Write your election manifesto
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You can try but you'll most likly end up like all the others who've tried to get rid of me!
If I were trying to get the vote of the average ocuker.....
Taxes down, public spending up, foreigners out, tax breaks for being white European, heavy taxes on being a Muslim, legalise narcotics, make fuel free to White British nationals, ban state religion, bring back the death penalty, castrate paedophiles, ban fat people, tax junk food unless you are under bmi26, free uni education, subsidise Internet access, invest in broadband infrastructure, legalise copyright infringement, stop benefits, put poor people in workhouses,....
Just for starters....
Can I be your chancellor when you get elected?
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1. Legalise, regulate, and tax all recreational drugs. Government has no business telling people what they can and can't put into their own bodies, and prohibition just lines the pockets of criminals.
2. Use every penny of revenue earned from the above and invest it in scientific research. History shows that long term, the investment is returned many times over. Given the link with drug legalisation, we can call it Stoner Science.
3. Overhaul the tax and benefits system to a negative income tax system, thereby eliminating the welfare trap and vastly reducing the administrative workload required to oversee it.
4. Increase investment in nuclear power, with a view to making the British Isles 100% free of oil and gas power stations.
5. Free beer for everyone.
2. Use every penny of revenue earned from the above and invest it in scientific research. History shows that long term, the investment is returned many times over. Given the link with drug legalisation, we can call it Stoner Science.
3. Overhaul the tax and benefits system to a negative income tax system, thereby eliminating the welfare trap and vastly reducing the administrative workload required to oversee it.
4. Increase investment in nuclear power, with a view to making the British Isles 100% free of oil and gas power stations.
5. Free beer for everyone.
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1. MP's must all have expert knowledge in relevant fields
2. Flat-rate 20% taxes
3. Abolish business taxes because businesses aren't people and create jobs
4. Minimum 10% spending on high energy physics
5. Bring back death penalty and harsh justice system
2. Flat-rate 20% taxes
3. Abolish business taxes because businesses aren't people and create jobs
4. Minimum 10% spending on high energy physics
5. Bring back death penalty and harsh justice system
Excuse me but how can you say it doesn't save money. Have you any idea how mush it costs per month/week/day to keep somone in prison? Not as much as a noose around there neck I bet you.
1 to 4: How would you pay for those things?
5: Are you insane? There's no evidence for death penalty being a deterrent, and it raises the possibility of executing innocent people by mistake. We don't have a death penalty because we are not savages.
The appeals procedure for a capital case would necessarily be far more expensive than for a non-capital case. And the prisoner would spend decades on death row anyway. That more than cancels out any cost savings from a person being imprisoned for 20 years and then executed instead of 30 years and dying of old age.
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Millions of pounds in security and legal costs would have been saved if Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada were promptly executed like they would have been in the USA where they belong.
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Is that what an innocent person's life is worth to you?
In 1320 Scotland said should England dare our soil to tread, the blood will flow in rivers red before capitulation.
No more will Scotland bow the knee to foreign prince who'er he be, for come what may we'll aii be free from English domination.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
It's not for honour that we sign, our glory makes us long to die, but LIBERTY is Scotland's cry no English subjugation. Our fathers didn't die in vain fur while a hundred men remain no English king shall lord as Reign stand up for Scotland's nation.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
Too long we've played the tartan fool, too long we've bowed to English rule, too long we've cringed before John Bull afraid of confrontation; so heid the words from Bruce's pen - Scotland must be free again. Stand up the hundred Scottish men who'll honour the declaration.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
No more will Scotland bow the knee to foreign prince who'er he be, for come what may we'll aii be free from English domination.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
It's not for honour that we sign, our glory makes us long to die, but LIBERTY is Scotland's cry no English subjugation. Our fathers didn't die in vain fur while a hundred men remain no English king shall lord as Reign stand up for Scotland's nation.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
Too long we've played the tartan fool, too long we've bowed to English rule, too long we've cringed before John Bull afraid of confrontation; so heid the words from Bruce's pen - Scotland must be free again. Stand up the hundred Scottish men who'll honour the declaration.
Here's to the men who took the oath, the Declaration of Arbroath, freedom and right our cause is both to save us from damnation. Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
Out with traitor, out with foe, give the Saxon blow for blow and freedoms bright as stars shall glow above the Scottish nation.
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1) up tax free allowance to ~£20k
2) one single flat tax rate, probably around 30-35%, make all tax simpler and harder to avoid. Also simplify other tax, get rid of VED for a start and stick on fuel, so much wasted money to make and enforce tax discs, foreigners also don't pay this.
3) carry on with the back to work scheme, but make it mandatory. Always make it better to work than not, so even if you only work 6hours a week it's substantially better than just benefits.
