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| Introduction |
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| UKIP wants Britain to regain three
essential freedoms by leaving the EU: Freedom of Action, so we can
control our borders and no longer have to grovel to the EU for
permission to save our Post Offices, factories, etc.; Freedom of
Resources, by keeping the £16.4bn p.a. in cash (£45m a day) currently
sent to Brussels and spending that money in the UK; Freedom of the
People, with real power returning to British citizens from remote EU
bureaucrats.
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| In summary, UKIP will: |
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| 1 The Economy:
Tax, Budget & Regulation |
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- Save up to £120bn a year by leaving the EU.
No British jobs or trade will be lost
- Take tax off the minimum wage by raising the
tax threshold to £11,500
- Reduce everyone’s taxes with a 31% flat tax
- Abolish the ‘tax on jobs’: phase out
employers’ NI contributions over five years
- Axe Britain’s gigantic quango mountain and
public sector non-jobs to reduce UK national
debt
- Release businesses from 120,000 EU laws
- Replace VAT with a ‘Local Sales Tax’ to help
councils and local businesses
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| 2 The Economy:
Jobs, Enterprise & Skills |
- Create one million new skilled jobs with public and private
investment in a five-point public works programme to provide
defence equipment, nuclear power stations, flood and coastal
protection, transport infrastructure including high-speed rail
lines, and new prisons
- Abolish costly EU schemes such as carbon capping, emissions
trading, and landfill taxes
- Amend the UK Takeover Code to prevent foreign interests from
gaining control of strategic British companies
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| 3 Immigration &
Asylum |
- End uncontrolled mass immigration
- Introduce an immediate five-year freeze on immigration for
permanent settlement
- Regain control of Britain’s borders to stop foreign criminals
from entering our country
- End abuse of the UK asylum system and expel Islamic extremists
- Introduce a strict new points-based visa system and time-limited
work permits
- Triple the number of UK Borders Agency staff engaged in
controlling immigration (to 30,000)
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| 4 Law &
Order/Crime |
- Enable voters to set policing priorities through locally-elected
County Police Boards
- Demand zero tolerance on crime and double prison places to
assure this
- Make sentences mean what they say: life must mean life
- Scrap the Human Rights Act that benefits criminals and not their
victims. No votes for prisoners
- Introduce a ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ law to lock up career
criminals for good
- Abolish the Crown Prosecution Service and return to county
police prosecutions
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| 5 Defence |
- Boost the military budget by 40% so our armed forces are
properly equipped
- Demand one clear achievable mission for Afghanistan or seek a
negotiated exit
- Keep Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent strong
- Look after our service heroes with better pay and conditions
- Expand the Army by 25% and double the TA
- Provide more RAF helicopters and aircraft
- Expand the Royal Navy to its 2001 strength, guaranteeing the
future of Plymouth, Portsmouth and Rosyth ports
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| 6 Healthcare &
the NHS |
- Keep the NHS free at the point of delivery and make no cuts to
frontline services
- Replace overlapping tiers of NHS bureaucracy (SHAs/PCTs) with
locally-elected County Health Boards
- Introduce private sector ‘franchise partnerships’ to run NHS
healthcare services better, while assets remain in public hands
- Introduce ‘Health Credit Vouchers’ to allow people to opt out of
the NHS if they wish
- Re-examine community care and support congregate communities for
people with learning disabilities
- Restore free NHS dental check-ups and eye tests
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| 7 Education &
Training |
- Bring back the ‘three Rs’ and teach reading with phonics to
provide a proper educational foundation
- Encourage the creation of new grammar schools, but make the
11-plus vocational as well as academic
- Give parents ‘School Vouchers’ so they can choose between
schools - state or private
- Raise standards by franchising state schools to private
organisations, such as charitable trusts
- Re-introduce student grants (‘Student Vouchers’ and ‘Training
Vouchers’)
- Re-examine the policy of ‘inclusion’ and support special schools
for children with learning disabilities
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| 8 Pensions |
