UK Branch
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When the UK Branch refers to 'Tarka Accord' in a generic sense, it is likely in reference to the UK Branch
Bankruptcy
Britain is bankrupt; the insidious failure of austerity politics and the successive mediocrity of Governments has proven to have had a devastating effect on both public services and our national finances. The entrenched forces of capital now pray off of our predicament - either using it as a beneficial coincidence or as a reward for their payment to political causes through lobbying and party donations.
Populists have taken to the reigns of our narratives - often while paid by the same thieving financial elites that have taken to much from us already. Social media algorithms push us so deep into our own wells that the light of a shared humanity and the beauty of the world does not shine, unless so perfectly curated that it shatters our senses of self-worth. And - our poverty keeps us quiet, as people who have to scrape around for every last penny or go into debt to pay for the essentials simply don't have to the time to think about the hand that keep them down and the hammer that waits patiently, poised for when the questions begin.
Surely... we can do better than this.
Our Vision
Britain is bankrupt, and a decision on what to do must be taken. Perhaps, a decision to streamline the apparatus of government to cut down on the endless web of bureaucracy that wastes so much money and potential; a decision to bring predatory utility and transport companies into public hands after decades of greed, mismanagement and crime; or a decision to have a concerted effort to fix our broken, deeply inefficient and often unpleasant towns and cities.
These decisions - these principles - are the policy foundations of Tarka Accord: efficiency, nationalisation, and good urban design. We believe that these, alongside a crackdown on high profile tax fraud and making billionaires pay their fair share, can be the answer the dire situation that we find ourselves in. For more on the particular details on our vision, click: here.
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Community Unions
As a way of bringing our policies into the halls of Government, we rely on the idea of community unions. A community union - as we would describe one - is a similar entity to a labour union where the individuals being unionised are members of a geographical community rather than of a shared employment. For the UK, Tarka Accord's organisational objective is to be a collective of community unions bound to parliamentary constituencies. The reason for this structure is to allow for the pressuring of MPs to adopt certain positions as held by Tarka Accord - or, more specifically, the community union within a constituency - by threatening them with electoral defeat if that community union was to either put forward a Tarka Accord candidate or simply endorse another non-TA candidate.