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How many of these policies do you disagree with?

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    How many of these policies do you disagree with?

    1. Get Britain out of the European Union
    2. Get control of immigration with an Australian-style, points-based immigration system
    3. £3bn more, annually, into our NHS which desperately needs it
    4. Scrap tuition fees for students studying Science, Tech, Engineering, Maths, or Medical degrees
    5. Pay greater attention to elderly care across the country
    6. Cutting £9bn from our foreign aid budget
    7. Give the people the ability to “recall” their MPs, without parliamentary or MP approval
    8. Stopping our endless, foreign wars
    9. Promoting a British identity, as opposed to failed multiculturalism
    10. Allowing existing schools to become grammar schools
    11. Ending PFI privatisation of the NHS, proliferated by Labour and the Tories
    12. Ensuring our armed services are properly equipped for when we do need them
    13. Establishing a Veteran’s Administration to look after those who looked after us
    14. Encouraging inward investment with growth markets, not JUST the failing Eurozone
    15. Overcoming the unfairness of MPs from devolved nations voting on English laws
    16. Cutting bureaucracy, red tape, and wasteful spending from government departments
    17. Cutting the same bureaucracy that hinders small businesses and entrepreneurs
    18. Supporting our farmers with a Single Farm Payment Scheme
    19. Ending the burdensome “green levies” that have added £000s to our energy bills
    20. Scrapping the poorly planned HS2 project, saving up to £50bn
    21. Opposing tolls on public roads – we’ve already paid for them
    22. Supporting bus passes for pensioners with the support of local authorities
    23. Foreign vehicles to require Britdisc passes to contribute to our roads they use
    24. Ending the use of speed cameras as revenue raisers – they should be a deterrent
    25. Protecting our green belt
    26. A central list of brownfield sites for developers
    27. Houses on brownfield sites to be Stamp Duty exempt on first sale
    28. VAT relaxed for redevelopment of brownfield sites
    29. Local referenda for large-scale development, if triggered by 5% of electorate
    30. Introducing the ability for citizens to initiate national referenda
    31. Withdrawing from the European Court of Human Rights
    32. Reversing the government’s opt-in to the European Arrest Warrant
    33. Negotiating bi-lateral agreements to replace EAW
    34. No votes for prisoners
    35. Full prison sentences should be served, parole on case-by-case basis
    36. Replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
    37. Official documents to be published primarily in English
    38. Cracking down on honour killings, female genital mutilation, and forced marriages
    39. Reviewing the BBC licence fee with a view to reducing it
    40. Taking non-payment of the licence fee out of the criminal sphere
    41. Amend the smoking ban to promote choice for ventilated smoking rooms
    42. Opposing plain packs for cigarettes, which has had no impact where trialled
    43. Promoting the employment of young, British workers
    44. Repealing the Agency Workers Directive
    45. Encouraging councils to provide more free parking on High Streets
    46. Simplifying planning regulations for long-term empty commercial properties
    47. Extending the right of appeal for micro businesses against Revenue and Customs
    48. Negotiating bespoke trade agreements with EU member states and worldwide
    49. Reoccupying our seat at the World Trade Organisation
    50. Abolishing inheritance tax
    51. Introducing a 35p income tax rate between £42,285 and £55,000 – taking many public sector workers out of higher rate of tax
    52. Setting up a Treasury Commission to make sure big corporations pay their way in taxes
    53. Abolishing the Dept of Energy and Climate Change and rolling retained functions into DEFRA
    54. Introducing an Apprenticeship Qualification for students who don’t want to do non-core GCSEs
    55. Scrapping the arbitrary 50% target for university attendance
    56. Students from the EU to pay the same as International Students
    57. Introducing more power for parents: OFSTED to investigate schools on petition signed by 25% of parents or governors
    58. Guaranteeing a job in the police, prison, or border forces for anyone who has served 12 years in the Armed Forces
    59. Priority social housing for ex-service men and women, and those returning from service
    60. Veterans to receives Veteran’s Card to ensure they’re supported in event of mental health care and more
    61. All entitlements to be extended to servicemen and women recruited from overseas
    62. Establishing a National Service Medal for all those who have served
    63. Encouraging local authorities to buy out their PFI contracts where affordable
    64. Ensuring GP’s surgeries are open at least one evening per week where demand permits
    65. Ensuring migrants have NHS-approved health insurance until they have paid into the system for 5 years
    66. Ending hospital car parking charges
    67. Replacing bureaucratic watchdogs with locally elected health boards for more transparency
    68. Stopping the sale of patient data to big business
    69. Ensuring a high standard of English speakers in the NHS
    70. Amend working time rules to give trainee doctors, surgeons, and medics better environments
    71. Encouraging and protecting whistleblowing to get to the bottom of poor performance
    72. Ensuring migrants have jobs and accommodation before they can come to the UK
    73. Migrants will only be eligible for residency after 10 years’ working here
    74. Reinstating the primary purpose rule, bringing an end to sham marriage migration
    75. No amnesty for illegal immigrants, or those gaining UK passports via fraud
    76. Protecting genuine refugees by returning to the UN Convention of Refugees principles
    77. British companies to be prioritised to deliver foreign aid contracts
    78. Repealing the Climate Change Act 2008 which costs the economy £18n per year
    79. Scrapping the Large Combustion Plant directive and redevelop UK power stations
    80. Supporting the development of UK Shale Gas with proper safeguards
    81. No new taxpayer subsidy for wind farms
    82. Leaving the Common Agricultural Policy
    83. Allowing parliament to vote on GM foods
    84. Reinstating British territorial waters
    85. Food to be labelled with country of origin, method of production, method of slaughter and more
    86. Ban live animal exports for slaughter
    87. Scrapping the Bedroom Tax
    88. Child benefit only for children permanently resident in the UK
    89. Future child benefit to be limited to first two children only
    90. Ensuring an initial presumption of 50-50 parenting on child custody matters
    91. Safeguarding visitation rights for grandparents
    92. Supporting a streamlined welfare system and a benefit cap
    93. Enrolling unemployed benefits claimants into workfare or community schemes
    94. Placing revenues from shale gas into a Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure future growth and security
    95. Emphasising the immediate need to utilise forgotten British infrastructure like Manston Airport
    96. No cuts to frontline policing
    97. Prioritising social housing for those whose parents and grandparents were born locally
    98. Reaffirming British laws, rather than allowing dual-track legal systems for minorities in the UK
    99. Promoting patriotism and the importance of British values in our schools
    100. Rebalancing Britain’s economy
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    Do you really think anyone's going to read that much text?
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    AndyW is the product of the asexual reproduction policy of his mum
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    #2
    tl;dr
    I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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      #3
      The racist ones, the stupid ones, the ones that would be actively harmful, and the ones that are merely empty promises designed to drum up support among the gullible but which will never be acted upon.

