 Welcome to my latest manifesto review 2020 for Britain manifesto and as all the other sections we're getting through them as with all the other sections I'll do I'll take you through the policy on the manifesto a blog and a audio reading over it so please do share these they're on forbritain.uk slash manifesto so today I'm going to be looking at an area that is of particular interest to me because I am in fact a politics geek and I'm sure many of you are so today I'm going to talk about our policy on government and what that means is how we are governed policy on how we are governed so as with the other videos I'll take you I'll have a read through and add I guess a little bit more information on it so to start the way the UK is governed must change well I think most of us would agree with that most of us would agree with this part as well the behaviour of MPs following the Brexit referendum result has revealed to the public a widespread disregard for in Parliament for the voice of the British people. Now it is quite it was quite shocking the rhetoric from the MPs prior to the referendum and the rhetoric immediately afterwards it was Orwellian so beforehand they were saying to us if we come out that's it if you vote to leave that's it we're out customs union common market ECJ the whole shebang were out be careful of course we were out when they were trying to get us not to vote to leave as soon as we voted to leave we never said we would leave the customs union we never said we'd leave the common market I mean come on that wasn't what people voted for there was suddenly a hard Brexit and a soft Brexit now what that tells me very clearly is that the political elite did not want the result that's quite obvious but they were also so so content are they that people will go out and vote them back in again that they feel no qualms about completely betraying what they said they would do and this it showed in the public public dialogue I guess the media politics that there's a disdain for democracy and by democracy with this element of democracy majority wins they don't like that they don't agree with the majority so my question on that is if the majority doesn't decide things then who does and on what grounds now the people who told us they'd be we didn't know what we were voting for etc they believe they should make decisions because they are more knowledgeable they are in other words superior to the voting British public they really want to be able to make the rules without answering to anyone I that's a personality type particularly like so you know next time you you you meet a a remainder who's still rabbiting on ask them who gets to decide if not the majority and upon what criteria further more insidious laws on hate have led to the strangulation of free speech and a population frightened to express an honest opinion for fear of risking job loss or arrest we all know this we all know this is true we probably know someone this has happened to and I know there are members of for Britain that this has happened to they've either been feared losing their job or they jumped before they were pushed or they had their desk cleaned out by their employers and prior to being called for the first meeting to discuss it and of course we have Damien Ryan a teacher who's on suspension and the trying the teaching regulation authority is trying to ban him from teaching altogether and I'll give you more information on that particular case actually when we when it is resolved we're at tribunal for that in March and I'll keep you I'll update you beforehand during and after that so it's happening in the middle of March for Britain believes in the fundamental democratic rights of all British people we therefore seek the implementation of a UK constitution designed to protect the rights and freedoms of citizens from the whim of parliamentarians members of parliament both the House of Commons and the House of Lords should not have the ability to remove or infringe upon the fundamental rights of British people now no one is saying this is going to be easy I'm not saying it's going to be easy but with this proposal with this policy we're starting you know we're putting down a firm idea of how to not allow MPs to take away our fundamental rights and I think this is vitally important and the idea that we hold them to account every few years in a general election of course this is true but they have ability to make laws to hamper to dampen down the democratic process to for example removal of our freedom of speech so we're not actually holding free and fair elections we're holding elections within the prism set by parliamentarians and we're only allowed to discuss things as determined by parliamentarians this is not a free and democratic society so the hate speech laws are a perfect example of something that we shouldn't MPs shouldn't be able to pass because it infringes upon our freedom of speech and therefore our right to truly hold them to account now a an actual written constitution has issues there are laws and conventions that would have to be looked at such as the the that parliament can't bind its successor that's a difficult one I think any any UK constitution would have to be with serious consultation and serious partnership with the Queen but it can it absolutely can be done believe you can do these things and you can so to continue the Human Rights Act ostensibly intended to protect our rights is not fit for a purpose and has instead become a protector of foreign criminals and terrorists who ought to be removed from the United Kingdom you know I don't think that's inflammatory I think that's absolutely true the Human Rights Act guarantees our right to free expression but didn't stop MPs passing hate speech laws what it has done this right to a family life stuff for example has been interpreted beyond all reasonableness to include keeping terrorists rapists in our country at you know with no regard for the danger and the threat they pose to the decent law-abiding British people that is not a human rights that act that is protecting us quite the opposite so it's not fit for purpose it has to go British citizens currently have no means to hold to account those in power such as senior police the NHS the CPS or local government executives now local government councillors are of course elected but executives are not they are highly paid and they are not answerable to the public same for chief executives of hospitals same for senior police same for leaders of the crime prosecution service now we believe that we must have an ability to bring these people to get these people fired from their jobs