A UK Political Party: Dick Rodgers
Welcome to the website of the Common Good Party.
If we care about the world
we will be a happier nation.
We need a sense of purpose for our national life: to make the world a better place for everybody. For instance, let's work for the UN Millenium Development Goals to halve the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 2015.
It may sound simplistic but of course making the world a better
place matters a lot and it is a huge job.
If we got stuck into an
important challenge like that, together 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 skilled workers we need for a thriving economy and resources left over 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, and 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 our social problems such as drugs and crime and messing about at school, pervasive loneliness and lack of direction in life.
I want to get this message through to my fellow citizens and to our leaders. I apply it 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 the team.
Mini-manifesto: an A4 leaflet readable in 3 minutes
The Big picture as
we see it: a 10 page manifesto - a longer version of what we stand for.
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 .
See our blog site - thebeginning of it.