Post Your Electoral manifesto.

Gassage

OK: You have 10 (or less) points to make in order to support your election as PM.

The rules are they're things you'd what to change and are changable.

What are they and why?

Mine:

1. Tax reform and NI: Raise taxes by 1% basic, 1% upper and introduce supertax of 50% on earnings over £200k to fund 2 below. Tax relief of 5% for essential workers (teachers, nurses, fire); All FS workers who own over £1m to be taxed an additional £50k to be placed into 'innovation funding. Mandatory health insurance paid by all employers, including for zero hour workers.
2. Abolish all forms of paid education for nationalised residents; in its place, using money from 2 above, introduce 3 bands of school, based upon entrance exams and, importantly, make all education completely secular.
3. Formation of a crack squad of Boardroom Fraud Investigators with teeth and empowerment.
4. Ban all forms of religious animal slaughter techniques.
5. Nationalise the Royal Family, make it a profit making PLC with KPI's and targets and an ability to invest (no shareholding allowed over 1%)
6. Total ban on alcohol advertising and all booze branding to match that of cigarettes.
7. Legalise personal use of Cannabis.
8. All politicians to resign directorships and biz interests for 4 years prior and 4 years after office; no income from other sources of any kind, but raise salaries. Expenses on residences abolished.
9. Cancel Trident and put money into Innovation Fund 7 above and alternative energy sources.
10. All nationalised companies that are 'sold off' are to attract a proportional dividend of 40% split accross working public as basic rate tax relief.

Based upon this, I expect to win by a landslide.

mgaw

you got my vote one for me would be that

use of false information by persons seeking public office to garner support will be illegal

Hertz32

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Reverend

1 death to false metal
2 marmite.  You either love it or you shouldn't be allowed to vote
3 if you are famous for "reality" tv then you legally cannot be referred to as a celebrity
4 Katie Hopkins will have to listen whilst someone explains why what she said makes he look so stupid,  everything she goes near a keyboard or microphone. And then shown a photo of her dogging before she naked a moral pronouncement. 
5 anyone in politics to be fitted with a small scale taser that goes off anytime they tell a lie. 

Gassage

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

Gassage

Reverend said:

1 death to false metal
2 marmite.  You either love it or you shouldn't be allowed to vote
3 if you are famous for "reality" tv then you legally cannot be referred to as a celebrity
4 Katie Hopkins will have to listen whilst some new explains why what she said makes he look so stupid,  everything she goes near a keyboard or microphone. And then shown a photo of her dogging before she naked a moral pronouncement. 
5 anyone in politics to be fitted with a small scale taser that goes off anytime they tell a lie. 

Would you like to be my Chancellor?

HAL9000

All pay rises to be across the board ie if the CEO awards himself 20% then everybody else also gets 20%.

People owning shares to be made to hang onto them for, say, five years before being allowed to sell. That way investors would be interested in the long term viability of the company instead of a quick profit.

All manifesto promises to be legally binding.

dano

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 


The tax and education ideas I like. I was one of the last year's to get tuition free uni and strongly believe it should be free for all.

Gassage

dano said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 

When has the UK ever used it as a threat or deterrent?

dano

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 

When has the UK ever used it as a threat or deterrent?

Cold war ? 

Hertz32

The only people that dont want a nuclear deterrent, dont understand how a nuclear deterrent works. 
Its used every day of the year since since it went operational, it gives us international political leverage we would otherwise miss out on. We are a small nation, dont forget that. 

And banning religious slaughter is a divisive choice, you would struggle to get the religious vote. 

Ravenous

All singers will be required to act sensibly.  That is all.

Gassage

dano said:

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 

When has the UK ever used it as a threat or deterrent?

Cold war ? 

Nope. We were never threatened.

Gassage

Hertz32 said:

And banning religious slaughter is a divisive choice, you would struggle to get the religious vote. 

Yes, but think how many Turkeys would vote for me at Christmas.

Gassage

Hertz32 said:

The only people that dont want a nuclear deterrent, dont understand how a nuclear deterrent works. 
Its used every day of the year since since it went operational, it gives us international political leverage we would otherwise miss out on. We are a small nation, dont forget that.

