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Equal Parenting Alliance News – July 2006
© 2006 The Equal Parenting Alliance
(All political parties adopt policies which show an understanding of family law problems and solutions).
LONG-TERM PLAN
Page 2
Of course, we are in no better position than anyone else to predict the date of the next general election, but we’re currently working on the assumption that Labour will go to the polls after four years in office.
We plan to be fielding as many candidates in our target seats as we can afford.
General Election
Education - we think the issues in family law that need changing have never been properly explained to the public. We believe this has to be done before the campaign can progress further.
Fight our first
By-Election
(see page 3)
By-
(see page 3)
Awareness - making the public and media (and other political parties) aware of our existence and what we stand for.
Fight our second
By-Election
By-
Release election candidate
training pack
training pack
About a year before the general election, we hope to have gained enough experience in supporting candidates to be able to offer help and advice to anyone who would like to stand as a candidate – provided they are standing on a compatible pro-children ticket.
When we are ready we intend to fight the first suitable by-election for an MP. This will give us valuable experience, increase our public profile considerably and provides us with the opportunity to get our message to an entire constituency. (See article on page 3).
Building on the experience gained from our first election, we hope to improve on everything about our first campaign.
Lobbying - Once the issues are better understood by the electorate and politicians, we will challenge the parties to answer the difficult questions in family law that (up till now) they have always managed to side-step.
Publish Family
Law Survey
Law Survey
Our family law survey will mark the start of our education and awareness campaign by giving us difficult questions to ask the government and judiciary.
Get a celebrity
involved!
involved!
Celebrity Involvement - Like it or not, our popular culture only listens when someone with celebrity status shows interest. We’d like to get someone involved with us..