The media would
have you believe that May's ship is dead in the water and the people are
protesting in the streets baying for her head on a platter. Instead of
tabling all the positives about how well Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both did
in their own right, in the interests of this country.
As could be
expected from the insidious PROGRESSIVE machine (see link),
they have stirred up those on the left to immediately begin protesting outside
Parliament, echoing Jeremy Corbyn, whose Labour party finished with 262
seats; who called on Theresa May to resign, arguing that the "politics of
austerity" had been rejected. She must "make way for a government
that would be truly representative of the people of this country", he
said.
Are those on the left being duped by the media, or is this typical of the left, do they have very little rational thinking
when it comes to losing elections and accepting the outcome of a democratic
election? Also, as was expected of the main-stream media, they are making a big
deal of this as headlines and the constant echoing of Corbyn's call for May to
resign on their TV channels, simply because of their bias against conservatism
(notice the little 'c') and their ratings.
If you are in any way confused by what is meant by PROGRESSIVISM or PROGRESSIVES, please
take the time to read "TitanicBritain" by Joe Cater,
which is an excellent 'BLUNT' eye opener for both sides of the political divide
as to just how insidious and poisonous this movement is for each and every one
of us. Progressives are found in all
parties....... they have infiltrated every walk of life over the last 50 years.
Read and weep because of how we have all been fooled by this odious disease.
Sadly for those unemotional, rational, logical thinking people of this
great country, the left are illustrating to the right that as per usual cannot accept democracy and are protesting
in the streets again, which is what the media love because it boosts their
readership.
That said, every citizen of the United Kingdom should take a leaf out of
the TV series; Monty Python's Life of Brian, and "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
the famous comedy song
written by Monty Python
member Eric Idle.
There is a SILVER LINING in what has just happened on June 8th 2017, whilst
many feel that Theresa May's big gamble - to call a snap election, which she
called three years before she had to - has backfired badly, or so the
"Lame-Stream" media would have us believe. They say this because they
want us to believe that stripping the Conservatives of their parliamentary
majority and eroding away her personal authority and clout has damaged this
country.
Does this country need more elections, unrest, disruption and misinformation pedalled by the "Lame-Stream" media to further destroy our society and country? What do you think?
Does this country need more elections, unrest, disruption and misinformation pedalled by the "Lame-Stream" media to further destroy our society and country? What do you think?
However May has quite rightly for the sake of the country, chosen to hold
onto her position as Prime Minister and has announced she will put together a
government with the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists,
(DUP). This will ensure the majority she requires to pull off the BREXIT
negotiations and get the necessary Parliamentary sanction.
WHO ARE THE WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2017
What the media are not telling the masses is that as Conservative, Theresa
May has achieved the highest % of the votes for a generation beating - Cameron,
Major and Thatcher.
The number of votes tells everyone just how well Theresa May actually did;
May obtained circa 13,667,213 votes, which was more than the 13,518,000
secured by Tony Blair in his famous 1997 landslide and 2,000,000 more
than her predecessor David Cameron secured in his famous but ill fated 2015 GE
triumph.
As mentioned in The
Week, support for the Scottish National Party has crumbled, with the
SNP losing a third of its seats, including those of former party leader Alex
Salmond and current deputy leader Angus Robertson.
Among the high-profile scalps taken by Labour in
England was the former deputy PM and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who lost his
Sheffield Hallam constituency.
In Northern Ireland, both the SDLP and UUP have been wiped out, losing all
of their seats at Westminster. "The confirmed results saw the DUP win
ten seats, Sinn Fein win seven and independent candidate Lady Sylvia Hermon
retain her seat in North Down," the BBC reports.
Some might say, thankfully, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall failed in his bid for
the constituency of Boston and Skegness, securing a mere 3,308 votes – well
short of the Conservative Matt Warman's tally of 27,271. The Ukip party ends
the night without an MP, and less than a sixth of the share of the vote it
received two year ago. Nuttall has stepped down as leader, and analysts are
pondering whether this is the end of the party.
GIVING PRAISE AND CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are in fact the heroes of this era.
