[Northern Monkey]

Andrew Niel gives us a rundown here

Youtube video

[reece(:]

It's divisive and one note. No thanks

[smudgie]

Strewth no.

[Wizard.]

I agree with things like scrapping the TV licence and abolishing House of Lords

[Northern Monkey]

NHS

To invest an extra Ł11 billion every year into the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament.
To give NHS England an additional Ł9 billion a year by 2021/22 and an additional Ł2 billion for social care, paid for through cuts to the foreign aid budget.
Lift the cap on medical school training places from 7,500 to 10,000.
Increase the number of nurse training placements, reinstate funding for bursaries to cover nursing, midwifery and allied health professions’ tuition and accommodation costs, and cover the cost of re-training for nurses who have taken career breaks.
Scrap the one per cent pay increase cap for frontline NHS workers earning less than Ł35,000.
Increase spending on mental health services by at least Ł500 million every year.


Immigration

To introduce a "one in, one out" immigration system and set a target to reduce net migration to zero over a five-year period.
Place a moratorium on unskilled and low-skilled immigration for five years after the UK leaves the EU.
No amnesty for illegal immigrants.
To introduce a "social attitudes" test as part of a points-based immigration system which would stop people who believe women or gay people are "second-class citizens" from entering the country.

Foreign Aid

To scrap the existing commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid and reduce the aid budget to 0.2 per cent of GDP instead.
To close the Department for International Development with the Ł10 billion saved every year put into the NHS.
Commission a Naval Ocean-Going Surgical Hospital (Nosh) ship to ensure Britain can help in times of global crises.

Religion

To introduce a ban on the wearing of the "dehumanising" burka and full face coverings in public places partially on the grounds that they "prevent intake of essential vitamin D from sunlight".
To put in place a moratorium on new Islamic faith schools.
To ban the practice of Sharia law in the UK.

Justice

Make failure to report a known instance of female genital mutilation a criminal offence.
Implement a screening programme for girls identified to be at risk of FGM from birth to age sixteen, consisting of annual non-invasive physical check-ups.
Repeal the 2003 Licensing Act to "reduce the density of alcohol outlets" and to restrict trading times to protect emergency service staff from abuse.

Tax

Raise the threshold for paying income tax to Ł13,500, cut taxes for middle earners, abolish the TV licence and cut VAT on household bills.
No tax rises.
The 40 per cent income tax threshold to be increased to Ł55,000.
To restore the personal allowance to those earning over Ł100,000.
Raise the inheritance tax threshold to Ł500,000 per individual, transferable for married couples or those in civil partnerships, so up to Ł1 million in total with proposals to eventually scrap inheritance tax altogether.

Education

Scrap tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine students.
Open a grammar school in every town.
Stop tuition fees being paid for courses which do not lead at least two thirds of students into into a graduate level job, or a job corresponding to their degree, within five years after graduation.

Housing

Provide up to 100,000 new homes for younger people every year by rolling out high quality, low cost factory built modular homes, affordable on the national average wage of Ł26,000.

Pensions and welfare

Maintain all pensioner benefits including the winter fuel allowance and free bus passes as well as the pensions Triple Lock.
Protect disability and carer’s benefits.
A flexible state pension age with people able to retire earlier on a slightly lower state pension.

Jobs

To bring forward new laws to require employers to advertise jobs to British citizens before they offer them overseas.

Defence, crime and security

Spend a genuine two per cent of GDP on defence plus Ł1 billion extra for the defence budget every year.
Fund 20,000 more police officers, 7,000 more prison officers, and 4,000 more border force staff.
Keep all existing prisons open and continue existing building plan.
Send as many as possible of the 13,000 foreign nationals in UK jails back to their home countries to serve sentences.
Keep the Trident nuclear deterrent.

Brexit

All EU flags to be banned from being flown from public buildings in the UK post-Brexit.
June 23 to be named Independence Day and made a bank holiday.
Government must not pay a Brexit divorce bill.
To restore the blue British passport.

Energy

Repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act and withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.

Transport

Scrap HS2 and invest in existing main line services to create additional capacity.
End the "modern-day highway robbery" of road tolls.

Democracy

Replace first past the post with a proportional electoral system.
Abolish the House of Lords.

[reece(:]

Repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act and withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.

[Northern Monkey]

I know alot of peeps wont like the climate change one but other than that what's not to like?

Answers below please....

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by reece(:

It's divisive and one note. No thanks

That's how I saw it too, I found a fair amount unsavoury to say the least.

[Withano]

Dying at

All EU flags to be banned from being flown from public buildings in the UK post-Brexit.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Riley.

I agree with things like scrapping the TV licence and abolishing House of Lords

It's the TV Licence or Adverts which one would you prefer?

[Withano]

Their answer to fgm is to force children to regularly visit (presumably) gynaecologists?

I know the other half of the debate is 'something has to be done' jesus christ not this though. How can you force children to do this. What does 'believed to be at risk' even mean.

Somebody is in charge of choosing which children, ****ing children, will visit a gynaecologist? Thats disgraceful.

[Scarlett.]

I love that their tagline is 'Britain Together'

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I love that their tagline is 'Britain Together'

The irony in this is in more ways than one.

[Withano]

I'm interested in their electoral system policy, cba to google what it means though cos obvs I'm not voting for them

Are they suggesting 10% of votes = 10% of seats?

[Tregard]

One in one out makes absolutely no sense (4in4out vibes), and the climate change thing kills this completely.

Genuinely surprised smoking in pubs isn't on there.

[Jake.]

Nope

[Wizard.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

It's the TV Licence or Adverts which one would you prefer?

For people in poverty who can barely afford food nevermind doing anything entertaining but watching TV I'm sure would rather watch adverts.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Tregard

One in one out makes absolutely no sense (4in4out vibes), and the climate change thing kills this completely.

Genuinely surprised smoking in pubs isn't on there.

How would one in one out work

[Glenn.]

A lot of pipe dreams in that.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Cherie

How would one in one out work

Bit like a nightclub when it's full i guess?

[Denver]

If it was anyone else but that nutcase in charge i would vote

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Bit like a nightclub when it's full i guess?

But would there be a waiting list? First come first serve? What about foreign students? Doctors for the NHS? People who are offered a placement before entering the country?
It just seems like they're playing to their (typically) anti-immigration audience by proposing nonsense that can not logistically work

[JTM45]

You've posted this in the wrong section.

This is for ''Serious Debates & News''.