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If you were elected to office in your home country in the next year (or another country I guess?) - what measures and policies would you enact?

Open to anyone btw, not just Brits and Europeans. :smile:


I'll start with mine, below. I'd obviously be prepared for Dandelion ripping it to shreds during Prime Minister's Questions - altho, since I'd have a large majority following a landslide victory, he'd need compelling arguments to force any u-turns. :p
 
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UK Policies...

Limit UK PMs to 2 consecutive terms (of 4-5 years). No-one longer than that, thanks.

MPs to cough up for travel out of their own pockets, apart from journeys that are strictly work-related. Strip back on government cars and money for 2nd homes, also.

Focus on shifting the UK's reliance on services, and reviving manufacture, over a 5-10 year period. Also championing science and engineering in schools.

Investigation into reforming the City of London - with emphasis on maintaining attractiveness for investment and commerce, but also with the aim of reducing unethical behaviour that precipitated the financial crisis and alienated the public, and other nations.

Immediately ban gambling ads on tv. It's irresponsible, and gives kids the impression that it's somehow officially sanctioned and acceptable.

Simplify UK tax thresholds. Reintroduce 10% rate for low-earners (in addition to slight reduction in tax-free allowance, to balance some of it). Some obvious things ring-fenced, like NIC for NHS and Welfare. Road tax/fines towards transport dept, etc.

New runway for Heathrow and Gatwick, as soon as. Plus plans for new estuary airport due 2025-2030 (linked to HS2).
Possible runway for either the Mall or the drive in front of Windsor Castle - for Royal flights. ;)

Teach proper life-skills in schools, including time-management, visualisation, goal-setting, anxiety management, etc.

Continue focus on reducing the deficit, and over time, the debt. Also concentrate on how to boost growth and employment at the same time.

Radical proposal to keep the UK together by adopting a tri-capital system. London remains financial and economic capital, Cardiff becomes legislative capital, and Edinburgh centre for jurisdiction. Thus spreading wealth across the UK, and providing more incentive for Home Nations to remain in the UK. :)

UK/EU relations

Much more constructive relationship towards EU. An acceptance that we'll be staying outside any further integrationist measures, but also promising support to the EZ to solve the debt crisis, and also for any unification the EZ wants to undertake.

Also, possibility of UK joining the euro - but only if the ECB moves its headquarters to London. :biggrin:

UK/Argentina

Build new bonds between the two countries, by jointly financing a huge new nuclear reactor in the centre of Buenos Aires. Providing a new wave of jobs in the debt-ridden country, and also with a few handy 'catastrophic design flaws' built in, incase they continue to be testy over the Falklands. :wink:
Kidding, of course. ;)
 
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Increase the support for child day care.

Reform our school system.

Reform our university system. - erase the fucking bachelor and master, and get back to the good old diplom

Cut and simplefy the tax benefits for families. (in special, if they are childless)

Cut all subsidies for nuclear, gas and carbon energy.

Reform the subsidies for green energy.

Cut and reform agrar subsidies

Create a central management for the energy grit.

Let the labour unions and companies create minimum wages. Depending on kind of company and area

Increase the fight against "nationalistic terror"

Increase the spending for resurche and education.

Eliminate the "cold progression" of our tax system.

Increase the tax on income out of capital. (its 25% while tax out of work is 43% at the top)

Stop the support of east germany and make it a support of areas with structural problems




About europe

We need a single ez nation.

We need to reform the structures of the eu




World

Stop the wto

Create free trade areas for the "first" "second" and "third" world.
This would create a more fair and balanced world tradesystem. The current system is for the advantage of the developed economies, on the disadvantage of the undeveloped economies
 
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Interesting! Thanks Perados - I agree that the current WTO disadvantages developing nations. :(

What do you mean by Nationalistic Terror? Is that like hard-right nationalists? Skin-heads and stuff in Germany?
 

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Interesting! Thanks Perados - I agree that the current WTO disadvantages developing nations. :(

What do you mean by Nationalistic Terror? Is that like hard-right nationalists? Skin-heads and stuff in Germany?
Yes, skin heads and sutch...

We are able to prevent every possible terror from left (since we learned it from the RAF).
Islamic terror, also. Since now, we prevented any attack.

On the other hand. It was possible for a group of 3 neo-nazis to do 11 attacks on turkish citizen, within 10 years, without getting noticed.

As it got public in 2011, the BND (german intelligent agency) distroyed every file they had about them.

Some villages in east germany are nazi ruled by 100%. - for some areas i just can tell you, if you dont look german and straight, dont cross it

The DDR denied every "nationalistic problem". Just as they denied being responsible for the acts of nazi germany. The statement of the DDR was, all left nazis are in west germany... And not a single DDR citizen did anything wrong, between 1933 and 1945.
Something total different to west germany. - think about the 1968 years. In west germany it was children against parents (or as the youth thought: children against murder)

Past 1990, all the anti foreigners mude in east germany could show up. And it did...
 
