Our aim is to get the rich west to do what it takes to end extreme poverty.
And our plan is to do this by getting 5 Apples candidates elected to Parliament.
We are starting in Cardiff in January 2010 and our aim is to elect an independent candidate, Alun Mathias, to the Cardiff Central seat.
Then, in the following election, our aim would be for 5 apples candidates to stand in every University town or city in the UK.
The 5 apples movement is based on the idea that extreme poverty could be ended in this generation.
We, in the UK, could afford to do it – a 5% increase in the rate of Income Tax would be enough.
But our political leaders would never dare take this kind of step because they would be afraid that it would make them unpopular.
So, therefore, we need to found a new political movement in order to prove that this generation wants to do what it takes to make it happen.
The mainstream political parties are disappointed because young people do not seem to want to vote any more.
At the same time they are terrified that this new voting generation will choose something new to vote for, something which spawns outside of the status quo.
This new voting generation has already begun to show that it can act together in ways which have not been possible for their parents and grandparents.
This ability to act together, combined with the desperate but finite need of the world’s poor, makes it possible to do something truly remarkable in the 2010 General Election in the UK.
We can choose to use our vote for something beyond national self-interest and petty party politics.
What is 5 Apples?
5 Apples is a new political movement.
Our aim is to get the rich west to do what it takes to end extreme poverty.
And our plan is to do this by getting 5 Apples candidates elected to Parliament.
We are starting in Cardiff in January 2010 and our aim is to elect an independent candidate, Alun Mathias, to the Cardiff Central seat.
Then, in the following election, our aim would be for 5 apples candidates to stand in every University town or city in the UK.
The 5 apples movement is based on the idea that extreme poverty could be ended in this generation.
We, in the UK, could afford to do it – a 5% increase in the rate of Income Tax would be enough.
But our political leaders would never dare take this kind of step because they would be afraid that it would make them unpopular.
So, therefore, we need to found a new political movement in order to prove that this generation wants to do what it takes to make it happen.
The mainstream political parties are disappointed because young people do not seem to want to vote any more.
At the same time they are terrified that this new voting generation will choose something new to vote for, something which spawns outside of the status quo.
This new voting generation has already begun to show that it can act together in ways which have not been possible for their parents and grandparents.
This ability to act together, combined with the desperate but finite need of the world’s poor, makes it possible to do something truly remarkable in the 2010 General Election in the UK.
We can choose to use our vote for something beyond national self-interest and petty party politics.
We can vote for the 5 Apples.