🟩 Green Party Policies 🟩 • Renationalising our NHS • £70bn Wealth Tax • 500,000 Council Homes • £15 per hour min wage • Universal Basic Income • Rent Controls • Abolishing Tuition Fees • Recognition of Palestine • Free Secondary School Meals • Axe Two-Child Cap - ThreadSky

toryfibs.bsky.social • 103 days ago

🟩 Green Party Policies 🟩

• Renationalising our NHS
• £70bn Wealth Tax
• 500,000 Council Homes
• £15 per hour min wage
• Universal Basic Income
• Rent Controls
• Abolishing Tuition Fees
• Recognition of Palestine
• Free Secondary School Meals
• Axe Two-Child Cap

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laurajadephillips.co.uk•102 days ago

I think it's about time we dropped the idea that there are only two political parties (three at a push) in the UK, we need to be publicly giving the other parties more opportunity to speak and promote their manifesto and policies. Doing so may stop people from believing they can only vote one way or

laurajadephillips.co.uk•102 days ago

another or risk letting the other party win. If it was more accepted we would have a better chance of voting in someone who isn't a conservative in sheep's clothing.

fairyqueenofbs.bsky.social•102 days ago

I would vote for this!

Oh, wait, I did.

dailycorruption.bsky.social•103 days ago

We really could have done with all of this ^

mrmarcoco.bsky.social•103 days ago

Just a question as I genuinely don’t know the answer; what’s the point of UBI AND minimum wage?

scottsantens.com•103 days ago

I would say it's to encourage automation.

https://www.scottsantens.com/what-about-combining-a-higher-federal-minimum-wage-with-monthly-recurring-direct-stimulus-payments/

greenpeteru.bsky.social•103 days ago

UBI is about ensuring people can afford the basic necessities in life. Minimum wage is about ensuring people are paid fairly for their labour. Both are important.

mrmarcoco.bsky.social•103 days ago

Is £15 per hour fair? How is that determined. Genuine question.

greenpeteru.bsky.social•103 days ago

It's a minimum. The fair amount might be far higher than that. The point of a minimum wage is to say that paying less than that is unfair.

toryfibs.bsky.social•103 days ago

Most people want to work and are very happy doing so. Currently, a lot of people work doing unpaid labour in the invisible economy. Typically women carers. Their work deserves financial recompense.

mrmarcoco.bsky.social•103 days ago

I agree. Doesn’t carers allowance cater for this?

toryfibs.bsky.social•103 days ago

Tiny amount of money (and excludes stay at home parents for example). Benefits in general are too low so UBI would replace disability support for example.

mrmarcoco.bsky.social•103 days ago

Wait, so I would lose my disability benefit but instead get the same income as everyone else? Even though I have particular costs that someone without my disability doesn’t have to face? Is that fair? Surely that’s levelling down?

toryfibs.bsky.social•103 days ago

You end up with roughly double the money you would currently get. A rising tide gathers all boats.

eileenk.bsky.social•103 days ago

And please someone increase the personal tax allowance. Just in case of pensioners it is a double whammy

tominkilburn.bsky.social•102 days ago

I don’t say “leaving NATO” in there

joebelcher.bsky.social•102 days ago

The official policy is to push for reforms of NATO, fundamentally recreating it into a peaceful organisation. The policy also states that if these reforms are unattainable to then seek alternative defence arrangements.

So, in a nutshell. Radically change NATO or leave.

tominkilburn.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hmmm well maybe. I would prefer leave. We shouldn't need "defence arrangements"

joebelcher.bsky.social•102 days ago

I agree we shouldn't, but we're a few steps away from that reality, and it's best to do whatever we can to get there.

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