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Work, pay and welfare
Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.
Seriously, another 'growth at all costs' budget? Bristol needs investment, not just more debt.
I was walking through Old Market the other day and saw the most heartbreaking sight. A family, probably on their way home from school, queuing outside a food bank. It’s utterly grim, isn’t it? We’re told the economy is doing well, yet I see
Let's Cut the Bureaucracy That's Strangling Small Businesses, Not Argue With Old PMs
We need a radical simplification of business regulations to truly boost the economy. The current system is a tangled mess that disproportionately burdens new and small enterprises, stifling innovation and job creation. My proposal is for a
Scrap Business Rates for Small Shops and Cafes - It's Killing Our High Streets!
We need to get rid of business rates for independent shops and cafes entirely. This is crippling small businesses, especially in my industry. I've seen so many good places close down because the rates are just unsustainable, even when they’
Time to Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
So why are massive corporations getting away with paying basically no tax while I'm out here on the North Sea working my arse off to keep the lights on. It's just not right that they're making billions off our natural resources and our labo
Time to actually invest in NI businesses, not just talk about it
We need a dedicated Northern Ireland Investment Fund, managed locally and focused on sustainable growth rather than just speculative ventures. This fund would be seeded with a significant portion of the money currently allocated to various
Red Tape Reform for People Not Profits
I've seen firsthand the impact of bureaucracy on the NHS, where we're drowning in paperwork and targets, rather than focusing on patient care. It's the same for small businesses and entrepreneurs, who are stifled by regulations and forms. B
Cut the Red Tape Already
I was talking to a mate who's trying to start his own cafe in Sheffield, and he's at his wit's end with all the forms and permits he needs to fill out. It's taking him months just to get the council to approve his plans, and that's before h
Stop Hammering First-Time Buyers
I think we should scrap stamp duty for all first-time buyers to help them get on the housing ladder. It's getting ridiculous how much young people have to save just to get started, and it's no wonder so many are giving up on the idea of own
Stop Funding Failing Businesses
What's the point of throwing good money after bad when it comes to failing businesses, I mean think about it, we're basically just delaying the inevitable, it's like trying to hold water in your hands. My proposal is to stop giving out taxp
Scrap the pointless apprenticeship schemes already
I'm so fed up with the government's apprenticeship schemes, they're just a waste of money if you ask me. My son's friend did one and it was just a cheap way for a company to get free labor, he didn't learn anything useful and now he's strug
make public transport free for all
we should make all public transport free to use, funded by taxing big corporations and the wealthy, this would not only help the environment by reducing the number of cars on the road but also help low income families who struggle to pay fo
Cut the Red Tape Already
What's the point of having a government that claims to support small businesses when they just suffocate us with regulations and bureaucracy. I mean think about it, every time I try to expand my plumbing business I've got to fill out a doze
The Royal Mail is a universal service. Regulate it like one, not like a parcels startup.
Last week a Royal Mail delivery driver knocked on my door to hand me a parcel addressed to a neighbour two streets over. She had given up. The van was running. The backlog of redirected parcels in the back was, by my rough count, about fort
Stop outsourcing critical public services to Capita, Serco and friends. They keep failing. We keep paying.
A non-exhaustive list of things Capita has been paid large sums of public money to mess up: Army recruitment. The contract was so badly managed that recruitment fell by 30% in the first year. They kept the contract. Teachers pensions. The
Create a fast-track AIM listing path for UK scale-ups that are growing but not yet profitable
The London Stock Exchange is in slow decline. AIM listings have halved in the last five years. The companies that should be listing here - British AI labs, biotech, clean energy, fintech - are instead moving to New York, or going private, o
Restore public sector pay to 2010 real-terms levels over five years. It is overdue.
The IFS calculates that a typical public sector worker earns around 9% less in real terms than they did in 2010. That is sixteen years of effective pay cuts. For nurses, teachers, police officers, civil servants. For the people who stepped
Publish every tax relief and exemption alongside the Budget, with five-year cost projections
HMRC administers approximately 340 tax reliefs and exemptions. They cost the Exchequer over £400 billion in forgone revenue each year. That is more than the entire NHS budget. Most of them are never reviewed, most are poorly targeted, and m
Make it possible to start a company in one hour with zero cost
In Estonia, you can register a company online in about 15 minutes. In New Zealand it takes a single form and costs roughly £10. In the UK it takes at least a day, costs £50, and that is before you register for PAYE, VAT, and whatever else H
National duvet day when its raining and you just cant be bothered
Sometimes you just cant. You know the feeling. Its grey. Its February. The alarm goes off and your entire soul says no. We propose 12 statutory duvet days per year. No doctors note. No questions. You just text your boss a duvet emoji and
Restore local council funding to 2010 levels, adjusted for inflation
It is difficult to have a sensible conversation about the quality of local services when the funding that underpins those services has been cut by nearly 40% in real terms since 2010. Councils are not failing because they are badly run, tho
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