- Political discourse must be guided by evidence – a pivotal way to counteract false narratives and the rise of disinformation.
- Political parties should open their floors for public engagement to prevent the political class talking over people – ensuring that ordinary citizens can feel apart of political processes.
- Scientific endeavour must be at the forefront of human progress, including technology-open solutions.
- All political decisions must be taken with health, happiness, and prosperity prioritised. Although this could be subjective, evidence-based decision-making could counteract biases with the realisation that we are interdependent: whether you’re a worker or a businessman, by our connection to the socioeconomic forces that bind us.
- To foster a pride in place and community, bridging gaps between camps and ideological narratives. This blog believes that free inquiry and open-ended discussions is crucial for a stable democracy.
- This list will become as long as the Big Ben one day!
Advocacy for civic virtue⭐
We need a civic liberalism (akin to civic nationalism) that will strive to empower communities through enacting principles of mutualism, whereby economic democracy is emphasised (cooperative enterprises strengthened and grown), and localism cherished to reduce regional inequality by establishing local economic autonomy (tax-raising abilities with a land value tax introduced to use land wisely and productively) with the enshrined right of communities to directly dictate changes in their local area via alternating representative assemblies and participatory exchange.
The belief in (trans)humanism will be echoed in the positive outlook towards innovation and research-and-development with an acknowledgment of environmentalism and sustainability being essential for civilisation. A strong ethos solidarity (against negativity, hate, or blaming) built upon the foundations of a new, dynamic patriotism to foster integration and cohesion in a growingly polarised society (based on cultural differences) is essential. To confront nationalistic conflicts-of-interest, federalism will stop the disintegration of the union by accelerating the development of regions outside of the capital and the south-east by allowing regional democracy to postulate laser-focused policies.
To repurpose the left as the side that believes in economic redistribution and equal opportunity, rather than divisive post-modern politics based on identity. Where it is neither the state nor capital that has an upper hand, but communities through enhanced and elevated democracy. Aims to be radical and visionary for purely a social purpose but in accordance with pragmatism and moderacy, aligned to scientific reasoning rather than an ideological and emotional basis with the full embrace of the right to free-think and in advocacy of open-mindedness and consensus-finding.
Historically, both state and capital has enforced labour onto people (not to be idle) but not necessarily to work (to contribute willingly and in dignity).
Within the left, where you might hope to find inspiration, have gone down a route where they have reacted to some of the failures of liberal democracy, as we know it, not by trying to revive a more ambitious emancipatory liberalism, but by tending to reject the values that have allowed progress to happen in the first place.