4) examine benefits and cut costs. Eg. much more shared housing in line with what private renters have to deal with. Again this will help insure its always better to work.
5) have a debate about the future of the nhs, not removing it completely. But what should be and shouldn't be included. As medicine advances it gets more expensive and more stuff can be cured. At some point we will have to decide how to deal with this. Be it massively increase tax, or limit medicine/surgery to more life threatening ailments.
6) look into prisons/rehabilitation etc and do a combination of the most sucsefull countries
7) make money available for business that uk excel at and have little competition. Like skylon space plane and many other high end manufacturing/reserch/pharmaceutical/renewable energy.
8) get rid of train franchises, replace with one not for profit private company to take over.
9) get councils to build "self build" estates where roads and infrastructure are set up and plots are sold, along with more housing. Moving away from expensive brick model and looking at more modern faster, cheaper and better systems.
10) load more money into renewable energy, ev car related infastructure etc. Not only would that provide security for our energy supply. It would build manufacturing and expertise in the uk we can export. Renewable energy is only going to continue to explode. There's only one viable alternative and we know the time frame for that is several decades and more.
2) one single flat tax rate, probably around 30-35%, make all tax simpler and harder to avoid. Also simplify other tax, get rid of VED for a start and stick on fuel, so much wasted money to make and enforce tax discs, foreigners also don't pay this.
3) carry on with the back to work scheme, but make it mandatory. Always make it better to work than not, so even if you only work 6hours a week it's substantially better than just benefits.
4) examine benefits and cut costs. Eg. much more shared housing in line with what private renters have to deal with. Again this will help insure its always better to work.
5) have a debate about the future of the nhs, not removing it completely. But what should be and shouldn't be included. As medicine advances it gets more expensive and more stuff can be cured. At some point we will have to decide how to deal with this. Be it massively increase tax, or limit medicine/surgery to more life threatening ailments.
6) look into prisons/rehabilitation etc and do a combination of the most sucsefull countries
7) make money available for business that uk excel at and have little competition. Like skylon space plane and many other high end manufacturing/reserch/pharmaceutical/renewable energy.
8) get rid of train franchises, replace with one not for profit private company to take over.
9) get councils to build "self build" estates where roads and infrastructure are set up and plots are sold, along with more housing. Moving away from expensive brick model and looking at more modern faster, cheaper and better systems.
10) load more money into renewable energy, ev car related infastructure etc. Not only would that provide security for our energy supply. It would build manufacturing and expertise in the uk we can export. Renewable energy is only going to continue to explode. There's only one viable alternative and we know the time frame for that is several decades and more.
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Saved me writing a post of all the same stuff.......You got my vote.
Agreed
Agreed, but might have difficulty actually implementing such a system regarding contracted qualified builders etc...
You will have to train them first. House building is not something that just anyone can do.
You can already get free contraception from the FP clinics and from your GP.
Hmmm, not sure on that one given the proclivity to other forms of narcotics in some demographics.
Makes sense, but needs to be of a broader spectrum than simply scientists.
You will find that would have significant unforeseen consequences on many social program's across communities throughout the UK, from food banks to homeless shelters, Crèches to soup kitchens, and the huge amount of money raised by religious institutions for charities ranging from the big hitters such as Cancer Research to the small local charities like our local disabled one which helps kids on days out etc...without the local diocese and the money they raise and donate through various organisation the impact on local communities to removing charitable status from religious institutions would be enormous and ultimately costly.
You cannot trust the population to make those kind of decisions...they simply do not have access to enough information or relevant knowledge to make tat call objectively....better to have an independent committee or process of verification instead.
I think there should be a publicly owned high street banking system.
Quite, add to that investment in British and Foreign Business as shareholders, like France do.
Integrated public transport should be nationalised, energy also. agreed.
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In the US, it costs more to execute someone than it does to imprison them for life...
How is that relevant?
It's cost the UK millions for security protection against vigilantes, benefits payments and lawyers.
In the US they wouldn't get any protection from vigilantes nor benefits nor expensive lawyers. They should be waterboarded and then shot or put in solitary for life.
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Well clearly that's not what happens though, is it? No developed society in any way depends on vigilantes.
For a Tory voter you aren't half socialist?
I thought it was a good effort as well, a couple of points I'd never even thought of so congratulations on that elmo.
I absolutely love your idea of no acts of aggression without referendum unless our direct sovereignty/soil is under attack however it falls foul at one hurdle, existing memberships agreements and pacts that would require us in certain circumstances to protect other nations.
I would like to see leglislation to ensure that never again can a representative of our nation use those principles in a twisted and distorted fashion, including fabrications about risks to our own soil.
The Civil Service must be empowered to deal with political corruption of this nature.
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