[{"id": 140965, "created": "2020-06-10T01:32:01.032110", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90840, "user_id": 677, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-10T01:34:25.435025", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "clouds, sky", "leafletBody": "Common Weal is about creating politics that answers these questions with \"we can\". "}}, {"id": 141697, "created": "2020-06-27T19:52:19.071610", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90840, "user_id": 2139, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-27T20:38:58.479243", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Photo of clouds in the sky, ", "leafletBody": "Common Weal is about creating politics that answers these questions with \"we can\"\r\nFor a generation, the politics of Britain has been dominated by \"me first\" - but we all came second. Scotland deserves better. \r\nThe Common Weal Project is about developing a politics that puts all of us first. It looks around the world to find where other countries have answered these questions positively - many of them small, independent nations not far from Scotland. It seeks to identify what worked there and then to imagine what a specifically Scottish version of these approaches would look like. \r\nThe project is being run by the Jimmy Reid Foundation which is working with dozens of leading academics and thinkers to design serious, carefully planned and properly costed policies that can transform Scotland into the nation its people deserve. \r\nThe basic approach is straightforward. We need to create a strong, productive industry base and to do that we need to back Scottish businesses that build and create things. Along with having strong public services and strong trade unions, this will create the good-quality jobs that build a high-wage economy. When people become wealthier they naturally pay more tax - and rely less on benefits. Which means public finances become strong and it is easy to afford the best possible universal public services and national infrastructure. And if we own and manage that infrastructure on behalf of all, we get cheaper and better utilities, the profits of which come back to the Scottish people. It is a route to a Scotland where social cohesion is high and poverty is ended. \r\nIt will take hard work. Good. Things worth having always do. \r\nThe people of Scotland are sick of the politics of division, where the powerful seek to pit citizen against citizen the better to look after their own privilege. We need a politics that brings us back together; the local businessman, the trade unionists, the public sector workers, the low pay worker, the struggling young professional, the carer, the unemployed, the disabled, the elderly. \r\nTo do this we need to stand together to challenge the abuse of power of the low-wage corporations. It is wrong to claim that Scotland couldn't do this - we have alrady shown that if Scotland had complete control over tax we could end corporate tax evasion altogether. \r\nThe best way to challenge the abuse of power is to put democracy first. We need to create a decentralised Scotland where universal public services are guaranteed for all but where real democratic power is spread to our communities. The further government is from the people, the easier it is for the powerful to capture it for their own ends. \r\nScotland needs its confidence back, the confidence to believe it can be a better nation. It needs to feel alive and vibrant where our arts and culture and our society inspire. We need to look after our environment properly. We need to believe that politics really can put all of us first.\r\nJoin us in that work - you can find out more from the websites below and support us (overleaf).\r\nwww.reidfoundation.org\r\nwww.scottishcommonweal.org"}}]