United Kingdom Peoples Party

The United Kingdom Peoples Party

A manifesto for government.

MP expenses:

All MP's will be paid 2.5 times of the average working wage.
No family members to be employed by MP's
A maximum of £50k will be paid in expenses to run offices.
There will be full receipts for expenses.
After 2012 London Olympics accommodation will be provided for MP's in the Olympic village.

MP's and former MP's who have evaded capital gains tax or profited from the sale of houses that received a subsidy from the public purse, will pay back in full all the amounts due. All moneys spent on MP's or Former MP's on refurbishments to second homes will be paid back. This will be back dated 10 years with no exceptions.

A fully elected legislature upper house.

We will have a Referendum day. Held at the same time as the election or at mid point of a parliamentary term. If 250,000 people vote on a parliamentary petition the subject will be up for referendum.

TAX.

The current tax take is a restriction to investment and personal choice so to free up investment and personal choice:

Child Benefit:

We will remove child benefit from immigrants.
We will remove give child benefit to under 21 year old UK residents.
No child benefit will be given to any more than 3 children for basic rate tax payers
No child benefit will be given to any higher rate income tax payers

Immigrants will need to be resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months before being eligible for child benefit and that will only be for 3 dependent children living in the UK. No benefit will be paid to any non UK resident children eception will be made for children of the armed forces. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

No child benefit will be paid to any parent under the age of 21.

Basic and Higher Tax:

Basic Rate Tax payers will be restricted to child benefit for 3 dependent children only resident in the UK. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

Higher Tax income payers will not receive child benefit

Benefit claimants: child benefit will only be given for the first 3 dependent children only resident in the UK. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

The new rate will be £25 per child per week.

Job Seekers Allowance:

Immigrants will need to be resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months before being eligible for:
Job Seekers Allowance

Job seekers allowance will not be paid after 24 months continuous payments.

No benefits to any resident of the UK will be paid unless they have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months.
This includes:
Job Seekers Allowance
Housing benefit
Disability allowance (exception children under 18) at 18 a new assessment and only the very deserving will receive this benefit.

Job seekers allowance and Housing benefit will not be paid to any resident of the UK after 24 months continuous payments.


No claimant on Job seekers allowance after 24 months will be moved to another benefit they will receive vouchers that can be exchanged for food after the 24 months.

Housing benefit will not be given to immigrants.
Housing benefit will not be given to UK residents after 24 months.


Basic Rate Tax payers will pay 10p on the first £5,000 and then 15p for the next £10,000 then 20p there after

Higher Rate Tax payers will pay 10p on the first £5,000 and then 20p for the next £35,000 then 40p there after.

Carers who leave work to care will get a 75% of their average wage over a 36 month period that will be indexed linked for the duration of their care time.

Pensions:
Your National Insurance contributions will be ring fenced for your State Pension. If you have not paid National Insurance contributions for more than 30 years you will receive vouchers that can be exchanged for food. They will be on a sliding scale depending on your years of National Insurance contributions.

Pensions will be linked with wages.

Pensioners with savings of under £100,000 will not pay tax.

Pensioners with savings over £100,000 If they are working their will pay tax at 10p the first £20,000 after the £100,000 threshold and then 15p on all other thereafter, their pension will not be taxed.

Corporation tax will be set commensurate with other countries within our region. It will be set at +or- 2% of the commensurate countries.

The tax take from highest earners will be as for High income earners all residents and non residents of the UK will pay no exceptions.

Stamp duty will start to be paid on homes priced at average house prices + 20%.

Inheritance Tax will be paid on estates on a combined house sale value plus savings of to a sum of £400k or on house sales of £400k and or savings over £400k.

We will remove stealth Taxes on green or eco issues until there is a world agreement on green or eco issues.

A full review of VAT will be undertaken.

VAT will be removed from domestic heating fuels.

Fuel duty at the pumps will be caped at 85p per litre at the pumps. If fuel prices increase the fuel duty will reduce. Thus insuring that the motorist is not priced off the road by rising fuel prices.

Road fund tax will be used solely for investment in the roads infrastructure.

Banks:

All banks will be required to invest in a insurance scheme. This will be held by government and used to bail out banks if they fail. The insurance scheme will be underwritten by the financial institutions.

Banks will be broken up into investment and savings arms. The investment arm will be
All savings form ordinary savers will be guaranteed 100% by the banks. Bank charges will be caped at .01%. These banks will be used as service banks and on excessive profiteering, will be permitted.

Mortgages:

No self certification mortgages. Mortgages will be caped at 4 times or 25% of monthly income.

Banks Bonus:

If a bank has paid out more than 1% in bonuses in the last 3 years, they will not be liable for a full pay out of the insurance scheme and the sort fall will be borne by the management and board and investors. The investment side will have no guarantees. Investors will invest at their own risk.

Hedge Funds:

Hedge Funds, will be forced to invest in a insurance scheme. This will be held by government and used to bail out banks if they fail. If a Hedge Fund has betted against a bank or financial institution and that institution fails within 24 months the Hedge Fund will pay a proportion of the failure to ordinary investors. No moneys will be paid to investment banks or other financial institutions.

EU:

We will remove the UK as a full membership of the EU and only remain as a trading partner.

Defence:

We will withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan within 6 months. We will only send troops to conflicts that are in our National interest.

We will invest a minimum of 5% proportion of our GDP on the armed services.

Police:

We will remove police bureaucracy.
We will put more police on the streets.
Police emphasise will be on crime not just speeding motorists and issuing fixed penalties.

Justice:

We will introduce categories for Murder:

Category 1: Full Life Term.
Category 2: 25-35years after 25years there will be a review and possible parole.
Category 3: 15-35 years after 15years there will be a review and possible parole.

Paedophiles, Rapists and Drug Dealers will be given a full term Category 2.

There will be a 3 strikes rule for recurrent criminals of low level crime. After the 3rd conviction you will automatically go to Category 2.

3 strikes rule example:
If you get a conviction strike 1 get another conviction strike 2 the next time you are convicted strike 3 and you get a minimum of Category 2: 25-35 years

Prisons

No prisoner will be permitted to be idle in prison. All food for the prison will be provided from the prisoners. There will be prison gardens and farms were the prisoners will be required to grow their own produce for the prison kitchen. If they don't grow it they don't eat.

All visits will be behind a floor to ceiling reinforced glass screen. There will be no physical contact between prisoners or visitors.

Any prisoner found with drugs or other contraband will be given an extra 5 years without parole. For each item of contraband and each time a new search is conducted. There will be a minimum of 12 searches in any 12 month period.

BBC:

Will promote Britishness.

The licence fee will not be used to pay performers. The BBC will fund performers out of profits form it commercial arm.

The BBC CE and board will be paid the same as an MP.