Simpol-UK: The Simultaneous Policy, globalising peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity.

Simpol-UK: The Simultaneous Policy, globalising peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity.

DO YOU LIKE LIVING IN A WORLD where governments listen to big business and the financial markets more than their own citizens?

No


WHERE COUNTRIES COMPETE in cutting the rights of their people to be more attractive to investors?

No

Are you happy that global RULES ARE SET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS?

No

Do you WANT THE RIGHT to know what is going on and the right TO HAVE YOUR SAY?

You betcha

JOIN PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD in developing and approving the Simultaneous Policy.

PUT VOTERS BACK IN CONTROL.

ISPO is a growing association of citizens world-wide who are using their votes in a new, co-ordinated and effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our many global problems; problems like global warming, ecological destruction and global poverty.

ISPO's members recognise that these problems cannot be solved while governments are forced to compete with one another for capital and employment; a competition that forces them to operate within an effective policy straitjacket dictated by global markets.

Only by ushering in a fundamentally co-operative world order by which citizens bring their democratically elected governments to reassert proper authority over global markets can the nations of the world work together to find and implement solutions.

What is the Simultaneous Policy (SP)?
SP is two things: it is both a range of policy measures and it is a process for bringing about their implementation by all, or virtually all, nations simultaneously.

As a policy, SP can include any desirable measure that no nation nor group of nations can implement unilaterally for fear of putting itself at a competitive disadvantage. SP could therefore include measures such as the re-regulation of global capital markets, the taxation of transnational corporations, the cancellation of Third World debt, the establishment of higher world environmental standards and measures to promote local economies. SP would thus consist of very many of the changes the Global Justice Movement is presently calling for - but with the key condition that they are each to be implemented by all, or virtually all, nations simultaneously.

This means that SP is not a policy 'cast in stone' but, rather, a 'policy-in-the-making': a policy, the measures of which all ISPO's members will gradually co-create with help of independent policy experts in an open, flexible and democratic fashion as the SP campaign progresses.3

But the stipulation of "implementation by all nations simultaneously" should not be understood as a rigid, inflexible pre-condition. By removing governments' and business's key objection of uncompetitiveness and their fear of 'first-mover disadvantage', SP represents a new and vital consensus-building strategy.

SP is also a process by which ISPO's members use their right to vote to bring politicians and political parties around the world to make the "SP Pledge"; a pledge to implement SP simultaneously, when all or sufficient other nations have also made the pledge.

To make this happen, you and all other citizens around the world are invited to "adopt" SP. Adopting SP means that we each make a personal commitment to vote in future elections, not for a specific politician or party, but for ANY political party or politician – within reason – that makes the SP pledge. Or if you still have a strong party-political preference, adopting SP signifies your desire for your party to adopt it.4

With more and more parliamentary/congressional seats – and even entire elections - around the world being won or lost on very small margins, this novel method of citizens voting for any politician (within reason) that makes the SP pledge is capable of presenting politicians in all countries and constituencies with an attractive, yet compelling, "carrot and stick" proposition:

Since SP is only to be implemented simultaneously, there's absolutely no political risk to politicians who make the SP pledge. Indeed, they can make the pledge while still continuing to pursue their existing competition-based policy programmes until such time as sufficient nations have made the SP pledge and implementation can proceed.

But failing to make the SP pledge could cost them dearly, especially if they're fighting closely contested elections, for they'll likely lose to rivals who have made the SP pledge to attract the SP voting bloc. So SP's growing number of citizen adopters – even if relatively few - could make the vital difference between politicians winning or losing their seats, or even an entire election. With SP, citizens around the world thus have a powerful tool for making it politicians' self-interest to co-operate transnationally to solve global problems.

By adopting SP, you'll be Using Your Vote to Take Back the World!

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