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==Key Policies== |
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{{:Key policies governance}} |
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{{:Key policies health}} |
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===Government and the Constitution=== |
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Scrap the House of Lords and create a democratic 2nd House <big><big>•</big></big> Decentralise power to the regions • Move parliament to the Midlands and create an English assembly • Devolve power to Scotland and Wales with a federal model • Introduce automatic voter registration • Ban direct donations to MPs • Restrict donation size to political parties • Ban paid lobbying • Ban acting MPs holding a job outside parliament • Reform expenses system to match the way business works • Tougher jail sentences for MPs breaking the law, particularly for corruption while in office • MP pay freeze for 10 yearsMP wages to be linked to national average wage |
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{{:Key policies education}} |
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===Health=== |
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Healthcare publicly owned and free at point of delivery • Minimum 15% pay-rise for health workers • Invest in the NHS • Free training for health workers • Scrap carpark charges • Invest heavily in social and mental health care and ensure health services are seamless • Protect and invest in local hospitals and health clinics • Re-introduce free dental care • Focus on child health through sugar tax and healthy school meals • National Pharmaceutical Agency to ensure fair access to drugs for both the NHS and developing countries • Health workers to receive rate of inflation pay rises • Rate of inflation to be decided by independent board and to be subject to union agreement • Overhaul NHS, removing bureaucracy and middle managers |
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{{:Key policies housing}} |
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===Education=== |
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Free childcare for all pre-school children • Reintroduce SureStart • Free life-long education • Scrap early-years formal testing • Bring schools back into local authority control • End tax breaks for private schools • Reintroduce adequate maintenance grants • Build student accommodation and ensure it is publicly owned • Return universities and colleges to public ownership • Scrap Ofsted • Scrap performance pay • Scrap SATS • Scrap private education and base education model on Finnish system • Scrap tuition fees • Redefine degrees so technical degrees from FE / HE hold the same weight • Learn from Covid and introduce continuous grading • Enforce secular school system • Project based learning and introduce the 2010 creative learning syllabus |
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{{:Key policies a green future}} |
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===Housing=== |
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Build excellent quality social housing • 30% of new builds must be social housing • Review housing association rules and remove rogue associations • Reduce salary to mortgage multiples to end house inflation • End right to buy • Legislate to support housing cooperatives • Refurbish housing stock • End non-residents purchasing homes as an investment • Scrap leaseholds • Outlaw short-term tenancies such as Airbnb • End Rough Sleeping • • End Homelessness |
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{{:Key policies internationalism}} |
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===A Green Future=== |
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Create an Investment bank with charter to invest in green programmes, R&D, and businesses • Create a nett zero carbon economy • Become world leaders in manufacturing renewable technology • Convert all British homes to the highest energy-efficiency standards • Bring energy supply into public ownership |
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• Legislate for fully recyclable packaging and invest in recycling facilities • Build a sustainable, affordable, accessible, and public integrated transport system • Extend high-speed rail networks nationwide to free up capacity on local lines and move freight to dedicated lines • End Road Tolls • Major investment in natural flood defences • Legislate to protect marine environment • Legislate to ensure farms protect the environment • Restore natural woodlands with indigenous trees • Civic housing with well-maintained green spaces • Divert defence industry into green market |
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{{:Key policies employment and society}} |
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===Internationalism=== |
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Global peacemakers not warmongers • Weapons only for defence, not for international sales • Recognise the state of Palestine • Scrap trident and invest the monies saved in building highly skilled green industries • Ensure our armed forces personnel are properly supported, both during and post services • Promote International Human Rights • Withdraw from NATO • Oppose Imperialism |
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{{:Key policies justice}} |
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===Employment and Society=== |
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Minimum wage increase to £12 per hour • Union representation a guaranteed right • Scrap VAT • Increase central government spending to cover all key local services, such as police and fire services • Council tax to be used to improve towns and cities, not to pay for critical services • Pilot UBI with a job guarantee • Eradicate gender pay gap • Repeal anti trade union laws • Reduce working week incrementally while upholding productivity • Remove barriers to equality for all regardless of disability, gender, colour, ethnicity, or sexual orientation • Fully compensate 50s and 60s women impacted by pension age changes • Retirement at 60 for all • 15% pay rise for public sector workers |
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{{:Key policies taxation and spending}} |
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===Justice=== |
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Ensure access to Justice for all regardless of means • Major investment in the court system • Overhaul family court focusing on mediation and protection • Invest in legal aid • Invest in the probation services and remove private probation services • Invest in rehabilitation of offenders • Keep all prisons in public ownership • Ensure prisons focus on rehabilitation |
