OBR Baseline
91.5%
Debt / GDP · Y10
If one person on a sofa can produce this in a weekend — what exactly have the actual parties been doing for the past five years?
The Common Platform is a comprehensive British reform programme, developed over a weekend as the culmination of my Housing Theory of Everything work. It contains twenty-one policy briefings, three flagship documents, and full OBR-compatible fiscal modelling.
It is not a real political party. There are no members, no donations, no elections. The Common Party does not exist as a registered organisation.
It is, very deliberately, an attempt to write down what a coherent British reform platform would look like, and to ask, publicly, why no actual political party has managed to produce anything comparable.
Every document is freely readable. Substantive criticism is welcome and will be incorporated. Attempts to dismiss the work without engaging with it will be ignored. If you find ideas here useful, feel free to borrow them. The work is offered to the country, not claimed for myself.
Every policy in this platform is defensible on its own merits. Individually, most of it is common sense. Nationalise water given the £78 billion in dividends extracted while the rivers filled with sewage. Build houses when the country cannot build enough. Fund the NHS properly. Partner with Europe on terms that work for Britain. Invest in British industry. Most voters across political lines would support most of this.
So why can no existing party propose it?
Because each of them is structurally captured by the coalition that sustains them. Labour cannot propose water nationalisation because their donors and advisers hold the wrong positions. The Conservatives built the rentier housing economy and cannot dismantle what they built. Reform's entire brand is refusing to engage constructively with anything. The Liberal Democrats have optimised for coalition viability for fifteen years and have forgotten what they are actually for.
None of these parties lacks talent. They all employ clever people. What they lack is the freedom to write what would actually work, because writing what would actually work would alienate the coalition keeping them alive.
The Common platform was written without any of those constraints. It therefore contains what a coherent British reform programme actually looks like. That nobody currently in Parliament is proposing this is a failure of the political class, not evidence that the ideas are unworkable.
We borrow more. We invest more. We grow the economy faster. And the debt-to-GDP ratio falls further than the baseline it replaces. This is how successful industrial economies have always operated. It is absent from UK policy not because it doesn't work, but because nobody has been willing to propose it.
The single most important fiscal mechanism in the platform, explained in full. Mechanism, valuation, administration, transition. The fiscal backbone — read this if you want to understand how the platform actually works.
If you have ten minutes and want to understand the platform's identity and core values — start here. This sits above every other document.
The positive case. Housing theory of everything, four pillars of reform, dynamic growth modelling, debt trajectory. The full argumentative case for the platform.
How we will conduct politics. The doctrine of restraint. Why decency is the precondition for governing, not decoration.
Every major policy commitment organised by pillar. Fiscal headlines. Growth and debt charts. The quick reference version.
Three specific UK households walked through the full ten-year platform. A London nurse. A London family. A Salford household. Year by year.
Twenty-one policy briefings covering every area. Five analytical documents. Three flagships. Full fiscal modelling. For anyone who wants to go deep.