More likely to vote Independent than Reform/Restore - I already live in a Reform area where they do far less when in power than they did before that.
I do know quite a few very frustrated Labour voters who are looking elsewhere though and of the policies they already have, but haven't acting on, these are the ones that I hear most:
- Increase stamp duty charges on non-UK residents, as a first step to dealing with the issue of non-UK residents and companies buying up housing, land, and other assets.
- Strengthen rules on donation to political parties, Enforce restrictions on ministers lobbying for companies they used to regulate, End links between Minister access and inside track on public contracts as first steps towards dealing with lack of trust in political parties and politicians.
- Introduce mandatory professional standards on vetting checks for police officers. This should already be there.
- Improvements to justice in rape and sexual offences crimes. It's a disgrace we've parts of the country where people are waiting over 5 years for a trial for sex offences.
- Upgrade the national transmission infrastructure
- Energy Independence
- Reintroduce the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act
- Reform gambling regulations - the constant advertising of one of the most destructive, addictive non-substances is ridiculous.
Policies I'd like them to introduce:
Digital Independence. We've given so much of our digital infrastructure and work to non-UK, largely US, corporations, bringing our sensitive data under US laws and restricting our ability to challenge the US.
Rebuild our court systems back better, as others have already mentioned in different ways, which will be needed to bring improvements to justice in rape and sexual offences crimes. I don't get why they don't holler from the rooftops about the Tories having closed so many courts, cut the court service to the bone, and actively encouraged neglect of court buildings leading to losing court days to buildings issues. Instead they follow the Tory line that the backlog is about COVID - it increased it, but it was already terrible well before that. The Leveson Inquiry touched on the many ways to do this, but they and the media got so stuck on the jury situation (which is barely a blip in the delays courts have) that most of suggestions have been lost in the long grass.
Get rid of 'private partners' in immigration that lead to a financial incentive to increasing immigration. There are all these questions around why here are so many promises and changes to immigration law that seem to only lead to more immigration - that's where we're at.
Stop the surveillance state.
Cut the civil service numbers, all the extra people employed during Brexit are still there. Also cut the civil service pensions.
Reduce the number of civil servants and cut the amount paid into their pensions. Those on the lowest bands get paid far more than they would outside.
For some departments, this is very true and part of the lack of trust. In others, not so much - and it seems the areas people want most (court system, crime) are the ones that took the biggest cuts. There are parts of the civil service where the lowest band is paid at or barely above minimum wage, that were cut to the bone under the Tories that Labour has largely maintained and where the extra people during Brexit were agency staff that don't have access to civil service pensions and are expected to leave.