Write your election manifesto

[gary996]

1) Drastically change the welfare system as it should never pay not to work, plus turning down overtime so you can get your tax credits must be banned.
2) Up the 40% tax threshold boundary. Those who work hard in this world get shafted.
3) Heavily cut the number of degrees as we don't need graduates in hairdressing with historical media studies. Not sending every man and his dog to University means people start work at 18 rather than 21, so the pension age can remain at 65.
4) Death penalty and corporal punishment. Schools need corporal punishment - Nothing says behave like a smack round the back of the head.
5) More control over banks.
6) Create more houses in order to help lower the prices for first time buyers.
7) Give the NHS more money with the money saved from benefit cuts.
8) Change the repayment threshold for degrees to 20% above £10,000 salary. It is a loan and must not be seen as optional to pay back.
9) Change the PC laws - Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.
10) Change laws on personal responsibility. If you are stupid enough to climb over a spiked fence then it is your own fault for getting hurt.

Good points there need to put them on my manifesto from page one.
The only one I have a problem with is the death penalty. Yes I would love to see it back BUT you would have to be 110% sure they did comit the crime as you can't bring someone back from the dead. If this is so then yes I would like to see it but not too humane. Hanging them by hoisting them up so its slow and not just a sudden drop to a broken neck

 

[realBabelfish]

Lol @ most people basically saying, 'MAKE X, Y AND Z BETTER'... without giving any clue/having any idea how to do so...

Fail thread, tbh.

yet MPs have been doing that for years

X is in manifesto

win election

oh no, we cant afford that now. oh well.

 

[bhavv]

8) Don't do a Cadbury's and bring more firms back into the UK

So true, cadbury's chocolates are absolutely horible now - Roses and Milk Tray in particular just taste like artificial melt in the mouth lumps of plastic ... yes I took them out of the wrapper!

Remake the National Curriculum, with a focus upon learning that is acually applicable to living in society.
Rethink crime & punishment.

Im with both of these, our education does nothing to prepare people for the reality of work + living.
Putting people in jail for sticking drugs into themselves is moronic.

 

[Hamish]

Good points there need to put them on my manifesto from page one.
The only one I have a problem with is the death penalty. Yes I would love to see it back BUT you would have to be 110% sure they did comit the crime as you can't bring someone back from the dead. If this is so then yes I would like to see it but not too humane. Hanging them by hoisting them up so its slow and not just a sudden drop to a broken neck

It's sad to see so many people wanting to bring the death penalty back. Countries killing their own citizens for the sole purpose of revenge for victim's families. It doesn't save money, it doesn't reduce crime - it serves no positive purpose.
The world is supposed to be becoming a more civilised place, let's not bring it back to the stone ages.
The people who want this are the same people who are against stoning in Saudi Arabia, how is it any different?

 

[Hamish]

8) Don't do a Cadbury's and bring more firms back into the UK
9) Likewise with Indian call centres

lol and how do you propose that? cut off foreign trade like Cuba? One of the reasons the UK is so successful is the freedom of trade, doing this would shoot the country in the foot. Let the people vote with their feet to fix the problem.

5) Make it mandatory that everyone knows how to sew on a shirt button, how to use the washing machine etc

Parenting is for parents, not a nanny state.

 

[Judgeneo]

1) Combine income support and income tax in one negative income tax system.
2) Combine other forms of income taxation into one single flat rate system, if you earn money, you pay one single tax rate one it.
3) Leave the EU.
4) Work towards the legalisation and taxation of cannabis, starting by funding more research into its effects.
5) Introduce more stringent rules for the patent system, reduce the amount of time they are valid for.
6) Pro-nuclear, pro wave power energy policy.
7) Driving licence expires every 20 years, people will have to retake tests.
8) Tougher English language requirements for immigrants.
9) Taxation of religious buildings
10) Introduce more 'life skills' into the curriculum (not examined), similar to the courses in special needs schools - How to set up a bank account, more cooking, how to book transport tickets, how to pay bills and plan personal finance. Its shocking how bad Joe Bloggs is at such basic tasks.
11) Increase funding for scientific research
12) Tougher rules on what constitutes a degree course, courses that are deemed to 'easy' to be scrapped

Probably more too

 

[Castiel]

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....

 

[Hamish]

3) Leave the EU.

