Oct
29
These are my policies
I am not a politician.
If I were, this is what my leaflet would mention:—
- Gay marriage
- Legalisation of recreational drugs, produced under license
- Legally-binding separation of religion and state, particularly where children are concerned
- Abandonment of PFI schemes which are crippling the economy and leaving local authorities and NHS trusts hamstrung
- Reduce reoffending rates by shifting focus from sheer punishment to a combination of punishment and rehabilitation
- Increase funding to and powers of the Office of the Information Commissioner
- Restrict the ability of the police to perform actions under anti-terror legislation, such as stop-and-search and detention without trial, except under exceptional circumstances and with the approval of a judge.
- Reform of public transport; the public must be the foremost concern, not a group of shareholders.
- Cost-cutting throughout the NHS from the top down, not the other way around.
- Reform of copyright law to enshrine so-called “fair use” in law, retaining the rights of time-shifting of broadcasts and of “fair dealing”, and adding the rights to freely format-shift and share within a household.
- Right to reasonable access to healthcare services, including abortion, throughout the United Kingdom.
- Encryption, secure communications, privacy and safety online taught in all secondary schools. Free courses for adults.
- Enforced separation between retail and investment banking services.
- As soon as is practically possible, begin a gradual scale-back of our armed forces.
- Cancellation of Trident.
- Cancellation of the National Identity Register.
- Reform of the postal service in a way which enables private-sector competition without crippling Royal Mail and encouraging fraudulent reporting of mail volumes, as the current situation does.
- Instigate a copyright-free policy on the output of certain public-sector organisations, including the Royal Mail’s PAF and Postzon databases, Met Office forecasts and imagery, Ordnance Survey’s mapping data, Hansard’s record.
- Urgently review the VOA’s taxation policy of fibre networks and similar connectivity schemes.
- Create funding pools for local high-speed Internet access programmes.
(There are others, but they’d need fuller explanations).
Vote for me… hypothetically!
