So many manifestos — who has the answers?
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Borrow the best policies, fix the ones you don't like, and craft a manifesto that finally makes sense.
Safer streets, fairer justice
Policing, sentencing, prisons, rehabilitation. How would you do justice better?
Teach Scotland's Story, Not Just Britain's
I think it's time we took a step back and looked at how we're teaching history in Scotland's schools. The current curriculum can be a bit too focused on the UK as a whole, rather than Scotland's unique experience. We need to make sure our k
Teach Britain's Real Story
I'm fed up with the way history is taught in schools, it's all about what we did wrong, never what we did right. I've had customers coming into the DIY store, real people, talking about how their kids are being taught to be ashamed of Brita
Environmental Ed: Get Biz On Board
I was talking to a colleague who's got kids in school and she was saying how they're not really learning about the practical side of environmental issues, like how businesses can make a difference. It's all about theory and not enough about
Sort Out History Lessons in Schools
My son came home from university the other day and I was talking to him about his courses, he's studying engineering but he's also got to take some general studies, and I was shocked when he told me about the way they're teaching history no
make environmental ed compulsory already
i was talking to a friend who's a teacher and she was saying how she had to fight to get a single lesson on climate change into the curriculum, it's ridiculous that kids aren't being taught about the most pressing issue of our time. she had
Schools are teaching kids to hate Britain. Time to fix it.
Why are we letting schools fill kids' heads with guilt about history instead of pride? Seems like every other week there's some new curriculum point about how terrible this country is. It’s madness. Kids should be learning about the good th
Scrap Tuition Fees Already
What's the point of having a supposedly free education system if you're just going to saddle students with a load of debt the minute they graduate, I mean it's not like we're made of money or anything. My proposal is to scrap tuition fees a
Stop Dumbing Down Maths & English in Schools – We Need Real Skills!
It drives me absolutely mad seeing the focus in schools shift away from core academic subjects towards what feels like a tick-box exercise in ‘wellbeing’ or some vague notion of ‘life skills’. Of course, those things matter, but not at the
Enough With The Testing Treadmill For Kids, It's Not Working
I’m so fed up with seeing kids being put through the wringer with endless tests. It feels like all they do now is prep for exams that don't really tell you anything useful about their actual ability or potential. My own kids have come home
Scrap Uni Fees for Trades
I was talking to a kid the other day who just left school and he wanted to be an electrician, but his parents were worried about the debt he'd be in if he went to college. I told him about my own son who did an apprenticeship at the local g
Abolish SATs. They measure nothing that matters and damage the children taking them.
I have watched ten year olds cry in the toilets before a SATs paper. I have watched bright, curious kids start to hate school in year six because for months everything they do is either "practice" or "performance". I have watched schools r
Schools to be granted full autonomy over budgets and curricula
I think it's time we stopped micromanaging our schools and let the people on the ground make the decisions, they're the ones who actually know what they're doing after all. The current system is far too prescriptive, with the government dic
Scrap University Fees for Business Courses
I think we should scrap university fees for business courses, it's a no-brainer. The reason is simple, we need more people with practical skills in business, and the current system is pricing out talented individuals who can't afford the de
An 'Educational Needs Plan' for Every Child
Every child is special. Labelling some as SEN clearly isn't working. Support teacher availability and class sizes are often allocated by the number of SEN children in each, rather than by their actual needs. Children who don't have a
Scrap GCSEs for Local Skills Training
I think we should get rid of GCSEs and replace them with local skills training that actually prepares kids for the world of work. This is needed because the current system is failing to give young people the skills they need to get a job an
Pay teaching assistants a proper living wage, or stop pretending schools function without them
A teaching assistant in my school earns £18,400 a year on the standard contract. That is term-time only, obviously, but even pro-rata that works out below the real living wage. We have TAs running small-group interventions, one-to-one suppo
Scrap University Tuition Fees Already
I think it's time we scrapped university tuition fees for good, it's a no-brainer that they're pricing out kids from poorer backgrounds and it's just not right. The current system is basically a tax on learning and it's putting people off g
Teachers aren't therapists: We need proper mental health pros in every Scottish school, not more pressure on staff.
Why do we keep pretending teachers can be everything to everyone? We're expected to be educators, social workers, and now, increasingly, mental health counsellors, all while managing a classroom and preparing lessons. It’s simply not sustai
Why are we still letting kids leave school without knowing how to actually manage money?
Seriously, what’s the logic behind marching teenagers through years of quadratic equations and Shakespearean sonnets but never a single lesson on budgeting, mortgages, or taxes? It’s madness. We're setting them up to fail financially before
Scrap the bloated education bureaucracy
I'm fed up with the way our education system is being held back by pointless red tape and inefficient bureaucracy, it's like they want to stifle innovation and progress. As someone who's tried to work with schools to set up coding clubs and
How it works
Build your party
Name it. Give it a colour. Write a tagline. Every great movement starts somewhere, even a fictional one.
Write your policies
Make your case. Explain how it works. Let the community vote, debate, and challenge your ideas.
Vote, debate, fork
Vote on other people's ideas. Disagree kindly. Fork a policy you like and adapt it to your own manifesto.