Manifesto

1) The EU to legislate such that all imported products to EU countries will need to be certified as "Fair Pay and Fair Trade"

i) In order to be certified, the following must apply:

a) Workers involved in the production and shipping of the product must be paid a minimum wage. This will be of the order of 5 Euros/hour

b)The working conditions must be comparable to good practice in Europe.

c) The true costs of production must be either included in the sale price or written on the product. This will include the cost of dealling with the  pollution made in manufacturing and transport.

ii) An EU Certifying Authority will be established. This will have powers of inspection.

iii) The Certifying Authority will have a budget for educating  manufacturers and freight shippers about what is expected in order to be certified.

2) To bring about a single world currency. Fluctuating exchange rates are bad for business and trade. We need stability in order to trade. Tourists want to know what their holidays will cost. The people who benefit tremendously from different currencies are the Foreign Exchange Traders. They make their money from betting on currency movements.
The Bank of England no longer has the blunt interest rate tool with which to control inflation. The argument for floating national currencies is lost.

3) A commitment to bring about FREE passenger rail transport throughout Europe. This will enable people to easily look for jobs throughout Europe and travel for pleasure causing minimum pollution and road deaths. It will encourage the use of low energy and safe public transport for pleasure and business. It will be funded  by a small increase in petrol and diesel but mainly by the closure of prisons (see below)

4) Prisons:  We believe in closing most prisons. Incarceration should only be for dangerous or violent people. Other convicted people will have to pay for their crimes by working in society or receiving treatment as appropriate. No longer will we pay to house them in expensive prisons  whilst they are unproductive. Unnecessary imprisonment destroys family life, is bad for children, bad for society and makes the prisoner feel even more bitter about society and therefore more likely to re-offend and costs us huge amounts of money.

On the one hand we convict people for being cruel and behaving badly, then we, as a society, treat them cruelly and inhumanely by locking them up.

That is a massive contradiction and is not how a moral society should treat its citizens.

Of course, if someone is convicted and considered still to be dangerous, they will be imprisoned and given help in being rehabilitated back into society.

5) To construct safe, well maintained segregated cycle lanes by all major roads. Using existing lanes and hard shoulders will be far cheaper than constructing new lanes. This will enable  bicycle transport to happen between all European towns and cities.

6) To work towards phasing out private vehicles and lorries. To legislate that within 5 years all vehicles will be zero pollution. This can be done by scrubbing or collecting emissions and by using electric vehicles using a clean method of electricity generation.
Cars have killed over 70 Million people worldwide since the 2nd world war. That is simply unacceptable.
Safe, clean and super efficient public transport with private carriages where appropriate will be phased in ahead of car reduction.
There will be  'redundant' or near empty public transport journeys. This will address the important role of the redundant empty car parked on the street. This apparently redundant car represents freedom to travel as and when we want to. It is an essential ingredient that public transport must address in order  to replace the private car.

Public Transport will be faster, cleaner, more reliable, safer, less polluting, more flexible, more enjoyable and cheaper than the private car. It will be exciting to use. It will have clean toilets, private and public spaces, food, telecoms, work and leisure places.
People will choose it for those reasons. We will choose public transport because it's efficient and far superior in every way rather than being through force or obligation.

7) To eradicate Thirst. The EU will mobilise its resources and military to work with local people in providing clean drinking water world wide. Over 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. 3 billion people do not have safe sanitation. Using the resources of the EU to enable local people in affected areas to build and maintain their own sustainable wells, pumps and where necessary manual desalination pumps. We can solve this problem within 12 months!

The EU will ban the vast bulk of imported fruit and vegetables from countries with water shortages. It is madness for these regions to be exporting water!

Fair Pay is a human right, anything less is exploitation of the developing world.

The current Fair Trade movement has little effect on the developing world at best. At worst it simply serves to make us feel good.

Certified Fair Pay and Fair Trade is the way forward.

The Party believes in Global Trade. But it must be a level playing field. Above all human rights and dignity must be respected by the buyer and seller.

Not only will Fair Pay and Fair Trade enable global partners to be trading equally and safely, it will allow Britain to again manufacture products that were not possible because of the abundance of very cheap labour in the Developing or more accurately the Exploited world.

This is not protectionism, as it is not one way, but will have a similar positive effect whilst promoting fair and safe trade for all. Britain will once again be a great manufacturing and exporting nation.

It will allow Britain to begin to address the massive and increasing Trade Deficit with China, India and other cheap labour countries. We continue to buy goods with IOU's. We have not earned the cash to pay for them.

This huge Trade Deficit is unsustainable. It is far more unstable and damaging than the Credit Crunch and the  banking Crisis.