Hold my beer guys I got this.
If I formed a political party that:
- increased public sector pay but brought back pensions to make it more akin to the private sector (for a net saving, in time, by removing the pensions drain);
Most public pensions are PONZI schemes.... if you cut the pensions for current workers they may well decided to quit paying into their pensions leaving the government to pick up the tab for current pensioners = big bill in the short to medium term and an increase in people entering retirement or late life ill health with inadequate pension provision
- brought in a proportional representation voting system;
Welcome a load more 'extremist' parties to the UK, far more frequent coalition governments/ hung parliaments and a lack of accountability at a local level as local MP's will no longer necessarily represent the majority vote in their respective areas
- made gross mismanagement / reckless mismanagement of public funds a custodial offence to public sector officials at senior / management levels (or an easier offence to land);
Welcome a culture of extremely risk adverse behaviour... I would love to hear how you would (legally) define 'gross mismanagement' and 'reckless mismanagement'... a also how you would square the circle of allowing punishment for staff in the public sector when those in the private sector are not covered by the same law??? If you were a skilled motivated manager why the hell would you want to work in the public sector under such an oppressive cloud?
- rolled back anti-terror legislation but increased the task force that could investigate and enforce on proportional laws;
please be specific which 'anti terror' laws are you on about??
- increase MP pay massively but reduce expenses (net saving);
- no argument from me here! (other than it might not give you a net saving - expenses are a necessary part of an MP's pay as their circumstances vary widely depending where the constancies are) also savings (in terms of national spending) would be tiny - there's not that many MP's .... (although maybe more than there should be)
- add an extra 1p per pound of ring fenced income tax to the NHS;
The NHS is just going to keep needing more and more money as a % of GDP as people live longer and ever more expensive treatments are developed.... You may find you're needing to add another 'penny in the pound' after not too long.....
- retained trident and kept investing in it for but actively pursued long term nuclear disarment in ~50 years;
Why circa 50 years???? we have no idea what the geo political situation will be then (other than to speculate that its likely to be worse than it is currently as the human population continues to ballon at the same time as global warming and massive resource shortages hit home)......
- rolled back buerocracy in the education system;
probably is too much 'bureaucracy' but specifics needed......
- increased corporation tax but avoided the robin hook tax (although seek to establish a Robin Hood tax for the whole EU if we remained a member);
great recipe for low investment, capital flight and companies seeking to relocate away from the UK especially with brexit in tow! = potential net LOSS of taxes
- lowered the 40% tax band by £3k
mostly as above...... why just 3k? what's the likely effect of taxing higher rate tax payers more. Have you modelled how this will affect the tax base as more people are incentivised to change how or where they work as they don't care to pay more tax to the government?
- make personal allowance decrease by 50p for every pound earned above £80k;
as per above
- remove automatic charitable status for religious bodies;
I would agree that all organisations wanting 'charitable' status should be reviewed in the same fashion....
- legalise heavily regulated markets for drugs and prostitution;
not without its potential issues........
- promise to protect the religious from persecution and protect others from persecution by the religious;
??? so pretty much secular law for everyone then!
- full promotion of LGBT rights (but retain male / female on passport based on whether you have a willy or not);
??? So pretty much as we are now?
- set a maximum household benefit cap (exclusion for disabilities);
Like the Tories then?? (pretty much)
- JSA decreases over time / paid state jobs provided (exclusion for disabilities);
I mostly agree - I prefer a job guarantee system to long term ongoing JSA.....
- roll back 'offence' related crimes to causing 'deliberate malicious offence';
I assume your on about public order offences here??? Good luck legally proving 'deliberate' and 'malicious' (together) in a UK criminal court for public order offences half the time! More hate speech for the win??
- legislate to force telecommunications providers to share masts;
??? would have pretty much zero effect on public finances other than to potentially drop taxation raised as telecoms companies would have less incentive to invest their OWN money in new systems if forced by the state to share with other companies!!!!
- make reselling of limited ticket events for a profit (nominal management fee excepted) illegal;
??? would have pretty much zero effect on public finances... define 'nominal management fee' (ticket resale sites offer genuine services for those unable to attend events they have paid for) how practically are you going to stop ticket resale?? Names on tickets with compulsory ID cards?
Would you vote for me? \o/
...... probably not!
That's my 'back of a fag packet' list anyway
