diff --git a/conservative.md b/conservative.md index b15cfb7..58e7129 100644 --- a/conservative.md +++ b/conservative.md @@ -48,14 +48,25 @@ Rail` and the expansion of Heathrow Airport. * Target `National Productivity Investment Fund` spending at housing, research and development, economic infrastructure and skills. -* Review railticketing and introduce a `Passenger Ombudsman`. +* Review rail-ticketing and introduce a `Passenger Ombudsman`. +* Ensure through the `Universal Service Obligation`, that every home and business + in Britain has access to high speed broadband. By the end of 2017, 19 out of + 20 premises will have access to super-fast broadband. +* By 2022, extend mobile coverage further to 95% geographic coverage of the UK. +* By 2022, ensure all major roads and mainline trains have uninterrupted phone + service and guaranteed WiFi internet on all such trains. +* Have a majority of the UK population covered by a 5G signal by 2027. +* Roll out `Verify` so that people can identify themselves on all government + services by 2020. +* Reduce data duplication across all systems, so that we automatically comply + with the `Once Only` principle in central government services by 2022 and + wider public services by 2025. ### Industry * Establish funding streams to ensure investment for the long term. * Increase spending on `Research and Development` so that we meet the `OECD` average for investment in R&D - 2.4% of GPD within 10 years. -* Build up the investment funds of our universities across the UK. * Create a number of `Sovereign Wealth Funds`, known as `Future Britain Funds`. * Ensure that 33% of central government spending is from SME's. * Ensure that big companies/contractors comply with the `Prompt Payment Code`. @@ -64,29 +75,14 @@ * Oblige all companies to give digital receipts, clearer terms and conditions when selling goods and services online, and support new digital proofs of identification. -* By the end of 2017, 19 out of 20 premises will have access to superfast - broadband. -* Ensure through the `Universal Service Obligation`, that every home and business - in Britain has access to high speed broadband. * Introduce a full fiber connection voucher for companies across the country by 2018. -* By 2022, extend mobile coverage further to 95% geographic coverage of the UK. -* By 2022, ensure all major roads and mainline trains have uninterrupted phone - service and guaranteed WiFi internet on all such trains. -* Have a majority of the UK population covered by a 5G signal by 2027. -* Give people the ability to require major social media platforms to delete - information about them at the age of 18. * Institute an expert `Data Use and Ethics Commission`. * Continue a £1.9 billion investment in cyber security. * Repeal section 40 of the `Crime and Courts Act 2014`. * Create a new presumption of digital government services by default. * Create a new `Schools Map` to help parents choose the school that is right for their child. -* Roll out `Verify` so that people can identify themselves on all government - services by 2020. -* Reduce data duplication across all systems, so that we automatically comply - with the `Once Only` principle in central government services by 2022 and - wider public services by 2025. * Combine the relevant parts of `HM Land Registry`, `Ordnance Survey`, the `Valuation Office Agency`, the `Hydrographic Office` and `Geological Survey` to create a comprehensive geospatial data body in government. @@ -164,6 +160,7 @@ * Introduce mental health first aid training for teachers in every primary and secondary school by the end of parliament and ensure every school has a single point of contact with mental health services. +* Build up the investment funds of our universities across the UK. ## Environment and Animal Cruelty @@ -280,6 +277,8 @@ * Invest over £1 billion to modernise the prison estate and creating 10,000 modern prison places. * Create a `National Community Sentencing Framework`. +* Give people the ability to require major social media platforms to delete + information about them at the age of 18. ### Local Communities @@ -306,7 +305,7 @@ receiving care at home. * Means-test winter fuel payments. -### Diverse Communities +### Diverse and Cultured Communities * Require companies with >250 employees to publish more data on the pay gap between men and women. diff --git a/green.md b/green.