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TSR Model House of Commons: General Election!

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Which party should win the TSR Model HOC general election

TSR Centre Party 7%

TSR Liberal Democrats 22%

TSR Labour 12%

RobbieC (Independent candidate) 6%

TSR Conservative 16%

TSR Socialists 11%

Jangrafess (Independent candidate) 10%

TSR Libertarian Party 10%

TSR UKIP 4%

spoilt ballot2%

Total votes: 464

TSR George

17

Hello and good day. While it's true, the real life election is exciting a great many people, don't forget about the TSR House of Commons, your very own model parliament creating laws and policies by democratic mandate.

It's now time for our election, so here are the parties you can vote for in this election, in randomly generated order:

The parties and individuals you can vote for are: TSR Centre, TSR Liberal Democrats, TSR Labour, RobbieC (Independent candidate) TSR Conservative, TSR UKIP, TSR Socialists, Jangrafess (Independent candidate, TSR Libertarian, TSR UKIP.

TSR

The Centre Party are the only moderate party in the TSR House of Commons . If you don't believe us, look at the scores the other parties get on the political compass (while it has it's flaws, we think it gives an idea):

But we're more than just a moderate party . We're the party that radically reformed education , giving students far greater choice and teachers the time and resources to teach students as individuals. We're the party that massively curtailed striking . We're the party that reformed drugs law to leave recreational drugs legal, taxed and regulated. And we're the party that's made huge strides to efficient environmental protection . Not just change, but the right kind of change .

Here's what we'll do next term:

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The Economy: we'll introduce green taxes so we can cut the deficit without the need for Tory cuts in services or Gordon Brown's jobs tax. This means we can continue to invest in education and guarantee every student a truly world-class, free education tailored to them.

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The Environment: we'll invest in green technology by funding scientific research, building the infrastructure industry needs and creating a fund to invest directly into new enterprises. We will make Britain the forefront of green technology, safeguarding the environment and creating skilled jobs.

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Civil Liberties: we'll scrap ID cards, cut Labour's reams of red tape, reduce the voting age to 16, reform prisons to focus on rehabilitating criminals and cut the huge cost of having thousands of people locked up for minor offences.

There is another way. The Centre Party – the only moderate choice in the TSR House of Commons.

TSR

As part of a coalition government we have introduced various schemes to improve people's way of life, the environment and people's freedom.

Now with a new leadership team, the TSR Liberal Democrats are ready to do even more. Every party will want to reduce the crippling deficit, but we will do it responsibly – by targeting excessive bureaucracy, rather than targeting vital public services; and by stimulating economic growth in new areas, thereby reducing our future reliance on financial services.

Our core pledges:

• Streamline public services, implementing efficiency measures to control bloated bureaucracy while maintaining high levels of service to the public.

• Permanently cut VAT to 15%, leaving a little extra money in everyone's pocket.

• Increase the Income Tax threshold to £13,000 p/a.

• Combat Income Tax loopholes.

• Cut carbon emissions and create a greener society, through new initiatives to encourage investment in renewable energies. This new direction will pave the way for the emergence of a world-leading "green economy" that links the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs with lowered emissions and a more sustainable future for everyone.

• To further promote reduced fares on public transport, advocating prices that rise only in line with inflation.

• To reinvigorate the education system, so that it once again becomes an effective tool for more diverse learning and assessment.

• Properly equip our brave troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s time for freedom, time for revival, time for the TSR Liberal Democrats

TSR

A Different Labour... A Different Direction...

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start - Harold Wilson.

The TSR Labour Party supports this opinion and will act to ensure everyone has a fair and equal opportunity in life, continuing to tackle child poverty, providing increased material support to our hospitals and schools, and prioritising the fight against climate change.

We will:

• Continue our efforts to bring an end to social inequality.
• Continue supporting families of all shapes and sizes by expanding our Sure Start programme.
• Comprehensively reorganise local government making Britain a fairer society for all.
• Introduce fairer and more efficient student funding.
• Introduce real and substantial incentives for businesses and households alike to go green.