if necessary if you look at senior police across rather and Rochdale etc etc they weren't punished for what happened we need and they would have been they would have been had the people had an ability to punish them we must you know we don't we don't have this cronyism among the elites in the public sector where they all look after each other and instead of getting fired they'll be moved to an equally lucrative job somewhere else to silence the criticism no the public is paying for these people it's the public who should hold them to account we must deliver hands for britain believes this must be changed and power must be delivered back to the hands of the people for britain believes in our union we believe in the united kingdom and we believe that our union must be celebrated in popular culture we support and encourage the unity of the peoples and cultures of the british isles for britain further believes that the first past the post system used to elect members of the house of commons is past itself by date and not fit for purpose a two-party state is not a healthy democracy i think it's fairly self-explanatory that we have ended up with a situation where people um are voting for labor to keep the tories out or tories are voting uh or vice versa and this is not healthy and there isn't you know smaller parties really struggle to break through under this system um it has to go it has to go it's past its itself by date electoral fraud is a major and unnecessary flaw in the democratic process the electoral commission admitted in 2017 that there were quote unquote troubling reports of up to a thousand instances of double voting uh what it sounds like person same person voting twice uh in that year's general election in some areas such as terror hamlets in london voter fraud has been overlooked by authorities gosh i wonder why uh a situation described by former communities minister eric pickles as astonishing in 2019 questions were raised surrounding the legitimacy of the result of a parliamentary by-election in the city of peter brunner i made a couple of videos about that at the time which i would link to below such incidents must not continue and the british people must be able to have faith in the electoral process um faith in the electoral process has pretty much gone i was talking about this um with mike speakman a couple of days back and he was saying that there used to be true the police used to um escort the uh boxes the uh from the polling station to be counted that no longer happens and we know full well that particularly labor particularly regarding postal voting we know that they are stealing elections it is absolutely reprehensible and disgusting and it must stop a further element of the british political order that needs urgent reform is the house of lords while it serves a primary purpose in the scrutiny of legislation and the holding of government to account it is arguably too large and too expensive and its membership too wide the estimated cost of each member of the approximately 900 strong house of lords is 83 000 per year now that's a lot of money um we had a a vote on this in the party a policy vote which we hold every year and the members voted between abolishing the house of lords or reforming the house of lords the members voted in the majority to reform the house of lords um i was probably quite pleased with that result i've had a lot of experience with the house of lords and i know and i have absolute sympathy with with both sides of the abolish argument um but i have experienced a great deal of experience of the house of lords and what i will say from my experience is that members of the lords are far braver far more likely to get involved in controversial things um and if we had an elected house of lords we would just have another another house of commons in other words another load of professional politicians smarmy polished professional politicians will say any bloody thing to win votes we don't need a second house like that one is quite enough um but i do think how people get into the house of lords should absolutely be reformed in how much it costs and and as i say that's what our members voted for so finally local government is a driving force of the towns and cities that people live in and as such it has the power to influence major aspects of everyday life um local government has really got a lot of power it determines things like schools uh you know your daily life traffic taxes so you know it really really important really important things and actually members of parliament are very little say in these crucial day-to-day uh areas of our life so and which in which local government holds which is it's not you know people i'm asking people to step forward and stand for local government this year it's not a minor office to hold it's a very very important um very important in our in our everyday lives i'm very very powerful so for britain is concerned about waste in local government as we are across the public sector and it's our fundamental belief that in fact we ought to be reducing expenditure and taxation but by targeting waste and not by targeting services this applies also to policing the nhs the cps and other major public sector bodies far too frequently police chiefs local government officials officials and nhs executives fail in their basic duty and are not easily accountable to the public so how do we what do we do about this here comes the bullet points one scrap the human rights act and replace it with a u k constitution and a public sector accountability act to enable citizens to hold public sector leaders to account so how i would envisage u k constitution walking is similar to how it works in the united states uh it is people can go to court and challenge either any part of the public sector or a government policy or a government legislation as to whether or not it is compatible with the u k constitution if it's not it's struck down just similar to the united states public sector accountability act would allow people to uh and not to be prohibitively expensive this is really important would allow people to approach the same court on the record of a senior official who is receiving lots of public money but not actually doing their job they would be taken to the same court and the ultimate price they can pay is loss of their job and you only have to lose a few people from those roles for everyone else to start pulling their socks up you will change the public sector culture if this happens and if it works abandon the first pass the post electoral system reform the house of lords and introduce appointments criteria to ensure