Not only has May achieved the highest % of the votes for a generation
beating - Cameron, Major and Thatcher, Corbyn nearly annihilated the Tony Blair
record as well with 12,874,985.
The calling of
this snap election was in actual fact a blessing for the United Kingdom, as
illustrated by the silver lining points below; it will also be seen in decades
to come as a stroke of genius by Theresa May, as it consolidated several
positions of concern, strengthened the union of the United Kingdom and removed
the threat of Theresa May acting without a mandate as an elected Prime
Minister.
SO WHY IS THIS GOOD FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM?
1. We now have the most pro-Brexit House of Commons ever elected. More than 90% of MP's have been returned for Parties that are promising to leave the EU, namely the Conservatives, Labour and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This has given Article 50 an unarguable authority.
2. In the run up to before May called the 2017 election, she was lambasted by the left wing pundits in their attempts to undermine what she was doing, with the point that she was not a duly elected Prime Minister. May is no longer an unelected Prime Minister, she has her own mandate, she has been elected.
3. The union of the UK has strengthened because;
a) the DUP success in NI has strengthened the Union.
2. In the run up to before May called the 2017 election, she was lambasted by the left wing pundits in their attempts to undermine what she was doing, with the point that she was not a duly elected Prime Minister. May is no longer an unelected Prime Minister, she has her own mandate, she has been elected.
3. The union of the UK has strengthened because;
a) the DUP success in NI has strengthened the Union.
b) thankfully, Ms Sturgeon and her calls for a 2nd Scottish Referendum has been neutered,
c) Nick Clegg, Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson lost their seats and were unceremoniously dropped from Parliament. This will help to further mitigate the noise and unnecessary disruption coming from that quarter.
4. The size of the majority in the House of Commons should have no impact on EU Brexit negotiations.... it will be down to the steel, grit and tenacity of the negotiating team that will win the day. They need a responsible, strong leader to preside over them, not a infighting, backstabbing body of people all scrambling for the throne.
5. The rise of Ruth Davidson in Scotland, politicians and people should note that Ms Davidson is an absolute credit to the Conservative Party and Scotland.
6. Dealing with the Islamic Terror Threat: As a result of the three recent terrorist attacks in London and the blame that was pointed towards May's 6 years as the Secretary of the Home Office.... social media shows that May certainly has a strong mandate to take HARD actions and TOUGH steps against terrorism in the UK; May, certainly now, has that mandate to focus on stopping terrorism in the UK:
a) The DUP understand the fundamentals of the religious wars over the centuries, this will help May to get laws in place that will help stop and neuter terrorism.
b) The public have been baying in social media for decisive action to be taken against those 3,500 known Jihadi's, such as rounding them up, fingerprinting, biometric scans, DNA capture / registration, deportation, confiscation of their passports and cancellation of the British citizenships and being branded a traitors of the UK.
c) Strengthening of the UK Borders, more resources, more physical checks and the prohibiting entrance to anyone on any Government terrorist watch-list, or those returning from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq or Saudi.
d) Amending the Human Rights Act to:
i. ensure that an individual's human rights are forfeited by any persons committing or inciting acts that grievously harm persons or inflict cruelty to persons or animals,
ii. do not let the human rights issue prevent deportations or incarceration of these terrorists.
7. Both Ms Sturgeon and Ms May have been humbled, both of them believed they were infallible and began to get too big for their boots and were totally deluded, suffering illusions of grandeur because they were drinking their own cool-aid.
8. Whilst Jeremy Corbyn did not manage to win sufficient of a majority to become Prime Minister and install Labour into the halls of power .... he has however, done this country a great service, he slapped down Tony Blair's ambitions to create another middle of the road political party, which would be filled with insidious progressive ideas and their globalist elitist machinations.
9. This hopefully puts an end of Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and New Labour. Corbyn's triumph was the final nail in the coffin of New Labour. Blair and Mandelson were hoping that Corbyn would fail spectacularly allowing a PREGRESSIVE moderate Labour Party to rise from the ashes. This essentially, puts a block on any new middle ground party forming as the left wing of Labour has been strengthened, thanks to Jeremy Corbyn.
