Into the future ... and Beyond

Publié lundi 26 mai 2008 à 15h11
par Duncan Anderson dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 507 fois et 0 commentaires)

Okay, so maybe Buzz Lighyear didn't say that, but he might have if he had to write a political manifesto.

When I helped write the local government manifesto for North Lincolnshire Labour Party I was emphatic about putting in something for the future, in fact many things for the future. This included policies that wouldn't come to fruition until the term after the one we were campaigning to win and consultations that we could turn into policies in the following term.

Hopefully this gives the electorate a belief in a brighter future with which they have some ownership - and I do believe that we should be looking at the Swedish Socialist principle of helping the electorate of Europe have ownership of policies.

Most of these longer term items/policies are big issues or because they are big issues it will take longer for them to be resolved. But if we - European Socialists - don't make a start &/or an attempt then how can we - as a political party - claim to be leaders within society if we can't address some of the more complex issues?

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