A new hearth for progressives
Regenerate UK is a new hearth for progressives in the UK, with the potential to become a new political party and grassroots community movement.
Regenerate UK aims to cultivate:
- A politics in service to all of life
- Bringing our way of life into balance with all of life
- Joy and pleasure, compassion and power together
- Everything else unfolds from there
It’s a member organisation, where some members voluntarily pay a monthly membership fee. Together we aim to support Regenerate UK candidates running in elections of any level wherever they are, bringing a Regenerative Voice to UK political space. We aim to provide practical, intellectual, emotional, financial and logistical support to Regenerate UK candidates.
And we connect in local clusters and strengthen as a movement. If I alone am one stitch of wool, can I find a square? Probably a local square. Can we gather and meet and navigate these times together? If others do the same, perhaps we can knit our squares together, and make a blanket, a movement, for better politics and a better UK, a Thriving Life Paradigm.
Knitting healthy mycelium webs of civil society root systems; connecting with allied movements and initiatives, and being powerful together.
Let’s do this.
On the agenda is:
Political Regeneration
- Replacing the House of Lords with something representative
- Proportional Representation to enable political innovation, upgrading and integrity
- A wholesome political culture; improving relational skills and norms in politics and institutions.
Economic Regeneration
- Composting capitalism / neoliberalism
- Tax Wealth Not work (yes to Gary’s Economics)
- Moving towards equality in resources and power, nationally and internationally: a wealth redistribution commission
- Transitioning business models and shifting resources away from economic globalisation
- Cultivating regenerative economy, inclusive prosperity
- Beyond Fossil Fuels, obvs…..
- Beyond growth.
Regenerating Land and Community
- Land Reform – reform to Land Access and Land Ownership
- An Ecovillage Commission
- Cultivating village and intergenerational community everywhere
- Weaving village around birthing and dying; early and latest years, and care
- A sustainable transport / transport reconsideration Commission
- Regenerative Agriculture, better food for everyone, biodiversity and reintroduction of lost species
Making Wrongs Right
- A decolonisation commission
- Peace work
- Providing leadership in the face of climate-induced mass-migration; 21st Century human transmorphography
We Might Call It…..
- Hospicing Modernity and midwifing Regenerative Culture
- A life-honouring, earth-honouring worldview
- Nurturing a Thriving-Life Paradigm. Composting an extractive, violent, dominant life-harming paradigm.
Taking the approach of….
- Cooperation and interdependence with allied organisations and movements, nationally and internationally
- Inter-“class” solidarity
- And many other things.
Back into the source of love for all living kind
Can this time, this thicket of wicked problems all knotted…. Provoke the emergence of a Symbiocene, where life lives in symbiosis with life?
Let’s try.
About me, the inviter
I am a progressive lover of life: a mother of a 2 year old, a musician and teacher with one hour a week available for political action: 4pm on a Thursday. (I also have a 1st in Political Science and through my 20s worked in think tanks, change work, research and innovation.) My name is Briony Greenhill.
I am tired of being politically homeless and unrepresented in my vision for and belief in the possibility of a far better life for us in the UK, our relationships with the rest of the world, and how we do our politics. I seek to organise.
If Carl Jung is right and the scale of political shitness is equal to the scale of collective shadow
Then this is a place for folks who have done a lot of healing work and are ready to make a better politics for Britain.