What does a Christian Party local councillor look like?
See for yourself, we have seven of them already in Wales
Some people think that political parties should stay out of local councils and local politics. The Christian Party believes that a Christian Voice needs to be heard at all levels of society.
How does a Christian Party local councillor differ from other councillors?
Christianity impacts on the whole of life, at local and national level, and at every level between - from the individual, to the family, to the Queen on the throne.
A national party needs to be represented at each level of government in order to be informed and effective. Thus we have Manifestos for Holyrood, Westminster, the Welsh Assembly and the European Parliament. Even if our policies were exactly the same as other parties, we would still need to be represented at local council level in order to contribute a Christian voice at this level, and to make a difference at the national level. However, we like to think that we have the best mix of what is in the other Parties, while avoiding their unchristian policies.
Whereas there are Christians in other political parties, the difference with a Christian Party candidate and politician is that he or she will speak from an overtly Christian stand-point. They will have an electoral mandate to do so, as they have been elected to do so. They will not be ashamed to quote Jesus Christ or the apostle Paul as readily as others quote Charles Darwin, Karl Marx or Freud. For them, the Bible’s two thousand year history of practical wisdom will not be an embarrassment but will be brought to bear on public life by contributing the grace and compassion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ into the corrupt and incompetent standards which prevail at present. Even the Prime Minister David Cameron has labelled us as a broken society.
At the local council level the CP will be a fresh face and a new voice to counter the current croneyism in local councils. A Christian voice needs to be heard at local level as well as national level; for example, when some councillors wanted to relax the regulations on school children working in supermarkets on the Lord’s Day, a Christian voice contributed to exposing this exploitation of school children as cheap labour. It is a Christian voice, not simply Christians, which we need in public life. An CP councillor ‘looks like’ a Christian who is not ashamed to mention specifically Christian issues in a debate and our candidate in Hamilton has done so on his publicity material, quoting from our Manifesto.
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See for yourself, we have seven of them already in Wales
Some people think that political parties should stay out of local councils and local politics. The Christian Party believes that a Christian Voice needs to be heard at all levels of society.
How does a Christian Party local councillor differ from other councillors?
Christianity impacts on the whole of life, at local and national level, and at every level between - from the individual, to the family, to the Queen on the throne.
A national party needs to be represented at each level of government in order to be informed and effective. Thus we have Manifestos for Holyrood, Westminster, the Welsh Assembly and the European Parliament. Even if our policies were exactly the same as other parties, we would still need to be represented at local council level in order to contribute a Christian voice at this level, and to make a difference at the national level. However, we like to think that we have the best mix of what is in the other Parties, while avoiding their unchristian policies.
Whereas there are Christians in other political parties, the difference with a Christian Party candidate and politician is that he or she will speak from an overtly Christian stand-point. They will have an electoral mandate to do so, as they have been elected to do so. They will not be ashamed to quote Jesus Christ or the apostle Paul as readily as others quote Charles Darwin, Karl Marx or Freud. For them, the Bible’s two thousand year history of practical wisdom will not be an embarrassment but will be brought to bear on public life by contributing the grace and compassion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ into the corrupt and incompetent standards which prevail at present. Even the Prime Minister David Cameron has labelled us as a broken society.
At the local council level the CP will be a fresh face and a new voice to counter the current croneyism in local councils. A Christian voice needs to be heard at local level as well as national level; for example, when some councillors wanted to relax the regulations on school children working in supermarkets on the Lord’s Day, a Christian voice contributed to exposing this exploitation of school children as cheap labour. It is a Christian voice, not simply Christians, which we need in public life. An CP councillor ‘looks like’ a Christian who is not ashamed to mention specifically Christian issues in a debate and our candidate in Hamilton has done so on his publicity material, quoting from our Manifesto.
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