Design your own political party

[Lancer]

Mine would be, in order of importance:

1) Pro life- Stop the killing!

2) Pro environment- Kyoto YES! In 15 years no car allowed on the road that gets less than 45 mpg. Harsh? Yes, wtf, it'll never happen. Increase gas prices to $3.00 a gallon. Use the taxes raised to balance the budget. Also, no new housing in areas that can produce crops. Save the rainforest, buy the damn thing and put up a fence. Population control, increased taxes for every child in a family.

3) Free trade

4) Balance the budget

5) Term limits. Three terms max per office. Increase House to 4 years.

6) Racially blind. No advances due to race.

7) Yopu gotta work. Unless you're impared, no welfare.

8) Increase min wage to $8.00. Ppl gotta eat.

9) 2 week notice for employers to fire an empolyee unless they can prove theft.

10) Work with other nations to establish worldwide environmental laws. Countrys violating these laws can legally have tarriffs placed on their good.

11) Erm, may think of more later.

So, what would your perfect political party stand for?

[Shi Huangdi]

1) I become God-Emperor. All must obey my commands with fear and trembling.

[Lancer]

"1) I become God-Emperor. All must obey my commands with fear and trembling."

We all do that already Sir Shi...

Kinda like Sushi.

[Ben Kenobi]

1. Pro-life. Will pass a human life amendment defining personhood as beginning from conception onwards. Same prison terms for abortionists as for first-degree premediated murder.

2. Free trade. No tariffs on lumber, etc.

3. Blind to race, thanks Lancer.

4. Defend traditional values, such as marriage. Support families with increased tax benefits. Housing loans to young families, to help them buy their first home.

5. Encourage charitable donations through tax structure and decrease government spending by a corresponding amount.

6. Decrease military funding, or do without.

7. Place a moratorium on the DP (Thanks Loinburger).

8. Introduce a graduate tax on students of £1000 per year (means tested), but remove fees. Reintroduce grants, but remove target of 50% in higher education. Introduce decent vocational courses, and fund them properly.

(Thanks very much to Drogue.)

9. End funding of schools with property taxes- school funding should come out of central state budgets.

(Thanks Gepap)

10. Appease environmentalists with tax breaks to those who use public transit, and with "clean" cars (like hybrids).

11. I'd like to put something about a flat tax, but I would prefer to pay off the deficit, as to reduce the size of the state in future years.

[loinburger]

1) Casual Fridays will be strictly enforced

2) Replace the Presidency with a Triumvirate. Each Triumvir serves a 6 year term, with one new Triumvir elected every 2 years.

3) Place a moratorium on the DP

4) I dunno, man. Whatever.

5) "Milwaukee's Best" will be forced to change its name to something more appropriate, or else its brewers will be punished for violating the truth in advertising laws.

6) Attempt to enact tort reform

[General Ludd]

Your list isn't half bad, Lancer. Except the welfare bit.

[Whaleboy]

The Hedonistic Utilitarians:

Sex
Drugs
Music
Love
Genius
Beauty
Peace
More drugs

[Space05us]

1) I become God-Emperor. All must obey my commands with fear and trembling.

ditto

[St Leo]

0) 32 hour workweek
1) Increase minimum wage to $10.00 CAD
2) Just say no to urban sprawl
3) Introduce proportional representation
4) Roll back copyrights to Berne Convention terms
5) Restore legality to circumvention
6) Abolish Biotech, Software, and Business Method patents
7) Get rid of the air force
8) Invest into coast guard and peace keepers
9) Any number of things cribbed from NDP and Green platforms

[Space05us]

Get rid of the air force

move to Canada you freak........oh wait...

[SlowwHand]

Extradite all criminals, to include commies, dissidents, and Lancers, to a deserted island in the South Pacific.
That's a start.

[Ben Kenobi]

move to Canada you freak........oh wait

[Drogue]

Free Nihilist Guild

Ok, seriously:

1. Pro-environment: scrap UK road tax, but put extra tax on petrol, so you pay depending on the amount of miles you do, not a flat rate (gets people to use cars less, even when they have them). Agree to Kyoto, but try to go further, with money put into research into green fuels, wind, hydro and nuclear. Put money into a recycling idea, like they have in Germany and Shetland, where most of our waste is reused, recycled or reclaims. Shetland is powered almost entirely of green fuels, and is very affluent. They even importing waste from Scotland now. " Work with other nations to establish worldwide environmental laws. Countrys violating these laws can legally have tarriffs placed on their good." (thanks Lancer )

2. Free trade. Remove the CAP, and almost all, if not all, agriculture subsidies. Stop paying for highr prices and stop raping the third world. Fight to remove protectionism in developed countries, but lobby the WTO to allow a short period of protectionism for developing countries, so their economies can find their feet before for a couple of years, before they're thrown to the lions and have to compete.

3. Public service improvements/higher taxes. Raise taxes (basic from 22% to 25%, higher rate from 40% to 50%), to fund a decent basic healthcare for all, with serious deregulation among the NHS. Likewise with schools. Private schools should be allowed, but state schools should be of a quality that nobody needs to use private school to do well, go to a good university or get ahead in life. Public private partnership in healthcare introduced properly, as first suggested. General mantra for all public services: deregulate, minimum standards, well funded.

4. Remove the minimum wage. Remove most union powers. If you sign a contract, you sign a contract. If you don't, then you're under no obligation, but you're unprotected.

5. Blind to race, colour, creed, religion, sexual orientation and gender. Positive and negative discrimination no longer institutionalised.

6. Minimum quality of life. If someone is unemployed, then the state cares for them to a minimum quality - they have basic food, healthcare, shelter and education. Anyone who works should get more though.

7. Increase benefits to employers who take part in "new deal" type schemes.

8. Use tax breaks to encourage small businesses. Have state loans to help start-ups, like student loans (discounted rate of interest, but must pass application).

9. Companies can hire and fire at will, but may not break contracts without penalties.

10. Enshrine abortion and gay civil unions (with the same rights and stats as marriage) in law as permissable, and to do with those individuals alone.

11. Legalize cannabis, and tax it heavily. Raise tax on cigarettes and tabacco.

12. Make elections less frequent (every 10 years for general election) but allow for a system of votes of no confidence, if policies change within those years (such as broken manifesto promises).

13. Introduce a graduate tax on students of £1000 per year (means tested), but remove fees. Reintroduce grants, but remove target of 50% in higher education. Introduce decent vocational courses, and fund them properly.

14. Rehabilitation put over punishment for all crimes. Murderer's that cannot be rehabilitated, and who cannot stop killing, are put to death. Prison used a lot less. Fines for all semi-serious crimes put as a percentage of wealth. Community service used more. Give judges more power, to decide on a case by case basis, with one appeal open to everyone, at a higher appeals court.

15. Scrap all references to God or any particular religion in law and government. All pledges on God and such removed. Keep upper, unelected house though.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
The Hedonistic Utilitarians:

Sex
Drugs
Music
Love
Genius
Beauty
Peace
More drugs

Though make the drugs optional, and "light" drugs

[Paul Hanson]

Not much that I believe in, aside from these two key points:

1) ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
2) U R A GAY TW*T