tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post4796905121785855554..comments2023-09-28T13:28:52.243+01:00Comments on Raedwald: Britain needs a new people's Party - What should it stand for?Raedwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-66045045336774337572017-03-31T06:47:55.554+01:002017-03-31T06:47:55.554+01:00I may have overlooked it (it's late) but to me...I may have overlooked it (it's late) but to me one fundamental that can't be overstressed is:<br /><br />Absolute equality before the law.<br /><br />Just a thought...Mac the Knifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981281686243507802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-68112789781126826252017-03-28T09:41:27.909+01:002017-03-28T09:41:27.909+01:00Isn't your original list the sort of thing the...Isn't your original list the sort of thing the Tories used to stand for? Why not join them and help to make sure they do so again?<br /><br />When I was in Ukip, I used to hope they would see independence as more than just getting out of the EU, but most of the people in it don't think along those lines, or, indeed, along many lines at all.AndrewWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00196842185913965725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-20537376600362506352017-03-28T06:48:39.575+01:002017-03-28T06:48:39.575+01:00Just one I would like to see....... to make any at...Just one I would like to see....... to make any attempt at overturning a democratically arrived at consensus/decision either through normal voting or referendum a treasonable offence and to bring back the punishment of hanging for treason.<br /><br />CliveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-78916591838756926622017-03-28T00:22:56.384+01:002017-03-28T00:22:56.384+01:00Whatever you decide, don't call it "Peopl...Whatever you decide, don't call it "People's" anything. Too reminiscent of the People's Prime Monster, one T.Blurgh.FrankChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349761659165064987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-59160332366686050732017-03-27T16:03:53.636+01:002017-03-27T16:03:53.636+01:00Benefits limited to two children .
If you want mo...Benefits limited to two children . <br />If you want more, or your mediaeval holy book tells you to breed like rats with multiple wives, you pay.<br />Any benefits allocated to one nominated partner .No more allowing additional wives to count as "single mums".<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-29807508378174429892017-03-27T15:17:00.834+01:002017-03-27T15:17:00.834+01:00I agree with the majority of what you Radders and ...I agree with the majority of what you Radders and other above me have suggested. Anyway just to throw my two pence worth in ...<br /><br />Perhaps limiting those elected to a certain number/terms of time as an MP. So that we don't get too much of an established political elite.<br /><br />Definately the power of re-call over an elected MP.<br /><br />Elected MPs to live and send their children to a school in their constitutency.barnacle billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17375356036844289964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-80237215083110204612017-03-27T14:43:58.233+01:002017-03-27T14:43:58.233+01:00The political landscape we all grew up in is empha...The political landscape we all grew up in is emphatically no more. When the do-gooders took over politics became parody and the bombing started:<br /><br /><i>In the beginning was the word, and the word was 'equality'</i><br /><br />War changes everything and with each war the do-gooders got us into the closer those changes came to our homeland. It's here now, and what passes for politics is in fact control because they lost our freedoms in bomb crater somewhere. Things are going to get heavy.<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-25943275210859427852017-03-27T14:18:59.521+01:002017-03-27T14:18:59.521+01:00Zero outside employment for all politicians mean t...Zero outside employment for all politicians mean that they draw salaries and pensions when they get kicked out, because they haven't had continuous employment in anything useful. I'd turn it on its head, and say that all politicians have to be completely unpaid, and to do the job voluntarily. That has the added advantage of knowing that they must at least be good at something. It also stops there being a cradle to grave political establishment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-46265872580943805232017-03-27T14:10:42.098+01:002017-03-27T14:10:42.098+01:00An absolute but very difficult must do is tame the...An absolute but very difficult must do is tame the Civil Service mandarins.Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-80488030841522393282017-03-27T11:35:04.221+01:002017-03-27T11:35:04.221+01:00I was hoping that UKIP might go that way once we w...I was hoping that UKIP might go that way once we were out of the EU, the name could stay the same and the campaign would be for more personal independence from government.English Pensionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15271488641341955140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-81473096359588222102017-03-27T10:33:02.129+01:002017-03-27T10:33:02.129+01:00Only give state control those aspects that can onl...Only give state control those aspects that can only be done at national level - Foreign Affairs, Taxation for pensions and benefits only and Defence for example.<br />Elimination of NGOs<br />Tightly controlled immigration policy<br />FIFO - fit in or FO - in short, no ghettoisation<br />A proper "written" constitution that keeps all the rights etc from the 1689 Bill of Rights, Magna Carta and other constitutional acts except for 1972 ECA.<br /><br />As Dave_G said - a good implementation of the Harrogate Agenda. If Switzerland can have minimal government and referenda on most subjects I don't see why we can't.rapscallionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-59869251212868680762017-03-27T10:32:12.260+01:002017-03-27T10:32:12.260+01:00A little too broad, those, IMHO. Something along t...A little too broad, those, IMHO. Something along the lines of the 2015 UKIP manifesto sounds good.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-18353011279936404902017-03-27T10:31:10.328+01:002017-03-27T10:31:10.328+01:00How about we pare this right down to just the thre...How about we pare this right down to just the three basic principles of government and start from there.<br /><br />1) Secure the borders<br /><br />2) Keep the peace<br /><br />3) Empty the binsPoisonedchalicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877122279794559618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-8169276163821747452017-03-27T10:24:53.818+01:002017-03-27T10:24:53.818+01:00Is that the same Harrogate Agenda that emanated fr...Is that the same Harrogate Agenda that emanated from the Bradford bullhorn?<br /><br />Mr. Always-Right?<br /><br />The problem as I see it, is that whoever gets their hands on the tiller of power, whether democratically or otherwise, soon becomes the new 'elite' and 'establishment', and will need to be taken down a peg.<br /><br />I remain wedded to the Swiss concept of democracy in that it leads to an informed, politically aware people that is not frightened of challenging those that would make assumptions.<br /><br />right-writesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-79575520649024872472017-03-27T10:21:56.204+01:002017-03-27T10:21:56.204+01:00I think you'd be the perfect person to start t...I think you'd be the perfect person to start the new party, but not perhaps whilst living in Austria - that has a bad precedentEd Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-82983127477492365512017-03-27T10:13:16.677+01:002017-03-27T10:13:16.677+01:00Can fault any of those suggestions but might add.....<br />Can fault any of those suggestions but might add...<br /><br />Single rate of tax<br />Gold standard<br />Debt free money supply<br />Zero tolerance for free-loaders<br />Taxpayer approval of annual budget<br />Zero lobbying or outside employment for all politicians<br />Maximum two terms in office for all politicians<br /><br />It would be simple to go on and on and I'm sure there are others happy to add to the list.<br /><br />But doesn't the Harrogate Agenda cover many of these?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dave_Gnoreply@blogger.com