My Policies To Make Britain Great Again!

Well I hope it's more successful than Trump's attempts at making America great again 🤔

Wouldn't lower drinking or driving age. Keep things as they are.

Hello there, I am a Scottish Brexitor, yes we do exist and these are my policies to make Britain Great Again!

Immigration
- Moratorium on unskilled and low-skilled immigration for five years
- New international visa system with visa categories for highly skilled workers, tourists, students and family reunions
- Allow international post graduates from UK universities to stay in UK for six months to find skilled work
- Migrants to UK to make tax and national insurance contributions for five years and gain UK citizenship before eligible for benefits and NHS treatment including migrants who have already settled here
- No visas for foreign criminals
- Migrants who commit crimes resulting in prison will have their visa revoked and be detained until they are deported
- EU Citizens who are in full time work, married to UK citizen, have siblings or parents that are UK citizens, own business that employs UK workers or have lived in country for 10 years to be given EU status visa which gives them permanent residency and eligible for UK citizenship test, EU citizens who don't fit the criteria to be deported within 12 months of exiting the EU

Culture and Media
- Abolish the license fee
- Shut down BBC Two and give the channel 2 slot to another network like UKTV to allow more competition in the UK television market
- Privatisation of Channel 4
- Privatisation of BBC
- Amendment to smoking ban to give pubs and clubs choice of opening “smoking rooms”
- End the use of multi-lingual formatting on official documents, which will be published only in English, Welsh and Gaelic
- Allow political campaign advertising on TV & radio
- Bring back public information films like those used in the 1970s and 1980s like the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, Apaches, AIDS etc
- Require all broadcasters (radio, TV and internet) to play one public information advert by the UK govt and devolved govts during advert breaks of programming

Federalism and Devolution
- Reform the UK political system to become a federal system of government by 2030
- Create an elected two house English Parliament (the lower house: a 501 member House of Representatives elected under STV (4/5 member constituencies with Isle of Wright being a 2 member constituency) and the upper house: a 90 member Senate with the 9 English regions electing 10 Senators each) with powers that of the Scottish Parliament & Northern Ireland Assembly
- Devolve more powers to the National Assembly of Wales to that of the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly including it’s own legal and justice system like Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Create Supreme Courts for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to be the highest court of the respective nations
- Permit the English and Scottish Parliaments and Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies to have their own constitutions supported via referendums in their respective nations
- Have Jerusalem as the official national anthem of England
- Allow local councils to set their own levels of council tax

Law and Order
- Repeal of Human Rights Act and introduction of new “British bill of rights”.
- Introduce capital punishment in England and Wales for murder offenses, terrorist offenses which result in death and rape offenses, notably of people under age of 16
- Have life sentences be full life sentences, eligible for crimes such as murder, sex offenses, terrorist and arson attacks among others
- Introduce US style long prison sentences by tripling prison sentences for all crimes
- Three strikes system for violent crimes in which a criminal is found guilty of committing a violent crime for the third time the criminal is given a life sentence without parole
- Have all police officers on patrol wearing duty belts that consist of a handgun, a Taser, an expandable baton, pepper spray, a set of handcuffs, ammunition magazines, gloves, torch and a two-way radio
- Rename the National Crime Agency to H.M Federal Police with extended policing powers across the UK like that of the FBI in the US and Australian Federal Police in Australia. Responsible for policing of airports, major train stations, and emphasis on cybercrime, arresting criminals who travel committed overseas by UK Citizens, crimes of UK federal law such as UK tax evasion, breach of UK regulations on industries like dentistry, benefit fraud, data protection etc.
- Reform the UK Supreme Court by having 5 Judges, 1 appointed by the Queen on advice of the Prime Minister and 4 appointed by the Queen on advice of each First Minister of the 4 nations, judges should not be members of the House of Lords
- Crackdown on student rape cases at university campuses and abroad (rape/sex offenses committed among young people on vacation with criminals facing full force of law)
- Lifetime bans for owning animals for individuals who have been convicted of animal cruelty
- Relax laws on firearm ownership by allowing the sale of pistols and rifles to consumers who have a license to own firearms and pass a background check, also subjected to a firearms duty included in the price as well as VAT and gun must be registered to a non-ministerial government Firearms Licensing Agency
- Reduce drinking, smoking and driving age to 16
- Ban age verification policies in retail outlets, bars and clubs which require age to be verified if it appears a customer is under 18/21/25. It should be the responsibility of parents to parent children on not buying items like this not the government or retail industry they nor employees shouldn’t be fined or fired due to lazy parenting
- Ban wearing of the niqab and the burqa in public places
- Reverse the Dangerous Dogs Act 1992 by allowing the four breeds to be allowed in the UK, just require them to wear muzzles in public places like parks

Political Reform
- Change the voting system of the House of Commons to AMS allowing FPTP and PR voting
- Reform the House of Lords to be an elected Senate with each of the 12 UK regions electing 10 Lords each. The House of Lords will keep current powers but can VETO bills passed by the House of Commons by a majority vote
- Reform UK Supreme Court by having 5 Judges, 1 appointed by the Queen on advice of the Prime Minister and 4 appointed by the Queen on advice of each First Minister of the 4 nations, judges should not be members of the House of Lords like currently
- Reduce voting age to 16
- Rename all Government departments to Government Ministries with exception of the Foreign Office and Home Office e.g. Ministry of Education
- Rename Dept. of Business to Ministry of Commerce
- Have all 46 major UK metropolitan areas have their own directly elected metro mayor by 2025 with full control over their own police, fire & rescue, ambulance services, transport, tourism, housing, infrastructure, sports, economic development, power to increase the minimum wage
- Introduce the Royal finances reform charter which has UK Parliament to set an annual fixed budget for the monarchy - including an annual salary for the Queen - to be managed and reported on by a government minister, not Buckingham Palace.
- All security costs of the institution of the Monarchy to be made transparent and accountable. All costs of royal visits around the country to be incorporated into the monarchy's budget, not met by local authorities as well as all members of the royal household, to be required to follow the same tax laws and rules as all other public bodies and private individuals
- Transfer the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall into public ownership, with all revenue going to the Treasury
- Make 1st May a bank holiday known as Unionist day celebrating unionism and Britishness and bank holidays for the saint’s days for each respective nation (St George Day bank holiday for England etc.) as well as Robert Burns day for Scotland

