The last time Conscience launched a Bill in parliament, trying to change the law so that citizens have the right to conscientiously object to paying the military proportion of their taxes, was in 2016. The Bill called for a Peace Tax. You can read about the Taxes for Peace Bill 2016 here: https://www.conscienceonline.org.uk/our-previous-work/new-taxes-for-peace-draft-bill/ I have […]
Category: Diverting military part of our taxes
International webinar marks Global Days of Action on Military Spending
I was very excited to be invited to speak at an international webinar ‘Move the Nuclear Weapons (and Fossil Fuel) Money‘ on 21 April. The webinar was organised by Abolition 2000, Basel Peace Office, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, and the World Future Council. Conscience worked with many of […]
Turning our priorities upside down
At the time of writing 14,576 people have died in hospital in the UK due to Covid-19. In addition many many have died from Covid-19 in the community. A growing number of health, and social care, and other public sector professionals are losing their lives after contracting the virus in the course of their work. […]
Voices of Conscientious Objection
We are excited to let you know about a new project Conscience is developing. It is called Voices of Conscientious Objection. We are very grateful for the grant we have received from Funding for Social Change Ltd for this work. We applied for funds to organise five public meetings across the country to share the […]
Fear in the sunshine
This afternoon I did something apparently normal. I went out of the house into the beautiful March sunshine. The roads were peaceful. Not many people about. I walked round the edge of a nearby park. The grass was fresh and green. A few children on bikes and scooters with their parents. And yet this was […]
Part of me still frightened and frozen inside – after standing outside Faslane nuclear weapons base
A few weeks ago I went to Faslane in Scotland; to HM Naval Base Clyde where the submarines carrying UK nuclear weapons are based. I went as part of a group from the 15th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns. The people in the group were from five countries. It was […]
Anne’s story
Anne McCullagh-DLyske is a war tax resister and an Executive Committee member of Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War. She is also the Coordinator of Conscience in Scotland. She has been tireless in organising the 15th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns which is taking place in Edinburgh later this month. […]
Counting the UK nuclear weapons money
Tomorrow (Saturday 26 October) Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War is holding an event outside the Ministry of Defence in London; ‘Count the money we spend on nuclear weapons – and divert it to saving our climate’. From 10.00 – 16.00 we will be physically counting the £5.2 billion the UK spends on nuclear weapons […]
Count the money we spend on nuclear weapons – and divert it to saving our climate
The National Audit Office forecast that the UK would spend £5.2 billion on its nuclear weapons programme in 2018-2019. It is almost impossible to imagine the horror that would be unleashed if just one of those nuclear weapons were ever used. £5.2 billion is such a huge amount of money it is difficult to visualise […]