In 2012 to 2013 I developed the idea of preventing wars by forming a one policy campaign organisation whose membership would commit themselves to the idea that if the government started a war, every member would be pledged to turn up and vote for any other party at the next local, national and European election.\u00a0 That is, if they start a war (as opposed to a defensive action), they lose their jobs.<\/p>\n
The goal was to have this in place within five years, by the hundredth anniversary of the Great War on 11th November 2018.<\/p>\n
I set up a web site<\/a> and started recording ideas and statistics.\u00a0 In my haste and keenness, I did not set up a backup regime for the site.\u00a0 So when a Drupal exploitation occurred, some stupid child hacker trashed the site and replaced it with some pro-Islamist pro-war bollocks.\u00a0 I lost all the content<\/a> – all the thinking and planning I had done.<\/p>\n The 11112018.org.uk domain has finally expired and the web site disappeared.<\/p>\n It takes a lot of time, energy and planning to set up a campaign.\u00a0 I could not find sufficient to make mine happen.\u00a0 Life gets in the way.\u00a0 Meanwhile aid is being cut and military spending significantly increased.\u00a0 It all feels so futile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2012 to 2013 I developed the idea of preventing wars by forming a one policy campaign organisation whose membership would commit themselves to the idea that if the government started a war, every member would be pledged to turn … Continue reading