Popular UK national radio chat show hosts Natural Law Party leader

In a wide-ranging 20-minute interview on 27 January 2000 on BBC Radio 2's popular Johnnie Walker show, Dr Geoffrey Clements spoke about the progress of the Natural Law Party in winning the support of leading politicians for the party's solutions-based approach to politics. Dr Clements, leader of the Natural Law Party of the UK, is standing in the 4 May 2000 election for Mayor of London.

During the nationwide interview, Johnnie Walker displayed considerable sympathy with the Natural Law Party's message. In his introduction, he described the widespread disillusionment among voters with politics in general and with the London mayoral campaign in particular, suggesting that he too was looking for something new. He said the Natural Law Party is active in 80 countries and is "said to be the fastest-growing political party".

In answer to Johnnie Walker's questions, Dr Clements presented the main features of Natural Law Party policy on health (prevention-oriented natural health care), on education (full development of the human brain, the basis of education) and crime (eliminating stress in individual and collective consciousness, and creating happiness and self-sufficiency).

Dr Clements contrasted the Natural Law Party's natural health approach with the prevailing system of health care in Britain, which he described as being "90% crisis management" dealing primarily with emergencies that have already arisen. He also spoke about the many harmful side-effects of modern medicine: "An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that 180,000 people die in the USA each year just as a result of medicines correctly prescribed" (in other words, these are not errors of judgement, but the normal results of using these medicines).

Johnnie Walker asked whether the Natural Law Party could seriously hope to form a government. Dr Clements replied: "People are deeply dissatisfied with the shift from left to right and back again. A lot of my work is with politicians from the older parties, and I find that even among politicians themselves there is an underlying discontent with what is going on in politics.

"Our activities in the Natural Law Party are on two levels. Firstly, we are actively campaigning in elections, and worldwide we now have millions of voters. In fact the percentage goes up very quickly where people can see us working. Secondly, we are working with politicians from the older parties, and talking to people at all levels of current affairs and government, and saying to them: 'Look, there are new ways of doing things. You don't have to be stuck in these old left-right ruts of governing society.' We are very gratified to find that senior politicians are listening to this point, both in this country and in other countries."