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{{:Key policies sovereignty of the people}} |
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===Taxation and Spending=== |
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Scrap VAT • Abolish National Insurance and roll it into a single PAYE tax • Introduce an automatic tax credit for all (Universal Basic Income) • Police, Fire Services, Libraries etc paid for centrally so that council tax is focused on improving cities and towns • Create a social transformation fund |
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===The Crown and Royal Family=== |
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The privy council will be abolished • The Crown will be brought into full public ownership • Crown estates tenant farmers will be given full ownership of their land • Cornwall and Lancashire duchy tenants will be given full ownership of their lands or properties • All Crown Royal properties will be brought into full public ownership and opened to the public, including Buckingham palace • Crown artworks and other possessions will be made available for public viewing • Where possible plundered treasures will be returned to their rightful owners • Any remaining Crown jewels will be on display to the public |
Latest revision as of 12:16, 26 February 2023
Break the cycle of contract cronyism •• Abolish the House of Lords and create a democratic 2nd House •• Decentralise power and respect self-determination while supporting UK voluntary federalism •• Introduce automatic voter registration •• Abolish direct donations to MPs •• Restrict donation size to political parties •• Abolish paid lobbying •• Abolish acting MPs holding a job outside parliament •• Reduce MP salaries to the national average
Healthcare publicly owned and free at point of need •• Immediate minimum 15% pay-rise for health workers •• Invest in the NHS •• Free training for health workers •• Scrap parking charges for NHS staff, patients, and visitors •• Invest heavily in social and mental health care and ensure all health services and agencies are working cohesively •• Protect and invest in local hospitals and health clinics •• Re-introduce free eye and dental care •• Create a National Pharmaceutical Agency to ensure fair access and pricing for drugs to both the NHS and developing countries •• Health workers to receive minimum rate of inflation pay rises •• Bring the NHS back into full state control •• Re-establish health visitors •• Remove surcharge for migrant workers •• Ensure a proactive and preventative health service •• Ensure no barriers to equality in health services •• Free prescriptions for all
Free childcare for all pre-school children •• Reintroduce SureStart •• Free life-long education •• Scrap early-years formal testing •• Bring education back into public control •• Reintroduce adequate maintenance grants •• Build student accommodation and ensure it is publicly owned •• Scrap Ofsted •• Scrap performance pay •• Abolish private and grammar schools and base all schools on the Finnish system •• Scrap tuition fees •• Redefine degrees so technical degrees from FE / HE hold the same weight •• Adopt secular public education system •• Free meals in school for all pupils up to 18 •• Schools will provide free childcare from 7:30am – 6pm •• Major investment in buildings and equipment
Improve quality of existing and new-build social housing •• Implement an extensive social homes building programme •• Create housing association regulator to remove rogue associations •• Radical restructure of housing •• End non-residents purchasing homes as an investment •• Scrap leaseholds •• Heavily legislate temporary lets such as Airbnb •• End Homelessness •• City Rent Caps •• End corporate property and land hoarding
Create an investment bank with charter to invest in green programmes, R&D, and businesses •• Responsible manufacturers of renewable technology •• Convert British homes to the highest energy-efficiency standards •• Bring energy supply into public ownership •• Legislate for fully recyclable packaging and invest in recycling facilities •• Build a sustainable, affordable, accessible, and public integrated transport system •• Major investment in natural flood defences •• Legislate to protect marine environment •• Legislate to ensure farms protect the environment •• Restore woodlands with indigenous planting •• Divert defence industry into green market
Global peacemakers not warmongers •• Weapons only for defence, not for international sales •• Recognise the state of Palestine •• Scrap trident and invest the monies saved in building highly skilled green industries •• Ensure our armed forces personnel are properly supported, both during and post services •• Promote International Human Rights •• Withdraw from NATO
Capping director salary to no more than 10 times the lowest paid employee •• Union representation is a legal right •• Increase central government spending to cover all key local services, such as police and fire services •• Council tax to be used to improve towns and cities, not to pay for critical services •• End the persecution of claimants by the DWP and protect welfare payments •• Eradicate gender pay gap •• Reduce working week incrementally while upholding productivity •• Remove barriers to equality for all regardless of disability, gender, colour, ethnicity, or sexual orientation •• Fully compensate 50s and 60s women impacted by pension age changes and reduce retirement age to 60 for all
Scrap VAT •• Abolish National Insurance and roll it into a single PAYE tax •• Introduce an automatic tax credit for all (Universal Basic Income) •• Police, Fire Services, Libraries etc paid for centrally so that council tax is focused on improving cities and towns •• Create a social transformation fund •• Scrap IR35
We are committed to equality of the people, for the people, run by the people •• Abolish peerages and titles •• The Crown will be brought into full public ownership •• Crown estates tenant farmers will be given full ownership of their land •• Cornwall and Lancashire duchy tenants will be given full ownership of their lands or properties •• All Crown Royal properties will be brought into full public ownership and opened to the public, including Buckingham palace •• Crown artworks and other possessions will be made available for public viewing •• Where possible plundered treasures will be returned to their rightful owners