A UK Political Party: Dr Dick Rodgers
Welcome to the website of the Common Good Party.
Our main idea:
If we care about the world
........we'll be a happier nation.
Our national life needs a purpose...which should be to make the world a better place for everybody. For instance, let's work to make sure we reach the UN Millenium Development Goals by 2015:
to halve the number of people living on less than $1 a day,
to reduce to a third the children dying before their 5th birthday and
to reduce to a quarter the number of women dying in childbirth.
You may say,"What's this got to do with us? It's not our business. It's because they've got rotten leaders. It's their fault. We've got enough problems of our own. Charity begins at home!"
"Making the world a better place" matters a lot. It is a huge job. It
includes politics and economics and standing up to tyrants. We must
take world issues seriously and not bury our heads in the sand of our
own domestic problems (which are many!). As a trading nation with
world experience we simply cannot afford to neglect world issues.
If we all took world issues to heart, as a nation, we'd feel a lot better about ourselves. Our young people would say, "There's something great going on here! I want to be part of it. I'll pay attention in class and be useful when I grow up."
We will soon have the keen, skilled workers we need for a thriving economy and the means to create a good society here in Britain and to be a good influence in the world. Without a unifying purpose we will never achieve national happiness or harmony. Consumerism won't do it.
The world needs us but also we need a job to do in the world, that will challenge us, unite us and make us a happier society with a team spirit. Having something to live for is the answer to believing in yourself and to education and to solving our social problems such as drugs, crime, messing about at school, loneliness and listlessness.
I want to get this message through to my fellow citizens and to our leaders. I've kept a massive scrapbook of press cuttings relating to 20 specific areas of our national life and to our dealings in the wider world and in 19 specific regions of it. Each issue matters in itself and illustrates the vision as a whole. Please join in.
I need people to get this party organised and make it electable, and people to stand in elections and others to help them and others to take up issues they feel passionate about that we can agree on such as saving the NHS and the railways, stopping the Private Finance Initiative and stopping commercial banks creating money for their own benefit which is then their property but whihc we have to pay back in real earned money. Things like that.
Overseas, I have lots of specific campaigns ready to roll, about China, Iran, Afghanistan, Africa, etc etc. They keep occurring to me in the middle of the night! Let's talk.
Leaflet: Don't sell Dover Harbour
Paper petition: Don't sell Dover Harbour. Please download, collect signatures, post to me.
Downing
Street epetition to stop the sale of Dover Harbour
Leaflet about our main idea: our political philosophy!
Selly Oak, Birmingham needs 2
lanes.pdf
Selly Oak New Road: more detail
10 page manifesto of 2007: new version
coming soon.
I am concerned for Liu Xiaobo (pictured right) sentenced on Christmas Day 2009 to 11 years prison for organising with many others a petition of 10,000 signatories calling for multi-party democracy in China.Please ask the Chinese Ambassador about him at 49/51 Portland Place London W1N 4JL
The Common Good is a UK political party, registered in 2004. I stood in the European and General Elections and Hartlepool (2004) Dunfermline (2006) and Henley-on-Thames (2008) By-Elections and Birmingham City Council elections 2007. I Dick plan to stand in the 2010 General Election and would like to hear from you if you might consider standing for these same important principles.
email
me. If this link doesn't work - my email is dick@rodgers.org.uk