The Big Issue

BIRD’S WORDS

Last week and this week I am conference hopping. I have with me a pocketful of the smallest manifesto in the world and have been going up to those in the political field and inviting them to think beyond the stale and damaging structure of current government response to social crisis.

I have carefully written a few hundred words and had them printed onto a folding sheet of paper in two separate editions. One blue for the incumbent government, one red for the aspirant government.

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