Congrats on your first draft. This isn't a comment about content but about form. And it's simply to say that I think the Manifesto desperately needs a Contents list so that the reader can get an overview of its structure. Otherwise one's scrolling through a 106-page document with no idea about what's coming!
In Word, if you set up the various levels of headings is a particular way, it can automatically produce a Contents list with all the relevant page numbers. If the inner workings of Word aren't your thing, I'm sure a reader could do it for you fairly easily.
Let me add my own congratulations for having completed the first draft. I will read it over the next few days.
Congratulations also for not giving into the black pill and instead doing something positive (don't mourn, organise!).
I'm a recent joiner of Reform UK (with the obvious reservations) and agree with you that they currently lack infrastructure and an intellectual base from which to develop policy. They appear to be addressing the first issue (although I'm waiting till we have some concrete details before making any judgement). This manifesto, however, will be invaluable to me (and hopefully others) as a starting point when pushing for policies within the party. Its virtues are that someone else (i.e. not me!) has done the hard work and it is available right now.
You've crafted a practical tool for activism. I like.
I suggest you watch some YouTube videos by Professor of Banking Richard Werner (or go talk to him sometime). The UK urgently needs banking reforms to get locally-owned, small banks in every community. The enormous, City banks dominate around 80%+ of credit in the country. This is what is strangling the rest of the country... lack of credit for businesses, real estate, and other investments which communities need to thrive.
Pete
Congrats on your first draft. This isn't a comment about content but about form. And it's simply to say that I think the Manifesto desperately needs a Contents list so that the reader can get an overview of its structure. Otherwise one's scrolling through a 106-page document with no idea about what's coming!
In Word, if you set up the various levels of headings is a particular way, it can automatically produce a Contents list with all the relevant page numbers. If the inner workings of Word aren't your thing, I'm sure a reader could do it for you fairly easily.
Pete,
Let me add my own congratulations for having completed the first draft. I will read it over the next few days.
Congratulations also for not giving into the black pill and instead doing something positive (don't mourn, organise!).
I'm a recent joiner of Reform UK (with the obvious reservations) and agree with you that they currently lack infrastructure and an intellectual base from which to develop policy. They appear to be addressing the first issue (although I'm waiting till we have some concrete details before making any judgement). This manifesto, however, will be invaluable to me (and hopefully others) as a starting point when pushing for policies within the party. Its virtues are that someone else (i.e. not me!) has done the hard work and it is available right now.
You've crafted a practical tool for activism. I like.
Pete,
I suggest you watch some YouTube videos by Professor of Banking Richard Werner (or go talk to him sometime). The UK urgently needs banking reforms to get locally-owned, small banks in every community. The enormous, City banks dominate around 80%+ of credit in the country. This is what is strangling the rest of the country... lack of credit for businesses, real estate, and other investments which communities need to thrive.