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Work, pay and welfare
Benefits, pensions, minimum wage, the four-day week. Rewrite the social contract.
Shut the Back Door on Bogus Asylum Claims
I was chatting to a mate who's a copper in Catterick and he was telling me about this bloke who rocked up at the local nick claiming asylum, said he was from Somalia or somewhere. Thing is, the guy had a brand new iPhone and a TAG watch, di
Let's Get Serious About Diplomacy, Not Just Patronage
I mostly agree with the sentiment here, but the focus on "accountable diplomats" misses a bigger point. It's not just about who gets appointed to ambassadorships; it's about having a coherent, strategic foreign policy that these diplomats a
Scrap First Past The Post Already
I'm getting fed up with the same old excuses for why we can't change our electoral system. It's like people think the current system is somehow sacred just because it's been around for a while. Newsflash: it's not working. I've seen good ca
Scrap the Congestion Charge for Mums on the School Run
I was stuck in traffic on the way to school the other day and I saw a mum in the car next to me getting a fine for going through the congestion zone, it was clear she was just trying to get her kids to school on time. I started thinking a
Sort Out Recycling Once and For All
I'm sick of putting stuff in the recycling bin and wondering if it's actually getting recycled or just ending up in some landfill in another country. It's like nobody knows what's going on and it's all a bit of a joke. I've got a mate who w
Let the Market Clean Up Pollution
I'm not convinced that slapping corporations with massive fines is the best way to tackle pollution. Instead of relying on bureaucratic penalties, we should be leveraging the power of the market to drive environmental responsibility. By int
Enough of these energy companies fleecing us! Time for local power.
We need to establish community-owned energy generation hubs in towns like ours. These wouldn't be massive power stations, but smaller setups using renewable sources like solar and wind, maybe even geothermal if we're lucky, placed strategic
Fix Our Housing Mess Already
I was talking to my daughter the other day and she's struggling to find a place to rent that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. She's working two jobs and still can't afford a decent flat in Harrogate. It's ridiculous that someone who's employe
Sort Out History Lessons in Schools
My son came home from university the other day and I was talking to him about his courses, he's studying engineering but he's also got to take some general studies, and I was shocked when he told me about the way they're teaching history no
Scrap the Rail Fiasco
What's the point of having a rail network if you can't even get a decent cup of coffee on most trains, and the ones that do have a cafe car are always breaking down. I mean think about it, we're still running trains on lines that were lai
Enough with the Net Zero Madness, Let's Get Real About Energy
I’m sick to death of hearing about Net Zero targets that seem to ignore basic physics and economics. We're meant to just wave a magic wand and have this perfect green energy system overnight, while people freeze and industries collapse. It’
Institute a National Week of Quiet Surrender so we can finally stop pretending
Proposal: every year, for one full week in late october, the United Kingdom will officially suspend the pretence that things are getting better. Government will stop announcing initiatives. Ministers will stop appearing in hi-vis. Nobody wi
Stop Pricing Out Our Kids
I was talking to a parent at the school gates the other day and she was telling me about her son who's just graduated from university and is now working in London, but he's having to share a tiny flat with three others just to be able to af
The Royal Mail is a universal service. Regulate it like one, not like a parcels startup.
Last week a Royal Mail delivery driver knocked on my door to hand me a parcel addressed to a neighbour two streets over. She had given up. The van was running. The backlog of redirected parcels in the back was, by my rough count, about fort
Small businesses are getting hammered by rates and rules. It's time to stop the madness and let them grow.
Why does it feel like the government is actively trying to make it harder to run a small business in this country? You pay your taxes, you try to make an honest living, and then you get hit with business rates that make no sense and a mount
This assisted dying bill is a distraction from real needs
Saw Mrs. Price down the village last week. She’s 89, sharp as a tack but frail. Her husband’s been gone ten years, and she told me she’s just lonely. Her GP visits once a month, a nurse calls in twice a week. It’s not enough. She needs more
Stop talking about 'levelling up' and actually fund carers properly in *our* towns
My proposal is to create properly funded, independent Local Carer Advisory Boards in every region, made up mostly of actual carers, to decide how social care money is spent in their areas. We need to stop pretending Whitehall knows best whe
Enforce 20mph zones properly or paint over them. Half-arsed is worse than useless.
Bristol rolled out 20mph zones across almost the entire city. Fair enough, evidence says lower speeds reduce serious injuries. Except there is no enforcement. Zero speed cameras on the 20mph roads. Police say they have no resources to prose
UK must prioritize national security loans
I'm getting a bit tired of these loan schemes that seem to benefit everyone but our own country, to be honest. We've got our own issues to deal with, what with the state of our economy and the pressure on our public services. It's all well
Scrap Free Uni for Rich Kids
I think we should stop giving free university tuition to kids from rich families, it's a waste of taxpayer money. We need to focus on helping ppl who actually need it, like low income families who can't afford to send their kids to uni. Rig
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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.