1) MPs should not receive a second home allowance of any sort. A ‘residence’ should be maintained for all MPs in London which is provided free. I suggest a nicely renovated towerblock. MPs continue to pay full council tax on their current properties.
2) MPs & senior civil servants should not be allowed to be employed in any private industry in which legislation passed by them or their department has direct impact for 10 years following the last provision being enacted from that legislation.
3) Green energy and sustainability. All the money currently given as tax breaks and subsidies to large corporations pulled and reinvested in green energy and sustainability projects.
4) A proper, integrated public transport system.
5) A-political reform of healthcare (removing it from the government’s direct control, but maintaining the requirement for universal provision of public healthcare).
6) Change corporate law to require not just a a duty to shareholders, but also a duty to the environment in their actions.
7) Using deliberately misleading or incorrect statistics in a debate or to promote a policy or legislation results in
- a requirement for an apology on the floor of the house
- the policy or legislation, if passed, immediately being repealed and returned for a fresh debate
8) Council tax on second homes? Charged at 1.5x standard rate (rather than no council tax). My experience of second homes? They kill the villages they appear in.
I’m sure there’s more. Just some immediate thoughts.
