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Matt's avatar

This is fantastic, and exactly what I had hoped you might do! I have just sent a donation - can't afford much, but I will try to chip in where I can, and will happily read and comment as it develops!

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Pete North's avatar

Thank you!

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John Jones's avatar

Most excellent Pete - look forward to seeing & augmenting if possible - great Idea - I've a feeling it won't just be UKIP and the SDP that will benefit from such an endeavour

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Lord Scrotum's avatar

Perhaps publish it on github? Perfect for revision control and community revision/contribution.

Other interested parties could fork it.

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Niall Warry's avatar

Great idea and I'll donate an exra payment over and above my monthly S/O contribution.

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Thomas Hall's avatar

Hi Pete- good idea. I would say however, that any manifesto/suite of policies that ignores the existence of or fails to understand the implications of economic rents is destined to fail. This is most important in developing a tax policy, but it is key in plenty of policy areas such as development, housing, industrial etc. A good model is that of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore that put this understanding at the very heart of it's governance policy. Do you agree?

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Jason Hadlow's avatar

Pete, I love reading your pieces on Twitter. You articulate my thinking, which is such a shame as, after reading your posts, I have nothing to add. All I can do is hit the like button. Not much point me contributing when you do all the heavy lifting. One thing that irritated me throughout the election campaign was your treatment of Reform. It's easy to criticise and with Reform it really is easy, however they were the only party occupying the space I existed in. It's easy to criticise from the sidelines and having run a Town Council for over 10 years, I feel the frustration. I had constant criticism, malicious emails, poison pen letters, even death threats. I'll not bore you with my experiences, rather I'd point out the fact that it's not easy setting up a political party, running a political party or indeed retaining one. I still feel the pain PTSD :-) However you've redeemed yourself! What a great idea this is. You have my full support and as a consequence of your words, my subscription. I will add though, the Manifesto is the easy part, we need a Chairman Mao to distribute it into the hands of the electorate. Perhaps it needs publishing, a little red book perhaps! Keep buggering on.

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GregB's avatar

Completely agree.

(Except for the last sentence!)

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Niall Warry's avatar

I trust it goes without saying but THA's six demands have to be a large part if not all that is needed for the section on 'Constitutional Reform'.

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GregB's avatar

Plus on Defence Policy, not forgetting that we are an island and most of our trade still comes and goes by sea.

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Niall Warry's avatar

Understandably the views of an old tar!

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Belfaers's avatar

I have only just in the past week or so begun the process of creating accounts to raise the profile of wildlife conservation and ecology from a nativist perspective. I appreciate that I have nothing to show to vouch for my worth, but if you're looking for inspiration on environmental issues then I'd be happy to share my thoughts.

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jcj's avatar

Bit late to the "party" here but this looks like a very interesting and useful project. Criticism is easy. (let's face it, it's often like shooting a tethered Goat)

Really is about time "the right" got around to laying down something "concrete". Above and beyond the populist short cut of "we are not them".

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Sebastian Steele's avatar

Brilliant news Pete. Subscribed. I'm no policy wonk but if there is any way to help, count me in.

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Red Teds Roadshow's avatar

Fantastic.....not seen it yet but I'm pretty sure I'll like it.

Just one question - when this manifesto is written - what are you going to do with it?

Any chance it can encourage like-minded existing political parties to combine and make a force for change....or do you have another agenda?

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