A Plague on Both Their Parties.
Why do I say that? Becausee they (the Conservative and Labour parties are both part of “the Establishment”).
So what are my priorities? My priorities are 1) the climate emergency. 2) domestic violence and 3) homelessness and economic deprivation.
The climate emergency requires changes. So what can the government do. First is to change the Planning and Building regulations and the law regarding Mortgages. At present, businesses that offer mortgages are reluctant to lend on properties that are of “non-standard” construction. However, by definition, homes that are built to “eco-friendly” standards will be of non standard construction. So the law needs to be changed; Incorporating what I call the “Canary Wharf Clause”.
2) To help bring an end to domestic violence the law also needs to be changed so that victims do not need to testify in court. This could be possible. After all, murder victims, by defintion do not and cannot testify in court. Perhaps high quality video and forensic evidence should be sufficient for the CPS to prosecute an offender.
3) Regarding homelessness and economic deprivation, I think that the Economic Empowerment of everyone to end their own homelessness. To do this, there must be an alternative to the current DLP economic operating system. So I propose the establishment in law, of an Alternative Economic Operating System with which to “dual-boot” the economy.
By doing this, I believe we could double the Wealth of Btitain and therefore reduce taxation for rveryone; perhaps even reduce Council Tax bt 50%!! Of course, this would have to be worked out by bodies such as the ONS (Office of National Statistics).
My Manifesto
I will be standing as an Independent in the General Election on December 12 2019.
As a Democrat, I believe the Referendum result should be respected. I believe in the Sovereignty of the citizen which should over-rule the sovereignty of Parliament. However, we need a Constitutional Convention to codify and create and write a constitution. This is what I would campaign for.
The crisis that exists today in our political system was foretold and warned about in 1970 by a scientist. He was dimissed by the the political leaders of the day as a “Prophet of Doom”. Also Dr. Jeremy Bray, who was a Labour MP in Harold Wilson’s government and wrote a book “Decision in Government”. He rsigned as an MP when he was referred to as “a mad professor”(Source Wikipedia). Science helped to win the Battle of Britain; I will be campaigning for science to win the Battle For Britain.
About wealth and inequality. First of all, the Viv Nichols and Charles Clore kinds of people are always amongst us. By using Systems Thinking and creating Causal Loops as I have advocated in my book published in 2013 which calls for an alternative Economic Operating System. By using Causal Loops, income inequality would be reduced. Back in 1973, the American management/business guru wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Is Executive Pay Excessive” in which he called for businesses to put in the company’s Articles of Association that the after tax wage diferential should be 8% or 8 to 1; I forget which. Since different countries have diferent tax regimes, in my book I have called for a maximum statutory wage/income differential of 20 to 1. I have no objection to a CEO being paid £1 000 000 pa as long as the person who cleans the CEO’s office is paid 5% (1/20th) of that amount, i.e. £50 000 pa. To paraphrase Elwood Blues, “I know all about poverty, I have been in poverty all my life.” A cleaner is traditionally the lowest paid person in a business.
My priority as an independent standing for election is the Climate emergency, tackling the problem of domestic violence, homelessness and poverty. To solve these problems, it is necessary to empower the people to solve these problems for themselves. This involves changing the law regarding tenants and landlords. Changing the the law regarding mortgages. And alsoreplacing the current sexist and bullying benefit system with one that builds self esteem and economic independence. Government bureaucracy should be a stepping stone to fulfilling the citizen’s aspirations; not a millstone round the neck of benefit claimants.
About human rights; if you are a human being, you have a right to life; therefore you have a right (and obligation) to earn a living. Therefore there is no need for governments to issue work permits or to make it illegal to earn a living; however, a government should make it a requirement to pay income tax for 5 or 10 years before a person is eligible for benefits.
Regarding the benfit system; child benefit should be abolished 10 months after a new government is formed and a “parenting skills allowance” of 100 hours at the NMW rate which should make every parent a qualified child minder or foster parent or nursery nurse. A super-nanny in every family! Also job seekers allownce should be abolished and replaced with a “personal development and community involvement allowance” set at 5 x3 hours at NMW rate; a kind of EMA!
POSIWID; The Purpose of a System Is What It Does. 