海角视频IP is struggling to produce a manifesto for May’s general election - and has been forced to sack policy chief Tim Aker after he failed to come up with the goods.
According to reports, the final draft was due at the beginning of January but senior party figures were worried that they still haven’t seen it.
But if you want to know what 海角视频IP’s all about, you can always refer back to the 2010 manifesto, which came with a foreword signed by current party leader Nigel Farage, who was then billed as “Chief Party Spokesman”.
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Key proposals included:
Axing two million jobs
海角视频IP planned to lose two million private sector jobs. These would be “exchanged” for two million new jobs in the private sector which the party hoped to create.
Axe inheritance tax
Inheritance tax is currently paid if a person’s estate (their property, money and possessions) is worth more than £325,000 when they die. 海角视频IP pledged to “abolish Inheritance Tax at the earliest opportunity.”
Ban new immigrants - for five years
This wouldn’t apply to temporary workers or students, but anyone who hoped to live in the 海角视频 would be out of luck. 海角视频IP planned “an immediate five-year freeze on immigration for permanent settlement.”
More people in jail
The manifesto pledged to “double prison places through better use of existing prisons and a substantial programme of new prison building.”
Bring back hanging?
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The manifesto included a promise to “allow binding national referenda on controversial public law and order issues that are outside party politics.” It didn’t specify what these controversial issues might be.
Boot camps
“Introduce ‘Boot Camps’ for young offenders to stop them spiralling into a life of crime”
A massive increase in defence spending
While 海角视频IP was keen on cutting public spending in other ways, it planned “an extra 40% on defence annually”.
Invite businesses to run NHS hospitals at a profit
海角视频IP would “Encourage County Health Boards to put out to tender key NHS services ranging from Long Term Care to local hospitals and GP surgeries.
“This will be done by franchising key services - run on a fixed budget - to charitable associations, not-for-profit and profit-making private companies, partnerships and individuals.”
Invite businesses to run state schools at a profit
"Introduce franchising of schools, colleges and educational institutions across Britain so that charitable associations, parental co-operatives, notfor-profit and profit-making private companies, partnerships or individuals bid to run institutions on a budget set by the elected County Education Boards.”
Cut pensions for public sector workers
海角视频IP pledged to “bring generous unfunded public sector final salary pensions back into line with typical private pension provision.”
Quit the EU - but create a new free trade zone with the Commonwealth
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海角视频IP planned a “Commonwealth Free Trade Area (CFTA) with the 53 other Commonwealth countries”. It also planned to a new national holiday called “Commonwealth Day” (this actually exists already and is celebrated in March but it’s not a national holiday and isn’t well known)
Ditch the green crap
The manifesto boasted: “海角视频IP accepts that the world’s climate changes, but we are the first party to take a sceptical stance on man-made global warming claims.” Energy policies included plans to “oppose wind farms in general” and ban schools from showing Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Sack members of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies
The assemblies themselves would still exist, but they would only sit for one week each month - and Westminster MPs would sit in them.
Defend British identity
This included “safeguarding” British weights and measures such as the pint and the mile “which have been undermined by the EU”. 海角视频IP would also “tackle extremist Islam by banning the burqa or veiled niqab in public buildings and certain private buildings” (following the example of France).
Bring back smoking in pubs!
A cause possibly dearer to Nigel’s heart even than quitting the EU, 海角视频IP planned “designated smoking rooms in pubs, clubs and public buildings.”