So many manifestos — who has the answers?
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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.
Raise the VAT threshold to £150k and simplify taxes for small businesses
The UK VAT threshold is £90,000. Cross it and you are suddenly managing quarterly VAT returns, Making Tax Digital, and a layer of compliance that has nothing to do with your actual business. I know founders who deliberately hold revenue bel
The Dead Parrot Consumer Protection Act
For too long shopkeepers in this country have been selling products that are clearly deceased and then claiming they are merely resting or pining for the fjords and this has to stop because a product that has ceased to be and expired and go
Means-test sunshine to ensure fiscal responsibility
In the current economic climate, it is simply not sustainable to provide sunshine free of charge to everyone, regardless of income. Wealthy households receive the same amount of sunshine as the most vulnerable, and this is frankly not progr
Preserve our local high street by only shopping there when John Lewis is too far away
I was just stuck in the car park at the retail park again today and it really hit me how depressing the whole place is. I was sitting there surrounded by concrete and massive warehouses like TK Maxx and Costa and I honestly felt a bit sick
Every school should have a proper counsellor, not just a poster on a wall
A poster saying its OK not to be OK is not mental health provision. It is a poster. Every school should have a trained counsellor available at least 3 days a week. Not a teaching assistant who did a two day course. A qualified counsellor w
Raise taxes on high earners including me and stop pretending we can't afford public services
I earn well into six figures. I pay less tax as a percentage of my income than my employees do because capital gains is taxed lower than income. That is indefensible. We have a country where nurses use food banks, schools hold bake sales t
A universal basic income pilot at local authority scale
The theoretical arguments for and against UBI are well rehearsed. What we lack is robust UK-specific evidence. Finland ran a two-year trial involving 2,000 participants. The results showed improved wellbeing, higher trust in institutions, a
Accept that everything is getting worse and plan accordingly
Other parties promise to fix things. We think thats dishonest. Things are getting worse and they have been getting worse for quite some time now. The trains are worse. The roads are worse. The weather is worse. Freddos are 30p. Rather than
Speed bumps that wreck your car should be removed and the council should pay for the damage
Some speed bumps are so aggressive they damage cars driven at the posted speed limit. If a speed bump wrecks your suspension at 20mph the council should pay for the repair. End of.
Give high streets a 3 year business rates holiday before they disappear completely
Eight empty shops on our high street. Eight. A town that used to have a butchers, a greengrocers, two bookshops and a Woolworths. Now its charity shops, vape shops, and boards in windows. The problem is simple. An independent bookshop pay
Complete reform of the stoning process to ensure procedural fairness
The current stoning system is frankly a shambles. Our proposals: 1. All stonings must be overseen by an independent regulator 2. Nobody is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even if they do say Jehovah 3. Stones must meet minimum q
Stop burying teachers in admin that has nothing to do with teaching
Last week I spent more time filling in tracking spreadsheets than planning lessons. Audit every piece of admin teachers do. If it doesnt directly help a child learn, scrap it.
Nobody should pay more than 40% of their income on rent
Had this conversation in the pub last tuesday and everyone agreed which is rare because Geoff disagrees with everything on principle but even Geoff thinks rent is out of control. If youre spending more than 40% of your take home pay on keep
A wealth tax on assets over £10 million to fund public services
The top 1% of households in Britain hold more wealth than the bottom 70% combined. That is not a statistic from a pressure group, it is from the ONS. Wealth inequality is now greater than income inequality, and it is growing faster, because
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
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
We fully support new housing as long as it is built somewhere we cannot see it
We are absolutely committed to solving the housing crisis. Everyone deserves an affordable home. This is a fundamental value of our party and we will never waver from it. However. The proposed development on the field behind Waitrose woul
Freedom of movement should be a right, not a privilege for the wealthy
One of the consequences of Brexit that is rarely discussed honestly is that freedom of movement now exists only for people who can afford it. If you are wealthy, you can still live and work in Europe through investor visas, golden passports
Let builders build: reform planning from the ground up
Britain does not have a land shortage. It has a permission shortage. Only about 6% of English land is built on. The reason housing is expensive is not that we have run out of space. It is that the planning system makes it extraordinarily di
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.