Your Personal Survey Results
Here is the breakdown of your personal results
- Green Party 85.71%
- Lib Dems 14.29%
Here are the parties and policies you selected for each issue
Democracy (Green Party)
- The constitutional functions of the monarchy should be abolished and the House of Lords should be replaced by a wholly elected second chamber.
- A new written constitution should be devised defining the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
- Elections should be by a system of proportional representation. The voting age should be reduced to 16 years.
- A 'recall' system needs introducing - where politicians must step down to face re-election if petitioned to do so by a significant proportion of electors.
- More local and regional decision - making and greater public participation at all levels.
- We recognise the importance of addressing issues of common concern at the European and international levels, but not through a European super-state or inappropriate global bodies like the World trade Organisation (WTO) which undermine local democracy and global justice. Each function of government has an appropriate level, and defence would remain a national responsibility.
Economy (Green Party)
- This Party will implement a £45 billion investment to create 1 million jobs and lay the foundations for a sustainable and fair society. As part of this we will;
- Regulate banking and close tax loopholes.
- Invest massively in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
- Invest in public transport and in waste management.
- Create more affordable housing for rent.
- Provide free insulation for homes, schools and hospitals.
- Introduce green workforce training
- Provide decent pensions and free social care for older people.
Environment (Green Party)
- Use the £45 billion investment plan to kick-start a green industrial revolution so that low and zero-carbon sectors of the economy are the new platform for prosperity.
- Transform the energy production landscape by supporting renewable sources, including wind and micro-solar generation.
- Reduce emissions from aviation by ending the £10 billion subsidy of the aviation industry.
- Reduce waste by making waste reduction, re-use and recycling easier.
- Improve public transport and rail to cut emissions from vehicles.
- Retrofit homes, schools and hospitals with energy efficiency measures.
- A massive investment in renewable sources to support development of both large-scale wind and tidal generation and domestic micro-generation - together these measures would create 80,000 jobs in the first year.
Europe (Green Party)
- We are internationalists; we want to foster solidarity between peoples, and we believe co-operation builds peace, as it has done in Europe. Our geography means that we are part of Europe. We believe in Europe, but not in a European super-state.
- Our vision for Europe seeks to replace the unsustainable economics of free trade and growth with the alternative of local self-reliance.
- We want to foster co-operation on issues of common interest, not establish international institutions for their own sake.
- Accordingly we are critical of many of the objectives built into the EU treaties, of the EU institutions and how they work, and of many particular EU policies.
- We believe many things done and decided in Europe might better be done by member states or by regions or localities.
- There are essential matters - safeguarding basic rights, peace and security achieved through mutual understanding, environmental protection, the spread of culture and ideas, regulation of the financial system - where we agree that EU action is appropriate.
Health / NHS (Green Party)
- This Party's approach involves increasing the level of awareness of when to seek health care and when to allow things to get better naturally. It is also important to protect those suffering mental health problems from discrimination wherever it may occur.
- A key policy is to reverse the sale of NHS services and hospitals to private companies, for example we are going to bring cleaners back into the NHS team.
- We will start by promoting cycling and walking to school, which will reduce pollution and help to combat childhood asthma.
- Ensuring schools provide healthy meals will reduce the levels of obesity in children.
- We will introduce a NHS tax to make the level of funding for the NHS transparent for all. There will be the ability to increase taxation locally, if people decide, so that local NHS services can benefit directly, just as the police and schools can at present.
- We will reduce the level of spending on defence to provide further funds for health care. These changes in funding will allow us to abolish prescription charges.
- Our focus on increasing community based services and community health centres will keep care as local as possible.
Immigration (Lib Dems)
- Immediately reintroduce exit checks at all ports and airports.
- Secure Britain's borders by giving a National Border Force police powers.
- Introduce a regional points-based system to ensure that migrants can work only where they are needed. We need to enforce any immigration system through rigorous checks on businesses and a crackdown on rogue employers who profit from illegal labour.
- Prioritise deportation efforts on criminals, people-traffickers and other high-priority cases. We will let law-abiding families earn citizenship. We will allow people who have been in Britain without the correct papers for ten years, but speak English, have a clean record and want to live here long-term to earn their citizenship. This route to citizenship will not apply to people arriving after 2010.
- Take responsibility for asylum away from the Home Office and give it to a wholly independent agency, as has been successful in Canada.
- Push for a co-ordinated EU-wide asylum system to ensure that the responsibility is fairly shared between member states.
- Allow asylum seekers to work, saving taxpayers' money and allowing them the dignity of earning their living instead of having to depend on handouts.
- End the detention of children in immigration detention centres. Alternative systems such as electronic tagging, stringent reporting requirements and residence restrictions can be used for adults in families considered high flight risks.
Welfare (Green Party)
- Everyone to receive a basic Citizen's Income to allow everybody to make meaningful choices between paid employment, part-time work, self employment, volunteering and encourage a better balance between work and everyday life.
- Extend workers rights to part time, casual workers and the self employed. Democracy in cooperatives and workplaces would be encouraged and this Party would value and protect carers and volunteers.
- The value of those who care voluntarily for the elderly is appreciated when we see the high price the market demands for such services.
- This Party would introduce a Citizen's Pension that would pay pensioners a liveable amount, without means testing and would be linked to the rise in average earnings. Independent studies by the National Association of Pension Funds have shown that a citizen's Pension could be afforded today within current net expenditure on state pensions.
- By abolishing tax relief on private pension contributions we can save enough money to provide much of the extra funds needed.
- With a decent state pension it is unnecessary to make additional contributions compulsory.
- Voluntary private and occupational schemes organised for and by the workers and pensioners concerned should be implemented.
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