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I have maintained for a little while a list of things that I would like to change in the UK, if I ever had the chance. Here it is, and it should give you some idea of my politics.

• Write a constitution which guarantees everyone on British soil:
  • the right to protest
  • the right to fair trial
  • the right to no detention without charge
  • the right to be tried within one's own country (e.g. no deportations to the US just on their say-so)
  • the right to not be tortured
  • the right for all people to be equal before the law
  • ... and other stuff
• Outlaw extraordinary rendition flights from landing in the UK.
• Simplify the tax system;
  • raise the personal income tax threshold to £10000, increasing with inflation each year
  • introduce negative income tax, so poeple below the threshold recieve a living wage
  • tax all income at the same rates (whether from shares or wages)
  • tax the very rich more
  • abolish inheritance tax
  • zero-rate VAT on essentials (for example, sanitary products)
• Abolish Murdoch
• Build publically-owned windfarms, overruling local objections on basis of aesthestics or house price drops
• Opt-out organ donation
• Build more social housing and remove the right to buy
• Common resources should not be provided for profit:
  • Renationalise water companies and public transport
  • Invest in modern, publically-owned communications infrastructure which companies can then run services over but which they do not own
  • Prioritise new rail routes over road-building; invest heavily in more transport infrastructure
• Reform the House of Lords:
  • turn hereditary and Spiritual peers into life peers
  • lower the average age of peers with a retirement package
  • allow peerages to be removed from those guilty of serious offences on the same basis as the Commons
• Make the oath that MPs swear be to serve their constituents, not the Queen
• Split the Church of England away from the government.
• Adopt multi-member constituencies with the transferable vote (aka STV)
• End the reliance on government targets in most places, and in others, make sure the targets represent the public rather than governmental interests (see 1)
• Decriminalise incest and prostitution.
• Decriminalise possession of drugs, and regulate and tax the sale of drugs
• Give heroin, for free, to heroin addicts, in a clinical setting
• Abolish tuition fees
• Scrap ID cards, the National Identity Register, and Trident
• Enact land redistribution laws to put more land into public ownership
• Do not allow MPs to take money from special-interest groups.
• Reform copyright to last for forty years.
• Abolish state recognition of marriage.

I also have a bunch of even less concrete ideas, which I intend to research at some point:

• Prison issues:
  • Prison should be a place of last resort.
  • Increase funding for in-prison courses (educational and reformational).
  • Fewer crimes should be imprisonable offences
  • Increase ability of parents to see their children when they're inside
• Make life better for transgender people:
  • Legislate for a "non-gender-specific" tickbox.
• Paternity leave of two weeks is not acceptable.