Common Decency

We need truly Open government. I don't believe in conspiracy theories but we are too often left in ignorance. I don't want to vote for someone who, once elected, ignores my interests and behaves as if I were a child. I am educated and intelligent. I can understand important issues. I am sick and tired of paternalism. I believe my MP should consult me and his other constituents whenever he has an important vote to make. We live in a world of fast communication, it doesn't take rocket science for an MP to discuss issues in constituency.

Why are key societal necessities, like water & energy, be controlled by commercial interests, whose governing principle is profit. Our version of Capitalism makes no sense, when companies say their job is 'making money'. The only people, whose job is making money, are the Royal Mint.

Energy Security: How about having a UK or several devolved State owned Energy provider(s)? At the risk of being controversial, let's scrap Trident & HS2 and use the money to deploy specifically into building energy generation facilities, with the focus on all forms of renewables (which UK is almost uniquely positioned to exploit). Fracking, NO. But Nuclear might conceivably need to be one string in the bow.... we could build several nuclear power stations with the dosh due to be expended on HS2. And there are such promising renewable techs out there now - much more than just wind or solar (valuable as they are). And no reason why State run businesses couldn't be run like plcs, albeit with a bit less of the profit motivation and shareholder pressures. Differences is that, instead of profit from UK generated revenues going to French or Chinese or mutlinationals, who have no vested interest in UK sociial cohesion, the profit from State run biz would go back to .... well..... us, in effect.

I'd like to see an end to MPs having second jobs or outside business intrests whilst sitting in parliment. So anyone who wishes to become an MP knows that that is the only job they can have.Then maybe it will attract the kinds of people who genuinely want to help their constituents, and make this country a better place to live for all of us. However, as MPs recently voted against a bill to ban second jobs, clearly it won't be easy. It's not really surprising they voted that way,afterall, it would be like Turkeys voting for Christmas!

Thanks again for all your valuable comments, please refer to your local candidates so we can build up a picture that may help others decide which is the ‘Common Decency' way to vote. https://www.commondecency.org.uk/may-7th-2015/2015-candidates-2

I have always been drawn to champion the vulnerable in our ruthless society - children, the old, animals and wildlife etc. I have worked as a carer, for a wildlife centre and now run a pound dog rescue. I totally disagree with the care of the vulnerable being put out to private tender as this leads to abuse of the vulnerable to cut costs and increase profit and too much influence exerted by the owner of the private establishment, kennels etc on how their charges are treated. If an establishment caring for the vulnerable is viewed by the owner as a money making business, the vulnerable themselves can be treated as dispensable chattel whose needs come far lower than the profits they can produce. I have seen many instances of suffering caused by greed where caring establishments are being run for the wrong reasons. I would like to see the care of the vulnerable - old peoples homes, children's homes, pound kennels etc. administered by established organisations who have been set up to support the vulnerable and whose heart felt aims are to meet the needs of the vulnerable not how much profit they can make out of their vulnerability.