Policy Paper 6 - Government Getting Better

Policy Paper 6. Government Getting Better

This paper sets out proposals for improving how government works, reducing unnecessary delay, strengthening accountability, and ensuring that public bodies serve the interests of the country more effectively.

Government Getting Better

a. Cut the development time for modular nuclear reactors and reduce the regulations.

b. The water companies have failed their customers and damaged the water system. Take them into national ownership and demand the return of all monies paid out of fictitious profits.

c. Controlling NGOs.
Appoint each MP, irrespective of party, as a CEO of one of the quangos, with personal responsibility for achieving its goals.

d. Trade Union Powers.
Institute new rules to limit the power of the unions. No union should be allowed to have a monopoly over all employees.

e. Taking Power Back from the Lawyers.
Leave the ECHR and ECJ. We, and only we, should make our laws.

  1. If Wales and Scotland want to be self-sufficient, so be it, but we will no longer finance them and they will lose their MPs from Westminster.
  2. No family living together in one house can receive more than the average monthly wage.
  3. Unemployment benefit is only supposed to be short term, so it will cease after six months and can only be re-awarded after twelve months.
  4. All benefit recipients should be re-evaluated after five years.
  5. The share of the defence budget should be based on land area and seabed area.

The House of Lords

There are far too many members of the House of Lords, and we need the best upper house that we can get. Therefore:

  • Split it into four sections, with each team starting on a sequential Quarter Day, thus halving their size and cost: Blue, Green, Red and Yellow.
  • No more political appointees.
  • Active membership should be for thirty years.
  • Each person should be responsible for a quango and serve fully.
  • Initially, appoint 100 members, plus around twenty extra each year.
  • Appoint the best in their field, such as world champions, Olympic champions, business leaders, CEOs of top FTSE companies or highest corporate taxpayers, Nobel and Turing prizewinners, top prize-winning artists, musicians, architects and major whistle-blowers.

Public Sector Working Better

  1. Local Government Democracy.
    Local councillors shall once again be unpaid, other than reimbursement of expenses, so they are no longer dependent on their employer. They will then be able to ask any questions and expect a prompt and accurate response under the three strikes principle.
  2. Overhauling Our Armed Forces.
    All supernumeraries in the armed forces should be retired, and all the rest should report to GCHQ.
  3. Salaries should exclude any allowance for the number of people in the team, and should not change depending on length of service.
  4. Scrutiny.
    All civil servants and NGO employees work for the government, implementing government policy under the scrutiny of an MP or peer. This means they are under the three strikes rule and face losing half their pension rights.

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