We need a political party that will…

[Skippp]

I work in finance and this country is on the brink of collapse. It’s spending too much, it’s not growing the economy and needs someone to come in and make good decisions quickly if we are to survive. It’s in a really serious state now and action must be taken. I’vote Labour, and did so hoping Keir would be brave enough to take the hard decisions needed but he’s been a pathetic wet blanket. We need a government who:

1. get rid of the triple lock. It’s laughably unaffordable.
2. reassess the whole benefits system and get rid of disability payments for anything but the most severe conditions, increasing the amounts to those who have these conditions.
3. restrict benefit payments to those born outwith the UK to those that have been in full time work for a large proportion of their adult lives here.
4. Reduce the minimum wage to help companies hire again.
5. Reduce housing benefit. People will have to move to somewhere cheaper or landlords will have to drop prices to what people can afford.
6. Go to an insurance backed healthcare system like they enjoy in Europe.
7. Ditch 95% of planning regulation and get Britain building again.
8. ditch net zero. No one is going to run a successful business in a country with the highest energy costs on the planet.
9. Reopen Scotland oil and gas production (inc refineries) and explore for more areas.
10. Simplify income taxes. Roll income tax into NICs. Give everyone child care hours, child benefit, personal allowance and increase tax rates to pay for this. Stop artificially restricting people from earning more.
11. Simplify VAT. Drop the threshold to £20k to ensure no one has a ceiling on earnings.
12. Simplify IHT. 5% on everything. No nil rates or exemptions.
13. rejoin the single market and customs union.
14. Explain policies better! Tell people how unaffordable the triple lock etc is. Tell them what the single market and customs union non is and why you’re rejoining. Tell people what the ‘bond markets’ are and why they’re important. Tell people why paying for rich people’s child care is much better for the economy than forcing high earners to drop their hours.
15. Probably ought to start deporting economic migrants with no right to stay quickler to throw some red meat to reform voters.

We need a party to take on ALL of these policies and move AT PACE on them. Who’s the party that will do this? I thought it was Labour but BOY was I wrong on that!

What are people adding to the list?

How uncaring can you be? Just admit you want everyone else worse off than yourself to be screwed over

Being unemployed as a young person is an indicator for being unemployed for the rest of your life. A few pence more on the minimum wage hardly touches the side for someone paying thousands every month in rent.

You have no idea do you. The nhs doesn't provide hardly anything anymore.

But losing that could be the difference between keeping your house or not.

Nuclear is a core part of the net zero policy already. The contract to build SMRs (small modular reactors) has been awarded to Rolls-Royce who have huge experience building small reactors for submarines.

The idea of SMRs is that they are much quicker to build (they are built in a factory), and can be distributed where they are needed.

Great British Energy - Nuclear is doing really important work in this area that is going to transform our energy supply away from gas over the next decade. But as usual unless you know where to look you won’t hear anything about it as the media don’t bother to report on strategic initiatives preferring to focus on political drama and spectacle.

Everyone in Germany pays a minimum of €190 a month for their healthcare and the government inputs more than we fund the NHS. France also funds its healthcare system at a higher level. The issue with the NHS isn’t how it’s funded; it how it’s run.

I agree with most of your “manifesto”..: it’s the bold thinking we need…. However, your proposals on disability benefits go too far, and could be economically counterproductive, as well as cause a lot of suffering to those who are already struggling.

For instance, removing the benefits from a partially sighted person that enable them to access work would be both cruel and economically stupid.

Kids give up trying to get jobs after a while. They get despondent, depressed and stay in their rooms playing video games.

So your solution to poor parenting is minimum wage workers being screwed over?

As I said, if we built more houses, that would be far less likely to happen. This government promised 1.5 million homes in 5 years. They are not on target even allowing for a slow start.

Agree with this 100%

No but it needs to change so that it does! Handing out cash to be spent on goodness knows what is hardly working is it?

Houses that people can’t but because the minimum wage is so low?

Where I live have had thousands of houses built every year. If they’re not approved by the council the gov inspector tends to let the developer win at appeal.
The green spaces in our town are disappearing.

An application for 3600 houses is going in over the next few years just down the road.

And the houses are generally awful quality and incredibly expensive. They cost more and more each year.

I do feel that we need all the parties to be honest about the country's financial situation and the issues its facing.

Im not sold on all the solutions you list.

Im not sure everyone can move somewhere cheaper and landlords can unilaterally drop prices.

I think minimum wage and NI has impacted on employers employing but also AI has and we need to think about that too.

I find my neighbour waiting 4 years for a hip replacement uncaring but you do you.

All of what I said is still 'fine', whatever our emissions. And would still benefit our economy and everyone personally.
We would have much lower electricty prices if we addressed the pricing structural issues I mentioned, and if we got off being so reliant on gas.
Taking more oil and gas out of the north sea for the profit of large corp is not a quick win or a long term solution.
Oh and we need to get public transport sorted and proper home charging solutions for all for electric cars.
Just because other countries are not doing the right thing does not mean we should stop bothering. The UK started the industrial revolution and benefitted from emissions long before places like China and even the US! We should be leaders not followers.

What are you talking about? The NHS provides very comprehensive healthcare!

Exactly so it needs to be run better not have more and more money thrown at it.

This. NHS funding goes up more than any other government spending year after year yet productivity in the NHS has stalled. Why?

Not when you don't live in a city its doesn't. Do you know how many conversations end in we don't offer that here. Do you have any idea what a postcode lottery the nhs is.

The reason orthopaedic waiting lists are so long is because of an ageing and increasingly unhealthy population.

Oh and I for one would rather not be left with stand pipes and power cuts because 'other countries are worse emitters than us' ....

The NHS is magnificent when you’re really ill. I’ve seen cancer treatment at very close quarters for the last year. The skill is amazing and the treatment superb. God alone knows what its cost is, I’m just bloody grateful it’s there.

I assume the price of electricity is linked to gas because we use gas to generate it? So how do you decouple it without moving entirely to renewables which we’re not yet in a position to do?