The Peace Party – Non-violence, Justice, Environment aims to break the mould of British, European and World politics.
It envisions a new perspective on human existence, replacing the current sets of values with ones based around reverence for all life and on co-operation and compassion for humanity.
The Peace Party knows that the World needs re-fashioning into one of widespread sister- and brother-hood. People will come to respect others and, in turn, be respected. Resources will need to re-directed and re-allocated fairly and equitably. The human family will become more spiritual, less reliant on material things.
A system based on co-operation will be infinitely more socially beneficial than the unquestioned dominance of competition which prevails at present. The Peace Party knows governments will need to be much more responsive to the needs of people locally and nationally. On the other hand, the state will play a far less important part in people’s lives. The Peace Party will be seeking to address the huge problems of fear and insecurity, even of the fear of fear itself.
Resolving conflict only by non-violent means: war is wrong. It's not just a little wrong, but so wrong that we should never do it
The involvement of everyone in making decisions
Appropriate health care and freedom of choice for all
Safe and peaceful homes – for everyone
Enhancing the intrinsic harmony and inter-connectedness of people with their natural and man-made surroundings
Justice for everyone
Everyone having the freedom to learn and study, helping empower themselves and their communities
Everyone having meaningful work and an assured income with no exploitation or oppression
Quality, healthy food and clean water
Everyone having leisure time and easy access to facilities for creativity and recreation
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Peace Party members stand in Local, National and European elections. The Peace Party aims to represent all who campaign against specific wars, against nuclear and other weapons and against the arms trade, as well as broader movements for peace and pacifism. No other party can present the case for peace more effectively than the Peace Party.
The Peace Party contested the Elections for the European Parliament on 4th June, 2009. It fielded a full slate of 10 candidates in the South East England Region. Election results may be found on the News and Views Page.
The Election Leaflet and details of the Peace Party candidates who stood may be downloaded from the Resources and Downloads Page.
The Peace Party also contested four County Council seats in the same area on the same day: Woking South (Julie Roxburgh), Guildford West (John Morris) Division in Surrey, Horsham Riverside (Jim Duggan)in West Sussex and Dartford Rural (Geoffrey Pay) in Kent.
Election Leaflets for these candidates may be downloaded from the Resources and Downloads page.
The Council of the EU contains ministerial representatives from each of the 27 Member State governments. It meets to discuss and ratify key policies. Finance ministers discuss the budget, trade ministers discuss trade policies, and prime ministers or presidents discuss EU-wide strategic issues. The Council is chaired on a
rotating basis by each Member State for 6 months at a time (currently the Czech Republic).
The European Commission is an executive council of 27 senior political figures nominated by Member States and appointed by the European Parliament to serve for 5 years. The Commission is supported by a multi-national group of 25,000 officials.
The Commission is in charge of initiating, drafting and implementing EU legislation.
The European Parliament has 785 Members (MEPs) directly elected every 5 years by the voters of the European Union. MEPs sit in political groups made up of individual parties. The Parliament’s role is to scrutinise the work of the Council and Commission, in debates and through a system of committees.
The Council and the Parliament make decisions about what the EU does and what EU law should be. About two thirds of these decisions (those relating to ‘Community Policies’) are made jointly by the Council and Parliament. The remaining decisions (relating to ‘Common, Foreign and Security policies’ or ‘Justice and Home Affairs’) are taken by the Council, and the Parliament is only consulted and informed. So on these issues the national governments of the Member States make the decisions.
In the UK the European Parliament elections took place on 4 June 2009.
In June 2009 the United Kingdom elected 78 MEPs
The UK is divided up into 12 regions. In each region there are between 3-10 MEPs who represent the people living in that region.
Individuals vote for a party list or independent candidate standing in their region.
Each party puts forward a list of candidates for each region. This list is the party’s order of preference for their candidates. The first candidate on the list gets elected first followed by the second and third candidates depending on the number of votes and so on. Each adult in Britain (apart from prisoners) has one vote. You can vote for one of the party’s lists or for an independent individual in your region. The number of candidates that get elected from each party’s regional list directly depends on the number of votes that each list gets.