So, as you clearly understand how it works, when would you use it? Describe the scenario.

TTony

Gassage said:

Post Your Electorial manifesto

Mine'd be simple (so as to appeal to the maximum number of voters).

Vote for me because I can spell - the other guy can't.

Hertz32

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

The only people that dont want a nuclear deterrent, dont understand how a nuclear deterrent works. 
Its used every day of the year since since it went operational, it gives us international political leverage we would otherwise miss out on. We are a small nation, dont forget that.

So, as you clearly understand how it works, when would you use it? Describe the scenario.

Its in use today, if we didnt have it then what would stop russia using us as a hostage against the US? 

If you are asking what scenario I'd release the warheads, then I'll point out that that isnt what Trident is used for. It's a political tool, not a military one. 

Hertz32

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 

When has the UK ever used it as a threat or deterrent?

Cold war ? 

Nope. We were never threatened.

And we had nuclear weapons, the vulcan bomber was on constant standby. I dont know that you'd be able to say the same had they not been. 

Gassage

Hertz32 said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

The only people that dont want a nuclear deterrent, dont understand how a nuclear deterrent works. 
Its used every day of the year since since it went operational, it gives us international political leverage we would otherwise miss out on. We are a small nation, dont forget that.

So, as you clearly understand how it works, when would you use it? Describe the scenario.

Its in use today, if we didnt have it then what would stop russia using us as a hostage against the US? 

If you are asking what scenario I'd release the warheads, then I'll point out that that isnt what Trident is used for. It's a political tool, not a military one. 

Right. So you'd spend £41Bn on something that you admit you'll never use, when there's people dying of cold on the streets , and when that something is purely for national vanity?

Gassage

Hertz32 said:

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

dano said:

Gassage said:

Hertz32 said:

4 and 9 just made you unelectable. 

Why 4?
And, when was the last time we needed to use Trident?

It's a deterrent so it's never been used. But the threat of a deterrent has been used for many years. 

When has the UK ever used it as a threat or deterrent?

Cold war ? 

Nope. We were never threatened.

And we had nuclear weapons, the vulcan bomber was on constant standby. I dont know that you'd be able to say the same had they not been. 

So when would they have been used?

Fretwired

Gassage said:

OK: You have 10 (or less) points to make in order to support your election as PM.

The rules are they're things you'd what to change and are changable.

What are they and why?

Mine:

1. Tax reform and NI: Raise taxes by 1% basic, 1% upper and introduce supertax of 50% on earnings over £200k to fund 2 below. Tax relief of 5% for essential workers (teachers, nurses, fire); All FS workers who own over £1m to be taxed an additional £50k to be placed into 'innovation funding. Mandatory health insurance paid by all employers, including for zero hour workers.
2. Abolish all forms of paid education for nationalised residents; in its place, using money from 2 above, introduce 3 bands of school, based upon entrance exams and, importantly, make all education completely secular.
3. Formation of a crack squad of Boardroom Fraud Investigators with teeth and empowerment.
4. Ban all forms of religious animal slaughter techniques.
5. Nationalise the Royal Family, make it a profit making PLC with KPI's and targets and an ability to invest (no shareholding allowed over 1%)
6. Total ban on alcohol advertising and all booze branding to match that of cigarettes.
7. Legalise personal use of Cannabis.
8. All politicians to resign directorships and biz interests for 4 years prior and 4 years after office; no income from other sources of any kind, but raise salaries. Expenses on residences abolished.
9. Cancel Trident and put money into Innovation Fund 7 above and alternative energy sources.
10. All nationalised companies that are 'sold off' are to attract a proportional dividend of 40% split accross working public as basic rate tax relief.

Based upon this, I expect to win by a landslide.

1 would not fund 2. Mandatory health insurance for all workers would bankrupt many small firms and lead to a large rise in unemployment - bigger firms may relocate to Eastern Europe (source: government report on NHS funding). Don't understand how 10 would work.