1832 VALUES
Membership and policy ideas will rest on the scientific understanding that to evolve and live prosperous, fulfilling and purposeful lives we need to satisfy certain key psychophysiological needs. In summary these are the needs for:
1. Physical security
2. Autonomy and control over our lives
3. Real meaning
4. Privacy
5. Being part of a cohesive wider community
We translate these psychophysiological needs into shared values.
We want the primary role of government to protect the nation, the individual and the family from physical and economic threats both external (foreign invasion, and harmful extranational economic threats) and internal (crime, lawlessness, chaos, toxic products and food, and economic volatility). As examples: Uncontrolled immigration threatening our culture and prosperity, WEF, WHO and other non-elected supranational institutions controlling over national policy.
We need autonomy and control over our lives and businesses.
All policy should enable and empower the widest possible exercise of individual autonomy and control by individuals over their own lives, their family lives and their businesses. We need autonomy to feel safe and acquire the necessary competencies to succeed and acquire a sense of achievement.
A subset of having autonomy and control is having the ability to speak and meet freely and have free access to the truthful information required to act decisively, succeed and live a fulfilling life.
Examples: Overbearing regulations for businesses, counterproductive employment
rights, superfluous health and safety regulations.
We want a healthy environment that enables people to pursue a meaningful life.
Whereas the government is unable to provide meaning for our lives, it is however in a position to protect us from the imposition or infiltration of harmful ideologies or the undue interference that undermines the meaning that we create by building our own lives.
It is recognised that no nation has ever survived for long beyond the loss of its indigenous culture and spiritual foundations. Thus, in law-making and policy implementation our government has the duty to uphold and protect the Christian culture and beliefs that have enabled people for over a thousand years to obtain and pursue meaning in their lives.
Science recognises that we derive meaning by taking responsibility for ourselves, our health, our families and the wellbeing of our wider community. This factor further underlines the importance of the psychophysiological need for autonomy and control over our lives.
As sovereign beings we need privacy to maintain good mental health and to be ourselves.
Leading on from the above, we can only achieve a sense of meaning in life if we are free to go about our lives unhindered by intrusive surveillance and interference from other people, institutions or government. We need space and privacy so as to think, be ourselves, reflect, share intimacies and have fun in order to make sense of the world around us and evolve as well-rounded human beings.
We need Britain to be a strong, cohesive, harmonious society.
We have survived as a species by evolving to become a highly socialised, collaborative problem-solving mammal. As such being part of a cohesive group is a survival instinct and being loyal to that group is a trait innate to every healthy person.
This instinct is expressed as an emotional need to feel part of a wider community and, just as important to contribute to maintaining that community. A pivotal duty of government is therefore to adopt policies that enable a coherent collective consciousness as the best possible means to empower people to live happily together in a cohesive, harmonious society being Great Britain.
