Monday, March 26, 2007

After the Budget - Where We Stand Series

After the Budget - Where We Stand Series

UKpopdems – The party that puts Great Britain and the Great British People first

· No new green taxes unless you, the people, agree and junket loving politicians pay their own share. UKpopdems refuse to penalise ordinary people for their hard won luxuries and conveniences.
· No road pricing. Motorists are persecuted and harassed enough. UKpopdems will ring-fence road taxes so you know your money is going towards new roads, emergency services, better public transport and repairing the environment.
· An end to local authorities. UKpopdems will abolish these self-seeking, bloated, expensive and politically-correct obsessed bureaucracies in favour of local communities where you make the decisions that affect you.

UKpopdems – The party that turns politics on its head and puts Britain back on its feet

· Your vote on taxes. UKpopdems will hold a referendum to decide on reducing Britain’s tax burden. Council Tax, Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax will all be eliminated if you vote for reductions. There will be no stealth taxes.
· Your vote on Europe. Now, at last your voice will be heard on EU membership. UKpopdems will hold an early EU referendum on exit or staying in and promise to abide by the decision of the British people. There will be no political fudge.
· Your vote on policies. UKpopdems will implement true popular democracy by supporting the British people in getting together to propose new policies and legislation. The politicians will listen to the people.

UKpopdems – The party that addresses the difficult issues other parties avoid

· Two million government bureaucrats, administrators and managers released, saving £100 billion. UKpopdems will recruit a million extra front-line public sector workers where they are needed most in crime, health, education, community services, immigration control and the defence of our nation.
· 250,000 extra police patrolling the streets to combat Britain’s violent crime epidemic. UKpopdems will deliver more prisons, more first-time prison sentencing and proper jail terms to make it safe for ordinary people to go about their daily lives.
· Britain’s spiralling legal and illegal immigration problems controlled and reduced. UKpopdems will introduce Visas for all foreign nationals and recruit 50,000 immigration officers to protect our borders and peer into every corner.

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Explanatory Notes:

UKpopdems – The party that puts Great Britain and the Great British People first

Green Taxes – Ukpopdems is very concerned about the environment and protecting against harmful effects of global warming. However, green taxes are not the answer. Everyone knows green taxes go straight into the treasury pot and not environmental measures. Green taxes are just another excuse to take money from ordinary hard working individuals and families. It is ordinary people who suffer from green taxes by paying three times over. Politicians and Bureaucrats don’t pay their own green taxes; you do in increased taxes elsewhere. Businesses don’t pay their own green taxes either; you do as they increase their prices. So, ordinary individuals pay three times – for themselves, the politicians and business. UKpopdems believe in encouragement not punishment and will not introduce new green taxes unless everyone pays their own way and the people agree in a national vote.

No Road Pricing – Britain’s motorists are the most heavily taxed and officially harassed group in the country, contributing over £40billion to the treasury coffers. The high taxes motorists already pay, if used properly, should be more than enough to solve the excruciating traffic problems most people endure. UKpopdems have a number of commonsense initiatives to cure our transport problems, but we refuse to pile more pressure and more costs on law abiding motorists. As motorists are 90% of the UK population each increase in costs impacts everyone.

An end to local authorities – Ukpopdems is a party that believes first and foremost that the voice of ordinary Britons must be heard above that of politicians and the needs of ordinary people addressed before the needs of politicians. This is not happening today. A few hundred radical activists, money-men and party hacks dictate policy in this country. No-one is listening to the 99.9%, the millions of ordinary, hard-working Britons. UKpopdems are moving democratic power down to the local community so that decisions that affect local people can be made by local people themselves. To make sure this happens; UKpopdems are taking out a whole tier of government at local authority level and redirecting front-line and professional resources to support communities. For the first time ever, people will be empowered to make a real difference to their everyday lives.

UKpopdems – The party that turns politics on its head and puts Britain back on its feet

Your vote on taxes – The voice of ordinary people who pay tax in this country is seldom heard. Their hard-won money is just hoovered up by dictatorial decision making at No. 11. UKpopdems will give people a say in how tax is raised and spent. Taxes will not only begin to be ring-fenced to keep politicians hands out of the tax till, but Britons will have the opportunity to vote on raising or reducing taxes and by how much through choosing what to spend less or more on.

Your vote on Europe – Millions have differing, and some quite radical, views on Britain’s membership of the European Union. Because no vote has been taken since the decision to join decades ago, it’s impossible to say where the nation stands now. UKpopdems believe the nature and goals of the EU have changed since our joining and that the British people want the chance to vote again on continuing membership. This referendum will be heard early with the government taking a neutral view, standing aside except to ensure all the facts and opinions can be heard, and the one clearly separated from the other. Whatever the clear majority, UKpopdems will implement the decision, and in doing so make sure Britain’s interests, and the interests of the British people, are maintained and enhanced.

Your vote on policies – In some other countries citizens can get together to call for changes in legislation. That is a truly beneficial addition to democracy not available in Britain, where politicians have always felt themselves above and knowing better than ordinary British people. UKpopdems will adopt this extension to democracy and go further by actively encouraging and supporting large interest groups of up to 5million voters to get together so that new legislation and changes to existing legislation can be discussed and proposed. In this process, ‘peoples’ bills’ will be voted on by the whole country. The voice of the people will be heard in Parliament.

UKpopdems – The party that addresses the difficult issues other parties avoid

Ukpopdems is addressing the many issues ordinary Britons tell us are their main concerns. Issues like Immigration, Crime, Government Waste and many others. Ukpopdems is dealing with these key problems in a straight-forward, commonsense but radical way so it will be clear to everyone what the proposed solutions are. The three main parties are spinning like mad in an effort to avoid these issues and it’s hard to see why. It’s most likely Tory, Labour and LibDem just do not have any answers beyond tinkering lamely with what already exists.

If the main parties listened to ordinary people more they’d find the solutions to the problems facing Britain and The British people are obvious. UKpopdems is developing policy detail on each of our 21 key policy areas. Crime and Defence are already available and up on the ‘Latest News’ section of the web-site. More will follow. In the meantime, the 21 Key Policy Points and the bullet point policy detail are already up on the web-site and should give enough detail to answer most questions.

http://www.ukpopdems.org.uk/