APPROVED POLICIES (most recent at top of list)
- Remedial year for eleven year-old pupils who aren't ready for secondary school
- Regulatory freedom for small firms
- Tax relief for 'homeworkers'
- Two items of regulatory legislation must be repealed for every new piece of regulation enacted
- A Federal Parliament
- A new structure for London government
- State Job Vacancies Website
- Localise the NHS and integrate health and social care
- Open up the NHS to new providers, competing on price
- Ratify Convention against human trafficking
- Business tax credits for socially responsible enterprises
- Remove the broadcast regulations on impartiality
- Vocational education rethink
- A public database of government spending
- Abolish the Insurance Premium Tax
- Police officers should not usually patrol in pairs
- Westminster representation for Britain's overseas territories
- Double the number of prison places
- More international aid should be channelled through civil society organisations
- Single measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines to be available through the NHS
- Make headteachers and teachers free yet accountable
- All secondary schools to become directly state-funded but independent trust schools
- Biology, physics and chemistry - not single science
- Compulsory British History GCSE
- More teaching and less testing in schools
- Prisoners should serve full sentences
- A frontline role for community pharmacists
- Passenger security profiling
- Abolish inheritance tax
- Make forced marriage illegal
- Give London voters the powers to recall the Mayor and propose binding propositions on the executive
REJECTED POLICIES (most recent at top of list)
- Modernisation of public sector pensions to pay for 50% council tax discount for pensioners
- Council tax rewards for homes that improve their carbon footprints
- Hypothecation of revenues derived from specifically environmental taxes, charges and levies
- 100% reserve banking
- A House of Lords representing local government
- Foreign permanent residents to clear through EU immigration
- National Domestic Waste Strategy
- Fund political parties via tax returns
- Legalise prostitution
- Education should start later
- Public infrastructure should not be a profit-making venture
- Replace the House of Lords with a fully-elected House of Defenders
- A Human Rights Minister
- Blacklist ugly and dysfunctional buildings
Archie - it tells you how at the bottom of each policy. You email it to the editor.
Posted by: aristeides | September 25, 2006 at 11:06 AM
What's happened to this excellent feature?
No new topics since the conference.
When will it start up again?
Posted by: clive elliot | October 11, 2006 at 09:14 AM
Sirs, As a 77 year old Conservative don't you think it is about time the OAP's are given a pension that they can live on ?, some of us do not have any savings, only the house we live in, if we try better our situation by releasing capital tied up in the house we loose all benefits, we are banging our heads against a brick wall with this goverment.... remember 25% of voters are OAP's John
Posted by: Robert Taylor | March 18, 2007 at 11:31 AM