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.
Our Defence Budget: Public Money for Public Safety, Not Private Profit
It’s easy to point fingers at government spending and say it’s all inefficient. Of course, there are always areas for improvement, and nobody wants to see public money wasted. But the idea that handing over something as fundamental as natio
Hold at least one council meeting a month in a pub. Yes really.
Went to a council meeting last week. They held it in a community centre on the edge of town at 2 in the afternoon on a wednesday. Eleven people attended. Four of them were the council. Two were press. Three were retired. One was me. One was
cap donations from billionaires
I propose we introduce a strict cap on individual donations to political parties, so no one person can give more than 1000 pounds in a single year. This is needed because the current system allows wealthy individuals to exert disproportiona
Cross-departmental review of the review process, with a view to reviewing how reviews are commissioned
The Difficult Decisions Party has noted, with some concern, that the government currently commissions a large number of reviews. The Difficult Decisions Party has further noted, also with concern, that reviews are sometimes commissioned to
Scrap the safe seats nonsense
I was talking to a mate who's a councillor the other day and he was saying how his job's basically a done deal every election because he's in a safe seat. It's ridiculous, if you ask me. He doesn't even have to try, just turn up and collect
Tired of protest votes and voting against something, not for it.
It’s frustrating to see so many people casting votes just to register a complaint or to stop someone else getting in. That’s not how good governance happens. We end up with a muddled mandate and it makes it harder for any government to actu
Scrap First Past The Post Already
I had a passenger the other day, a young professional, and we got talking about politics, she was saying how she felt like her vote didn't count because she lived in a safe seat, I told her I knew what she meant, I've been voting Labour all
Formal declaration that the Judean People's Front are not, and have never been, allies of the People's Front of Judea
Let us put this to bed once and for all. The Judean People's Front are SPLITTERS. They have always been splitters. Their newsletter is inferior. Their stoning procedures are amateur. Their position on aqueducts is frankly embarrassing. We
Proportional Representation isn't radical, it's just fair! Why are we still stuck in the dark ages?
I was chatting with my neighbour the other day, a lovely woman who works as a carer. She was telling me how she feels completely invisible politically. Her vote, she said, never seems to make a difference in her constituency because it’s al
Mandatory registration of all splinter groups and immediate proscription of the Judean People's Front
Mandatory registration of all liberation movements. Any group not on the register is officially designated as splitters. We will chair the committee. Unity is strength, brothers.
Make Politicians Declare EVERYTHING
I think all politicians should have to declare every single gift or donation they get, no matter how small, so we can see who's trying to buy their loyalty. This is needed because it's clear some of them are more interested in lining their
Blame the previous government for things we are now also doing
Let us be absolutely clear. The mess we inherited was unprecedented. The previous government spent recklessly, ignored the evidence, and made short term decisions for political gain. We, by contrast, will spend recklessly but call it "inve
Replace First Past the Post with Single Transferable Vote
The 2024 general election produced a parliamentary majority of 170 seats from 34% of the vote. In 2015, UKIP received 3.9 million votes and won one seat. The Greens received 1.2 million votes and also won one seat. The SNP received 1.5 mill
Official government apology for the general state of things
We propose a short, honest, annual apology from the government to the public. Not for a specific scandal. Not for a policy failure. Just for the general state of things. "We are sorry that the trains are like that. We are sorry about the p
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
Full Royal Commission into the appropriate use of the Oxford comma in parliamentary legislation
The Difficult Decisions Party notes with concern the current ambiguity in legislative punctuation. On the one hand, the Oxford comma provides clarity. On the other hand, it does not. The implications for future legislation are therefore sig
Announce a review into the thing we promised to do and then announce another review
Phase one: announce a bold commitment to fix the problem. Phase two: commission an independent review into the problem we just committed to fixing. Phase three: announce we are "carefully considering" the findings of the review. Phase fo
Require all government policy to pass an independent impact assessment before implementation
We require environmental impact assessments before building a car park. We do not require evidence impact assessments before implementing policies that affect millions of lives. This asymmetry is remarkable. The What Works centres (What Wo
Scrap the Fixed Term Parliament Act
We should abolish the Fixed Term Parliament Act and go back to giving the Prime Minister the power to call an election at a time of their choosing, this would be more important than having a rigid schedule. This is needed because the curren
Voters must approve PM appointees
I'm fed up with politicians making decisions without asking us, it's about time we took back control. These career politicians are out of touch with real people, I see it every day in the DIY store, customers are frustrated with the system.
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.