TSR Labour believes in a society where every person has fair and equal access to high standards of healthcare, education and local government services. Regardless of background, everyone in a TSR Labour society is valuable and will be supported by the government and as a party we are proud to consistently achieve the aims we set out.

Key Accomplishments:

• Introduced a high speed rail link throughout Britain directly connected to the Channel Tunnel and opposed the expansion of airports in the UK.
• Comprehensively devolved powers to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• Took great steps in reducing child poverty and its effects: the first bill of its kind on TSR.
• Brought an end to clamping and astronomical fines for parking offences.

RobbieCI stand for the purpose of guidance, with a real desire to inspire all parties into collaboration, because cohesion and compliance are what is required on the difficult road ahead. We must come together to reach a solution to our following problems, and I will aim to achieve the following, should I be elected:

-Begin to phase out our occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim of saving lives and costs in these conflicts;

- Re-distrubtion of NHS services to prioritise serious cases on a means-tested basis, ensuring that local clinical care is available for all minority cases, with referral systems being implemented between the two;

-To ensure the banking industry is made compliant with risk-assessment procedures for all arms of its operations, and to make them accountable to their users. In this way, banks will be forced – over time – to repay the electorate for their support in these difficult times;

-To revamp the Universities infrastructure nationally , and ensure that departments and their degrees are supported through subsidies where these are merited. The courses will be curved toward producing real professionals for real jobs, and ensuring those who take part receive the support they need with their fees;

-To raise taxation on tobacco and other luxury items , to fund the reduction in VAT, so that all can enjoy a reduction in their weekly shopping bills.

There is much more I can offer, and will deliver. I promise a change, not simply in policies, but in attitudes.

Vote for RobbieC

TSR

The TSR Conservatives are founded on certain core principles: liberty, responsibility and opportunity for all. We believe that everyone should be free to fulfil their potential regardless of background or finances, especially at university.

Conservatives believe in freedom and responsibility, and that there has been a considerable erosion of our civil liberties over the last decade with the introduction of thousands of new criminal offences. To combat this erosion of liberty, we will order a comprehensive review of all criminal legislation with the desire to remove all unnecessary laws and regulations.

Our desire is for a low tax, private sector driven economy. We will rein back the bureaucratic machine that has damaged our economy and creates unnecessary regulation for our businesses. A strong private sector throughout Britain is the only sustainable future for our country. There will be no more depressed regions.

The TSR Conservatives believe a democratic deficit has built up around the European Union and that we should only be part of this organisation with the strict consent of the British people, and to that end support creating an Act for a referendum on the continued British membership of this Union. UKIP are irrelevant here.

To further enhance democracy at home, we will begin a transition of devolving powers from Westminster to local councils, establishing a system of local referenda and the ability for communities to recall their member of parliament.

We have made great progress in the TSR Commons, we need your help to do more.

The TSR Conservative and Unionist Party – too good for a slogan.

TSR

As Socialists we stand for equality, compassion and democracy across both the state and industry.

As capitalism wreaks havoc across the world stage TSR Socialist Party offers a manifesto for fundamental change.

Over the past term we have campaigned for equal parental leave, eradicating the previously sexist situation. As your left wing choice we have fought strongly for the democratic principles of devolution and secularism, as well as the public ownership of natural resources such as water utilities.

Over the next term we pledge to create a tax on industrial pollution and create a network of Green Cooperatives. We will start the deficit reduction process by scrapping Trident and instigating military reform. We also pledge to reform the prison system, making it more about rehabilitation as well as stopping prison sentences for minor crimes.

But above all we propose to tame capitalism and give power back to the workers. Workers Councils will be set up to see employees achieve democratic rights within industry, and stronger regulation will be placed on nationalised banks – institutions which should be running for the good of the people who have paid for them. We also believe that the retail and investment divisions of banks should be separated, so that the savings of the ordinary citizen are not risked by the excesses of speculators.

We are a party which stands for the rights of the common people against the exploitation of the super rich.

