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Steve Trevethan

Backwards or forwards but no stagnation?

By Steve Trevethan | Thu 3rd September 2020 - 10:00 am

Perhaps the leadership election is time for reflections on our party’s aspirations, policies, practices and assessments thereof?

The “Preamble to our Constitution” presents our aspirations. Perhaps it is a statement of the need for and achievability of justice for the individual, the group, the nation and the World?

It could be a compass for the creation and management of policies, policy implementation and their monitoring. We could then monitor the policies of others too. Thus we could develop ourselves as a party of service, information, transparency and reliability.

Preamble paragraph 1 refers to the state’s role in enabling citizens, and, presumably, their children, to flourish, make the most of themselves and be active and positive members of their communities. To achieve this, people need surpluses of time, energy, wealth etc. So this set of apparently social objectives has a large, possibly dominant, component of economics.

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    David you have got to write about some of these things. Can you do a pamphlet? Or am I showing my age here? Maybe a podcast 💛...
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    ... and in addition. Sorry David (Raw). It is all far too late now to stop it. It's too late even for us to make a noticeable national protest about it, so...
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