10. The Conservative should have learned a lot from this election and if they apply the learning's, they will be well placed to capture the middle ground in the future;
11. As suggested by the Islamic Council, MI5 should work with all the Muslim Mosques in the UK, which they feel should be monitored and rewarded for identifying and reporting people who are promoting extremism, radicalisation and hate crimes.
12. To be a party that cares for ALL the people, the Conservative Party MUST adopt MANY of the points mentioned in the Labour and LibDem manifesto's to offer hope for the younger generations as they are the future of this great country. (See manifesto comparison table below.)
a) This is the second general election where the internet has played the largest part in communications with the populace, something the Conservative Party failed to harness. (Yet again).
b) Conservative Party should readily adopt and employ a social media strategy that enables people from all walks of life to engage with the Conservative party as Labour have done.
c) The Conservatives desperately need a persuasive campaign solution that includes a broad dataset so that the younger generations who do not have the historical background can read up on non-political-biased informative data, on which to base their voting decision. EDUCATION / CONVERSATION / PARTICIPATION.
d) If the Conservatives want to survive, they MUST build up alliances with the younger generations, if they fail to do this, the Party will VANISH into oblivion over the next decade. The younger generations are the future..... The Conservatives had better WAKE-UP or they will find they are irrelevant quite soon!
e) Politics needs an Online Presence with a Symbiotic Communication Forum: The 2017 campaign disaster could have been avoided if Party Members had access to a LIVE feed-back loop between Grass-Roots members into the Party and Campaign HQ: Sadly, even with all the fantastic social-media technology, there was yet again absolutely NO feedback mechanism that was monitored and responded to iteratively between members of the parties.... instead the Conservative Party used their membership lists as a one-way conduit, spamming members for donations and reminding them to vote.
f) The Conservative Party campaign machine is sadly, somewhat wanting in the Internet and new age of social media in comparison to the Labour machine. If the Conservatives want to survive, this must be remedied as soon as possible so that a following of younger generation can be built up.
IN CONCLUSION:
Now if ever there was a time for everyone in the UK to pull and work together, that time is now.
Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn should forget the petty politics, they
should stand shoulder to shoulder and fight for the best deal possible from the
EU. This is NOT a time to DIVIDE and RULE.... this is a time to act as a
United Kingdom, for the sake of the people, our children and their children.
We need grown up politics, not childish bickering and innuendo across the
aisle. We are a United Kingdom and a proud nation, so let's act as such and
show the world what the Bull Dog spirit is all about.
If Theresa May was smart, she would pay heed the many suggestions (above) made by millions and incorporate them and many of the Manifesto points highlighted into a People's Manifesto, re-launch this as the way forward for a UNITED country, for the people, for the United Kingdom.
If Theresa May was smart, she would pay heed the many suggestions (above) made by millions and incorporate them and many of the Manifesto points highlighted into a People's Manifesto, re-launch this as the way forward for a UNITED country, for the people, for the United Kingdom.
We should all be reminded how we arrived at this place intime..... here is a reminder:
How we ended up having to have this BREXIT in the first case...
https://positics-constitution.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/just-how-did-uk-come-to-have-referendum.html
APPENDICES:
Comparison of Manifestos and a strong recommendation for Prime Minister May!
You may not have been aware of this, but a lot of BREXIT supporters spent
several hundred hours inside the political quagmire of blogs over the last
month, where they learned about the points people were interested in. Below you
will find comparisons of the manifestos, which were done by the BBC and the Daily Mail, which has been brought
together and colour coded based on comments within the blogs about what people
wanted and did not want to see in a manifesto.
Putting aside any political bias, the analysis was done on earmarking those
items that had more popular hits versus those that received less popular hits.
Those items marked in GREEN were deemed suitable to see in an
all-rounder manifesto, whereas those marked in RED were deemed unsuitable for an all-rounder
manifesto.
There were obviously significant overlaps across the three main parties, so
editing of the points or reshaping of their narrative were not undertaken.
If the Conservatives were serious about doing what is right for the people,
they would seriously consider taking on ALL the points marked as GREEN and create a composite People Manifesto
for this next 5 years.