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TAX
Sharp downward movement on all taxes.

SPEND
Similarly sharp downward movement on expenditure. More to be funded by individuals through insurance or loans.

EU
Renegotiation of the UK's position - trading community only.

COMMONWEALTH, IRELAND and USA
Build links wherever possible.

ATLANTIC
Drill for oil north and south - rights sold ASAP. Defence capacity increased to guarantee these rights. Concept of British sphere of influence from Muckle Flugga (UK's northernmost point) to the South Pole.

BRITISH ISLES
Serious work to find a happier solution for the four home nations, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and indeed Ireland - we need some new constitutional settlement, perhaps a supra-national Council of the Isles.

MORAL IMPERATIVE
Work to re-establish moral direction in business, government, media, all aspects of life. Politicians unpaid. BBC senior staff unpaid. Concept of public service at all levels of society.

CLEARING THE DECKS
As a nation we need closure on the pedophile scandal, particularly the involvement of politicians. We need a resolution to the David Kelley death. We need the catharsis of a formal statement that Iraq2 was illegal in UK and international law. We need the RC scandals in the open and sorted by courts, not priests.
 

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Radical proposal to keep the UK together by adopting a tri-capital system. London remains financial and economic capital, Cardiff becomes legislative capital, and Edinburgh centre for jurisdiction. Thus spreading wealth across the UK, and providing more incentive for Home Nations to remain in the UK. :)
headquarters to London. :biggrin:

That's interesting. Seriously, we could do more to move UK national institutions to the home nations' capitals. We could also do more to promote unity by teaching Welsh and Gaelic throughout the UK - are these any more or less useful than Latin, Greek and French which until the 1980s were the language staples, or French, German and Spanish which have now become more common?

You could give your leader of the opposition an office in Belfast.
 

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Sharp downward movement on all taxes.

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Similarly sharp downward movement on expenditure. More to be funded by individuals through insurance or loans.
You are a dreamer, Jason.

... Muckle Flugga (UK's northernmost point) ...
Out Stack?

MORAL IMPERATIVE
Work to re-establish moral direction in business, government, media, all aspects of life. Politicians unpaid. BBC senior staff unpaid. Concept of public service at all levels of society.
You are a dreamer, Jason.

CLEARING THE DECKS
As a nation we need closure on the pedophile scandal, particularly the involvement of politicians. We need a resolution to the David Kelley death. We need the catharsis of a formal statement that Iraq2 was illegal in UK and international law. We need the RC scandals in the open and sorted by courts, not priests.
Good stuff.

BTW, dreaming makes you an outlier ... but we need outliers.:cool:
 

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just by the first 4 point (except of commonwealth ireland usa), you could think jason has learned nothing within the past 7 years
 

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Muckle Flugga is a group of skerries (bare rocks). As with all skerries the bits are given geographical names - Out stack means east stack (east is out in Shetland dialect). There's also a Vesta skerry (vesta = west), a Cliff skerry (the one with a bit if a cliff) and so on. You are right that Out Stack is both the most northerly, also most easterly, so if you want to say Out Stack I suppose fine. But generally it is Muckle Flugga, the whole skerries, which is considered northernmost.

My Argentinian geography might be a bit shaky, but I'm pretty hot on the British Isles. I have seen Muckle Flugga - it is dramatic.
 

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Considering that an MP or MLA votes the way the party whip tells them or they get expelled from caucus and thereby lose all party support, probably nothing at all. Grim but true.
 

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UK Policies...

Limit UK PMs to 2 consecutive terms (of 4-5 years). No-one longer than that, thanks.
I wonder if it would work as well in an indirect election system such as the UK has. No one really votes for the PM ... they vote for MPs, and, as you know, the leader of the party with the strongest position in Parliament becomes PM.
Parties would have to turf their leaders.
Not sure this would work nearly as well as it does in the US, where people vote directly for the president.

MPs to cough up for travel out of their own pockets, apart from journeys that are strictly work-related. Strip back on government cars and money for 2nd homes, also.
Boffo. And easily done.

Focus on shifting the UK's reliance on services, and reviving manufacture, over a 5-10 year period. Also championing science and engineering in schools.
Wonderful if you can do it.

Investigation into reforming the City of London - with emphasis on maintaining attractiveness for investment and commerce, but also with the aim of reducing unethical behaviour that precipitated the financial crisis and alienated the public, and other nations.
Then you can teach reform to the Merkuns.
Tricky stuff.

Immediately ban gambling ads on tv. It's irresponsible, and gives kids the impression that it's somehow officially sanctioned and acceptable.
Not sure about this. I have free speech concerns, though I hate gambling.

