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Work, pay and welfare

Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.

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A legal right to clean rivers, enforceable by citizens

In 2023, water companies in England discharged sewage into rivers and seas for over 3.6 million hours. The Environment Agency, which is supposed to prevent this, has had its budget cut by 60% since 2010 and now conducts fewer inspections th

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Pay farmers for ecological outcomes, not just for having land

The basic payment scheme that replaced EU subsidies paid farmers essentially for owning land. The more land you had, the more you got. A hedge fund that bought 10,000 acres of Lincolnshire received more public money than a hill farmer in Wa

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Replace GDP with a genuine progress indicator that accounts for ecological cost

GDP goes up when we cut down a forest. It goes up when we treat the respiratory diseases caused by the pollution from cutting it down. It goes up when we pay lawyers to argue about who is liable. At no point does GDP register that we have l

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Water companies that dump sewage should lose their licence, not get a fine they can afford

Thames Water discharged raw sewage into rivers for 3.6 million hours in 2023. They were fined a fraction of their revenue. The fine is not a deterrent. It is a business expense. How this should work: 1. Every water company gets a sewage d

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Make climate impact assessment mandatory for all new legislation

Every piece of legislation that passes through Parliament has a financial impact assessment. It does not, as standard, have a climate impact assessment. This is an extraordinary omission given that climate change is the single issue most li

How it works

01

Build your party

Name it. Give it a colour. Write a tagline. Every great movement starts somewhere, even a fictional one.

02

Write your policies

Make your case. Explain how it works. Let the community vote, debate, and challenge your ideas.

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Vote, debate, fork

Vote on other people's ideas. Disagree kindly. Fork a policy you like and adapt it to your own manifesto.