PaulRogan

With the promises and spin of the Party conference season hitting the headlines. A flurry of leaflets from Labour and canvass letters from the Tories. I'm sure there were some who thought we going to have an autumn General Election.

I was given the following by a local Elector who had prepared this to ask any canvassers who knock on his door.

Quote. To all prospective Members of Parliament

Having reached my sixth decade, and having witnessed over this period the slow strangulation of what now passes for democracy in the UK, I have decided that some common sense and guidance is required for any prospective Member of Parliament. I have therefore laid out the details below which if adopted, as a Party Manifesto would undoubtedly lead to a substantial majority for the Party adopting the obvious.

1. The abolition of inheritance tax

2. The reinstatement of tax credits on advance corporation tax for pension funds

3. The abolition of the Human rights Act

4. The abolition of stamp duty on house sales.

5. MP's and civil servants pensions to reflect the pensions in private industry

6. MP's salaries to be pegged to inflation with fixed expenses only

7. All council tax rises to be pegged to inflation only

8. Council's to be allowed to provide local, practical and limited services only

9. Flat rate income tax to be introduced

10. The House of Lord's to be the final arbiter for all white papers

11. Immigration to be strictly controlled and used for the purposes of skills shortages

12. Laws proposed by the EU only to be implemented where obviously beneficial to Great Britain.

Any politician would tell you that the above measures are completely unaffordable; my reply would be that if politicians were truly accountable for their budgets then the above could easily be absorbed by efficiencies across the board. Unquote.

I told the Elector, I could agree entirely with the spirit of everything on his list and with most of the points precisely. I added that English Democrat plans for the House of Lords was that it become a fully elected all UK Upper House, the Commons becoming England's National Parliament. Also, that our relationship with the EU would be subject anyway to a referendum on the nature of our future membership. Neither caused the Elector any concerns. In many cases I would be happy to support more radical movements along the themes this Elector has signposted!