Provide Safe Water by Law: Now

Safe water is something that everyone should have access to. Could we not enshrine in law the effort to provide safe water.

There are various organisations sinking bore holes and wells; they are not necessarily the appropriate answer to people's water supply problems. In some areas the ground water becomes easily polluted by natural means and the bore holes and wells in those areas soon become worthless. This is not good enough: we must learn by these mistaken efforts to help and proceed with a more sustainable approach.

Law could provide the funds necessary to make the supply of safe water effective and widespread. We are spending millions on the exploration of space yet many people are dying because of the state of their water or because they do not have sufficient to survive.

Do you want the law to intervene in this way? I do.

Curb Nuclear Weapons

I've wondered, both recently and before, whether any nation's nuclear weapons remain to be targeting any cities of other nations. While it could be the case that such deliberate targeting was no longer indulged in, there remains the fact that many nuclear missiles are each capable of destroying a huge amount.

Also, there is the fact that nuclear strikes against cities would, almost certainly, be regarded as illegal according to United Nations law. Why, then, do we continue to have such powerful weaponry available for use?

Some could argue that high yield weapons might be required to attack large swathes of troops and their vehicles. However, with the use of a particular yield of weapon it is not possible to downsize your attack. A far more sensible approach is to use a less powerful weapon so you can deal with the situation in a much more targeted way while, therefore, not having to destroy that which it is not necessary to destroy.

Fair Trade for All

You may or may not have heard of the Fair Trade concept but, put simply, it's about moving away from the slave mentality that so many businesses are happy to live with where producers do not even get paid enough to provide basics such as proper food, clothing and education while the Western purchasers make a fine profit.

While many people appear to see Fair Trade as a gimmick or a cult and therefore as a strange optional sideline of society it must be said that the concept of Fair Trade should be globally and thoroughly applied to all working situations and not just to a lucky few: it should be the worldwide minimum standard and anyone who disagrees is obviously not interested in civilisation.

Please take the time to type the words "Fair Trade" into a search engine and find out more.

Give them what you would want.

Flexible Approach to Law

You may have noticed that the Archbishop of Canterbury has recently suggested that British law could be made to have a more flexible approach toward religious nuance. While many people have ranted and raved at the mention of Islamic Law few people managed to contemplate what the Old Bish actually suggested which was, in my view at least, a relatively mild alteration of the view of law in order to cater more for matters of religious conscience which differ from the broadly Christian ethic that most British law is based on. As a basic idea, I see nothing wrong with this except that if such flexibility was to allow for cultural nuance rather than merely religious nuance it would make more sense within the modern democratic framework of upholding the rights of minorities.

But, of course, this frightens many people into thinking that the law would become too fragmented with a world full of people with their own ideas of what laws should govern them. It doesn't have to be very complicated; you set criteria which governs what flexibility is allowed and as long as the claiment's preference does not fall outside the criteria then it is valid in law. You don't necessarily have to keep extensive records of all sorts of differing ideas.

Some law already works in this way despite claims that there can be no flexibility where "core values" are concerned; unfortunately for those that claim this, they are already in error.

And on the subject of Christian values, I am not a Christian(or a muslim) and would prefer my government to be based from secular concerns while catering for religious and cultural differences as far as is practicle, instead of things being the other way around.

Wildlife Corridors

Wildlife corridors are belts of land which join one reasonable patch of habitat to another. There should be far more effort in producing and suitably managing these corridors. Also, there should be viable patches of habitat dotted around all large areas of farmed land.

These areas of wildlife habitat do not have to be redundant; they could be farmed, sustainably, and therefore benefit both the human community and the local wildlife.

You may feel the need to steal land from other animals but you do not have to steal it all!!!!!

Marriage Contracts

There is a growing debate in Britain about the Law governing couples, married or otherwise. I may have a solution!?

Turn marriage ceremonies into a non-legally binding event and create Domestic Contracts and Emotional Contracts. Domestic Contracts would cover money, belongings and residence etc while Emotional Contracts would cover other issues. This is not properly thought through so may require revision!

Prison

There is far too much emphasis on punishment and there are nowhere near enough constructive opportunities for those in prison. For the majority of people sent to British prisons the system does not work.

Single cell accommodation was invented many years ago: where is it now?

Why should prisoners be discouraged from attending classes and groups which are available by being paid more for doing work activities?

Perhaps many people who are sent to conventional prisons would benefit from being somewhere more useful to both themselves and the public in general.

Prisons need to be successes, not failures.

More positivity, More proactivity!

Village Life

The village concept is better.

No more sprawling monotony!