Politically , what really important to you?

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Osboro

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Forgetting Parties, if you believe the promises made , what would your main issue be if an election was called tomorrow.

1 . Climate Change
2. Brexit/The Economy
3. Covid 19/NHS

It’s not a poll, I’d like to know how people feel.

For my part it’s Climate Change, I’ve voted Labour most of my life but when I’ve lived in solid or near solid Tory areas I vote green ( or occasionally Lib as an anti Tory vote) in a hope that a growing green vote might influence manifesto pledges in the future.
Also, put simply, It we don’t get Climate change right, nothing else will matter, ..nothing.
 
I think you're 3 points are right, but for me the most important thing is having joined up governance.

You can't tackle any of the 3 points unless you have a plan to tackle them together.

As long as we have the 2 party system in this country we'll never get anywhere, as getting re-elected is the most important thing.
 
I'd say fairness and transparency are far more important to me than any single issue, and as others have said being willing to work with other parties rather than turning everything into a culture war with a "us v's them" mindset.
 
I am going for option 4 spend on education. If you get that right everything else falls in to place.

Secondly, nhs and social care.

It's not that I think these are more important than climate change, I just believe they are more urgent if you happen to be dying or starving today. Climate change will effect us all but if I was hungry today I wouldn't be worrying about the human race dying tomorrow.

In an equitable society people would have space in their daily concerns for bigger picture problems like climate change. With better education we would have an electorate who could understand climate change. With better education we would have more doctors and nurses, more scientists and engineers to work on climate change.
 
Quality of life. We've had years of MPs prattling on about "difficult decisions" while they make life harder and harder for people (and yet always increase their own wage...). I'd like (any of) more legislated time off work, better quality public services, more money in peoples pockets, earlier retirement, cleaner air and water, healthier food standards, better mental health provision, more opportunity for education (i.e. ditch fees and help adults go back to study/retrain more), etc, etc.

Nothing that's going to be a public good can come from the market chasing private profits so ultimately what I want is a much more centralised government.
 
1 - Covid / NHS
2 - Truth and honesty
3 - Climate Change (incorporating improving public transport and cycleways)
4 - The Economy / Brexit (I'd just like us to rejoin the single market)
 
SuperStu said:
Quality of life. We've had years of MPs prattling on about "difficult decisions" while they make life harder and harder for people (and yet always increase their own wage...). I'd like (any of) more legislated time off work, better quality public services, more money in peoples pockets, earlier retirement, cleaner air and water, healthier food standards, better mental health provision, more opportunity for education (i.e. ditch fees and help adults go back to study/retrain more), etc, etc.

Nothing that's going to be a public good can come from the market chasing private profits so ultimately what I want is a much more centralised government.
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Nail. Head.
 
In no order and off the top of my head

• A strategy for the future that includes Universal Basic Income - We are going to have a lot more time on our hands in the future.
• A fairer political system that reflects voting %
• A stronger NHS and something that stops Big Pharma profiteering
• A reset of the Education system - It should not be run as a business, plunging young people into serious debt before they even start out in life - often they are sold Bull$hit degrees that will not help the in any shape or form.
• Abolish the House of Lords
• Make politicians transparent to rid our system of cronyism and playing the system with expenses.

I might add more as I think of them
 
Governance and policies that pursue a general form of egalitarianism in society. It's not an easy thing to do. Very difficult in fact, especially in a place like the UK. But if successful you eliminate regional disparities and things like education, healthcare and social care improve markedly. Crime and disorder are vastly reduced. Society becomes more advanced, mature and civilised.

Unfortunately it's nearly impossible in the UK. There's too many forces against it. Not only the obvious ones, but also by those who claim to be progressive. Hence why regional inequalities were in many ways turbocharged under New Labour.
 
Some great points made on this tread - can some of you become Politicians please?

I'd add. Completely ditch nuclear weapons and instead commit the 200 billion cost of them towards something else. This country needs to stop pretending it's some military giant. The establishment seem stuck in the 19th century.

EDIT; and definitely move away from neoliberalism.
 
Society has become more and more unequal in the last 40 years and it can mean the difference between life and death. Income and wealth inequality have both increased. I want the cake to be bigger, but more evenly distributed too. I think it is possible to do both. Although if things are left as they are, it will not happen.

Stopping the increase in release of carbon is important too. Things are happening, certainly in this country where we have reduced our carbon release and will do further.
 
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