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===Government and the Constitution===
===Health===
===Education===
===Housing===
===A Green Future===▼
▲==A Green Future==
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
• 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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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
===Employment and Society===
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
===Justice===
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
===Taxation and Spending===
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
===The Crown and Royal Family===
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
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