We will -
• Empower local people by giving you the right to call binding referenda on local issues
• Let you, the people, decide major planning schemes like supermarkets by referendum
• Grant no right of appeal from the people's decisions on planning schemes • Introduce election for county health, education and police boards.
• Expect your councillors to put the people's needs first, ahead of party dogmas.
• Make councils, schools, police, hospitals, planning and social care put local people first
• Keep central government out of local government
• Abolish regional government
• Restore our ancient county, borough and parish councils
• Let councils control their own finances by keeping half of local business rates
• Replace VAT with a Local Sales Tax, with a proportion going direct to councils.
Council services: No front-line cuts
To maintain and improve front-line council services, we will -• Halt all cuts to front-line council services
• Keep police on the beat to protect the people from anti-social behaviour• Improve health care for the elderly
• Develop youth services
• Maintain the roads properly• Give rates relief to local businesses
• Increase provision of free parking• Invest in high-quality state education
• Preserve our public libraries• Improve public transport
• Energise the voluntary sector
• Devolve budgets, not burdens
• End aspirational waffle about local communities.
• The Big Society is a big mistake
To pay for these commitments, we will -• Cut councillors' allowances and expenses
• Audit councils' performance externally
• Slash fat-cat pay deals for senior council staff
• Limit the number of high-paid council employees
• Restrict councils' advertising and self-promotion budgets
• Sell surplus council land
• Abolish non-essential and "politically-correct" services
• Leave the EU
• Drop the EU Landfill Directive, which costs each council £3 million a year
• Control immigration and the costs of immigration.
Protecting local people from crime
To keep the people and the streets safe, we will -• Oppose votes for prisoners
• Halt the scrapping of police jobs.
• Refuse to tolerate any antisocial behaviour or petty crime
• Build more prisons
• Make sentences mean what they say
• Elect county police boards to let local people set police priorities
• Cut police form-filling and free officers for real police work
• Crack down on nuisance neighbours
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• Scrap council non-jobs
• Close unnecessary central government departments and quangos
Immigration: Britain for the British first
To cut immigration and the heavy cost of immigration, we will -• End Labour's immigration free-for-all, which let in 3 million in 13 years
• Withhold all State benefits from immigrants for five years
• Introduce proper border controls
• Increase UK Border Agency staff as needed
• Freeze permanent immigration for five years until we sort out the system
• Deport all illegal immigrants
• Target working visas only on those with the skills we need
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• End benefits in cash or in kind for all non-Britons
Planning for our green and pleasant land
To put the people in charge of the decisions that affect our countryside, we will -• Put people's wishes above central government and big business with planning referenda
• Ban new windfarms and subject existing ones to democratic local planning procedures
• Protect with new Conservators
• Annul the Localism Bill's right to build on green belt
• Direct new housing and business developments to brown-field, not green-field, sites
• Build new nuclear and clean-coal power plants to secure our energy supply
• Use existing houses more efficiently by encouraging rentals
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• Close the Climate Change Department, saving up to £18 billion a year
• End wasteful EU and UK subsidies to ugly, cost-ineffective "renewable energy" scams
• Stop all payments to the IPCC and other UN climate-related agencies
Health: Sorting out the National Health Service
To keep the health service safe and protect our elderly and disabled people, we will -• Let the people elect county health boards to oversee vital services
• Halt all cuts in front-line NHS doctors, surgeons, dentists and nurses
• Axe failing, surplus NHS management
• Reintroduce proper matrons to run clean hospitals
• Make specialist care available as needed, to save lives now lost through delay
• Cut waiting lists to European levels - Poland treats cancer faster than we do
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• End free access to health care for non-Britons• Require all visitors to exhibit adequate health insurance at the port of entry• Introduce lifelong private insurance against the costs of long-term care
Education: Put pupils and parents first
To bring Britain's education up to international standards, we will -• Let the people elect county education boards to make our schools better
• Scrap useless paperwork and trust teachers to do their jobs
• Build more Grammar Schools
• Insist that schools teach the 3 Rs
• Close colleges using bogus courses as a back door into Britain for foreign students
• Reinstate the student grant and educational maintenance allowance
• Encourage vocational apprenticeships
• Give parents the right to choose where their children go to school
• Protect rural schools
• Encourage home schooling
To pay for these commitments, we will -• Let head teachers decide whether a qualified teacher is fit to teach
• Encourage major universities to pay their way by offering online degrees
Housing: Local British people first
To address the housing shortage caused by 3 million immigrants in 13 years, we will -• Restore proper controls on immigration to ease the demand for housing
• Incentivise re-use of 970,000 empty houses, equal to 8 years' English house-building
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• Audit all council-owned and State-owned property
• Sell most surplus or disused State-owned property
Transport: Keeping our communities on the move
To keep Britain moving, we will -• Let the people decide on local transport infrastructure by calling binding referenda
• Reopen local railway lines where needed
• Preserve wayleaves of disused railway lines in case they are needed again
• Halt widespread over-zealousness in parking enforcement
• Remove all speed cameras, except those proven to reduce accidents or demanded by the community
• Provide free parking at all hospitals
• Protect free parking for Blue Badge holders
• Protect rural bus services
To pay for these commitments, we will -
• Tax foreign lorries using British roads
• Put all road maintenance out to compulsory,
• independently-assessed tender
• Sell Network Rail to the private sector
BUT, whatever we, the people, want or decide...
UKIP would like to point out that unelected EU bureaucrats set overall policy in -
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