Securing financial and social wealth for all Britons - Implementing the Goals Series

Securing financial and social wealth for all Britons - Implementing the Goals Series

Securing financial and social wealth for all Britons is one of UKpopdems three main goals. It’s easy to say and many other parties have told UKpopdems they believe in the same thing. But you won’t find this statement in any other party’s manifesto or published goals: not even the ‘big three’, who are increasingly taking UKpopdem policy headlines into their own public statements. Even if Labour, Conservative or Lib/Dems did take ownership of this goal for themselves it would be impossible for them to deliver with anything like their current or planned financial and social structures. Let it be said here and now; UKpopdems will deliver this goal in office for the benefit of all Britons, and what follows explains what it means and summarises how it will be implemented.

UKpopdems believes in individual, community and national financial wealth. The wealthier people are, the freer they are, the more choices they can make which benefit them and the more they can take control of their lives – and the more they can give back to society and those less fortunate than themselves. So UKpopdems defines financial wealth in terms everyone can understand – Britons feeling and actually being better off. Defining social wealth is also easier than it looks. When people who really need help and support are confident they will get it, that’s social wealth: when people feel empowered to influence events that are important to them, that’s also social wealth: and when people feel confident their lives will improve, they have social wealth.

This is the goal that UKpopdems is pledging to achieve. Present and past governments are failing increasingly in both these areas. Social help is becoming scarcer, more bureaucratic and centralised; leading to what there is becoming sometimes ineffectual. Likewise, in real modern British financial terms, many ordinary people are slowly getting poorer or standing still. Not so long ago it was quite possible for one parent in a family to work and keep the rest of the family in reasonable comfort. Now both parents have to work to pay the mortgage or rent, bills and live a reasonable life. It seems this government’s intention is to make as many people as possible dependent on the state – either working for the state or receiving benefits of one kind or another.

In summary, this is how Ukpopdems will increase social and financial wealth for all Britons. The programmes are fully funded. There will be no tax rises and no public sector redundancies. We will wring £100billion of waste and bureaucracy out of Labour’s bloated fiscal mismanagement and redirect it to where it can be better used.

Firstly we are dramatically increasing the power of individuals and communities. So you and your local community will decide social priorities and where funding should be spent – not local authorities or central government. Then we are putting up to a million additional front-line resources into the community. That’s real people doing a real job in your community – not in back-offices; police; doctors, nurses; teachers; social services and many others. And we’ll build the matching infrastructure to support these resources. This means social benefits for everyone. You will no longer live in fear of violent crime, and when you really need help of whatever kind, it will be there for you. We will encourage ordinary like-minded individuals in their millions to get together to have their say on legislation and to advise the government – and the government will listen. You will feel you can really make a difference to your country and will be in the driving seat of democratic change. You will decide, by public votes, national and social issues like political correctness, equality, human rights, the portrayal of violence and sex in the media and many others. You will have real power; you will have help and support when you really need it; you will have secured social wealth.

In securing financial wealth, too, UKpopdem policies will deliver. Firstly, we are making companies wealthier by totally removing corporation tax. You can imagine the huge influx of highly profitable corporations coming to Britain – and the matching job opportunities. Secondly, we will give every Briton a ‘Right to Work’. That’s real employment for everyone who needs a job with training and support given when its needed (a UKpopdem policy just recently taken up by Gordon Brown). We will reduce immigration and give Britons first priority for jobs. We’ll still have immigration, of course, but all foreign nationals will need ‘Easy Visas’ to legally enter Britain. We will re-build the value and security of pensions through employer funded ‘Safe Pensions’ linked to salaries, so everyone will have dignity in retirement.

We’ll re-orientate education to make sure pupils get the best life chances through maximising individual potential. Then we’ll encourage the really wealthy to put more back into Britain through the implementation of ‘Very High Earners Discretionary Contribution’ linked to total earnings and average salaries and numbers of any Britons employed. Those liable can choose to reduce their contribution to zero through benefiting Britain directly, employing more people, or supporting the very poorest and disadvantaged in society. Still more, we’ll give everyone a chance to reduce future taxes in a popular vote, releasing more wealth for ordinary Britons. As a minimum, a vote to reduce taxes would see Council Tax, that most hated of taxes, completely eliminated. So a real job and better opportunities for every Briton, better education, a secure retirement, a proper contribution by the very wealthy, and the possibility of reduced taxes. All these will bring truly secure financial wealth.

Ukpopdems – securing financial and social wealth for all Britons.