PARTY POLITICS

Should we continue with the party political system? And introduce co-operatives?

Many businesses have grown too big. People need a purpose; there is not much difference working for a large company than the state. There is a need for change.

We have a Labour party who produce policies and then backtrack because they have not worked. They bleed us dry by taxing us, then waste our money and borrow more creating bigger debt. They have got us in a great big hole. Crime appears to be getting worse, when they tell us it's not. They have created a welfare state which has made our children unhappier. Mothers are encouraged to go back to work, which in turn is breaking the bonds between parents and children and they want to nationalise industries, which often doesn't work.

The Conservatives at this moment may not admit it, but they have always thought that property is the only thing that matters, believing that higher value brings prosperity. It is property ownership that has created some of our problems. The Conservatives have allowed big businesses to get bigger and destroy small enterprises. They gave our fishing waters to Europe, closed our coal mines and ship building, and relied on cheaper imports from abroad when they were last in power.

The Liberal Democrats, while they haven’t been tried in National Government, have some good policies, but they believe in the European Union which can only be bad news. The Lib/Dems are still promoting free movement of people We are overpopulated, creating pollution and traffic gridlock. Then they talk about green issues. You can't have both.

The Green Party, while having some good ideas, appear to be mainly vegetarian. On one hand they do not want us to use fertilisers or chemical sprays. While they are saying we should eat less meat, to use the land more efficiently to feed the world population, one needs to realise, the more cattle you have, the more grass grows. It is like mowing your lawn, the more you cut it, the more it will grow. If we are not to use more chemicals and artificial fertilisers, cattle manure is the best way to improve the soil. One cannot grow vegetables or corn on all the land; grazing is almost the only thing some land can be used for. At the same time animal welfare should be better managed.

It is better to rear a calf to become an adult to become beef, rather than shoot it at a week old. If we did not have calves, there would be no milk, cheese, yoghurt, rice pudding, chocolate etc.

UKIP wanted us to withdraw from the European Union, and while this is a good idea, it will not solve all our problems. They are working on policies and are now becoming a force to be reckoned with.

Communism has been proven not to work. It has too much power in the hands of a few, often creating corruption in the ranks. The people need a reason to go to work; working for the state doesn’t give people their own initiative and is too dictatorial. 

People’s Assemblies are meant to elect a local constituency representative who will hold local debates and address issues. They will then be required to vote as instructed by constituencies. Until then, there should be elections every year, representing 25% of the constituencies. That would allow smaller or new groups to gradually grow if they were popular enough. At present when all seats come up at the same time, one could find a new parliament complete with a completely new group and the people elected would not have the knowledge of how parliament works. This is the reason the major parties are re-elected.