Policy: Stop any further privatization of the NHS and reverse the privatisation that has already been implemented.

Explanation: The benefits of the NHS’s economies of scale and purchasing power are enormous. What drives the NHS must be improving the care and health of patients and not profit.

Policy: Support good nutrition.

Explanation: The more unhealthy and ill people are, the more profits there are to be made from ill-health by private healthcare companies and Big Pharma. We believe medical students and nursing students should receive more in-depth education on nutrition, which could prevent much illness but not profitably for Big Pharma.

Policy: Invest in hiring more doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Explanation: We urgently need to reduce the length of NHS waiting lists – the only way to do this is to hire more medical professionals, and to provide them with the support they need to do their jobs.

Policy: Safeguard medical autonomy.

Explanation: Medical interventions should not be mandated and forced onto people, as happened to some groups of people during the roll-out of the mRNA Covid vaccines. This had practical effects in that many NHS staff chose to resign and lose their job rather than take the vaccine.

It also is immoral to violate medical autonomy.

People affected by a proposal should be informed about the risks and benefits in advance, and it should be they – through their elected representatives – who decide whether or not the step should then be taken.

Before taking the Covid mRNA vaccines, people were not properly informed of the degree of risk associated with them, in part due to the fact that vaccine manufacturers concealed these serious adverse advents (including deaths) in their trial data. The UK’s health product regulatory agency, the MHRA, does not require product manufacturers to disclose the anonymised patient-level data from their trials. Instead, it relies on a summary of the trial provided by the product manufacturer.

The vaccines were approved for use, and were rolled-out to the general population. People were informed that the mRNA vaccines were ‘safe and effective’. They were not informed of the risks, or encouraged to weigh these against any possible benefits.

Following roll-out, the US military contacted Pfizer in early 2021 to express concern that: “[t]hose who were recently vaccinated had a rate ratio that showed their incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis were 2.6 and 2.0 times higher compared to those who were never vaccinated.”

Israel’s Ministry of Health contacted Pfizer in March 2021 to express concern after detecting: “a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals soon after Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.”

The trial report states: “Upon information and belief, at the time of Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Bourla’s January 2023 representation that Pfizer had not observed a single safety signal related to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer was aware of a safety signal relating to myocarditis and pericarditis.” It goes on to state: “Upon information and belief, Pfizer also detected a safety signal relating to deaths. As of February 28, 2021, Pfizer’s adverse events database contained 1,223 fatalities after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.” [source]

“Pfizer should not have represented that the booster was “safe” for individuals 85 years old and older when it had not tested any trial participants in that age range.”

(source: State of Kansas.v.Pfizer trial report, excerpted here)

There are a number of other safety concerns associated with the roll-out of the MRNA vaccines, including an increase in rates of stroke, cancers and neurodegenerative disease. The long-term health effects on humans are not known: thus, there may be further risks associated with the products that we are not yet aware of. We will seek to allocate adequate resources to research and treatment of those adverse events and conditions whose incidence has been statistically elevated since the Covid vaccine rollout.

Although the UK government offers vaccine manufacturers indemnity from being sued for damages, we will argue that where a manufacturer or associated company has withheld pertinent information from the MHRA and/or from any other person involved in the chain of decision-making (including elected politicians), then that company forfeits the right to legal indemnity with regard to that product.

We support good health through preventative and positive measures such as nutrition, support for amateur sports, mental wellbeing, and community support. We do not support the use of fear in government-funded publicity campaigns.