If you were forming a political party what manifesto commitments would you make?

[vetran]

1. Manage immigration
2. Build houses to fit our growing population.
3. Build schools to fit our growing population.
4. Build medical services to fit our growing population.
5. Deport criminals
6. Fix Crime by
a, Stop and search
b. Enforced drug rehabilitation
c. Improved mental health care
d. other
7. Tax Multinationals fairly
8. Use lifetime education to change employment outcomes.
9. Rationalise services using automation & self service.
10. Target growth industries such as green & Bio.
etc?

what would you want? do you agree?

[WTFH]

Pretty much in agreement with you, just unsure why this is in the Brexit forum.

[vetran]

Pretty much in agreement with you, just unsure why this is in the Brexit forum.

well the two new parties are change uk & Brexit party both driven by Brexit.

[NotAllThere]

Seems ok, but aside from taxing multinationals "fairly", how will you pay for all this?

Btw, Switzerland reduced drug crime massively by providing free clean heroin to registered addicts, and a safe place to shoot up (offering drug counselling, rehab etc., but not making in compulsory). The economic cost of this is more than compensated by the drop in petty crimes. An unexpected side-effect is that since addicts live longer, younger people see the long-term effects of heroin, and the number of addicts has also fallen significantly - of course there may be additional factors causing this.

Therefore, I'd take point b) out. I wouldn't add a point, because a large proportion of the general public would wail and moan about giving free drugs to addicts - even though overall it benefits everyone.

[meridian]

Like most manifestos, it sounds good until you think about each one just a little bit and realise that what you’ve written is just waffly enough to mean anything to anyone.

[BrilloPad]

100% tax on rental income.

Oh ok then! 99%.....

[BrilloPad]

Capital punishment for people who look at their phones so are not looking where they are going.

[WordIsBond]

Call Nicola Sturgeon's bluff and approve IndyRef2. Keep doing over and over again until the Scots leave, quit putting the SNP in power, or the SNP quits talking about IndyRefXXX

[Old Greg]

Deport aggressive tax avoiding contractors to Rockall.
Sofa tax hypothecated to fund a West Midlands sanctuary for squirrel vicitms of sexual harassment.
Customer weight based tax on airport first class lounges.
Parliament, not government, to control parliamentary time.
Gammon tax.
Cretin tax.
100 votes each in all elections for British citizens who have had the drive to move overseas.

[Zigenare]

Prevent non-UK residents from posting on CUK.