Together Declaration, a prominent anti-lockdown and pro-free-speech pressure group, has announced its intention to support candidates who align with its principles in elections this year. The Epoch Times has the story.
The group has embarked on a campaign to encourage public participation in the electoral process, supporting candidates who align with its principles of transparency, free speech and a critical examination of Net Zero and lockdown policies.
Speaking ahead of by-elections last week, co-founder of the group, Alan Miller, told the Epoch Times, “We’re here in Wellingborough, like we are in Kingswood, together encouraging the public to come out and vote and have their voices heard.”
Launched in the summer of 2021, Together Declaration started out with a signable mission statement, originally to challenge lockdown policies that it perceived as draconian. It now has over 300,000 U.K. signatories, with various proposals claiming to unite people, “to push back against growing infringements on our rights and freedoms.”
Since its inception, the group has expanded to include various working groups that run social campaigns and democratic initiatives on a plethora of related issues. It has also become particularly vocal in drawing a link between freedom and the importance of a more inclusive and open debate on environmental policy.
Mr. Miller told the Epoch Times [his campaigns] highlighted concerns over the dominance of “a few green billionaires” in shaping the Net Zero agenda and the adverse impacts of city and road closures by activists: “We’re saying ‘can we have an honest, authentic, transparent discussion about it?’ It should be simple for everyone.”
The group’s political focus now extends beyond their original remit, having formulated three pivotal questions to challenge electoral candidates on their stance toward net-zero transparency, free speech, and the implications of lockdowns, aiming to identify “the most freedom-loving candidate.”
Mr. Miller cited these issues as salient in light of the ongoing public health challenges and cost-of-living crisis, which Mr. Miller suggests were “partly a cost of lockdown.”
William Clouston, leader of the SDP, told the Epoch Times:
I admire much of the work Together Declaration and broader movement have done in fighting for freedom. They stood up against draconian self-defeating lockdowns and have voiced justified criticism against undemocratic LTNs and flawed thinking on Ulez policy.
Ben Walker, Chairman of UKIP, told the Epoch Times that his party “wholeheartedly” supports Together Declaration, adding it was “an easy statement for us to make, as we’ve been making the same arguments since 1993″. He said:
There has to be a unification on the right side of politics to save our once great nations. Together Declaration is doing brilliant work in helping to enable that move, shining a spotlight on candidates who are willing to act in the interests of the electorate and those that aren’t.
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