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf445c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/green.md @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +# Green Manifesto + +## Economy and Democracy + +* Move towards the introduction of `Universal Basic Income`, including + the introduction of a government-sponsored pilot scheme. +* Phase in a 4 day working week with a maximum of 35 hours. +* Abolish zero-hours contracts. +* Increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour by 2020. +* Require 40% of all members of public company and require 40% of all + members of public company and public sector boards to be women. +* Create a network of local people's banks for every city and region. +* Crackdown on tax dodging. +* Reform taxation to include a wealth tax on the top 1% of earners. +* Reinstate the higher level of corporation tax for large businesses. +* A `Robin Hood Tax` on high value transactions in the finance sector. +* Inheritance tax calculated according to the wealth of the recipient. +* Phased-in abolition of the cap on employees' national insurance. +* Remove VAT from sanitary products, and ensure they are provided free of + charge to those in extreme financial need. +* Lower the voting age to 16. +* Introduce proportional representation for parliamentary and local + elections. +* Increase diversity in representative politics, with job-shares and a + 50-50 parliament. +* Replace the `House of Lords` with an elected second chamber. +* Defend the `Human Rights Act` and UK membership of the `European + Convention on Human Rights`. +* Reinstate funding for the `Equality and Human Rights Commission`. +* Give Parliament a vote on any new trade deals. + +### Infrastructure + +* Bring energy, water, railways, buses, the Royal Mail and care work back + into public ownership. +* Increase funding for local authorities to provide good quality public + services. +* Review the effectiveness of how public services are structured, + including assessment how care is provided at the transition age of 18. +* Re-regulate buses, investing in increased bus services, especially in + rural and other poorly served areas. +* All public transport should be fully accessible and step-free with a + phase-in of free local public transport for young people, students, + people with disabilities, and older people. +* Invest in regional rail links and electrification of existing rail + lines. +* Cancel all airport expansion and end subsidies on airline fuel. +* Invest in low traffic neighbourhoods and safe/convenient networks for + walking and cycling, including safe places for learning to cycle. +* Invest in more staff at `HMRC`. + +### Industry + +* Support the roll-out of high speed broadband. +* Replace fracking, coal power stations and subsidies to fossil fuels and + nuclear with clean energy. + +### Employment + +* Raise national minimum wage to living wage levels for all. +* Scrap age-related wage bands. +* Revive the role of democratic trade unions. + +## Brexit + +* A referendum on the detail of the negotiated deal for Brexit, with the + option to reject the deal and remain in the EU. +* Protect freedom of movement. +* Press for remaining in the single market. +* Immediately guarantee the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK, and + seek reciprocal arrangements for UK citizens in the EU. +* Guarantee the rights of young people to study, work, live and travel in + the EU, including through schemes like `Erasmus`. + +## Education and Childcare + +* Provide more funding for sexual health awareness campaigns. +* Introduce non-biased political education and promote active citizenship. +* Free universal early education and childcare for all children, with + formal education starting formal education at age 7. +* Abolish `Ofsted`. +* Reform the curriculum so that it is pupil-centred. +* Increase real term spending per pupil, and protect this spending. +* Bring academies and free schools into the local authority system. +* Abolish SATS. +* Reduce class sizes. +* Scrap university tuition fees and fund full student grants. +* Greater public investment in further and higher education. +* Restore `Education Maintenance Allowance`. +* Enable apprenticeships to all qualified young people aged 16-25. + +## Environment and Animal Cruelty + +* Introduce an `Environmental Protection Act` to safeguard and restore + our environment. +* A public works programme of insulation to ensure every home is insulated. +* Invest in flood defenses and natural flood management. +* Equality of access to nature and green spaces. +* Limit global temperature increases to well below 2 degrees- aiming for + 2.5 degrees. +* Introduce a one-off fine on car manufacturers who cheated the emissions + testing regime. +* Create a new `Clean Air Act` which would expand and fund a clean air + zone network. +* Protection for the `Green Belt`, National Parks, SSSIs and Areas of + Outstanding Natural Beauty. +* Create a wider, more effective network of marine protected areas around + our coasts. +* Introduce `Deposit Return Schemes` with a zero waste target. +* Increase incentives to take