Primary Pledges
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Conservatives:
Main
pledges
# Deliver a smooth and orderly departure from the EU
# Increase NHS budget in England by £8bn a year by 2022/23
# An extra £4bn on schools in England by 2022
# Restating commitment to bring net migration down to tens of thousands
# Balance budget by 2025
# Replacement of triple-lock pension pledge after 2020 with double lock |
Labour:
Main
pledges
# Bring
an end to austerity and invest heavily in public services
# Negotiate a Brexit deal that "puts the economy and living standards first"
# Nationalise a number of utilities including rail, post, water and the
National Grid
# Increase
taxation on business and the highest paid
# Invest in the British economy through a £250bn stimulus package
# Abolish tuition fees for university students in England |
Liberal Democrats:
Main
pledges
# Hold
a referendum on the final Brexit deal, with the option to remain in the EU
# Add 1p to income tax to fund the NHS and social care
# Rule
out coalitions with the Conservatives or Labour – but want to make the
Liberal Democrats the official opposition
# Increase spending on early years, schools and colleges in England
# Reverse
some benefits cuts
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Tax and the economy
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Conservatives:
1)
Savings of £12billion more than Labour
through cutting waste and bureaucracy.
2) Reduce
Government borrowing by £8 billion, leaving £4billion for tax cuts - still to
be specified.
3)
Achieve a balanced budget by 2025
4)
Rule out increases to VAT
5)
Stick with current plans to raise personal
tax allowances and cut corporation tax
6) Review
the business rates system
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Labour:
1) No increase in the basic or higher
rates of income tax.
2) No extension of VAT on a range of
items.
3)
Targeted tax cuts for families
and to support work.
4) £21billion of savings through
reducing waste and cutting 80,000 civil service jobs.
5)
Introduce a £250bn stimulus package over 10 years
6)
No increases in personal National Insurance or VAT
7) Reintroduce a 50p tax rate and raise
income tax for those who earn over £80,000
8)
Raise
corporation tax rates to 26% by 2020/21
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Liberal Democrats:
1) Abolish the council tax and replace it
with a local income tax and introduce a new 50p top rate of tax on incomes
over £100,000.
2) Money raised to be used for spending on
priority areas.
3) Child trust
funds to be scrapped.
4) Balance day-to-day spending while
reducing national debt as a proportion of GDP
5)
Add 1p onto each rate of income tax and ring-fence the money for NHS
and social care
6)
Borrow £100bn to invest in infrastructure, including housebuilding,
broadband, schools, hospitals and transport
7)
Reverse
some planned cuts to corporation tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax
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Crime
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Conservatives:
1)
5,000 more police officers each year and
paperwork to be slashed.
2)
Early prison release schemes to be scrapped
and 20,000 new prison places to be created.
3)
A tenfold increase in drug rehabilitation
places.
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Labour:
1) Neighbourhood policing teams for all communities.
2) 24,000 extra community support officers and 12,000 police officers
freed up for frontline duties.
3) All prisoners to be supervised on release.
4) Legislation to introduce ID cards.
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Liberal Democrats:
1) 10,000 more police on the streets and an extra 20,000 community
support officers.
2)
Non-violent criminals to do tough community work
as an alternative to jail.
3)
Plans for ID cards to be scrapped.
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Foreign and defence
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Conservatives:
1) Give strong support to
international institutions including the UN, Nato, Commonwealth, G20, G7 and
WTO
2) Become a global champion for free
trade, signing new trade deals around the world
3) Continue to spend 0.7% of national
income on international aid
4) Meet the NATO target to spend at
least 2% of national income on defence, with above inflation increases each
year
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Labour:
1)
Order a strategic defence and security review
2)
Commit to spending 2% of GDP on defence
3) Continue to spend 0.7% on international
aid
4)
Roll out a "Homes for Heroes" programme that will insulate
the homes of veterans for free
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Liberal Democrats:
1)
Commit to spending 2% of GDP on defence
2) Maintain 0.7% GDP commitment for international
aid
3)
Suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia
4)
Maintain
a minimum nuclear deterrent
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Health and Care
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Conservatives:
1)
Patients' right to choose hospital or have
50 per cent of the cost of the operation paid by the taxpayer if they go
private.
