Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2023 13:49:13 GMT
This might prove a little difficult in terms of limiting it to ten because all of us here are political animals who can probably think up many dozens of things to put in our ideal manifesto.
But limiting it to just ten things, which ten things would be part of your ten point manifesto?
This thread is not intended to be somewhere where we can attack each other's favoured policies, but just somewhere where each of us can post our own. Though if people want to criticise each other's ideas I suppose that is par for the course.
Anyway, my ten....
1. Hold a referendum on full PR for both local and national elections and campaign to win it, and introduce it if the people approve.
2. Democratise the second chamber in some way.
3. Find means to finance and encourage a massive house and flat building program, focussing more upon genuinely affordable housing, with half of new builds being social housing.
4. Legislate meaningful security of tenure for private tenants with effective caps on maximum rents.
5. Abolish Council Tax and replace it with something levied on individuals based upon ability to pay.
6. Find ways to bring the railways and essential utilities back into public ownership.
7. Introduce a land value tax to help finance housing construction.
8. Make Universal Credit more generous to working people by reducing the taper at which it is clawed back from 63% to 40%.
9. Extend NI to pensioners who are well off enough to pay it, and direct these revenues towards the NHS.
10. Mandate that GP's must again make appointment slots to actually see patients available, and outlaw the use of non-medically qualified staff making medical triage decisions.
But limiting it to just ten things, which ten things would be part of your ten point manifesto?
This thread is not intended to be somewhere where we can attack each other's favoured policies, but just somewhere where each of us can post our own. Though if people want to criticise each other's ideas I suppose that is par for the course.
Anyway, my ten....
1. Hold a referendum on full PR for both local and national elections and campaign to win it, and introduce it if the people approve.
2. Democratise the second chamber in some way.
3. Find means to finance and encourage a massive house and flat building program, focussing more upon genuinely affordable housing, with half of new builds being social housing.
4. Legislate meaningful security of tenure for private tenants with effective caps on maximum rents.
5. Abolish Council Tax and replace it with something levied on individuals based upon ability to pay.
6. Find ways to bring the railways and essential utilities back into public ownership.
7. Introduce a land value tax to help finance housing construction.
8. Make Universal Credit more generous to working people by reducing the taper at which it is clawed back from 63% to 40%.
9. Extend NI to pensioners who are well off enough to pay it, and direct these revenues towards the NHS.
10. Mandate that GP's must again make appointment slots to actually see patients available, and outlaw the use of non-medically qualified staff making medical triage decisions.