The British Workers Party Manifesto: Door to the Next Society
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This is the most important day for our party so far, because we now have a set of concrete policies for everyone to view, talk about and hopefully agree with. We worked long and hard at this so i'm very pleased at the end result.
A few notes before I print our Manifesto here: We would ideally have liked to post more policies than are contained here, but the state of world affairs and the possible reforms going through the House of Commons at the moment made us decide to focus this document on our prime objective; improving the lot of the British worker, and enabling him or her to transcend that state if that is their goal.
The Manifesto of the British Workers Party, in Eighteen Points
Domestic Affairs
1) Employment and a fair wage for all
We wish to start up a number of self-sustaining companies, which will pay competitive wage at all skill levels. With a view to their continued good health we will be utilising their own produce to return them to a full productive capacity. Initially this will be BWP program limited to those that fall out of the labour market and restricted to Q1 food, but with power we will be attempting to make this a government program and hope to include grain companies within the program ~ see item 9.
2) Greater oversight for the people
To enable greater oversight into the government, we wish to enact a trial policy of having two citizens who have never been elected as UK MPs able to take part in all discussions within the House of Commons. These 'Tribunes' would be subject to the same confidentially laws as the HoC members and nominated and elected by the HoC members.
3) Transparency in our democracy
At present many House of Commons votes are petitioned by the public to make the voting public, and normally the request is granted. We would seek to make such petitioning unnecessary by making all voting results upon proposals made in the public debate forum to become public by default. We stress that we would not be making the voting discussion public, as that requires a big change in the House of Commons rules.
4) Accessbility and personal growth
We would also encourage the workers of our state to be generally more aware of the systems in place in the government.
5) Democratic principles improved
We would reform the Citizenship Select Committee as it currently stands by making all members of the committee elected by the House of Commons, and for membership to be restricted to MPs. Also we would wish to make it more immediately obvious who the Committee members are, as we feel this is insufficiently clear at present.
6) No more arbitrary citizenship decisions
We would also reform the Citizenship process by requiring an explanation to be given as to why a particular application has been rejected, and for guidelines to be kept in a visible place. The guidelines themselves are at the discretion of the Committee members and to be advised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other key advisors.
Foreign Policy
7) Look to the future
We wish to hold a vote on the future of the UK in the TERRA alliance as soon as possible.
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Growth of our natural wealth
As per our wish to expand our social programs to include Grain companies, we believe it to be in the UK’s best interest to acquire a Grain region for the bonus it would give workers in those companies, whether via a region swap or by force of arms.
9) Take the Emerald Isle
We state our belief that Ireland should be occupied by British troops to take advantage of its resources and the increase in general wealth it would bestow.
10) We stick with our friends
Wheter our future lies within an alliance or not, we also believe that we should remain loyal to those countries who we have long-standing close relationships with, for example France, Brazil, Macedonia, Turkey and Serbia.
Military
11) Prepare the tanks
The UK Special Forces budget will be both increased, and ring-fenced, aiming to improve the quality of supplies they receive.
12) Evolve the military
The Regular Forces, consisting of the RAF, Army, and Royal Navy, each know best how they might reform their structure and practices. Therefore we would provide them with the means to do so by giving them a budget to achieve this with without any government or party interferences. Success in improving performance would then be further rewarded with additional funding and poor performace will result in cuts.
13) Train the next generation
After coming into power we would maintain a militia to level up players to a certain military rank, at which point they would be thoroughly educated and therefore would be discharged.
Economy
15) No interference where it is unececessary
Our party rejects any interference with the Monetary Markets by the government, and see it as an area that would benefit from being left to market forces to correct.
16) Make the UK the world's trading capital
We would aim to introduce an import taxation policy that encourages more produce from around the world to be imported onto our markets whilst maintaining the viability of UK companies that would otherwise be penalized through a comparative lack of resource bonuses.
17) Changes to income are needed
Income tax would be raised to 10% across the board.
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Power to the workers
VAT would be reduced in order to ensure the UK worker can buy affordable products, which coupled with our import policy will enhance their spending power and ability to determine their own destiny.
BWP, the party so popular some resorted to calling us Nazis to scare away your votes!
Kick business as usual to the curb!
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God it gets hard not to join the party, I have to admit...
Hail BWP
Hail BWP!
"by requiring an explanation to be given as to why a particular application has been rejected"
-- No, because everyone could see this and try to avoid the same mistakes other have committed before. Leaving our borders "vulnerable".
"The guidelines themselves are at the discretion of the Committee members and to be advised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other key advisors."
-- the Committee is formed by several experienced congressmen, military, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of HoC and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (that's me).
-- I for one suggest you not to make policies on the citizenship committee, since, this is not run on partisan whims. The members of the committee come from several parties. Doesn't matter the government we have, doesn't matter what party has the majority, the committee will work as usual.
>"No, because everyone could see this and try to avoid the same mistakes..."
A detailed explanation with your/their life story isn't what we're after but more than a smiple "No" would suffice......"you're a troll GTFO", "No Irish", "You stole CAF funds in Canada"
>"the Committee is formed by......"
But nowhere is this made clear nor is the membership of this 'oversight' panel fixed.
>"I for one suggest you not to make policies on the citizenship committee..."
The BWP fully supports the aims the commitee is trying to acheive but it is desirous of it becoming more transparent (within the bounds of security) and having it's processes and procedures codified by HoC law and for it to be chaired by citizens elected by the populace.
I proposed the "immigration act" to legislate the committee and it didn't get any support...
http://forums.erepublik.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=63652&start=0
If you agree with it and want to legislate the committee, go ahead, the thread is open.
And indeed I did!
HoC is independent from government now - you will not be doing anything to us.
It was revised and reborn here - http://forums.erepublik.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=64920 and whilst close to what we want to achieve it misses on 2 points.
>"HoC is independent from government now - you will not be doing anything to us."
But if the BWP and other parties who are prepared to represent the masses not the upper classes have over 50% of the seats then they become the HoC.
You can ban them from your sub-forum and go all Cromwellian on them but they'll just re-organise elsewhere to do the jobs they've been elected to do.
well said, Alfagrem.
Haha, the chances of BWP gettingover 50% of congress is pretty slim.
Given that its about a week old I'd agree that achieving usch an aim in the near future is beyond the BWP as a singular entity.
However, we do look towards the future with more expectation.