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This will take some time, but I'll try to keep working on it:
COMMENTS AS I GO ALONG - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! ( Contact page)
Primary Issues:
Population
Climate change
Pollution
Constitution - On?
(Liberties)
The last 35 years, and especially the last 10, have demonstrated the need for a fundamental constitution:
a) erosion of liberties
b) Blair's mucking around with the Lords, offices of State
c) marginalisation of Parliamentary oversight
d) nterference with the judiciary
e) Blair's war
f) legislative creep (gallop)
Need to avoid overbearing (party political) input; need for extended time frame; universal discussion; limited, clear-cut but absolute scope;
Constitution must be non-party-political and should not therefore appear in 'political' manifesto
Targets - Off?
(Unintended consequences)
Integrated transport system - On
Stautory Instruments + Legislative burden - Modify
Punishment for profit (privatised prisons) - Off
Separation of punishment from resulting profit (eg local councils)
Return of judgement to professionals + inspectorates with teeth
Renationalising (railways if they don't get their act together!) + restoration of a mixed economy (public sector in public interest in competition with profit seeking private sector; esp in TV and media, banking, transport?) [So that's me out of ever winning an election...]
PFI analysis.
New relationship with Middle East (and others) starting with an acknowledgement of our misbehaviour of the last 80 years, followed either by detente or by a new international moral base (or, hopefully, both).
Regularising our relationship with Europe - active participation along with elimination of Napoleonic influence
New approaches to: Drugs, alcohol, terrorism, 'irridentism'
Voting: fair representation but not party lists... restore concept of voting for person or policy rather than party???
NOTA. Reformation of Ballot (ID not, but PIN?)
parliamentary whip... secret ballot as restraining force?
Political Decisions:
Balancing act - Human Nature vs Idealism(s) vs Necessities
Political decisions - GB plc vs Home and Hearth vs 'One World'
Politics of 'non-imposition'
Curtailment of quasi-legal threat culture.
Curtailment of the right of the private sector to punish/fine (even acting as agent)
Curtailment of adverserial society
Resolving contradiction between small 'non-dom' tax levies 'because of risk of moving to other countries and tax havens and the fact that somany tax havens are actually linked to the British Crown.