- Roll all existing state pensions and
benefits into a non means-tested minimum £130pw
‘Citizen’s Pension’
- Reinstate dividend tax credit at 20%
- Reduce the annual limit for tax-relievable
pension contributions to £10,000, from £255,000
- Bring public sector final salary pensions
back into line with typical private pension
provision
- By leaving the EU, avoid having to pay for
unfunded EU pensions
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| 9 Welfare &
Social Security |
- Reform the ridiculously complicated welfare system (currently
more than 70 different benefits)
- Help families by rolling childcare benefits and credits into one
enhanced benefit
- Allow part-time workers to continue claiming ‘Basic Cash
Benefit’ until their wages reach £11,500
- Introduce council-run ‘Workfare’ projects to improve local
communities
- Ensure UK benefits are only available to those who have lived
here for at least five years
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| 10 Foreign
Affairs & International Trade |
- Leave the EU and continue in free trade with the other European
countries. No jobs will be lost
- Establish a Commonwealth Free Trade Area with the other member
countries
- Regain Britain’s currently dormant seat at the World Trade
Organisation
- Promote democracy, genuine human rights and free determination
around the world
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| 11 Energy & the
Environment |
- Invest in nuclear power and clean coal to avert Britain’s
impending energy crisis
- Oppose wind farms in general and require them to be funded by
the market
- Establish a Royal Commission to determine the truth about
man-made global warming
- Incentivise the reduction of waste and effective methods of
recycling and incineration
- Encourage use of electric road vehicles and more electrified
rail
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| 12 Transport |
- Invest an extra £3bn p.a. in the UK’s road and railway systems
- Introduce three new high-speed rail lines, and re-open some
lines closed by Beeching
- Shelve plans for the sixth Heathrow terminal and third runway in
favour of a Thames Estuary airport
- Make foreign lorries pay to use British roads with a ‘Britdisc’
and ban the EU’s ‘superlorries’
- Subject parking charges and revenue-raising devices, e.g. speed
cameras to greater democratic control
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| 13 Housing &
Planning |
- Build more social housing and encourage the use of 800,000 empty
homes
- Scrap the pointless Home Information Packs (HIPs)
- Introduce binding local planning referenda for major
developments, except when there is overriding national
interest
- End undemocratic regional planning in favour of county-based
decision making
- Introduce conservators to help preserve green belt land
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| 14 The
Constitution & How We Are Governed |
- Give the British public a right to binding local and national
referenda on major issues
- Introduce proportional representation into national and local
elections. UKIP favours the Alternative Vote Plus system
- Abolish layers of regional government
- Give voters a right of recall over corrupt MPs, enabling them to
force by-elections
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| 15 Culture &
Restoring Britishness |
- End support for multiculturalism and promote one shared British
culture for all
- Be fair to England by introducing an ‘English Parliament’,
ending the discriminatory Barnett Formula and making St George’s Day
a national holiday in England
- Ban the burka and veiled niqab in public buildings and certain
private buildings
- Require UK schools to teach Britain’s contribution to the world
and celebrate cultures, languages and traditions from around the
British Isles
- Scrap political correctness in public affairs
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| 16 Food, Farming
& the Countryside |
- Support the new supermarket Ombudsman to ensure farmers receive
a fair price from supermarket chains
- Introduce labelling schemes to support British farmers and high
animal welfare standards
- Support GM foods research but continue to oppose GM food
production and listen to evolving scientific research
- Guarantee farmers no sudden loss of CAP payments on leaving the
EU
- Allow county referenda to reverse the hunting ban at local level
- Legalise more producer co-operatives to put food producers on a
more equal footing with supermarket buyers
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| 17 Fishing |
- Immediately withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy and take
back control of British waters up to 200 nautical miles from the UK
- Return £2.5bn p.a. in fish sales to the UK economy
- Ban shameful discarding of fish and abandon all EU quotas
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