Brave new world

Children of the Atom seeks “brave new world”

24 April 2017

Children of the Atom is a new political party which has now axed any plans to stand in the Western Isles in the general election.

Fundraising to help financially support a candidate has stopped and the party says it will not contest the election.

Named after the 1953 science fiction novel by Wilmar H Shiras, Children of the Atom says it believes in a simpler, better way of governing the UK.

Systems “built for a bygone age to enrich the few” should be ditched.

“We need to start again from scratch,” said the party in its mission to create a “brave new world.”

It believes “wholeheartedly in Brexit. The EU is a monster.

“We reject unilateral Scottish Independence, but we do support consensus Independence for all four home nations.

“Independence constructed around a British framework of mutually beneficial resource sharing, political equality, economic co-operation, shared international diplomacy and defence.

It supports Trident and a strong military.

Creating debt-free money to “re-set society” is its key policy to drive all other elements in its wider strategy to “push society to its full potential.”

Reducing the size of the population is another significant idea as is replacing income tax with a 10% tax on people’s bank deposits.

Every citizen, including children, would receive a sum equal to the average wage - around £27,600 - for life.

Families will be fined for having too many babies while “substantial grants” aim to encourage people to emigrate overseas in a bid to shrink the UK population to 50 million people in the first instance.

Government spending of £2.5 trillion would be ploughed into the UK economy and all private consumer debt paid off.

Preparations to build the party to contest all 650 UK seats in the 2020 election seem to have been caught out by Theresa May’s announcement of a snap election.

Shining a light on the party’s thinking, its manifesto for the last UK election giving “conceptual policy ideas” for this poll.

Any hopeful has to pass the Mensa IQ test “to ensure we only employ the best minds in the country to make the laws that govern us.”

The party “only want the best and most beautiful minds with beautiful ideas.”

Thus, just the “most extraordinary, gifted and highly intelligent” people need apply for the “radical and visionary ground-up reconstruction” of all social, economic and government systems.

Children of the Atom believes “our people are the visionary people to push society to its full potential; we are change-makers that craft compelling answers for the common good.”

The document continues: “We as atomists, we place value on the individual above all else.

“We see the world in a different way. We see potential everywhere. We question everything.

“We discover new things, investigate every corner, learn and strive for the best outcome, fearless of the new, respectful of the past, visionary in the here and now.

“By asking the right questions, by seeking purity and simplicity in everything we do, we find beautiful solutions that change everything.

“Making life simple is something we truly believe in, it requires extraordinary intelligence, deep insight, common sense and obsession with the smallest detail.”