From: Simpol <news@simpol.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 at 10:29
Subject: Global Politics of Love: Part 5
To: Peter <peterchallen@gmail.com>

The latest from the Simpol Campaign. View this email in your browser  Dear Peter Our health – physical and spiritual – is one of the most important things for all of us. So I was delighted to be contacted recently by Ushma Issar of Rypple an organisation promoting better public health systems by supporting governments and businesses to shift from reactive treatment to proactive prevention by using data and economics to make the business case for it. Ushma, already a Simpol supporter, contacted me because too often she finds competitiveness concerns prevent governments from taking the kind of robust preventative action that Rypple advocates. Rypple and Simpol will be exploring closer cooperation in the coming months. But for now, you might want to check out their podcast interview with me HERE A Global Politics of Love for People of All Faiths and None And now let’s continue with the next instalment in the Global Politics of Love series. As always, if you missed previous articles in the series, you can find them at https://simpol.org/who-we-are/global-politics-of-love/newsletters Part 5: Simpol’s Love Liberates You and Your Vote According to many religious perspectives, God gives us free will so we can choose whether or not to love and follow Him. God allows us to make our own decisions, experience the consequences of our actions, and develop a meaningful relationship to God through our own choices … because forced love wouldn’t be true love. God’s love, it seems, is invitational. Similarly, so is Simpol. It invites nations to adopt its win-win framework for solving global problems; a framework, crucially, that doesn’t compromise their national interests. It also invites we, citizens, to use our votes to incentivise governments towards that goal. Just when we thought our votes had become pretty meaningless, Simpol transforms them into the most powerful tool for global solutions. But how is this done? How does Simpol engage our votes without being a political party? And how can our national votes also be global? How can they make a difference? Here again, Simpol bears similarities not only to the principles of transformative evolutionary change, but to all the world’s religious faiths and spiritual traditions: the loving capacity to transform and transcend. As a citizen you liberate and transform your vote simply by signing on to the Simpol campaign. By doing so, you’re informing politicians that you will give strong preference at all future elections to politicians or parties that have signed the pledge to implement Simpol’s policies alongside other governments. In that way, politicians and parties who fail to sign the pledge risk losing votes to those who do. The larger Simpol’s bloc of supporters becomes – and it’s growing all the time – the more it becomes in the vital electoral interests of all politicians and parties to sign the pledge. Simpol itself, then, is neither aligned to any political party and nor does it force governments to act. It only allows we citizens to harness our collective voting power to make it in the interests of governments to do so. Simpol itself only invites, illuminates, liberates, and by providing a framework for win-win cooperation … loves. Too good to be true? Not once you realise that Simpol’s relatively small number of supporters have already caused over 100 UK Members of Parliament to sign the pledge.  Significant numbers of MPs in some other countries have signed it too. And they come from right across the party-political spectrum. These are the signs of Simpol’s globally liberating power and potential; its potential to reconcile, transform and transcend. No other campaign, to my knowledge, offers us such a uniquely promising opportunity to use our votes to solve global problems. Citizenship, after all, means nothing without a legally binding vote. Yet Simpol recognises that not everyone lives in a country with voting privileges. So, for those citizens from non-democratic nations, Simpol invites their governments to participate instead. Note, however, that unlike a political party Simpol doesn’t demand your electoral loyalty. Signing on to Simpol doesn’t mean you can only vote for politicians or parties who’ve signed the Pledge. It simply means you give them strong preference. That’s critical because it means we each retain the ultimate right to vote as we please while still signalling to politicians that they’re much more likely to receive our votes if they sign the Pledge. That’s how Simpol transforms our votes from sterile to fertile and extends their power from national to global. And it’s working! This capacity to reconcile national self-interests with the global common interest and the ability to transcend party-political divisions are signs of how Simpol embodies the brotherly love of Agape; that we are all in this together. In that vein, Simpol offers a benevolent playbook by which to reclaim said love and respect; for self, other and as the citizens we all are. It’s a grand responsibility made manifest by employing our right to vote within Simpol’s accommodating context. Moreover, Simpol not only confers upon us the new right of global citizenship, it reclaims what we’ve lost nationally, enabling us to see how both national and global are inextricably linked. Simpol’s invitation replaces force with choice and invites each of us – whether citizens, politicians, parties or governments – to a transformative politics that’s in all our interests. It invites us to a global politics of love. How do you feel about your vote? Does this help you reconsider your relationship to it? Let us know what you think! Until next time, John and the Simpol team John Bunzl – International Simultaneous Policy Organisation: https://simpol.org – October 2025 Get in touch Copyright © 2025 International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a supporter of Simpol Campaign, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), or as a signatory to the Simpol Pledge. Our mailing address is: International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)PO Box 26547London, SE3 7YT, UK. Add us to your address book