If you were forming a political party what manifesto commitments would you make?

[Old Greg]

Rename the forum to Brexit and Politics,so it can continue after oct 31

Which year?

[AtW]

20 years in jail for broken manifesto promises

[WTFH]

Hardly worth taking in your own equipment for that....

In this weather I take my equipment out when working from home. Keeps it cooler.

[WTFH]

20 years in jail for broken manifesto promises

Performance related salary and pensions for MPs

[vetran]

Seems ok, but aside from taxing multinationals "fairly", how will you pay for all this?

Btw, Switzerland reduced drug crime massively by providing free clean heroin to registered addicts, and a safe place to shoot up (offering drug counselling, rehab etc., but not making in compulsory). The economic cost of this is more than compensated by the drop in petty crimes. An unexpected side-effect is that since addicts live longer, younger people see the long-term effects of heroin, and the number of addicts has also fallen significantly - of course there may be additional factors causing this.

Therefore, I'd take point b) out. I wouldn't add a point, because a large proportion of the general public would wail and moan about giving free drugs to addicts - even though overall it benefits everyone.

Totally right I support shooting galleries and counselling. Conversely I would make jails drug free and being clean inside & out part of your parole conditions.

[vetran]

100% tax on rental income.

Oh ok then! 99%.....

what good is that going to do, where are those with poor credit going to live?

Best way to fix BTL is to make the returns less attractive by building more homes or have less people wanting them.

[vetran]

Like most manifestos, it sounds good until you think about each one just a little bit and realise that what you’ve written is just waffly enough to mean anything to anyone.

like you are equipped for that.

Its broad brush strokes as you couldn't manage anything more complicated, lets be serious "mind the gap" confuses you.

[vetran]

In this weather I take my equipment out when working from home. Keeps it cooler.

need... mind bleach!!!

[vetran]

Performance related salary and pensions for MPs

would they qualify for tax credits?

[NotAllThere]

Totally right I support shooting galleries...

Seems a bit harsh, but I suppose a pile of addict corpses could act as discouragement...