Traidcraft calls for a new politics of the future
In an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a group including chief executives of ten civil society organisations calls for the two to ensure that the government goes beyond ‘New Politics’ to adopt a “New Politics of the Future”.
1 June 2010
In their letter, the group members warn that short-termism in contemporary politics on issues including climate change, changing demographics, youth unemployment, and environmental and social injustice, could endanger not only the UK’s ability to achieve meaningful progress in these areas, but even democracy itself.
The open letter calls on the Prime Minister to commit to an annual ‘State of the Future’ speech and asks David Cameron and Nick Clegg fully to investigate the potential to adopt other mechanisms that could better equip and encourage Members of Parliament to consider the long-term interests of future generations in policy decisions.
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Read the letter to the PM and Deputy PM
