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Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Cut the massive burden of EU red tape
Prevent big businesses deliberately delaying payments to smaller companies
Cut Business Rates by 20% for companies having premises with a total Rateable Value of less than £50,000
Support a credit insurance scheme to improve the financial security of small businesses
Make it easier for small and medium-size businesses to tender for public service contracts
Push for 30 minutes free parking in every high street and shopping parade.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Prevent foreign criminals coming into the UK and deport those who commit crimes here
Scrap our opt-in to the European Arrest Warrant and uphold the principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’
Reduce the number of territorial constabularies and Police and Crime Commissioners to cut costs and tackle serious crime
Prosecute all cases of adult sexual behaviour with minors
Take a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable ‘cultural’ practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM)
Amend the licensing laws to lower the maximum stake on all Fixed Odds Betting Terminals from £100 to £2
Refuse to give criminals the vote
Insist those who wish to appeal against deportation do so from their home country
Decriminalise non-payment of the BBC licence fee and review its cost with a view to its reduction.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Exempt all service personnel on duty overseas from income tax
Increase defence spending to 2% of GDP as required by our membership of NATO
Restore the armed forces to 2010 manpower levels and capability
Open a dedicated, fully-equipped military hospital to provide specialist services to armed forces personnel
Appoint a new Director of National Intelligence
Keep our Trident nuclear deterrent
Oppose the creation of the EU Army.
Appoint a new, dedicated Minister for Veterans, attached to the Cabinet Office
Issue a National Defence Medal to all veterans
Build 500 affordable rent houses every year for veterans
Build eight halfway house hostels for homeless veterans
Guarantee jobs in the police, prison and border services to ex-servicemen and women who have served for 12 years
Support ex-forces personnel who want to set up their own businesses
Issue a Veterans service card to ensure fast-track access to mental health services.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Raise the personal tax allowance to at least £13,000, taking those on minimum wage out of tax altogether
Raise the threshold for paying 40% tax to £55,000 and introduce a new 30% intermediate rate on earnings between £45,300 and £55,000
Abolish inheritance tax
Increase the transferable tax allowance for married couples to £1,500
Ensure big corporations pay their fair share of tax
Remove VAT from listed building repairs and sanitary products.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Ease teachers’ workloads by cutting down on assessments, data collection and appraisals
Scrap teachers’ performance-related pay
Abolish Key Stage 1 SAT tests at primary level
End sex education for primary school children
Bring back grammar schools and support a range of secondary schools including vocational, technical and specialist schools
Waive tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) subjects at university
Make First Aid training part of the national curriculum.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Scrap the 2008 Climate Change Act and the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive
Support ‘fracking’ for shale gas
End subsidies for wind turbines and solar photovoltaic arrays
Support renewable energy where it can deliver electricity at competitive prices
Seek to rejuvenate the coal industry
Abolish ‘green levies’ to cut the cost of fuel bills
Force energy companies to end higher charges for pre-payment meters
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
An immediate referendum on whether the UK should be in or out of the European Union.
We would review all legislation and regulations from the EU (3,600 new laws since 2010) and remove those which hamper British prosperity and competitiveness.
We will extend to EU citizens the existing points-based system for time-limited work permits. Those coming to work in the UK must have a job to go to, must speak English, must have accommodation agreed prior to their arrival, and must have NHS-approved health insurance.
We would negotiate a bespoke trade agreement with the EU to enable our businesses to continue trading to mutual advantage.
UKIP will withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
UKIP would not seek to remain in the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) or European Economic Area (EEA) while those treaties maintain a principle of free movement of labour, which prevents the UK managing its own borders.
UKIP will reverse the government’s opt-in to EU law and justice measures, including the European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order. We will replace the EAW with appropriate bi-lateral agreements.
UKIP will leave the EU and save at least £8bn pa in net contributions.
Students from the EU will pay the same student fee rates as International students.
Work permits will be permitted to fill skills gaps in the UK jobs market.
By leaving the EU, the UK will leave the Common Agricultural Policy. Outside the EU UKIP will institute a British Single Farm Payment for farms.
UKIP will leave the Common Fisheries Policy and reinstate British territorial waters. Foreign trawlers would have to apply for and purchase fishing permits to fish British waters when fish stocks have returned to sustainable levels.
We will repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a new British Bill of Rights. The interests of law-abiding citizens & victims will always take precedence over those of criminals.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Honour existing childcare voucher and tax-free childcare schemes
Extend these existing schemes to informal, non-Ofsted registered childminders
Offer wrap-around childcare before and after school for every school-age child
Amend planning legislation to ensure more nurseries are built to expand childcare places
Give parents easy access to emergency childcare through their local authority
Legislate for an initial presumption of 50-50 shared parenting in child residency matters, and give grandparents visiting rights
Initiate a thorough review of childcare and child safeguarding systems.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Continue to give UKIP Councillors the freedom to vote as they choose
Keep Council Tax as low as possible
Give local people the final say on major planning decisions in their area
Adopt a zero-tolerance approach to noisy or anti-social neighbours
Make the setting up of a traveller pitch without permission illegal
Reinstate weekly bin collections where they have been lost, if residents want them reinstated
Oppose the cabinet system of local governance and push for cross-party, collaborative committee systems
Provide best value for money for council tax payers by cutting council costs.
