Equal Parenting Alliance - A New Way
Problems in Family Life lie at the heart of the malaise affecting the whole country, and we believe we can play a big part in turning this around.
We can make an impact!
In our first outing in the May 3rd elections last year, we received surprising levels of interest and support. Not only did we make a significant impact on voting patterns, but also on the issues debated in the election.
As you can see from the media coverage we had from this election, two national newspapers covered our campaign, BBC radio allowed us a 15-minute interview, local newspapers gave more coverage to us than to any other party, our campaign leaflet was delivered to over 41,000 homes and we even received public support from an Archbishop.
We achieved this with less than £1,500 for the two campaigns!
This has proved to us, that with significantly more sponsorship and candidates, we have the ability to make a real impact on UK national politics. We are not a single issue party, any more than UKIP or SNP are single issue parties.
Our policies impact not just on family life, but on the economy and law and order. Costs to the tax payer of family breakdown are astronomical; youngsters who lose touch with their fathers account for most youth crime and anti-social behaviour; and this partly explains why the prison population has doubled in the last 15 years. The price we shall all pay is incalculable for the complete break-down of society and its values to which the present mindless public policies are taking us.
How did we get here?
The children of separated parents have been one of the biggest casualties of successive disinterested governments.
Quite simply, our family law system allows one parent to eliminate the other without any good reason. We believe our children deserve better than this.
The failure to address the problems – widely acknowledged after the high profile campaign of Fathers-4-Justice – have left around a quarter of children without any contact with one of their parents (usually their father) since this last government came into power.
It’s clear this government have no plans to do anything. Shockingly, it seems the establishment would rather watch children suffer, than admit they may be wrong.
But what can we do about it?
Of course there are other groups tackling these issues in their own way, such as Families Need Fathers, and Fathers 4 Justice. What is missing is a group which can pursue change in the political arena. This is where we come in.
We are a new UK political party, formed in 2006. Even though we are new, we still stood candidates in both the recent Scottish parliament and English local government elections on the 3rd May. (See our election newsletter for details) and we are standing in this years 2008 local government elections and the forthcoming general election.
Unfortunately, running a successful campaign that will make a real difference will cost money – and we also need people prepared to stand for election declaring “Enough is Enough”.
“I am standing in my local ward in Wolverhampton this May to highlight that nothing has changed - and nothing will change unless enough people stand up and try and make a difference”.
Ray was recently invited to appear on the ITV daytime Trisha show to offer his help to parents arguing over their children.