Foreign Affairs and Defence
- Negotiate trade agreements with the EU, US, China, Japan and many other countries
- Negotiate free trade bloc with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and other countries of the Commonwealth Realm
- Commit to spend 2% GDP on defence
- Withdrawal from ECHR
- Cut foreign aid to Barack Obama levels and merge DFID with the Foreign Office
- Introduce a Minister for Veterans' Affairs at the Ministry of Welfare (formally known as the Dept. of Work & Pensions)
- Open an internment camp (UK version of Guantanamo Bay) in an island in the Scottish Highlands for extraordinarily dangerous people and enemies of the state such as terrorist suspects, paedophile suspects, foreign

Economy
- Devolve income tax rates and bands to the 4 devolved Parliaments with each nation getting 20% of each nation’s income tax getting directly paid to the devolved administrations e.g. 20% of income tax from Wales goes directly to Welsh Government etc.
- Devolve corporation tax rates to the 4 devolved Parliaments with 20% of tax getting directly paid back to the devolved administrations
- Fully devolve exercise duties, stamp duty and motoring taxation to devolved administrations
- Abolish inheritance tax
- Increase VAT to 20.5%
- Allow UK businesses to employ UK citizens first
- Cut business rates for smaller businesses
- Make it illegal for individuals to beg for money out in public spaces and high streets
- Rename Bank of England to UK Central Bank

Welfare
- Support bedroom tax
- Scrap tax credits
- Cut all benefits by 50% excluding the elderly, disabled and veterans
- Give guide dogs for the blind
- One child policy for families/individuals on universal credit and whose income is less than £20,000 per annum from 2020
- Introduce Veterans First policy for former and injured police, fire, medic and army, navy, air force individuals to have served our country well

Health
- Privatise healthcare (hospitals, dentists, GPs) while keeping the NHS as a government funded health insurance scheme for citizens which subsidises most healthcare costs for citizens
- Encourage strong competition in free market healthcare
- Privatise all hospitals and GP centres to encourage competition in a free market healthcare system
- Have NHS fund the healthcare of citizens only, hospitals and healthcare workers belonging to the private sector
- No NHS funding for abortions unless a victim of rape or the baby is life threatening to the mother

Education
- Rename current university tuition fee paying system to a graduate tax system as that is what it effectively is
- Have EU students pay same fees that of international students
- Tuition free university in Scotland for all UK students
- Require all schools to fly the Union Jack and the flag of the patron saint of whatever respective UK nation they are in (England, Scotland, Wales, NI)
- Require all school classrooms to have a Union Jack and portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
- Require all school pupils at the start of class to make an oath of allegiance while looking at the union jack and portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that goes "I, swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."
- In Scottish education system cut all national 1-4 and advanced higher courses and qualifications in secondary schools as these qualifications are pointless and costly, make it mandatory for all secondary school pupils to undertake 8 national 5s in S4 and 5 Highers in S5 regardless of ability, allow S6 pupils to undertake 2 higher courses for subjects they took in S4 but at higher level, one crash higher and a vocational placement such as work experience in a primary school.
- Scrap requirement for pupils to undertake modern languages as the exams are too excessive for pupils who have no interest in the subject
- Scrap NABs in Scottish schools which are required for Scottish pupils to pass to take exams, every pupil should have the right to undertake the final exam if they wish
- Abolish faith schools in Great Britain
- Scrap Modern Studies and replace with Politics & Economics at all schools

Transport
- Continue with HS2 and extend project to Newcastle and the Scottish central belt
- Privatise rail infrastructure, allow private companies to build rail lines provided they get consent from the Cabinet Secretary of Transport in their respective nation, or the Secretary of State of Transport in the UK Govt. if the rail line crosses borders between England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland

Energy
- Support development of shale gas in land where appropriate
- Reintroduce the Ministry of Energy (formally known as the Dept. for Energy and Climate Change)

There's a very strong case for lowering the driving age.

What I would personally do is lower it to 16 or even 15, but make it so you can't take your test until you've had your provisional license for 2 or 3 years. Start driving supervised at 15 and by the time you've passed you'd have 3 years driving experience (2 years if we went with 16) as opposed to just one year for a lot of people.

It would weed out the people who rush through it as quick as they can, improve road safety and could help cut insurance costs for young drivers.

That's actually not such a bad idea 👍

Don't like the idea of 15 year olds being out on roads so much, so maybe only at non rush time hours or something.

There's a very strong case for lowering the driving age.

What I would personally do is lower it to 16 or even 15, but make it so you can't take your test until you've had your provisional license for 2 or 3 years. Start driving supervised at 15 and by the time you've passed you'd have 3 years driving experience (2 years if we went with 16) as opposed to just one year for a lot of people.

It would weed out the people who rush through it as quick as they can, improve road safety and could help cut insurance costs for young drivers.