      That leaves… umm…

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        #4
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        The racist ones, the stupid ones, the ones that would be actively harmful, and the ones that are merely empty promises designed to drum up support among the gullible but which will never be acted upon.

        That leaves… umm…
        The ones that talk about actually controlling borders and having Australian points immigration system, I see, those racists b@stards!

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          #5
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          How many of these policies do you disagree with?
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            #6
            Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
            81
            Wow, looks like SNP controlled Old Labour is your best bet then.

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              #7
              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              The racist ones, the stupid ones, the ones that would be actively harmful, and the ones that are merely empty promises designed to drum up support among the gullible but which will never be acted upon.

              That leaves… umm…
              Are we talking about UKIP or the SNP here ?
              Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

              No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                The ones that talk about actually controlling borders and having Australian points immigration system, I see, those racists b@stards!
                What about the other 97, to which NF referred?

                Immigration control is the ONLY UKIP policy I agree with, that I think they actually care about achieving. So I'll vote for a party whose leader has experience negotiating with the EU and will wait for a referendum if he can't improve things.

                UKIP would introduce stringent immigration controls but they wouldn't need to - pretty quickly the country would be in a state nobody WANTS to come here.
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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                  #9
                  Poll added. Though I think only the last two options are really needed.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #10
                    What is UKIP's stance on LGBT issues? Are they branded homophobic as well as racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic?
                    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                    Originally posted by vetran
                    Urine is quite nourishing

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