2)
Matrons' power to close dirty wards in crackdown
on MRSA "superbug".
3)
£8bn increase to NHS England budget compared
to current level by 2022/23
4) Include value of family home in means
test for people receiving social care at home
5)
Cost of care to be capped and people
guaranteed to keep £100,000 of assets once care bill paid
6) Allow
deferral of care bills until after death to ensure no-one is forced to sell
family home
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Labour:
1) NHS patients' right to choose any
hospital offering operation at NHS prices.
2) Waiting times to be cut to maximum
of 18 weeks.
3) Expansion of private sector
provision within the NHS.
4) Consultation on new hospital hygiene
laws.
5)
Commit to more than £30bn in extra funding for the NHS in England over the next five years
6) Reverse privatisation and return health
services into public control
7) Guarantee access to NHS treatment
within 18 weeks and A&E within four hours
8) Lay the foundations of a National
Care service and put an extra £8bn into social care over the next five years
|
Liberal Democrats:
1)
Free long-term personal care for the elderly.
2) Free eye and dental checks.
3) Fewer NHS prescription charges.
4) Reduce "hidden" waiting lists
for diagnostic tests.
5)
Add 1p onto each rate of income tax and ring-fence the money for NHS
and social care
6)
Ensuring mental health care waiting time standards match those in
physical health care
7)
Ensure that there are more nurses on hospital wards and in the
community
8) Introduce a Welsh NHS
whistle-blowing hotline
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Education & Family
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Conservatives:
1) Heads and governors to be given
power to expel unruly pupils.
2) 600,000 extra school places to
enable more parents to get first choice school.
3) University fees to be scrapped but
interest charged on student loans.
4) Increase the overall schools budget
in England by £4bn by 2022
5) No school will have its budget cut
as a result of the new funding formula
6) End the ban on new selective
schools
7) Introduce T-Levels
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Labour:
1) More city academies. All secondary
schools to become independent specialist schools.
2) Failing schools to be taken over by
successful ones.
3)
Maintenance allowances for poorer students to stay in education after
16.
4)
Abolish university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants
5) 30 hours of free childcare for
two-year-olds in England
6)
End the public sector pay cap for teachers
7) Restrict primary class sizes to 30
and introduce free school meals for primary school children
|
Liberal Democrats:
1)
University tuition and top-up fees to be abolished with maintenance
grants for poorer students.
2) 21,000 more primary school teachers to
be recruited to cut class sizes.
3) Spend £7bn extra on education,
increasing school budgets and the Pupil Premium
4) Oppose grammar schools
5)
End the 1% cap on teachers' pay rises
6) Reinstate maintenance grants for
the poorest students
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Asylum and immigration
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Conservatives:
1) Withdrawal from the Geneva Convention
on refugees with an annual quota for asylum seekers.
2) A points system for immigrants with
Parliament setting annual cap on numbers.
3) A new border police force to be
created.
4)
Reduce net migration to tens of thousands
5)
Double the Immigration Skills Charge on
companies employing migrant workers
6)
Increase minimum earnings threshold for
family visa sponsorship
7) Toughen
requirements for student visas and rules allowing them to stay and work
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Labour:
1)
A points system for immigrants
2)
Only skilled workers allowed to
settle long-term.
3)
Entrants to UK requiring visas to be fingerprinted.
4)
ID cards for visitors staying more than three months.
5)
More failed asylum seekers to be removed.
6) Freedom of movement will end when Britain leaves the European Union
7)
Reinstate the Migrant Impact fund in areas where
immigration has placed a strain on public services
8)
Take students out of immigration numbers
9) Recruit 500 more border guards
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Liberal Democrats:
1) Asylum seekers to be allowed to work to
end dependence on benefits.
2) Responsibility for assessing asylum claims to be transferred to a
dedicated agency.
