We will promote micro-business as a driver for innovation and competition in the British economy. A micro-business is a very small business with a single owner and no employees, one with a turnover of less than £2500/year. The first £1500 of income earned from micro-business would be tax free, nor would the income from such an operation have an impact on benefits.
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- Civil Liberties
- Culture
- Defence
- Digital Economy and Digital Rights
- Welfare and Work
- A “Robin Hood Tax” on financial institutions
- Bring in a tax minister
- Carry out trademark reform
- Create jobs
- Encourage entrepreneurship through micro-businesses
- Fair Tax brackets
- Implement a land value tax
- Make pensions fairer
- Make work, work
- Move toward a Citizens Income
- No more bank bailouts
- No-one will pay more tax than those earning more than them
- Personal liability for directors
- Put the Treasury's economic models online
- Reduce tax evasion
- Reform the patents system
- Remove commercial restrictions on suburbia
- Require subsidy matching
- Education
- 'Set up a business' experience
- Abolish requirement for collective worship in schools
- Abolish university tuition fees
- Eliminate school rankings by GCSE or SAT results
- Have a national curriculum that says 'What' but not 'How'
- Invest in teachers
- Let all schools access a national media library
- Lifetime access to education
- Make publicly funded academic research available to all
- Reduce class sizes
- Reduce the school leaving age
- Reinstate the Education Maintenance Allowance in England
- Switch to a percentile-based grading system
- Teach entrepreneurial skills in schools
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- Health
- Abolishing drug patents
- Address LGBT health challenges
- Administration by administrators, medicine from medical staff
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- Bring appropriate support services back into the NHS
- Deal with drug abuse as a health issue
- Equality in blood donation
- Securing the NHS for now and the future
- Widen public access to Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT)
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- Restoring Trust In Government
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- Demand accountability from government suppliers.
- Democratise the City of London
- Full disclosure of government deals with corporations
- Implement proportional representation
- Increase government transparency and accountability.
- Independent public spending reviews
- Make parliament work
- Rate all spending in pounds per QALY
- Reform the House of Lords
- Require sensible service contracts
- Votes at 16
- Social Policy
- A fairer deal for Interns
- A rational points based immigration system
- Alter the method by which ESA is assessed
- Balanced and flexible paid parental leave
- Digital Accessibility
- Efficiently process asylum seekers and treat them properly
- End age discrimination in the benefits system
- Review laws relating to sex workers
- Right to marriage regardless of sexuality
- Sure Start
- The Mutual Mentoring Project (MMP)
- Common European Election Programme