Give a national referendum on the issue of greatest importance to the British public every two years on the most popular petition with over two million signatures
Genuinely debate petitions gathering over 100,000 signatures in the House of Commons
Give voters real power to sack their MP, Councillor or other elected politician
Insist on English votes for English laws: only MPs for English constituencies will vote on laws affecting only England.
Introduce an Open Primaries Bill to ensure Parliamentary candidates need not be Westminster insiders
Give Commons’ Select Committees the power to approve or veto senior ministerial, civil service and quango appointments and public spending plans
Introduce a new proportional voting system that truly reflects the number of votes cast
End postal voting fraud by restricting postal votes to those with a valid reason to have one.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Fund 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs and 3,000 more midwives
Invest an extra £1.5 billion into mental health and dementia services over the next five years
Scrap hospital parking charges
End ‘health tourism’ by making sure those ineligible for free NHS care pay for treatment
Replace Monitor and the CQC with powerful new County Health Boards to drive up standards.
Integrate health and social care and bring both under the control of the NHS
Increase social care funding in total by £5.2 billion between 2015 and 2020
Promise to invest any tax profits from ‘fracking’ into setting up a Sovereign Wealth Fund to pay for elderly care
Protect services such as day care centres, home care and Meals on Wheels
Abolish the practice of arranging home-care visits in 15-minute windows
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Protect the green belt
Bring empty homes back into use
Build one million homes on brownfield sites by 2020
Prioritise social housing for those with local connections to an area
Give local people the final say on major planning developments in their area
Restrict the ‘Right-to-Buy’ and ‘Help-to-Buy’ schemes to British nationals
Oppose the so-called ‘Mansion Tax.’
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Leave the EU and take back control of our borders
End immigration for unskilled jobs for a five-year period to re-balance our work economy
Introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system to assess all potential migrants to Britain on a fair, ethical and equal basis
Tackle the problem of sham marriages
Introduce a new visa system for workers, visitors, students, families and asylum seekers
End access to benefits and free NHS treatment for new immigrants until they have paid tax and NI for five years
Require all visitors and new immigrants to the UK to have their own health insurance.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Scrap HS2: this is an expensive, politically-driven vanity project for which there is no good business case. It will blight our countryside and not solve the problem of capacity
Campaign to re-open Manston airport to address the lack of airport capacity in the South East
Ensure speed cameras are used to improve road safety, not just to raise money
End road tolls wherever possible
Oppose ‘pay-as-you-go’ road charging schemes
Support British HGV drivers by charging foreign lorries extra to use our roads
Roll back the VED exemption for classic vehicles to 25 years.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Support a lower cap on benefits
Crack down on benefit fraud
End welfare tourism with a five-year embargo on benefits for migrants
Stop child benefit being paid to children who don’t live here permanently and limit child benefit to two children for new claimants
Scrap the ‘bedroom tax’
End unfair ATOS-style work capability assessments and return the system and funding to GPs
Increase Carers’ Allowance to match Job Seekers’ Allowance - £572 more a year
We will also put 800 advisors into foodbanks to help those using them with additional problems such as debt, addiction, family breakdown and mental or physical health problems, and to offer employment and legal advice.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Protect workers’ rights
Enforce the minimum wage
End the abuse of zero-hours contracts
Allow British businesses to choose to employ British workers first
Prevent access to EU schemes which encourage businesses to hire foreign workers
Scrap EU directives which restrict the British economy and go against our work ethos.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
Uk Independence Party are in favour of the following policies:
Take back our vacant seat at the World Trade Organisation
Seek to establish free trade agreements across the globe
Negotiate a bespoke UK-EU trade deal
Join the ranks of over 60 prosperous, independent countries that have profitable, mutually beneficial trade relationships with the European Union.
Consult Parliament before committing our armed forces and taxpayers’ money to combat situations
Protect the British sovereignty and territorial integrity of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands
Foster closer ties with the Anglosphere
Put our faith in trading with our neighbours as a sovereign nation as the best way to avoid conflict
Encourage peace efforts in the Middle East and support a peaceful two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Cut the overseas aid budget from 0.7% to 0.2% of GNI, on a par with the USA
Continue to spend at least £4 billion annually on current figures (more than Spain and Italy combined), prioritising clean water and sanitation, healthcare, innoculation and emergency aid programmes
Remove trade barriers to provide sustainable livelihoods for the world’s poorest people
Close the Department for International Development and merge its essential functions into the Foreign Office.
Source: Uk Independence Party party website, existing manifesto or officially-published policies.
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