An open, auditable economic model for a post-tax Britain.
Fork it. Challenge the assumptions. Run your own numbers. All parameters are variables, not conclusions.
Swinkism is a political philosophy built on one principle: we only punish taking. Tax things nobody made, nobody earned, and nobody deserves to profit from purely by owning — land, monopoly rents, congestion, data extraction, natural resources. Leave everything created by effort, ingenuity, or risk entirely alone.
This repository contains:
- A fully parameterised economic model (Python/Jupyter) showing revenues, spending, and the sovereign wealth fund arc
- The manifesto in structured form, so numbers and text stay in sync
- A critique directory — known weaknesses, honest about what the model cannot predict
- A courts framework — the legal architecture replacing regulation
- All sources and assumptions documented
Every major party publishes a manifesto with no source code. We publish a model. If our numbers are wrong, fork it and show us. If our assumptions are wrong, open an issue. That is a credibility gap no one else can close by copying us.
- Maximise real disposable income for the median citizen over 30 years
- Minimise the state's share of GDP while maintaining rule of law and defence
- Every policy change must be modellable — if you cannot show the arithmetic, it does not pass
- No policy that makes the next generation poorer to pay for the current one
- State writes the rules for industry; it does not replace industry
These goals are the constitution of this project. You can disagree with every specific rate or policy and still contribute, so long as your contribution serves these goals.
model/ Python model — revenue, spending, SWF arc. Start here.
manifesto/ The political case, structured as data + prose
critique/ Known weaknesses, party-by-party responses, open questions
courts/ The super-court framework replacing regulation
docs/ Sources, assumptions, reading list
pip install jupyter pandas matplotlib
jupyter notebook model/swinkist_model.ipynbChange any parameter in the first cell and rerun. The arc updates automatically.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md first. The short version: challenges to assumptions are more valuable than agreement. A well-argued critique that improves the model is the best contribution you can make.
MIT for the model and code. CC-BY 4.0 for the manifesto text. Use it, adapt it, publish it — just credit the source.
Named after the Old English word swink — to toil, to labour, to graft. Used by Chaucer. Out of common use since around 1400. The thing we forgot to protect.