So many manifestos — who has the answers?
Create the party
you would vote for.
Borrow the best policies, fix the ones you don't like, and craft a manifesto that finally makes sense.
Work, pay and welfare
Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.
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
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
Honestly, the student debt crisis is a joke. It’s time we just made university free and stopped pretending it's fair.
It makes me so angry that we're still talking about student debt like it's some kind of personal choice or investment. It's not. It's a massive financial burden that hangs over us for decades, forcing people to pick careers based on potenti
Enough with the endless Ofsted meddling, let schools actually teach!
It drives me mad how much time teachers waste jumping through hoops for Ofsted. Every year it’s a new initiative, a new way to measure things that can’t really be measured. It’s all about ticking boxes and making the inspectors happy, not a
Enough with the endless testing - kids need actual learning, not exam cramming!
I'm sick to death of hearing about league tables and SATs results dominating every education conversation. It feels like we're just churning out kids who are brilliant at ticking boxes for Ofsted but have no idea how to think critically or
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
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
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
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
Scrap the nonsense in schools
I'm sick of hearing about how our schools are failing, it's all about the wrong priorities if you ask me. I see kids coming into my DIY store who can't even use a tape measure, but they can tell you all about climate change and whatnot. Don
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
Every Child Deserves a Personalised Learning Plan
I've always believed that our education system should be about nurturing the unique talents and abilities of each child, rather than just catering to those who are deemed 'special needs'. The current system is far too narrow and often relia
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
Stricter accountability for officials handling public money.
You see this sort of thing, don't you? Someone's always poking around accounts when they think no one's looking. It's a drain. We need a clear system. If you're managing taxpayer cash, or even public funds from other places, and it looks d
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
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
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
Bring back proper imperial measurements in schools. The metric system was imposed on us by Brussels.
Pounds, ounces, yards, furlongs, gills, firkins and stones. Britain built an empire on these measurements. We went to the moon on these measurements. Actually the Americans did that, but they used inches, which we invented. Just saying. Th
Pay teachers properly or stop asking where they all went
Four of my colleagues left the profession in the last two years. Two went into corporate training, one retrained as a data analyst, one just stopped. None of them wanted to leave teaching. They loved it. They left because they couldnt affo
Fund libraries properly and open them 7 days a week
Nearly 800 libraries have closed in England since 2010. The ones left are open three days a week with volunteers doing work that trained librarians used to do. We tell kids to read more and close the places where they get free books. For p
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.