Election 2010: Vote Global
We've produced the following resources for campaigners:
- What we want. Jubilee Debt Campaign's election manifesto.
- Where the parties stand on debt. Use this to put pressure on candidates.
Debt Questions
Here are three ideas for questions you could ask your candidates. For more information on these demands see the links above:
- Did you support the Vulture Funds Bill, which was passed with a sunset clause on the last day of Parliament, and will you support the law being made permanent in a year’s time?
- Over 90% of remaining third world debt owed to the UK is Export Credit Guarantee Department debt. This includes the sale of Hawk jets to Indonesia, which were used against Indonesia’s own people. Do you support an audit of UK debts, and cancellation of those found to have been lent irresponsibly?
- Since the financial crisis countries including Iceland and Greece have faced the kind of debt crisis more usually faced by Third World countries. With the Third World debt crisis unresolved, is it time for the UK to join Norway and Germany in supporting a new way of dealing with international debt, such as an independent debt tribunal?
Vote Global
Jubilee Debt Campaign is also part of Vote Global – a manifesto on global poverty and social justice which has been endorsed by over 150 NGOs and which aims to put the spotlight on policies which effect the global South.
The manifesto sets out ideas for the next government to sort out the crisis we are in, looking at aid and debt, climate change, the global economy and how it can help the poor, good governance and corruption, and responding to conflict situations.
You can visit the website to read the manifesto, take e-actions, read the Vote Global blog, find questions to ask your candidates and to see a map of local hustings events. You can also read cross-party comparisons to find out where political parties stand on international development issues as well as their responses to the manifesto.
You can also follow the campaign on Twitter.
