Greens want a sustainable society. A crucial aspect of sustainability is fairness: within our society; from generation to generation; locally and globally. Greens are opposed to discrimination on grounds of: age; ethnic group; gender; sexuality; class; nationality...Progess in our society is measured not only by wealth but by our capacity to act in a humanitarian way.
My committment: There is no place for racism and xenophobia in modern British politics. Nor is democratic debate advanced by the denigration of the most vulnerable in our country, including children and asylum seekers who do not enjoy the right to participate in elections. I promise to remember the importance of refugee protection, even in free and wide-ranging debates about immigration policy. I will never play fast and loose with the proud tradition of a nation that must always offer succour to those in genuine fear of persecution.
See: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Refugee protection
Labels:
asylum,
democracy,
elections,
general election,
immigration,
justice,
people,
population,
racism,
refugees,
sustainable,
young people
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