Some truly mental ones there but some positive moves...
All elements of the sex industry will be decriminalised, and prostitutes could no longer be discriminated against in child custody cases.
Good. Legislate and bring many people that work in it because it is a good way of making money (and they enjoy it) back into the fold, while helping to stamp out those being forced.
The Greens also want to see “significantly reduced” levels of imprisonment, with jail only used when there is a “substantial risk of a further grave crime” or in cases where offences are so horrific that offenders would be at risk of vigilantes. Prisoners will be given the vote.
Seems reasonable.
SATS, early years tests and league tables will be abolished, and “creative” subjects given equal parity to the “academic”.
Seems semi reasonable, as long as "creative" also means vocational. There is too much reliance on forcing people into the academic route through school and into uni, rather than allowing people to do things they may actually be good at that can also benefit society.
Independent schools will lose their charitable status and pay corporation tax, while church schools will be stripped of taxpayer funding. Religious instruction will be banned in school hours.
Seems reasonable. never quite understood why they were classed as charities anyway.
The “overall volume” of advertising on TV and newspapers will be controlled and cut, as part of a war on the “materialist and consumption driven culture which is not sustainable”.
They want to be environmentally positive and reduce consumption yet...
Top-ups [will be] given for people with children or disabilities, or to pay rent and mortgages. No-one will see a reduction in benefits, and most will see a substantial increase. Parents will be entitled to two years’ paid leave from work.
Still seem to be subsidising parents so more people are born, which is the real issue. If someone isn't born in the first place they can't consume...
(obviously it's a lot more complex than that)
Assisted dying will be legalised, and the law on abortion liberalised to allow nurses to carry it out. “Alternative” medicine will be promoted.
A massive positive. There is a massive stigma in this country about allowing people to die. If someone really wants to die then why shouldn't they be allowed to?
In order to prevent “overpopulation” burdening the earth, the state will provide free condoms and fund research for new contraceptives.
Positive action but the state already does the former anyway...
Merely being a member of al-Qaeda, the IRA and other currently proscribed terrorist groups will no longer be a criminal offence under Green plans, and instead a Green Government should seek to “address desperate motivations that lie behind many atrocities labelled ‘terrorist’,” the policy book states.
Seems reasonable. It is akin to a though crime as it is.
Terrorism, it adds, “is an extremely loaded term. Sometimes governments justify their own terrorist acts by labelling any groups that resist their monopoly of violence ‘terrorist’.”
True
Britain will leave NATO, end the special relationship with the US, and unilaterally abandon nuclear weapons. A standing army, navy and airforce is “unnecessary”. Bases will be turned into nature reserves and the arms industry “converted” to producing windturbines.
Yeah... That'll work...
Political parties will be funded by the state, and the electoral system changed. The monarchy will be abolished.
Former... Yay... less lobbying... Latter... Nay... Less politics in please!
The problem is they appear to have fairly extreme views on everything, rather than more middling views like those professed by other parties. in reality all the parties have extreme views, they just hide them better because they know they wouldn't be elected otherwise.
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