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Reform: 4-Pillars of the Liberal Awakening
Social Reform
Higher Education - Welfare - Environment - Trade - Foreign Policy - Security & Defence
Welfare Reform
- Return the Welfare State back to the Safety Net concept originally proposed by William Beveridge.
- End the degrading scourge of wasted potential caused by unfulfilled lives spent on benefits.
- The state should be solely a safety net for those families and individuals that have fallen on hard times, or need assistance in leading fulfilled and productive lives.
- An emphasis on Ability not Disability: focus on what people can do rather than what they can't: give everyone a chance to be active members of society who can fulfill their potential.
- Abolish ALL universal state benefits (USBs):
- Re-direct the savings from the abolition on USBs to the most needy - ie. spend MORE on those at the bottom.
- Child Benefit to be Abolished: replaced by more generous Child Tax Credit system that guarantees a high quality of life and opportunity for ALL children.
- Universal state pensions to be removed: citizens will be compensated by the removal of all income tax/NI contributions on their pension pots.
- Low income pensioners will have their income topped up by a more generous scheme of Pension Credits to guarantee a high quality of life for ALL pensioners.
- Fuel allowance, Travel passes & TV licence to be removed from pensioners all together.
- Remove benefits for healthy long-term unemployed. Redirect money saved to the short term unemployed and disabled.
- Remove benefit from anyone who won’t take a job at their skill level.
- Abolish Housing Benefit
- A state subsidy of private landlords.
- Distorts the rented and private housing market: increases rental values and capital price.
- Housing benefit to be merged with a fixed rate unemployment benefit.
- Living wage should be enough to cover all housing costs.
- Unemployment Benefit:
- Why is there still a 5.5% unemployment rate in the UK when the economy is producing so many jobs, while foreigners are clammering to work here?
- Many of the jobs being taken by socially adept foreigners are low technical skill but require good Soft Skills: social skills, communication skills and attributes such as reliability, Politeness & Good Manners.
- More emphasis, therefore, on teaching these soft skills (eg communication, manners, politeness) for unqualified people to fill many low-skill jobs that well presented foreigners currently dominate.
- Solve mass immigration problem by ensuring that most of the jobs in the UK are filled by UK citizens!
- Get rid of the terrible curse of Welfare Dependency forever.
