Our basic aspiration is to promote “government of the people by the people for the people”.
It is too often forgotten that the primary concern of a democratic government has to be the well‑being of the citizens. This must be our primary concern and should take precedence over all other problems concerned with constitution, economy and information.
Attention to nationally important matters such as “the economy”, fiscal policy, the needs of business, law and order, and defence, must be seen as a means to that end. Indeed, the needs of the economy, fiscal policy, business, law and order, and defence, include having a healthy, capable and well‑motivated population.
People need health, and we need healthy people. Being unwell incapacitates people as well as making them miserable, and too often causing intolerable pain. And being incapacitated makes people less able to help others, and less able to make an economic contribution. We need an effective, reliable, available health service. It must be “affordable”, of course, but the cost to the nation of not having one is guaranteed to be even less affordable.
Nor is it sufficient just to patch things up when problems arise. “Prevention is better than cure.” There is a very great, growing, potentially crippling, and largely preventable, epidemic of long-term incapacity.
⨳The three initiatives (original), plus a working variant of it, some notes on metabolic health and some preliminary doodles on general issues of environmental health.
mental health
People need hope, purpose. Too many in a state of desperation and hopelessness. Too often caused by having inadequate and insecure income from an insecure job, the need to pay high rent on insecure substandard housing, a lack of support from pertinent agencies, and government policies and media propaganda which say that being poor is your own fault.
People need to feel useful. We need people to be useful. Why are so many needed things left undone while so many people have nothing useful to do?
People need community
People need care.
People need support.
Material well-being: People need to be fed clothed housed
People need services: water, power, Internet, post
People need transport
People need to be safe, and to feel safe. Security: police, army, fire brigade
freedom
Leisure. People need entertainment and physical and mental exercise. Sports, to watch and to play. Music, TV, cinema, theatre, concerts and …
People need joy.