that those appointed are able to show achievement and contribution to business politics charity or other relevant areas i think this is really important because any tom dicker harry can be put into the house of lords upon the whim of a prime minister and i don't think that's right i think they must be able to show that they have something to add to the debate around legislation so experience business people for example experienced people have achieved things in public life and i think there should be a criteria for that so ensure that only british citizens can vote in general elections and that those who vote in any election produce valid identity absolutely clear as day absolutely essential ensure all steps are taken to prevent double voting any electoral fraud should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law once again it's because people are getting away with this that it keeps happening if you put in if you put a stop to it if you jail a few people for it it will change end postal voting for all except those who are out of the uk at the time of the election and those clearly unable to attend appalling station on account of disability now it can't be a disability such as depression for example i'm not downgrading depression i'm simply saying that it doesn't physically stop a person from getting to appalling station you have to be physically unable to get there now this one's controversial but it was voted on by the members who voted for us to between lowering it keeping it the same and rising it and people voted to raise it rates the voting age to 21 i actually think that this is i don't think it's a slippery slope towards a qualifying people there's an age to vote i'm simply saying that 18 is very young now it's a lot younger than it used to be and i've no problem with that actually they say 40 is the new 30 that's fine by me but adult life does not begin at 18 many people are still in school at 18 not paying for anything at 18 21 the far more likely to be independent and to know the value of the pound in their pocket and to be have a few years away from in some cases not all from the propaganda in schools introduce referenda in local areas so that people can vote upon any major construction or major change in their locality now we can't be having votes every five minutes so this needs a little bit of fleshing out we would need a certain target to be reached for example a number of houses to be built or a significant element of a construction that will fundamentally change the local area we can't be having votes every five minutes people won't participate so there's got to be criteria in there to make it worth so it makes such a fundamental change to a people's love to people's local area so we're talking about changing a small village for example into not a small village so completely changes the character of the area on those instances i think people should have a vote on whether or not it takes place prioritise public spending to ensure that all children all children can attend a school rated at least good by off-stead we will set this target and follow through i think it's fairly self-explanatory a good education i think it's shocking actually that kids are going to schools which are are below par below below any any kind of acceptable standard it's quite shocking and shouldn't be happening ensure that local people are prioritised in the allocation of social and affordable housing again that's quite clear we shouldn't be bringing people in from the other side of the world and giving them priority because their families are huge and they are getting priority because their families are huge and you'll have local people local single mom for example who's been sitting on the housing list for a terrifically long time and incomes the eight-kid family from Somalia and takes i'm sorry i don't know you know i some people may think that's crass but it's true install cctv in polling stations now i'm not a big a big fan of cctv to be quite honest with you i don't think it works in a great number of instances but it does work it would in this instance work as a deterrent for for voting fraud and for counting fraud i don't think there's a great deal of counting fraud i think it the most of the fraud happens at postal vote level and in double voting so i don't think there's a great deal of fraud at the counts but why not make sure we are watching this and allow candidates or better yet the police this isn't in the policy but it will be next year better yet the police to escort the transport of ballot boxes from polling stations to their destination for count but absolutely allow candidates to follow every step of the way or a representative for the candidate to follow every step of the way from the closing of that ballot box the transport of that ballot box to the count of what's in that ballot box we don't trust the electoral system as it is and i think it's very important for candidates particularly candidates from parties like our own to have the ability to make sure that things are being done correctly perform physical checks on houses we're a high number of people are registered to vote now we know of instances of this 20 25 people in one house all of them voting for labour got to stop and we've got to check on this we've got to send the police out to and i understand we need more police but it's our policy to have a lot more police send the police out to houses where a lot of people are registered to vote and check who these people are again you only need to do this a few times before the message spreads lastly and this is a pleasant one and i always like to end on a positive note introduce public holidays to celebrate all nations across the UK that is the whole of the UK will enjoy a public holiday on st george's day st andrew's day st david's day and st patrick's day um so there we have it those are our policies on government that we all know that the we have these problems we know and brexit has pulled back the court and on a lot of the problems we have with our govern our governance we know that we need to change this and i think this policy covers pretty much certainly all the major aspects of what's wrong in how we are governed today and it gives a lot of power back to the voting citizen and that's exactly the the entire ethos of our party is to empower the citizen if you agree if you like what you hear in this policy share it get people on board and join us these are the policies that the country is crying out for and we will get that message to the public and we will do it again in may where we will get some more councillors in seats do join us