Teach proper life-skills in schools, including time-management, visualisation, goal-setting, anxiety management, etc.
Interesting. That could all be one course in the core curriculum.

Radical proposal to keep the UK together by adopting a tri-capital system. London remains financial and economic capital, Cardiff becomes legislative capital, and Edinburgh centre for jurisdiction. Thus spreading wealth across the UK, and providing more incentive for Home Nations to remain in the UK. :)
I wonder if this might tend to reinforce centrifugal forces.
 

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Muckle Flugga is a group of skerries (bare rocks). As with all skerries the bits are given geographical names - Out stack means east stack (east is out in Shetland dialect). There's also a Vesta skerry (vesta = west), a Cliff skerry (the one with a bit if a cliff) and so on. You are right that Out Stack is both the most northerly, also most easterly, so if you want to say Out Stack I suppose fine. But generally it is Muckle Flugga, the whole skerries, which is considered northernmost.

Okay. I thought it was only one islet.

My Argentinian geography might be a bit shaky, but I'm pretty hot on the British Isles. I have seen Muckle Flugga - it is dramatic.

Seems to be.
(I do wish I knew more of the UK.)
 
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Yes, skin heads and sutch...

We are able to prevent every possible terror from left (since we learned it from the RAF).
Islamic terror, also. Since now, we prevented any attack.

On the other hand. It was possible for a group of 3 neo-nazis to do 11 attacks on turkish citizen, within 10 years, without getting noticed.

As it got public in 2011, the BND (german intelligent agency) distroyed every file they had about them.

Some villages in east germany are nazi ruled by 100%. - for some areas i just can tell you, if you dont look german and straight, dont cross it

The DDR denied every "nationalistic problem". Just as they denied being responsible for the acts of nazi germany. The statement of the DDR was, all left nazis are in west germany... And not a single DDR citizen did anything wrong, between 1933 and 1945.
Something total different to west germany. - think about the 1968 years. In west germany it was children against parents (or as the youth thought: children against murder)

Past 1990, all the anti foreigners mude in east germany could show up. And it did...
Yikes! :eek: Sounds like the BNP. A bunch of ignorant twats stealing the Union Flag from normal ppl.

TAX
Sharp downward movement on all taxes.

SPEND
Similarly sharp downward movement on expenditure. More to be funded by individuals through insurance or loans.

EU
Renegotiation of the UK's position - trading community only.

COMMONWEALTH, IRELAND and USA
Build links wherever possible.

ATLANTIC
Drill for oil north and south - rights sold ASAP. Defence capacity increased to guarantee these rights. Concept of British sphere of influence from Muckle Flugga (UK's northernmost point) to the South Pole.

BRITISH ISLES
Serious work to find a happier solution for the four home nations, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and indeed Ireland - we need some new constitutional settlement, perhaps a supra-national Council of the Isles.

MORAL IMPERATIVE
Work to re-establish moral direction in business, government, media, all aspects of life. Politicians unpaid. BBC senior staff unpaid. Concept of public service at all levels of society.

CLEARING THE DECKS
As a nation we need closure on the pedophile scandal, particularly the involvement of politicians. We need a resolution to the David Kelley death. We need the catharsis of a formal statement that Iraq2 was illegal in UK and international law. We need the RC scandals in the open and sorted by courts, not priests.
I'd probably keep taxes roughly the same until there was a big dent in the debt and the deficit was below 3%. But then, I guess - cut both tax and spend moderately over time (with spend cut slightly faster).

Interesting re: clearing the decks. I think we have a toxic media atmosphere in the UK post-Olympics, and I'm not sure why. It's like open season. I'm more of a step-by-step person, so I'd stick with the policy of investigating and atoning for past wrongs one by one, but being pretty transparent about them.

That's interesting. Seriously, we could do more to move UK national institutions to the home nations' capitals. We could also do more to promote unity by teaching Welsh and Gaelic throughout the UK - are these any more or less useful than Latin, Greek and French which until the 1980s were the language staples, or French, German and Spanish which have now become more common?

You could give your leader of the opposition an office in Belfast.
Or in Milton Keynes - to wreck opposition morale. :biggrin1:

I wonder if it would work as well in an indirect election system such as the UK has. No one really votes for the PM ... they vote for MPs, and, as you know, the leader of the party with the strongest position in Parliament becomes PM.
Parties would have to turf their leaders.
Not sure this would work nearly as well as it does in the US, where people vote directly for the president.

Interesting. That could all be one course in the core curriculum.