diesel vehicles off the roads. + +## Housing + +* Introduce a `Living Rent` to all through rent controlls and more secure + tenancies for private renters. +* Put an end to letting fees. +* Introduce mandatory licencing for all landlords. +* Support the development of `Renters' Unions`. +* Start a major programme to build affordable, carbon-zero homes- + including 10,000 social rented homes each year by 2022. +* End mass council house sales. +* Scrap `Right to Buy` at discounted prices. +* Abolish the `Bedroom Tax`. +* Take action on empty homes to bring them back into use. +* Trial a `Land Value Tax` to encourage the use of vacant land. +* Axe buy-to-let tax breaks. +* Improve housing choice for deaf, disabled and older people by requiring + all councils to appropriately plan for their housing needs and + significantly increase the number of homes built to lifetime home and + mobility standards over the next 5 years. + +## Healthcare + +* Roll back privatisation of the NHS, to ensure that all health and dental + services are always publicly provided and funded - and free at the point + of access - through the introduction of an `NHS Reinstatement Act`. +* Scrap NHS `Sustainability and Transformation Plans`. +* Close the NHS spending gap and provide an immediate cash injection. +* Provide greater access to free condoms and sexual health clinics. + +## Security & Defense + +* Cancel `Trident` replacement. +* End support for aggressive wars of intervention. +* No more arms sales to oppressive regimes. +* Strengthen the global deal on climate change, including by delivering + climate justice and promoting ecologically sustainable development. +* End the sale of personal data for commercial or other ends. + +### Local Communities + +* Reject the `Prevent` strategy. +* Pursue community-led collaborative approaches to tackling all forms of + extremism instead. +* Protect the BBC. +* Tighten the rules on media ownership so no individual or company owns + more than 20% of the media market. + +### Social Services and Security + +* Major investment in social care for the elderly and all those who need + it. +* A single budget covering health and social services. +* Redress pension injustice. +* Redress benefits injustice. +* Reinstate housing benefit for under-21s and stop Local Authorities from + declaring young people 'intentionally homeless'. +* Invest in community house-building projects to provide housing options + for young people. + +### Diverse and Cultured Communities + +* Implement a UK-wide strategy to tackle gender-based violence, including + domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, FGM and trafficking. +* Action to tackle racism and discrimination on the basis of faith, + disability, real equality for LGBTIQA+ people, equal rights for mixed + gender couples to have Civil Partnership. + +### Disabilities and Mental Health + +* Introduce mental health awareness training within the public sector. +* Bring mental health care in line with physical health care through + local support networks. +* Ensure that every child with `Special Educational Needs` or Disability + has access to mainstream education, in accordance with the `UN + Convention for Persons with Disabilities`. + +## Foreign Policy + +* Increase the overseas aid budget from 0.7% of GPD to 1.0% of GDP. +* Implement an immigration and asylum system that recognises and takes + responsibility for Britain's ongoing role in causing mass migrations + worldwide. diff --git a/labour.md b/labour.md index 8e3fdc7..b3015bd 100644 --- a/labour.md +++ b/labour.md @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ challenged. in residential or other forms of care until they are 21. * Fund child burial fees for bereaved parents. -### Diverse Communities +### Diverse and Cultured Communities * Appoint a `Violence Against Women Commissioner` to enforce minimum standards in tackling domestic and sexual violence. @@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ faith. * Legislate to make terminal illness a protected characteristic under the `Equality Act`. * Give British Sign Language full recognition as a recognised language. +* Introduce a £1 billion `Cultural Capital Fund`. +* Introduce an arts pupil premium- a £160 million annual boost for schools to +invest in projects that will support cultural activity. ### Disabilities and Mental Health @@ -260,12 +263,6 @@ faith. and young people. * Review the provision of mental health services in prisons. -### Culture and Arts - -* Introduce a £1 billion `Cultural Capital Fund`. -* Introduce an arts pupil premium- a £160 million annual boost for schools to -invest in projects that will support cultural activity. - ## Foreign Policy * Publish a strategy for protecting civilians in conflict.