What I would like for my vote

Jon_in_london

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These are a few things I would like to be offered by some political party that at the moment, isnt offered by any of the top three parties, Any UK voters care to comment? add their own?

1. Abandon this silly windfarm nonsense and build Nuclear
2. Re-Nationalise the railways and use the money saved to extend the network.
3. End the Faith School program and secularise education
4. Punish criminals. The police arent bogged down in paperwork, they take plenty of theives but the legal system lets them straight back out.
5. An English Parliament for a federal UK.
6. Major pull-back from the EU.
 
Hmmm..... so how do you go about doing that anyway? Anyone got an 'idiots guide to starting a political party' to lend me for a while. I promise to reward you with lucrative contracts when I become king!
 
Get rid of the welsh and scotish parliments
end the use of homeopathy in the NHS

(those two should save some money)

Adopt the euro if posible
Get rid of every tax that isn't on income (and raise the varius taxes on income acordingly)
Get rid of the tax on pention funds
Make building on an abandoned canal a criminal offence
Make every university course have at least 15 hours of student lecture contact a week (me bitter?)
Make it legal for aslym seakers to work from day 1
Upgrade the JANET network.
 
Jon_in_london said:
Hmmm..... so how do you go about doing that anyway? Anyone got an 'idiots guide to starting a political party' to lend me for a while. I promise to reward you with lucrative contracts when I become king!
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Rule the world... an idiots guide!

1) Gather round you some like minded individuals.
2) Agree a structure for your organisation and a set of policies to campaign on.
3) Appoint yourself an election agent- who will do things like monitor your election expenses etc.
4) Contact your local returning officer (appointed by your LA- they will be able to point you in the right direction) to get your nomination papers.
5) Fill out your nomination papers, find 10 people who are on the elctror4l register in the constituency/ ward in which you wish to stand and have them sign the papers.
6) Return your nomination papers with a £500 deposit to ether returning officer.
7) Get elected
8) World domination.

It’s that simple (you can even skip parts 1 and 2 if you are pushed for time or are Silvio Berlusconis).
Though I would recommended getting some legal advice on election law- it can be tricky bugger at times.

Remember your humble Brodski when you are King...
 
Allow open immigration to Mexican aliens , with open arms, as long as they join the military.

Abandon wind power to fog power.

Create a user tax for visitors who wish to see "London Bridges Falling Down". You know...make a Leaning Tower of Piza thing out of it, for revenue.

Allow the French free use of the Chunnel if they change citizenship to England and pay English taxes and join the military.
 
brodski said:
It’s that simple (you can even skip parts 1 and 2 if you are pushed for time or are Silvio Berlusconis).
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Alternatively you can skip 7 and 8 and go directly to "Lose deposit" ;)

But seriously, Jon, weren't you aligning yourself with the UKIP at one point? What happened there?
 
Jon_in_london said:
These are a few things I would like to be offered by some political party that at the moment, isnt offered by any of the top three parties, Any UK voters care to comment? add their own?

1. Abandon this silly windfarm nonsense and build Nuclear
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Build what ever works, no dogma.


Jon_in_london said:

2. Re-Nationalise the railways and use the money saved to extend the network.
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Start out with a clear understanding of how the railways is meant to fit into all the other transport options and infrastructure (and the countries predicted requirements for the next 25 years) and take the action that will most likely lead to that being accomplished.

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3. End the Faith School program and secularise education
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Agreed.

Jon_in_london said:

4. Punish criminals. The police arent bogged down in paperwork, they take plenty of theives but the legal system lets them straight back out.
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Completely overhaul the judiciary and legal profession, focus on rehabilitation rather then punishment, stop people harming others.

Jon_in_london said:

5. An English Parliament for a federal UK.
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Stop all new residential and commercial building programs in the SE of England, relocate parliament and all government departments to Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Exeter, Flint and Inverness.

Jon_in_london said:

6. Major pull-back from the EU.
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Further integration with EU.

(And only some of the above is a bit tongue-in-the-cheek.)
 
geni said:


Get rid of every tax that isn't on income (and raise the varius taxes on income acordingly)

Get rid of the tax on pention funds

Make every university course have at least 15 hours of student lecture contact a week (me bitter?)

Upgrade the JANET network.
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Geni- Just to pick a few:

I'd like to see a tax on wealth not income. Although I dont know how the King Jon_in_london Party is going to achieve this just yet.

Agreed. Very much agreed. I'd like to see much less tax on savings on investments- at least up to a certain level- to encourage people to save instead of punishing them for it.

Agreed very much again. I would waive top-up fees for science, engineering and medicine and whack on the fees for media studies and other useless nonsense.

WTF is the JANET network?
 
geni said:
Get rid of the welsh and scotish parliments
end the use of homeopathy in the NHS

(those two should save some money)

Adopt the euro if posible
Get rid of every tax that isn't on income (and raise the varius taxes on income acordingly)
Get rid of the tax on pention funds
Make building on an abandoned canal a criminal offence
Make every university course have at least 15 hours of student lecture contact a week (me bitter?)
Make it legal for aslym seakers to work from day 1
Upgrade the JANET network.
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What tax on pension funds are you referring to?
 
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Darat said:


.....................focus on rehabilitation rather then punishment,

Further integration with EU.
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Darat- I agree with everything exept the above.

See! YOU can be a member of the King Jon_in_london Party!
 
Jon_in_london said:
Geni- Just to pick a few:

I'd like to see a tax on wealth not income. Although I dont know how the King Jon_in_london Party is going to achieve this just yet.
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I tend to take the view that any money you have left over after tax is yours to keep

Agreed very much again. I would waive top-up fees for science, engineering and medicine and whack on the fees for media studies and other useless nonsense.
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Already done for teaching

WTF is the JANET network? [/B]
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The Joint Academic NETwork currently my main way of acessing the net. It is the internet connection used by university an increaseing number of collages and a fair number of schools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET
 
Jon_in_london said:
the £5 billion a year one.

Google "tax on pension funds"
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I thought that was what he was referring to. Problem is that is not a tax, so it is not possible to simply abolish it. It is the effect of changes elsewhere in the tax system (specifically the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax).

In other words, there is no legislation saying "pension funds must pay tax of x%, or £x, or on certain types of income" that you could abolish and so leave pension funds better off.
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
I thought that was what he was referring to. Problem is that is not a tax, so it is not possible to simply abolish it. It is the effect of changes elsewhere in the tax system (specifically the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax).

In other words, there is no legislation saying "pension funds must pay tax of x%, or £x, or on certain types of income" that you could abolish and so leave pension funds better off.
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I do confess my ignorance of this matter. Please elaborate.
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
I thought that was what he was referring to. Problem is that is not a tax, so it is not possible to simply abolish it. It is the effect of changes elsewhere in the tax system (specifically the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax).

In other words, there is no legislation saying "pension funds must pay tax of x%, or £x, or on certain types of income" that you could abolish and so leave pension funds better off.
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But you could simply say "pension funds will no longer have to ay income tax on investment income".

(it would be even better if it applied to all investments - pre ACT repeal [june 97] - pension funds didn't have to pay tax on their equity dividend income but had to on other types of investment income, which is one of the reasons why historically pension funds have invested in equities in such high proportions).
 
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