Why? IMO it would be incredibly short sighted to leave the EU. The free trade zone is massivly beneficial to UK industry, harmonisation of laws makes things simpler and fairer and the ability to travel and work anywhere in europe gives massive freedom to everyone.

10) Introduce more 'life skills' into the curriculum (not examined), similar to the courses in special needs schools - How to set up a bank account, more cooking, how to book transport tickets, how to pay bills and plan personal finance. Its shocking how bad Joe Bloggs is at such basic tasks.

Parenting should be for parents, not a nanny state, if there is speare time in the curriculum it should be spent doing something useful, not somthing mind numbingly simple that any normal person would have no problem finding out themselves.

 

[Hamish]

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....

lol so true. aka: Make things easier for me, make things more difficult for people who aren't me. Fix something that's a problem but don't explain how. Legislate things i don't like without examining the consequences.

 

[Castiel]

Quite.

Anyway the idea is to get elected, squeeze the system for as much as I can get out of it and get rich in the five years I'm in power......I don't actually have to do anything in my manifesto, only say...'working on it, that's an ongoing investment issue, will be implemented in the next parliament......' Etc.....

Then some other sucker can fix all the mess when I get booted out in the next election....unless of course I can come up with another pile of carp that people want to hear and I return to even more personal benefit....

 

[Judgeneo]

Why? IMO it would be incredibly short sighted to leave the EU. The free trade zone is massivly beneficial to UK industry, harmonisation of laws makes things simpler and fairer and the ability to travel and work anywhere in europe gives massive freedom to everyone.

I'm of the belief that our current relationship with the EU is the worst possible. We have little say over what laws are passed, have little control over border rules, and pay far more money into the system than we receive.
We should either integrate more, and quickly to gain more control over our own policy. Or leave altogether to gain complete control. It would be in the economic interest of the EU to let us retain easy trade laws.

Obviously there are advantages for EU membership, but our current membership status is worse than no membership, and close membership like France and Germany have. Out of the two options, I would rather have us leave.

Parenting should be for parents, not a nanny state, if there is speare time in the curriculum it should be spent doing something useful, not somthing mind numbingly simple that any normal person would have no problem finding out themselves.

The things I suggest won't take long to teach, and should be seen as a compliment to proper parenting rather than a substitute. Parents can only teach what they know themselves, and lots of parents (of all social classes I might add) are close to incompetent about lots of basic skills

 

[Hamish]

I'm of the belief that our current relationship with the EU is the worst possible. We have little say over what laws are passed, have little control over border rules, and pay far more money into the system than we receive.
We should either integrate more, and quickly to gain more control over our own policy. Or leave altogether to gain complete control. It would be in the economic interest of the EU to let us retain easy trade laws.

Obviously there are advantages for EU membership, but our current membership status is worse than no membership, and close membership like France and Germany have. Out of the two options, I would rather have us leave.

Well of course we pay more into the system than we recieve - we're one of the richest countries in Europe, not everyone can recieve more than they contribute. Without rich countries in the EU it would fall apart, countries would go back to their old ways: For example poor countries would have factories with low pay and conditions, and produce products that undercut the UK and lose us business. With the EU in place there is a level playing field in the EU at least.

IMO the EU doesn't dictate too much on our policy, we still have our own laws and policies and EU law is always minimal, beneficial and rarely mandatory. Clearly the EU doesn't control our borders as we didn't sign up to the Schengen Agreement.

If we were to leave the EU it would have a bigger effect than you would think. Most of the UK's biggest trading partners are in the EU and the barriers leaving the EU would create would likely be enough to majorly disrupt our economy. Also all the travel benefits would go: imagine all the expats working in europe, the retired people in Spain etc. a lot of them would have to leave.

The things I suggest won't take long to teach, and should be seen as a compliment to proper parenting rather than a substitute. Parents can only teach what they know themselves, and lots of parents (of all social classes I might add) are close to incompetent about lots of basic skills

Most of these skills are life skills picked up during day to day life. I don't think teaching someone how to open a bank account is going to be beneficial to anyone. It all comes under the heading of 'common sense' which can't be taught, the curriculum as a whole needs to encourage it, it can't be taught in a classroom.

 

[Xordium]

Quite.