A vote for TSR Socialist Party is a vote for equality, compassion and democracy.

JangrafessI believe in an independent prime minister and to achieve this I will need to sweep into power with 100% of the votes. :colonhash:

This had better happen tbh, or I’ll only have a single seat and there will be hell to pay. I want to emphasise my political standpoint without having hundreds of minions behind me and I wish to bring to you what matters most – grit, determination and passion for our nation. My policies reflect what the ordinary worker wants, and, being an ordinary worker from a comprehensive school background, as well as having worked ten hours a day down t’pit, I feel I’m in the perfect position to bring to you a philosophy worth supporting.

- The NHS is the greatest thing the country has produced and must be maintained. I promise to continue pumping money into the NHS and fully oppose movements to shut down A&E departments under the guise of “cost-cutting”.
- I completely support the need for the migrant worker in the country. Unfair deportation will never be implemented under my rule, and the idea that a person may be marrying for a work permit alone will not be considered.
- Nuclear power stations would be constructed if I were to be in power.
- Alternative voting structures would be carefully considered, with FTPT abolished and either PR or AV brought in.

I believe that this handful of policies illustrates what I’m about, and epitomises my political stance. One I hope you agree with.

TSR

We believe that if you want to do something - and it harms no-one else, you should be able to. We are seeing gradual erosions of our liberties. Created in the name of anti-terrorism these new powers are being used extensively by the government throughout society. We're in a fiscal debt crisis, and the largest party in the ruling coalition tried to pass a bill so that no-one can be rich. The government is stealing our money, wasting it and reducing our freedom. Don't like this? Vote Libertarian.

In practice? Our pocket guide to policy:

• Reduce & simplify taxes, with tax cuts aimed primarily at the poorest.
• End the surveillance state: ID cards, the DNA database and excessive CCTV aren't worth it.
• Restore our natural rights: no 28-day detention and no criminal trial without jury, absolute freedom of speech including right to protest.
• Keep drugs legalised. It leads to lower usage, less harm done and stops funding gang activity.
• Legalise prostitution - sex between mutually consenting adults is no business of the state.
• The welfare system should be a safety net, not a hammock.
• Violence is the last resort of the incompetent, foreign policy should be non-interventionist.
• Eliminate red tape, it hurts consumers, employees and small businesses and helps no-one.

The other parties prevented us from taking the poorest millions out of income tax, before we managed to abolish poverty and fill the council pensions' black hole.

Vote Libertarian for the freedoms that those before us died for.

TSRImmigration

End uncontrolled mass immigration
Introduce an immediate five-year freeze on immigration for permanent settlement
Regain control of Britain’s borders to stop foreign criminals from entering our country
End abuse of the UK asylum system and expel Islamic extremists
Introduce a strict new points-based visa system and time-limited work permits
Triple the number of UK Borders Agency staff engaged in controlling immigration (to 30,000)

Law and Order

Enable voters to set policing priorities through locally-elected County Police Boards
Demand zero tolerance on crime and double prison places to assure this
Make sentences mean what they say: life must mean life
Scrap the Human Rights Act that benefits criminals and not their victims. No votes for prisoners
Introduce a ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ law to lock up career criminals for good

Defence

Boost the military budget by 40% so our armed forces are properly equipped
Demand one clear achievable mission for Afghanistan or seek a negotiated exit
Keep Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent strong
Look after our service heroes with better pay and conditions
Expand the Army by 25% and double the TA
Provide more RAF helicopters and aircraft

Foreign Affairs

Leave the EU and continue in free trade with the other European countries. No jobs will be lost
Establish a Commonwealth Free Trade Area with the other member countries
Regain Britain’s currently dormant seat at the World Trade Organisation
Promote democracy, genuine human rights and free determination around the world.

Vote UKIP!

Reply 1

iwilson03

16

Good luck all, especially the Socialist Party :awesome:

We are the dandy highwaymen, redistributing wealth to the poorer. Vote for compassion, equality, and democracy!

Voted woop woop!