3) Support the principle of freedom of
movement between the UK and EU
4) Allow high-skilled immigration to support key sectors of the economy
5) Remove students from official migration
statistics
6) Welcome 50,000 Syrian refugees over
five years and re-establish the "Dubs" child refugee scheme
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Housing
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Conservatives:
1) Build "fixed-term council
houses", sold privately after 10-15 years with automatic Right to Buy
for tenants
2) Build one million homes by end of
2020 and 500,000 more by end of 2022
3) Build 160,000 houses on
government-owned land
4)
Implement the Homelessness Reduction Act to halve rough sleeping
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Labour:
1) Introduce controls on rent rises
2) Suspend the right to buy policy
3) Build at least 100,000 council and
housing association homes a year
4) Make available 4,000 additional
homes for rough sleepers
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Liberal Democrats:
1)
Set target to build 300,000 new homes a year
2)
Create 10 new garden cities in England
3) Stop right to buy for housing
association tenants
4)
Allow councils to charge 200% council tax on foreign-owned empty homes
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Welfare and pensions
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Conservatives:
1) Replace pensions triple lock with
guarantee that increases after 2020 will at least match inflation and average
wages
2) Means-test Winter Fuel Payments
"focusing assistance on the least well-off pensioners"
3) Keep other pensioner benefits,
including free bus passes and TV licences
4)
Give more power to the Pensions Regulator to protect private pensions
|
Labour:
1) Keep the pension triple lock and benefits
for pensioners, such as the winter fuel allowance and free bus passes
2) Review the benefit cap, universal
credit and reinstate housing benefit for under 21s
3) Increase employment and support
allowance by £30 per week
4)
Increase carer's allowance by £11 a week
|
Liberal Democrats:
1) Keep the triple lock on pensions and
free bus passes
2)
Withdraw winter fuel payments for wealthy pensioners
3) Reverse cuts to Universal Credit
4)
Uprate
working age benefits in line with inflation
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Future of the UK
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Conservatives:
1) No decision-making that has been
devolved will be taken back to Westminster
2) No Scottish independence referendum
before the Brexit process has played out, after that only if there is public
consent
3) Move significant numbers of civil
servants outside London and the south east
4)
Create a United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund
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Labour:
1)
Establish a constitutional convention to examine and advise on
reforming Britain's constitution
2) Reduce the voting age to 16
3)
Oppose an independence referendum in Scotland
4) Create a role of Minister of State
for England
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Liberal Democrats:
1) Home rule for each nation within a
federal United Kingdom
2) Keep the Barnett formula for Scotland
and Wales but seek to increase the Welsh block grant
3) 'Devolution on demand' for regions of
England
4)
Oppose
Scottish independence
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Brexit
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Conservatives:
1) Leave the single market and customs
union, while seeking a “deep and special partnership” with the EU
2) Secure a "smooth and orderly
Brexit" while maintaining that "no deal is better than a bad deal
for the UK"
3) Determine a "fair settlement
of the UK’s rights and obligations" in our withdrawal from the EU
4)
Pass a Great Repeal Bill to convert EU law into UK law
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Labour:
1) Scrap the Brexit white paper and
replace it with a fresh set of negotiating priorities with an "emphasis
on the single market and customs union"
2) Immediately guarantee rights of EU
citizens living in Britain
3) Replace the "Great Repeal
Bill" with an EU rights and protections bill that will ensure no change
to workers' rights or environmental protections
4)
Reject
"no deal" with the European Union as a viable option
|
Liberal Democrats:
1) Hold a referendum on the final Brexit
deal, with the option to remain in the EU
2) Unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU
nationals in the UK
3) Stay in the single market and customs union
4)
Support
the principle of freedom of movement between the UK and EU - the right to
work, travel, study and retire abroad
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Transport and environment
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Conservatives:
1) Investing £40bn across the rest of
this decade on transport improvements
2) Work with train companies and
employees to agree to minimum service levels during industrial disputes
3) Expand Heathrow airport
4)
Remove the "complexity and perverse pricing" of rail tickets
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Labour:
1)
Renationalise Britain’s railways as franchises expire
2) Let local councils take over bus
services if they wish to
3)
New clean air act to legislate against diesel fumes
4)
Ban
fracking
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Liberal Democrats:
1)
Introduce a diesel scrappage scheme
2) Extend ultra-low emission zones to 10
more towns and cities
3) Set legally binding target of zero net
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
4)
Oppose
fracking
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