The Ragged Trousered Bollardiste.

🚨 NEW: The Green Party 2024 manifesto in full Immigration: - End immigration detention unless a public safety danger - Allow asylum seekers to work during application process - End the hostile environment - Remove minimum income requirements for spouse visas - Provide safe routes for those fleeing persecution - Replace the Home Office with a new Department of Migration - Abolish 'no recourse to public funds' condition Nuclear weapons and NATO: - Dismantle nuclear weapons, cancel Trident, remove foreign nukes - UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) - Increase focus on global peacebuilding - Commit to 'No First Use' of nuclear weapons Climate aid: - Increase international aid to 1% of GNI by 2033 - Increase climate finance for Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033 - Contribute to a new Loss and Damage Fund Social support: - Increase Universal Credit and legacy benefits by £40 a week - Abolish the two-child benefit cap - End the ‘bedroom tax’ - Introduce universal basic income - Restore disability benefits, immediate 5% uplift - Reform eligibility tests like PIP - Free transport for 16-18 year old pupils with special needs Housing: - Spread small developments across local areas - Ensure new developments include local service investments - All new homes to meet Passivhaus or equivalent standards - Include solar panels and heat pumps in new homes £29bn over five years for home insulation to EPC B standard - £4bn over five years for other building insulation - £9bn over five years for low-carbon heating systems - Provide 150,000 new social homes annually - Implement rent controls and end no-fault evictions - Tenants' right to demand energy efficiency improvements - Private tenancy boards for dispute resolution Democracy/human rights: - Replace first past the post with proportional voting - Replace House of Lords with elected chamber - Votes for 16-year-olds - End violence against women and girls - Scrap laws eroding protest and free expression rights - Support self-identification for trans and non-binary people - Scrap Prevent, tackle hate crime and restore trust in police - Invest £2.5bn in renewing the court system Energy: - 70% of UK electricity from wind by 2030 - Deliver 80GW offshore, 53GW onshore wind, and 100GW solar by 2035 - Invest in energy storage and efficient distribution - Community ownership of energy sources - Cancel recent fossil fuel licenses, stop new projects - Remove oil and gas subsidies - Introduce carbon tax on fossil fuels Economy: - Invest £40bn annually in green economy Introduce carbon tax - Public ownership of railways, water, and major energy companies - Invest £12.4bn in skills and training for green economy - Encourage community ownership in energy projects Implement Wealth Tax on high-value assets - Reform Capital Gains Tax - Align tax rates on investment and employment income - Remove Upper Earnings Limit for National Insurance - Set up regional mutual banks - Provide £2bn annually for business decarbonisation grants - Encourage community ownership in zero-carbon transition International: - End occupation of Palestinian land - Uphold self-determination and international law - Support Ukraine against Russian invasion - Re-join the EU when politically feasible - Bilateral ceasefire - End arms sales to Israel - Secure release of hostages - Ensure equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians - Reinstate funding for UNRWA, support South Africa’s ICJ submission Education: - Abolish university tuition fees - Increase school funding by £8bn, with £2bn for teacher pay - End high-stakes testing in all schools - Abolish OFSTED Work: - Repeal anti-union laws, introduce Charter of Workers’ Rights - Implement 10:1 pay ratio - Raise minimum wage to £15/hour - Equal employment rights from day one - Move to a four-day work week Health: -New NHS dentists’ contrac taiting lists annually - Guarantee access to NHS dentist - Guarantee rapid GP access - Boost NHS staff pay, restore junior doctors’ pay - Increase primary medical care funding by £1.5bn by 2030 - Restore public health budgets with £1.5bn annual increase - Fund smoking cessation, drug treatment, and sexual health services - National Commission to reform UK drug laws -New NHS dentists’ contract - Invest £3bn annually in NHS dentistry by 2030 - Fund community hubs for free dental nursing - Support mental health rights - Increase mental health care funding - Access to evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days - Trained counsellor in every school and sixth-form college - Tailored mental health services for diverse communities - Support for neurodivergent children in schools - Legalise assisted dying - Aim for no more HIV transmissions by 2030 Caring: - Introduce free personal care - Increase pay rates and career structure for carers - Add £3bn for high-quality children's social care Arts, sports and culture: - Invest £5bn in community sports, arts, and culture - Keep local facilities open - Remove VAT on cultural activities - Limit media ownership to 20% - Implement 2012 Leveson Report reforms Animals: - Create Commission on Animal Protection - Ban all blood sports - Protect marine life in UK waters - End badger culling - End factory farming, enforce maximum stocking densities - Ban close confinement and unnecessary mutilation of farm animals Transport: - Increase subsidies for rail and bus travel to £10bn - Free bus travel for under-18s - Invest £19bn in foot/cycle paths and electrification - Public ownership of railways - Increase local control and funding for bus services - Aim for 50% of trips in towns/cities to be walked or cycled by 2030 - Introduce frequent-flyer levy - Ban short domestic flights - Halt airport expansion Nature: - Introduce Rights of Nature Act - End sewage discharge by taking water companies public - Expand access to green spaces with Right to Roam Act - Protect 30% of land and seas by 2030 - Ban bee-killing pesticides - Enact Clean Air Act for the right to clean air Agriculture/farming: - Triple financial support for green farming transition Improve biodiversity and soil health - Reduce pesticide use - Provide free school meals daily to all children - Offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools - Include food growing, preparing, and cooking in curriculum - Reduce food waste "We are prepared to borrow to invest."