The Greens’ vision for the UK
This is from Tim Blair. I love how they talk about nursery now being “free”, along with social care and school dinners.
Also of interest is that they regard it as a good thing that 90% of kids will now turn up to school without a packed lunch, because the taxpayer is providing free dinners.
Guido Fawkes has also highlighted some of their policies:
- “a complete ban on cages for hens and rabbits”
- “end the use of the whip in horse racing and conduct a full review of the sport”
- “end the practice of grouse shooting”
- “ensure UK taxpayers’ money is not used for bullfighting”
- “ban the import of fur products”
- “ensure that all schools, hospitals and other public buildings have solar panels by 2020″
- “closure of all coal-fired power stations”
- “make equality and diversity lessons mandatory in all schools”
- “progressively introduce anonymised CVs”
- “strengthen Travellers’ rights”
- “cancelling student debt”
- “revive the role of trade unions”
- “phase in a 35 hours week”
- “work for the abolition of the City of London Corporation”
- “introduce a wealth tax of 2% on the top 1%”
- “raise the additional top rate of income tax to 60%”
- “increase corporation tax from 20% to 30%”
- “introduce new taxes on the use of water”
- “ensure that no company owns more than 20% of a media market”
- “state funding of political parties”
- “pursue a policy of defensive defence, which threatens no one”
- “a ban on the production and sale of fois gras”
Why stop at anonymised CVs? How about anonymised job interviews where you sit behind a screen so they can’t work out your age or race, and they use a Darth Vader type voice synthesizer so they can’t work out your gender also?