Policies
Tuesday 7th February 2012
UKIP Policies in Brief
- UKIP will leave the political EU and trade globally and freely.
- We will encourage UK manufacturing so that we can make things again.
- We will take 4.5 million people out of tax with a simple Flat Tax (and no National Insurance) starting at £11,500. We will scrap Inheritance Tax, not just reform it and cut corporation taxes.
- We will give people the vote on policing priorities, go back to proper beat policing and scrap the Human Rights Act. We will have sentences that mean what they say.
- We will have a grammar school in every town. We will restore standards of education and improve skills training. Student grants will replace student loans.
- We will radically reform the working of the NHS with an Insurance Fund, whilst upholding the 'free at the point of care' principles. We will bring back matrons and have locally run, clean hospitals.
- We will make welfare simpler and fairer and eliminate the poverty traps which mean people lose benefits if they work or save, and a new citizens pension and private pensions scheme insurance.
- We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in deportations, and have 'no home no visa' work permits to ease the housing crisis.
- We will support our armed forces with more spending on equipment, military homes and medical care. We will save our threatened warships and add 25,000 more troops.
- We will say No to green taxes and wind farms. To avert a major energy crisis, we will go for new nuclear power plants on the same existing site facilities and for clean coal. We will reduce pollution and encourage recycling.
- We will be fair to England, with an English Parliament of English MPs at Westminster. We will replace assembly members like MSPs with MPs. And we will promote referenda at local and national levels.
- We will make customer satisfaction number one for rail firms - not cost cutting and will look seriously at reopening some of the rail lines that Beeching closed. We will make foreign lorries pay for British roads with a 'Britdisc'.
- Last, but never least, we will bring in fair prices and fair competition for our suffering farmers, and restore traditional British fishing and territorial waters.
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