concerns are more likely to be answered. I also get better access to decision-makers for a short period.
In particular, I want them to understand the basic socialist/humanitarian/
- from each according to his ability; to each according to his need;
- build out obsolescence to make things last;
- use what you have instead of tearing down and rebuilding;
- don't destroy railway lines but use them for their intended purpose;
- finish what you start - unless it's extensions for HS2, Metro or Sprint diesel buses!
- retrench instead of regeneration in the light of the Covid, climate, ecological, nature crises;
- much more sustainable lifestyles urgently promoted instead of 'live it up today and to hell with tomorrow';
- live simply so that others - poorer nations and future generations - may simply live;
- diplomacy instead of the militarisation of diplomacy;
- UN and international bodies taken seriously and co-operated with;
- over-consumption and over-population are the two main drivers of global destruction;
- our very rich, resource-rich and fatal addiction to finite resources is deadly, dangerous and will be our ultimate undoing. Prepare now!
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