Anyway the idea is to get elected, squeeze the system for as much as I can get out of it and get rich in the five years I'm in power......I don't actually have to do anything in my manifesto, only say...'working on it, that's an ongoing investment issue, will be implemented in the next parliament......' Etc.....

Then some other sucker can fix all the mess when I get booted out in the next election....unless of course I can come up with another pile of carp that people want to hear and I return to even more personal benefit....

Nice summary of the way the system works!

As for my manifesto:

1) Points based immigration system based upon what trades/professions we need.
2) Transition of the military budget away from physical force projection towards defence and modern ideas.
3) Transition of health and social care policy towards two long-term goals. 1) Maintain a healthy workforce 2) Enabling every child to have the opportunity to thrive. And then removal of social-care, education and health from governmental whimsy and guide it with evidence steered by professionals and logical stake-holders.
4) View infrastructure as an investment and do it properly. Good internet, good road, good railways are never a bad idea.
5) Facilitate families and people to live in homes by making affordable and sizable housing, penalising the incentives of BTL, introducing Austrian/German rental style legislation.
6) Remove the special rights given to 'faiths'.
7) Take back pride in the country from the right-wing. There is no shame in the union jack every other country is proud of their flag we should be too.
8) Adopt a isolationist approach to the world politically. Make it quite clear we are open to trade, discuss and work with everyone but stop the meddling.
9) Reduce the voting age down to 16. Well able to understand stuff then and then still vote the same way as everyone else does irrespective of what really happens - in fact your average 16 year old would actually maybe look better than your average 60 year old.
10) Clamp down on shaping of policy by the onerous lobbying of the big corporations and the trade unions.

 

[Ahleckz]

Lol @ most people basically saying, 'MAKE X, Y AND Z BETTER'... without giving any clue/having any idea how to do so...

Fail thread, tbh.

You have read a real manifesto before, right?

 

[elmarko]

Surely you should do 6 first and then only do the others if the evidence stacks up in their favour?

The evidence rule applies to all (studies would have commissioned to confirm what certain studies already indicate).

1) establish a fair single rate taxation and benefits structure where all previously untaxed money into a household is taxed at a flat rate, and offset against a universal benefit package.
2). begin a zero budget assessment of all public spending, to establish, based on democratic consensus, what the tax rate and benefit rates from (1) will need to be.
3) review and ringfence sin taxes to be proportionate only to harm caused and used to address only those costs.
4) a strict evidence based, minimal intervention lawmaking approach, and review all existing laws for necessity.

that would do me for starters.

Would be better than what we have currently.

Definitely agree with point 4.

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....

I think you would win with that .

The only problem with my manifesto is that it would actually make me unemployed (nationalisation of energy sector makes my job totally redundant).

 

[Fire_fly]

In the spirit of modern politics my manifesto would made up of bits stolen from the other parties manifestos. Yet combined together in a way that makes them new, totally original, and the best thing since sliced bread.

Any other political party that challenges this will be subjective to a smear campaign, claiming that it was they who stole my policy ideas. At the same time my campaign would focus around how their manifesto is guaranteed to fail and lead Britain back into the Dark Ages (while conveniently overlooking that I have the same policies).

The order of policies in the manifesto would be determined by the top popular issues that are being printed in The Sun and Daily Mail, the two most popular papers.

 

[Spektor]

1) All votes for me are exempt from my Death Camps
2) X-Factor / Britain's Got Talent applicants / producers / viewers are exempt from (1) and are fast tracked to my Death Camps
3) Once a year Death Camps become 'Fun Camps' anyone found laughing at tiresome GD jokes or Gary Tank Commander will be sent to the 'Fun Camps'. 'Fun Camps' retain their functionality as Death Camps.
4) Prior to Scotland being removed from the Union it will be wired with millions of cameras to turn it into the 'Thunderdome' style, brutal 24 hour reality TV show it was always destined to become.
5) Free cake.

 

[eatcustard]

1. deport all non blue eyed people to France
2. reduce fuel tax
3. reduce VAT
4. pull out of EU
5 Pull England out of the Union with Scotchland.
6. Death penalty for pedos and murderers
7. ban smoking in public places and increase tax to £10 for 20

 

[Megahurtz400]

Think this guy has it pretty spot on....

 

[BoonMonkey]

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....

Got a lol from me