Once again the Libertarians decide to place the other parties on their diagram somewhat arbitrarily. I thought after the last election when most of the other parties pointed out you got them pretty wrong (the Socialists, Labour and Centre having more personal freedom, the Lib Dems less) you'd have at least amended them. A pretty cheap shot, IMHO.

I'm a bit confused by the Lib Dems manifesto. Considering the TSR HoC passed the Poverty Abolution Bill, how can you raise the income tax allowance to £13,000? While in real life I wholeheartedly support having a much larger tax free allowance, we don't need it here as the state gives everybody a minimum income. Some quick calculations suggest this would cost around £26bn a year (20m people affected and taxes reduced by £1300 each). Combine this with the ~£12bn a year cutting VAT will cost, and you have to ask, where do you find the £38bn from?

Can I also ask the Tories how they'll ensure that "There will be no more depressed regions"? While a strong private sector is clearly the way to economic growth, the private sector equally clearly spreads it unevenly over the country, leading to years of sustained boom in London and the South East and economic decline in many other areas. Surely just removing restrictions, while I'd wholeheartedly agree with doing so, isn't going to even out economic growth across the country?

iwilson03

Good luck all, especially the Socialist Party :awesome:

Good luck, though I'm a bit worried about the worker councils idea. So if someone mortgage a house to raise money, puts it all at risk founding a business, work 100+ hour weeks to get it working and maybe manage to turn a profit after a year or two, any people they employ can decide they don't like how it's being run and can democratically get rid of them or change the way the business is run? Doesn't really seem fair if they're taking the risk and putting in the effort of doing all that, IMHO. Though if you mean something like adding worker representatives to the boards of large companies, then I'd wholeheartedly agree, as it works very well in countries like Germany. I'm just pretty terrified if you mean what I think you may mean!

Lastly, to UKIP, where do you find the ~£15bn a year needed to increase defence spending by 40%? Would you raise taxes or cut services?

Questions for the Centre Party:

JW92

I don't get the difference between the Lib Dems and the Centre Party.

If you mean TSR Lib Dems, then lots; if you mean between the Centre Party and the real life Lib Dems, then we're a lot closer.

To give one example last term, the TSR Lib Dems tried to bring in a law creating a maximum income, which is pretty far away from anything we'd do! On the other side, after the BA strikes, not to mention the issues with metronet closing the London Underground, we passed a bill allowing employers to fire workers who break their contract by striking, and hire other workers (they're currently not allowed to hire even temporary staff to do the jobs of workers who are striking), which the TSR Lib Dems wouldn't do. Also, while we realise it's not perfect, the political compass diagram shows the pretty large differences in views Centre Party members and Lib Dem members have.

That's not to say there aren't quite a few bits we agree on, and we were in coalition (with the Conservatives as well) in the last parliament. But we're pretty different parties.

Aquarian

Hmm I an naturally attracted to the Lib dems, but centre is more attractive. If Lib dems were a men, it would be Beckham, but centre is more of a hot rugby player.

Is there really a centre party in UK political system?

Only on TSR, sadly. We formed ~6 months ago as we felt the main parties on TSR had split away from the centre - Labour going back to Old Labour, the Tories back towards Thatcher and the Lib Dems shifting leftwards - so founded a party to fill the void :smile:

Voted.

Vote for me ffs. :colonhash:

And feel free to question me on whatever you want. :gah:

Reply 6

JW92

18

I don't get the difference between the Lib Dems and the Centre Party.

Reply 7

tucker672

1

Vote Conservative :smile:

Reply 8

Jangrafess

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tucker672

Vote Conservative :smile:

Don't do this. :s-smilie:

Hmm I an naturally attracted to the Lib dems, but centre is more attractive. If Lib dems were a men, it would be Beckham, but centre is more of a hot rugby player.

Is there really a centre party in UK political system?

Reply 11

Jangrafess

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Aquarian

Hmm I an naturally attracted to the Lib dems, but centre is more attractive. If Lib dems were a men, it would be Beckham, but centre is more of a hot rugby player.

Is there really a centre party in UK political system?