I wonder if this might tend to reinforce centrifugal forces.
Could be true - I just think on past experience, neither of our recent 3 termers have done any good after their 2nd term - quite the opposite - and have proved a deadweight to their parties, too. I think if everyone knew the score, it would be fine to go into every 3rd term with a new face - and could prove invigorating. :D

Yeh - the 3 capital idea could turn out like devolution on steroids, but... I'd think it was more likely to unite, since each capital would have influence over the whole UK (with ownership, in a sense), rather than just over their own issues like at present - which tends to prove a bit inward-looking and exclusive.
 

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Or in Milton Keynes - to wreck opposition morale. :biggrin1:

I spend quite a bit of time in MK. I see it as atonement for sins. :redface:

The best thing about MK is the pendolino (tilting) trains to make a quick getaway. :biggrin1:
 

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Yikes! :eek: Sounds like the BNP. A bunch of ignorant twats stealing the Union Flag from normal ppl.
not really like a party, more an al qaida like nazi organisation.... or at least we think so. till now, we just know only one "terror cell" and some of their supporters. - take a look at "döner morde" (cause the german police thought these attacks are done by the turkish mafia against turkish business men)

but, just as, if not even more, frightening is the behavior of the german intelligent agency doring this crime series. here
and a bit more current here

and a good one about nazis in germany here
 
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Limit UK PMs to 2 consecutive terms (of 4-5 years). No-one longer than that, thanks.
When I first read this I thought you wrote MPs. Which I though an interesting idea. I'm not convinced about PM, who has to work with parliament ( so should be their choice!) but also its pretty hard for a PM to survive more than 2 parliaments.

Focus on shifting the UK's reliance on services, and reviving manufacture, over a 5-10 year period. Also championing science and engineering in schools.
Yesterday report said most people choose to study subjects they cannot possibly get jobs in because there are far too few. And we get shortages in sciences...

Investigation into reforming the City of London - with emphasis on maintaining attractiveness for investment and commerce, but also with the aim of reducing unethical behaviour that precipitated the financial crisis and alienated the public, and other nations.
Banking system is largely disfunctional and needs a huge shakeup.

Immediately ban gambling ads on tv. It's irresponsible, and gives kids the impression that it's somehow officially sanctioned and acceptable.
Hasnt bothered me, but hey my father was once a bookmaker. But I agree this is at least as harmfull as advertising tobacco.

Reintroduce 10% rate for low-earners (in addition to slight reduction in tax-free allowance, to balance some of it). Some obvious things ring-fenced, like NIC for NHS and Welfare. Road tax/fines towards transport dept, etc.
Yes we need greater simplicity. Back to basics: income tax was designed to tax only the rich.

New runway for Heathrow and Gatwick, as soon as. Plus plans for new estuary airport due 2025-2030 (linked to HS2).
I'd go for estuary. I am not convinced a single hub for London is workable.


Continue focus on reducing the deficit, and over time, the debt.
Which means we have to raise taxes in line with spending. Politicians just keep missing this point.

Radical proposal to keep the UK together by adopting a tri-capital system.
Yes, we need to resume decentralising London.

Kidding, of course. ;)
Someone, as a joke, suggested big government is bad.. and look at the resulting mess!
 
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I spend quite a bit of time in MK. I see it as atonement for sins. :redface:
You're such a flagellant, Jase. :biggrin1:

not really like a party, more an al qaida like nazi organisation.... or at least we think so. till now, we just know only one "terror cell" and some of their supporters. - take a look at "döner morde" (cause the german police thought these attacks are done by the turkish mafia against turkish business men)

but, just as, if not even more, frightening is the behavior of the german intelligent agency doring this crime series. here
and a bit more current here

and a good one about nazis in germany here
Seems Brits aren't the only crazies out there!? :frown1:

Yesterday report said most people choose to study subjects they cannot possibly get jobs in because there are far too few. And we get shortages in sciences...
Yeh, I saw that, too. :redface: Too many people aiming for life as a celeb, rather than reaching for achievable or truly useful things (or both)?

Hasnt bothered me, but hey my father was once a bookmaker. But I agree this is at least as harmfull as advertising tobacco.
Yeh - there's a ban on tobacco advertising, so I think the gambling has to go, too. At least pre-watershed (as a first step :wink: ).

I'd go for estuary. I am not convinced a single hub for London is workable.
Yeah! New runway for Heathrow or Gatwick to ease congestion in the interim, while plans are put in place for a new one, 10-15 years down the line (completion date).

Which means we have to raise taxes in line with spending. Politicians just keep missing this point.
Yep - or lower them only as spending is eased (or slightly after). I guess an ideal would be moderately lower spending over time, followed by moderate lowering of taxes - or at least a freeze - so each year we have a modest structural surplus gradually eating away at the debt.

Someone, as a joke, suggested big government is bad.. and look at the resulting mess!
Full steam ahead with the Buenos reactor, then - named 'Dafad Drwg' in honour of Drifter, and the Patagonian Welsh contingent. :smile: