The Peace Party continues to wonder why main political parties aspiring to serve the people as part of the next government,

(a) refer to those enormous sums of money they intend to spend when they achieve power – sums that are baffling, indeed, incomprehensible, to nearly every voter – when what those voters are really interested in are questions like,

How many hours must I wait with my child in A&E until they are attended to?

Can I depend on my train getting me to work, every day and on time?

What is the government going to do about cutting carbon dioxide emissions to zero so that I don’t need to fear the effect of climate change?

Are my aged parents going to be properly looked after when they are too elderly to look after themselves?

When will my son and daughter be able to afford to rent or buy their own home?

(b) why do they persist in talking about borrowing money to spend on all the improved essentials when they never say who they are going to borrow it from.  (In fact, the Peace Party knows that government can issue all the money needed to pay for

extra hospital staff,

railway infrastructure,

subsidising the generation of electricity from wind and solar instead of using polluting gas, oil and nuclear,

care homes and staffing of them and

paying for the building of 300,000 new homes every year for the foreseeable future.)

(c) why do they persist in talking about the “repayment of debts” when a government never has debts to repay as it issued money for its own use in the first place

(d) why do they persist in talking about “investments” in services it provides; governments don’t spend money to make profits (which is what private individuals and companies do when they invest) – governments simply spend on buildings for health care, education, up-grading railways and roads and so on.

The Peace Party still find it’s surprising that so few people seem not to understand that the country is not run like a household – or even a private business.  The country does not have an income and so cannot get into debt or need to borrow or need to invest.  A government simply issues the money it needs to carry out the tasks that it has agreed with its supporters.

The Peace Party sets out the tasks it wants to see carried out to help to make the country a much more peaceful place to live and work.  Send for its revised “Policies and Principles” booklet.