Nope, only on TSR. However...

Reply 12

Teaddict

17

You have written UKIP twice :P

TSR Centre, TSR Liberal Democrats, TSR Labour, RobbieC (Independent candidate) TSR Conservative, TSR UKIP, TSR Socialists, Jangrafess (Independent candidate, TSR Libertarian, TSR UKIP.

Hmm I like TSR UKIP but I also like TSR UKIP... But what one is better?
FIGHT!!?!?

Reply 13

simontinsley

3

Aquarian

Is there really a centre party in UK political system?

No - this is for the TSR election and as such has the TSR parties. I may warn you that the Lib Dems of TSR are nothing like the Lib Dems of real-life. They've been the largest party for a term and done nothing but change the watershed.

Meanwhile, The Centre Party are so desperate to show they're doing things that they've picked out bills not even from the past term, education and environment, the only 2 things they've done well on...so nothing in the past term as part of the governmental coalition. Out of ideas, as shown by 6 months of nothing.

PS. Vote Libertarian. :wink:

Vote Tory!!

May I ask of a right honourable Liberal Democrat representative whether they intend to raise any particular taxes to fund the reductions in the taxes they are proposing? Or are these funds to be accrued by other means.

Reply 16

Aquarian

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simontinsley

No - this is for the TSR election and as such has the TSR parties. I may warn you that the Lib Dems of TSR are nothing like the Lib Dems of real-life. They've been the largest party for a term and done nothing but change the watershed.

Meanwhile, The Centre Party are so desperate to show they're doing things that they've picked out bills not even from the past term, education and environment, the only 2 things they've done well on...so nothing in the past term as part of the governmental coalition. Out of ideas, as shown by 6 months of nothing.

PS. Vote Libertarian. :wink:

I am pro eu. Hate that swiss coldness and isolationism. So not Jewish.

Reply 17

iwilson03

16

Does the Labour Party propose to give any economic power to the people, or will it continue to sponsor huge corporations - allowing the richest 1% to control 21% of the wealth, and the last wealthy half of the nation just 7%?

Reply 18

simontinsley

3

Aquarian

I am pro eu. Hate that swiss coldness and isolationism. So not Jewish.

Jewish?

We don't believe is isolationism, hell we argue that we should interact with other countries the most, both with liberal immigration policies and lowering barriers to trade with foreigners...just we don't believe the EU is the best way to do this - it's aims are noble in the sense of free movement of people and goods; but it has problems with bureaucracy, and we don't believe we should limit it just to 27 countries. It also has problems in that it limits the country's powers to set it's own laws - for example we can't set VAT (a tax that hurts the poorest far more than the rich) below 15%, we don't think that's right.

We just don't believe that we should be a country intervening in wars. We would maintain a neutral stance, but obviously defend ourselves in the case of being attacked.

I feel you've somewhat misrepresented us there. You don't have to be isolationist to be a Liber.

I'd like to ask RobbieC why he thinks tobacco is a luxury good, whilst the duty on tobacco is considered to be one of the most regressive around? After all, why increase one regressive tax to reduce another, you're not reducing the tax burden on the poor at all.

Reply 19

Drogue

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JW92

I don't get the difference between the Lib Dems and the Centre Party.

If you mean TSR Lib Dems, then lots; if you mean between the Centre Party and the real life Lib Dems, then we're a lot closer.

To give one example last term, the TSR Lib Dems tried to bring in a law creating a maximum income, which is pretty far away from anything we'd do! On the other side, after the BA strikes, not to mention the issues with metronet closing the London Underground, we passed a bill allowing employers to fire workers who break their contract by striking, and hire other workers (they're currently not allowed to hire even temporary staff to do the jobs of workers who are striking), which the TSR Lib Dems wouldn't do. Also, while we realise it's not perfect, the political compass diagram shows the pretty large differences in views Centre Party members and Lib Dem members have.

That's not to say there aren't quite a few bits we agree on, and we were in coalition (with the Conservatives as well) in the last parliament. But we're pretty different parties.

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