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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If I were to become PM, I would...
Introduce, or review, a cap for MP expenses, and change the claim system. It would no longer be a claim for what you've spent, it would be a percentage based claim, dependant on the type of claim you are making i.e travel, accomodation, food. Each type of claim would have an upper limit you are able to claim for. Travel, from your constituency to the House of Commons, in other words political duty travel, would be at 100% reimbursement.
I would increase the minimum wage. I would take advice as to the level set. On a 37 hr week, at £10, this is an annual salary of 17.7k. This would reduce the strain on the welfare bill, as the number of in work claimants would be reduced.
I would review the benefits sanction system. This would include reducing the number of sanctions given to currently manipulate employment figures. Those on JSA would not be placed on workplace programmes for companies like Poundland, unless the company is willing to pay the difference that should be earned, beyond the individuals fortnightly JSA payments. Therefore, if a claimant is working 20 hrs per week, they would be payed their JSA by the Govt, and a top-up to make up the correct amount, at minimum wage, for the hours worked in the fortnightly period. They would also be delivered career transition workshops in order to improve their basic numeracy and literacy skills, tailoring CVs for each job application and other such skills that would be beneficial during their job search.
I would introduce an NHS tax, this would be set at 2% and be specifically isolated for the NHS. A structural reorganisation would also be implemented within the NHS. This would redistribute the budget from the higher echelons of NHS management, especially those who are incapable of meeting the needs of the service, to enable more nurses, doctors or health care assistants to be employed.
I would raise the upper limit of income tax by 2.5%. I would also introduce an additional tax bracket, between the current middle and upper limits. The income this would apply to would corrrlate to that of MPs. MPs would always fit in this new tax bracket. At the current MPs income, this would be around the 70-75k mark. The rate of tax would be dictated by economic advisors to allow this tax to be fair and useful in its delivery.
Bedroom tax would be scrapped.
Council tax would be re-evaluated, so the average tax across all councils would match up, as currently there are similar council boroughs where a £400 difference in the yearly average is not uncommon. This re-evaluation would take into account the services necessary for each tax area.
I would ban the issue of zero hour contracts, unless the applicant has specifically asked for such a contract and signed documentation that is to be filed and kept for the duration of his employment.
I would also restructure the justice system that is currently present and rife with misrepresentation and malpractice. This would be to improve the efficiemcy and accuracy of the judiciary. There will also be cctv systems implemented in all juror deliberation areas. Jurors will be required to submit paperwork, post verdict, as to their reasons for their verdict. There will be no names allocated, but they will receive a juror number to annotate on the paperwork. This will be filed, along with cctv recordings and transcripts with the rest of the applicable case files.
Jurors will also be required to return for sentencing of the individual, if they deliver a guilty verdict. In serious cases, these individuals are deciding the fate of a person's life, and should be present when this decision impacts upon the life of the accused, and their family.
I will also change the necessity for the residing judge to sign off any request for trial transcripts. This should be applied to the head of the court and, providing that the appellant has included the correct cost for printing the transcripts, it will be provided.
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a vote for me is a vote for democratic slavery. vote feir.
But in that 5 minutes I'd cut house prices by 50% so people could afford to live closer to where they work and anyone in their 20s would have a chance of affording a place
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