Below are forty possible
manifesto promises that might form part of a Patriot's Charter if you will, in
the unlikely event that the author was ever likely to be asked to have a go at
writing a political parties list of future promises or aspirations. I'd be
interested to know what people think about the proposed policies. Are they
absurd, Unrealistic, too fantastic to contemplate? Or are they in fact
something that people would consider voting for?
1. Re-establish and reassert
Britain's independence on international bodies, including the G8, G20, IMF,
WTO, UN, Nato, World Bank and the Commonwealth
2. Restore the sovereignty and
primacy of our national Parliament and our Law Courts
3. Undertake a massive reorganisation
of the UK's Tax System, to bring simplicity back
4. Undertake a rational and
medium to long term reduction of both the deficit and the national debt
5. Undertake a reduction in and
simplification of the nation's Public Services sector
6. Scrapping of any unnecessary
and burdensome regulations that inhibit economic activity
7. Increase capitalisation of our
banks and make them answerable to the Bank of England
8. Ensure clear divisions between
retail and investment bank operations
9. Encourage and stimulate
private investment in new manufacturing industries
10. Promise a medium term
investment strategy in the re-equipping of Britain's Armed Forces
11. Begin a medium to long term
investment strategy in Britain's Nuclear Energy production, with the aim of
generating 50% of the country's total energy needs through Nuclear by 2040
12. Undertake a 10 year coastal
defence programme designed to protect the most "high risk" areas of
the country.
13. A promise to invest in
pre-existing rail networks, national road connections and new port and airport
links, helping to speed up the delivery of both people and goods from A to B.
Where possible, British based companies will derive the greatest benefit from
these contracts.
14. Undertake a new prison building
program, utilising existing sites and new developments
15. Create a number of new
Enterprise Centres designed specifically for small to medium sized start-up
businesses.
16. Enact legislation to prevent
specifically sensitive industries, such as defence and energy from falling into
foreign ownership
17. Bring an end to mass
immigration into the country and introduce a pause on any new inward migration,
until such time as more effective border controls can be introduced. Once such
border controls were in place, immigration would be permitted but on a points
based system, as seems to work in other Commonwealth nations like Australia,
New Zealand and Canada. The aforementioned pause would also allow time for our
newly reinforced Border Agency to begin the task of removing those illegal
immigrants and persistent over-stayers, who have no legitimate right to be in
the country. Where feasible, they would be returned to their home countries.
18. Once immigration is
restarted, new migrants will be required to reside in the country for a minimum
of five years before they are granted a permanent right to remain, during which
time they will have been expected to contribute in the same way as any other
citizen; and to have adhered to our nation's laws.
19. Immigrants who arrive, or are
already here illegally will be held in secure accommodation, until such time as
a legal decision is made as to their status
20. As Parliament and British
Courts will have primacy over any and all legal matters, there will be no right
of appeal to any other foreign body
21. Any and all legislation, or
public funding that actively promotes the inherently divisive practice of
multiculturalism will be ended.
22. There will be legislation,
where necessary, to underpin a zero tolerance of crime, with stiffer custodial
sentences, more prison places and juvenile boot camps being employed to
actively discourage criminal and anti-social behaviour
23. All law enforcement and
Judicial matters will automatically put the victims right first, rather than
the rights of the offender
24. There will be a clear
understanding that life means life with some of the worst offenders
25. A promise to withdraw from
the European Arrest Warrant, thus ensuring that British citizens are only
deported for trial abroad once sufficient evidence has been provided; and for a
crime that is recognised by British Courts.
26. There will be a promise to
abolish the Crown Prosecution Service and place decisions about charging
suspects where it rightfully belongs, at a local level
27. Promise of an immediate
increase in the national Defence budget, in order to rebuild both the full time
and part-time Armed Forces numbers. In addition there will be an immediate
strategic review of the nation's defence capabilities, in order to ensure that
our forces are able to defend our country's national interests anywhere in the
world.
28. There will be a guarantee to
maintain Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, by maintaining the Trident
missile system, but upgrading the nation's submarine capability, which will
then carry a US built, but British controlled nuclear weapons system.
29. There will be an undertaking
to significantly reduce bureaucratic waste within the NHS by stripping out
layers of unnecessary administrative layers; and attempting to return
healthcare to a more localised level. Rather than professional managers making
decisions about how health budgets are spent, it seems to make far more sense
for healthcare professionals to be deciding how money is spent on their
patients and in their areas. As part of this program these local health boards
would be expected to achieve the best economies of scale, as regards purchasing
vital equipment and supplies, whilst at the same time liasing with other
charitable, not-for-profit and for-profit organisations to achieve the best
possible outcomes within a fixed financial budget.
30. Rather than continuing with
the university based healthcare training that has become the norm, local health
managers will be expected to eventually transfer all such training into a
purely clinical environment, so that healthcares, nurses and doctors receive as
much direct on-the-job training as is humanly possible.
31. The basis for any education
system is the certainty that children have a basic understanding of reading and
writing, basic literacy if you will. As a step towards that basic goal, it is
desirable that every school must ensure that above all else they teach their
pupils the three 'R's to a satisfactory standard.
32. Also, in recognising that not
every child is as academically gifted as the next, our education system must
try to offer something for everyone, be that in the shape of Grammar schools,
Comprehensive schools, or even Vocational Colleges.
33. As with healthcare, often a national
approach can be very non-specific, ensuring that local needs are often
overlooked or insufficiently met. That being the case, it would seem to be far
more sensible to allow local educational needs to be transferred to a more
local level, always remembering of course that the statutory three 'R's are
implemented by individual schools.
34. In recent years there has
been a dramatic upsurge in the numbers of often scurrilous complaints made by
pupils against teachers who have only been trying to maintain discipline in the
classroom. As part of this manifesto pledge, it is hereby promised that we
would prevent such spurious complaints being made, by restoring the rights of
teachers to maintain discipline within the school environment.
35. In the event that particular
pupils (for whatever reasons) eventually left full-time education without a job
to go to, or without the necessary qualifications, an extended training or
pathway to work scheme would be developed enabling such youngsters to find
their way into full-time employment.
36. As well as repealing the
Climate Change Act, which has been disastrous for the people of Britain, we
would also ensure that no public monies were used to finance large scale wind
farms, which would have to live or die through the provision of private capital
investments. Where such wind farms are proposed, they would only receive the
necessary permissions if they were being constructed offshore, thus ensuring
that no more of Britain's beautiful landscape is bighted by these highly
inefficient monstrosities.
37. There will be a promise to
bring forward legislation to try and bring back into full -time occupation some
of the estimated one million homes that are currently standing empty and unused
in our country. It will also be policy to ensure that large scale housing
developments must have local approval before they can begin; and appeals to
national government must not override the decisions of local residents, a
system that currently allows developers with deep pockets to circumvent local
objections.
38. National scandals such as
MP's Expenses highlighted the lack of oversight the people have over their
elected representatives; and the lack of power the voters had in calling their
MP to account for their wrongdoing. As a result, it is proposed that in future
a local electorate that can gather 5% of their number together, can then demand
the recall of their MP, who must answer for their actions.
39. We
propose to create a ‘British Register’ of important UK companies, products and
brands and amend the current trade legislation in order to safeguard these
using set criteria, parliamentary approvals and/or conditions where necessary
40. We will insist that UK
schools teach their pupil's about Britain’s contribution to the world, including
British inventions and Britain’s role in fighting slavery and Nazism. All
cultures, languages and traditions from around the British Isles will be
celebrated.
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