Press release 21 February 2006

Simultaneous Policy (SP) comes to New Zealand

Simpol-NZ, the New Zealand affiliate of the successful Simpol International organisation, has now been launched. Simpol was founded five years ago in the UK by John Bunzl, a London businessman.

Simpol is a lobby group working for the simultaneous international implementation of policy measures in areas of global concern such as carbon emissions, resource depletion, monetary reform, and corporate taxation.

In the globalised world, no single nation can unilaterally enact significant legislation in these areas, without risking competitive disadvantage. If MPs around the world pledge to enact such measures simultaneously, no single nation risks being placed at such a disadvantage.

In the UK's 2005 General Election, the first in which Simpol-UK was active, thirty-six parliamentary candidates pledged that, if elected, they would implement SP. Currently there are 20 SP pledged UK MPs, drawn from all major political parties. After the UK, New Zealand is the second Simpol national organisation to incorporate. Others are moving towards incorporation in Australia, India, Brazil, the USA, Canada, Germany, France and Italy. Simpol International already counts individual members from over sixty different countries.

Members of the electorate are asked to "Adopt" SP. Adopters undertake to always give their vote in preference to any reasonable candidate or party which has pledged to support simultaneous policy measures once a sufficiency of other nations' legislatures are similarly positioned to enact them. In this way, Simpol-UK has rapidly built up an ability to add a bias to the swing vote in the UK that favours candidates who recognise that many of the most urgent problems facing their nation can only be solved on a global basis.

Simpol-NZ is being launched by Orewa resident, Lady Rhyl Jensen, Honorary President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, and Hugh Steadman, a Blenheim businessman.

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