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.
Full public inquiry into what the Romans ever did for us
What have the Romans ever done for us? The aqueduct. Obviously. And the roads. But apart from the aqueduct and the roads? Sanitation. Alright sanitation the aqueduct and the roads. And irrigation. Medicine. Education. Public order. Wine
Free school meals for all primary school children, no exceptions
A child who has eaten a proper meal at lunchtime learns better in the afternoon. This isnt complicated and it isnt controversial and yet somehow we are still means-testing school dinners so that some families who need them dont apply becaus
Drug policy should be based on evidence of harm, not moral panic
Portugal decriminalised personal use of all drugs in 2001. In the 25 years since, drug-related deaths have fallen dramatically, HIV infections among drug users have collapsed, and overall drug use has not increased. This is not disputed. It
Planning applications should be decided in 8 weeks not 8 months
Our garage conversion took the council 7 months to approve. Nobody objected. Fully compliant with building regs. Seven months to say yes to a brick room. If a standard application isnt decided in 8 weeks it should be automatically approved
Fund SEN provision properly instead of making parents fight for every hour
Why does it take 18 months to get an EHCP assessment? Eighteen months. For a child. I have been a primary school teacher for 14 years. The system isnt a bit broken. It is completely broken. Parents fight through paperwork and tribunal thre
If you can work but WON'T work you should lose your benefits. Simple.
I worked 46 years. Started at 16 in a warehouse. Never claimed a penny. Now I see young lads down the road who haven't worked a DAY sitting around collecting benefits. New trainers. Takeaway every night. Latest phone. If you are fit and h
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
A real living wage tied to the cost of living, not a political number
The "National Living Wage" is not a living wage. It is the minimum wage with a marketing rebrand. A genuine living wage is calculated based on what people actually need to live on, factoring in housing costs, food, transport, energy, and ch
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
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
The UK needs 2 get serious about defence spending
ngl the world is getting more dangerous rn and we r acting like its still 2005. Russia is on the move. China is building military bases everywhere. And we r cutting our army 2 the smallest its been in 200 yrs. We need 2 spend at LEAST 3% o
Defence spending at 2.5% of GDP with a focus on cyber and reserves
The world is less stable than it has been at any point since the end of the Cold War. Russia has invaded a European democracy. China is expanding its military capabilities. The Middle East is in crisis. And the UK, a nuclear power and perma
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
Bring water, rail, and energy into democratic public ownership
Privatisation was sold to us as a way to improve services through competition. Forty years on, we can assess whether that promise was kept. Water companies have accumulated £72 billion in debt while paying out £78 billion in dividends. Trai
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
Balance the current budget over the economic cycle and enshrine it in law
Governments should not routinely spend more than they raise in revenue. This is not an ideological position. It is a mathematical one. Sustained deficits accumulate as debt, and the interest on that debt diverts spending from public service
Stop giving foreign aid to countries that don't even LIKE us
Gemini said For too long, the people of this country have been treated like an afterthought by a political class that cares more about their global reputation than the people they were elected to serve. We watch in disbelief every single ye
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Write your policies
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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.