Private for-profit transport providers have on occasion managed to renegotiate contracts with local and national authorities in order to reduce losses and costs when times have got tougher. These moves are almost always taken in order to protect profits and sometimes occur shortly after being awarded a franchise. This has led to poorer service to the communities that these providers serve and has harmed the reputation of local and national governments. We will ensure that private companies that bid to provide public services are held accountable for any breaches of contract.
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Voting opens: Sunday, 20 September, 2020 - 23:59
Voting closes: Sunday, 4 October, 2020 - 23:59
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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
- Environment
- Health
- Abolishing drug patents
- Address LGBT health challenges
- Administration by administrators, medicine from medical staff
- An evidence based approach to alcohol education
- 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)
- Justice
- Local
- Restoring Trust In Government
- Aim for a balanced budget
- 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