The people will no longer stand for being divided.
We are exhausted with being told we are Far Right, or Far Left, or Centrist. We reject these labels. We are people first, a community of carers, hard workers, teachers, doctors, nurses, business owners, parents and neighbours. We are good, honest people, and we will no longer accept the state of our country or the institutions that have failed it.
We will not accept sexual violence, child abuse, or violence of any kind in our community. The safety of every person, and above all every child, is the first duty we owe one another, and we place it before all else.
We will no longer accept that our future should be decided by a narrow class of career politicians, drawn from privileged backgrounds, who do not know our lives and do not speak for us.
We will not participate in foreign wars we have no connection to.
We will no longer be held hostage by price-gouging industries, a “Rip-off Britain” that serves the few while working people carry the burden. We will no longer accept that a person can work more than forty hours a week and still be unable to afford the basics of a decent life: a home, food, warmth, and care.
We will not stand by while the young adults of our community struggle to find work and a home of their own, only to be blamed for it by a wealthy, out-of-touch class that has never faced the same odds. Our young people are not feckless. They have been failed, and we will not let that failure be dressed up as their fault.
We will not sit idle while artificial intelligence is used to discard working people, turning life into a scramble where only the quickest to adapt survive. AI is a tool, and we will use it as a tool should be used: to lift the whole community, not to enrich a few while the rest are cast aside. Technology that can do extraordinary things for people will be made to do them.
We will no longer allow our rivers and our countryside to be polluted by failing private companies that line their pockets while neglecting the duties they were paid to uphold.
We will no longer accept an underfunded health system that asks our sick to wait and our carers to break. We will not accept the quiet handover of our NHS and our social services, nor the access foreign corporations are granted to the personal data of our sick, our elderly, and our children. Our health is not a marketplace, and our data is not a commodity.
We will no longer allow our children to be pigeon-holed by a one-size-fits-all education system that mistakes uniformity for learning.
We refuse government overreach into our personal choices. We will make our own decisions, as informed adults, based on facts and honest research, including which plants and natural substances we choose to permit in our own community. And we will not allow genuinely dangerous substances to take root among us: substances that damage lives, break families, and feed the cycle of crime.
We demand genuine freedom of speech, and the right of every person to practise their religion and culture freely, on the one condition that binds us all equally: that no belief, religious or ideological, is ever forced upon another, nor used to harm, coerce or deny the freedoms of anyone else. Every member of our community is free to make their own choices.
We will no longer allow any voice to be silenced. Every voice will be heard equally, and hierarchy will give way to community.
We will no longer accept outrage selected for us by media coverage, nor division manufactured to keep us apart.
The community will decide its own future and its own direction.
Governance will be a duty we share, not a power we surrender.
This is our Accord.
The Manifesto is coming soon.
We need every pair of hands we can find.
If you believe you have nothing to offer, you are mistaken. Everyone has skills. Society has simply taught too many people that theirs do not count, and that is not true.
Whatever you can give, whether time, a trade, an idea, knowledge, a cooked meal, a spare room, a willing pair of hands, or an hour a week, there is a place for it here. A community is built by the many, not the few.
And if you can do nothing else today, simply share this page. Pass it to a neighbour, a friend, a relative. Every person who hears of the Accord is one more step toward a community that looks after its own. It all helps.
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