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.
Work, pay and welfare
Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.
Replace GDP as a measure of national success with a Queue Satisfaction Index
GDP is a terrible measure of how a country is actually doing. You know what isnt? How the queues are. If the queues are orderly, of reasonable length, and nobody is pushing in, the country is functioning. If the queues are chaotic, too long
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
Sort Out The NHS Waiting Lists Already
I had a passenger the other day, poor bloke, been waiting for a knee replacement for over a year, and he's still got no date for the op. He's in agony, can barely walk, and it's affecting his job, his family, everything. I've seen this time
Trains should cost less than driving the same journey
Peak return Reading to London: £52 Petrol for the same journey: £12 Even with parking its cheaper to drive In what world does that make sense for a country that says it wants fewer cars on the road? Rail fares in the UK are the highest in
Revitalise High Streets with Sensible Rate Reform
As a chartered accountant I've seen firsthand the struggles small businesses face with the current business rates system. It's outdated and fails to account for the complexities of local economies. We need a more nuanced approach that consi
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
A serious immigration system that is firm, fair, and actually enforced
Immigration policy in the UK oscillates between targets nobody believes in and rhetoric nobody trusts. Both left and right are responsible. The left pretends there are no trade-offs. The right makes promises it has no mechanism to keep. The
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
Scotland deserves better than Westminster's defence mess
I was talking to one of my pupils the other day and they mentioned their dad was in the military, stationed somewhere in England. The kid was worried sick because their dad was being sent to some godforsaken place to fight in a war that doe
The right of every man to have babies if he wants them
It is an inalienable right. The fact that its not physically possible is besides the point. The motion passed 14-2. Francis abstained. He was having a lie down.
Every child should be able to get an NHS dentist
My daughter hasnt seen an NHS dentist in two years. We rang every practice within 20 miles. All full. We ended up going private at 80 quid a checkup. Not everyone can do that. NHS dentistry is in collapse. Dentists are leaving because the
Slash Red Tape, Not Just Rates
I've spent years dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare that is our business rates system, and I'm convinced it's stifling entrepreneurship in this country. As a chartered accountant, I've seen firsthand how small businesses are crippled b
Scrap the NHS waiting list nonsense
I'm proposing we overhaul the NHS waiting list system to focus on urgent care first, rather than just who's been waiting the longest. This is needed because the current system is failing people who need immediate attention, prioritizing bur
Constitutional right to complain about things that are already quite good
It is a fundamental British value to look at something perfectly adequate and declare it not good enough. The bus came on time? Yes but it was a bit cold. The NHS saved your life? Yes but the car park was expensive. The sun is shining?
Stop Apologising For Britain On Climate Change
I'm fed up with all this fuss about climate change being some kind of global problem that we can't do anything about. We need to stop blaming ourselves and start taking control of our own destiny. The EU's not going to save us, and neither
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
Why Are We Letting Bureaucrats Run the NHS Instead of Patients?
How did we end up with a system where patients have to beg for treatments the NHS deems "too expensive," yet we spend billions on administrative bloat and opaque procurement processes? It’s madness. We've got a national institution, meant t
Community energy cooperatives with guaranteed grid access and fair export tariffs
Germany has over 800 energy cooperatives. Local communities own solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage. The profits stay local. Energy bills are lower. And public support for renewables is far higher than in countries where turbin
All new wind turbines must be invisible and silent and preferably in France
We are absolutely pro-renewable energy. Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation and we take it very seriously. We have a heat pump and everything. That said, the proposal for a wind farm on the ridge above Little Snoring
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
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.