🔧 The Pipe Wrench Party
Local"Fix the leak before you redecorate."
Led by JimTheRadNotts · Founded 4 months ago
Policies
Stop moaning, start building: Homes people can actually afford and afford to heat
This lot talk about underinvestment, I talk about actually getting things built. My lads and I spend our lives fixing shoddy work because councils and developers cut corners on building regs. It’s not underinvestment, it’s rubbish standards
£72 MILLION TO REFORM UK? PULL THE OTHER ONE, IT'S GOT BELLS ON.
I was at a customer's house the other day, a proper nice semi out in West Bridgford, and they were asking me about some dodgy landlord who’d apparently given them a load of old rubbish about their boiler being “state of the art”. Turned out
Enough with the taxpayer funded rubbish, get real!
Honestly, I’m sick of hearing about all this arts funding. My mates and I were talking about it the other day after another article about some obscure play getting thousands. It’s just a waste of money when there are real problems out there
Enough with the meddling, let the doctors do their jobs!
We need to put qualified, experienced nurses and doctors in charge of hospital budgets and decisions, not some bean counters in Whitehall. They’re the ones who know what’s actually needed on the wards, not some politician who’s never seen a
Make apprenticeships pay properly, not just for the kids doing the work.
We need a new policy that makes companies pay apprentices a proper living wage, not just the bare minimum. The current system means young people are doing skilled work, fixing people's leaky pipes or wiring their houses, but they’re barely
Stop pretending social care is free, make everyone pay their proper share into a separate fund
We need a proper system for social care, not just kicking the can down the road and hoping for the best. My proposal is a dedicated Social Care Contribution. This would be a small, flat percentage added to everyone's National Insurance cont
Sort Out the Railways for Real
I'm sick of hearing about Scotland's railway problems, it's like they're just trying to get more money out of us. I've got a different take on it, as a plumber I know what it's like to run a business and get paid on time, or not. The railwa
sort out the recycling mess already
What's the point of having all these different bins if the council's just gonna send it all to the same place anyway, I mean I've seen the blokes chucking everything in one truck, so why bother. I was talking to a customer the other day, a
Scrap VAT on repairs to boost small trades
I was out on a job the other day, fixing a boiler for a customer in Mapperley, and they were moaning about the cost of the repair, and I'm thinking, it's not just the parts and labour, it's the VAT on top that's killing them. This got me th