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We, The People, are continually bombarded with the Notion that a Government should be everywhere and can solve every issue. You only have to have lived through the last 2 years to realise that Governments are profoundly Flawed. Selfish and Greedy. It is from this basis that I studied the Banking System, The Political System and the Legal System to discover how they worked, or more appropriately, How They Didn't Work. I found I could only support National Government involvement in the following 3 areas. The rest would be left to County, Borough and Local Council Level. Tax Payers would state on their Tax Returns exactly what percentage of their money goes to any particular area of spending.

1.) The only function of our Military is to Secure our Borders and Protect our shores from attackers. Not to wage campaigns against unpopular Countries to bomb them into Democracy. This only makes us less safe and less secure as it motivates terrorists and frankly Policing the World is none of our business. People have a right to Self Determination. Wars and genocide are tragic, but it's our interference that makes these situations more likely. Pumping vast amounts of 'Foreign Aid' into Third World Countries wrecks Economic Growth. The result is that money intended for the people ends up in the hands of oppressive regimes and gangsters who, robbed of a chance to run businesses and provide services fall into oppression and criminality.

We don't want our rotten system so why would others? You will remember that the Soviets, China and Pol Pot engaged in Genocide yet we did not go to War with them. Why is the Arabian Peninsular attracting so much attention? Wars should only be permitted through an Act of Parliament, The Consent of the People and the United Nations unanimously.

2.) Police our streets and Country. Not our privacy, health or personal habits.

3.) Ensure an effective Legal System to enforce Contracts and the Law. Not to impose revenue raising statutes on a 'fine' weary public.

And that is it.

Education

I favour a voucher system whereby you decide which school you spend your Tax money. This holds everyone involved to account to you.

Health

We are all responsible for our own health. It is the best Insurance you can take out and costs the least.

I like the idea that the Tax payer pays into their Local Hospitals and can chose to take their money elsewhere should they feel the service is not top quality. Thus a hospital or school losing funds will come under intense scrutiny and the inefficient managers and staff removed to be replaced with the efficient.

Business Rates and Income Tax Levels

To be set Locally by Local people and their Councils to attract Business and Jobs into their area which engages everyone in the community in a common purpose. This would be the end of 'Sink' Estates with 3rd Generation Families on Benefits, abandoned and forced to Vote for a Government who would rather keep them on Benefits than give them a Real chance of a job and self respect. Shouldn't there be a Law against this kind of Government behaviour? Possibly, but i think the Law of the Free Market would find answers to these issues very quickly.

You can easily observe that all of the advancements and achievements of the human race were always brought about by the actions and inventiveness of the Free Market and none were achieved by Government. In fact it is the very interference of Government has caused the problem they were trying to resolve to persist. This is the 'Moral Hazard' Austrian School Economists talk about. 'Good Intentions' always have hidden consequences. Every time Government interferes to favour one group they cause an equal and opposite loss to another group. Governments then loudly proclaim a victory by only measuring the first groups result and ignore the second 'hidden' group who nevertheless have suffered an equal loss by their actions.

Law and Order

The inability of our Police men and women to tackle crime is evident everywhere. The 'Bobby on the beat' who knew everyone in the neighbourhood and was a stand for helping most of them avoid a life of offending, in being turned into a 'Police Officer'. There is a world of difference. a Policeman operates under the Law, the 'Police Officer' imposes Statutes using the 'Legal' system - they are revenue collection agents.

The rules, regulations and human rights piled in the paths of Police men and women make it impossible to be effective, especially when it is more profitable to tackle and deal with crime instead of preventing and stopping it. If the Police were effective there would be a steady reduction in Police numbers. The opposite holds today and you only have to see the huge salaries of top Police managers to see why. The result is a gang culture on our streets. protected by hoardes of self-serving lawyers ready to throw the Human Rights Act at anyone who tries to hold anti-social criminals to account. The Government does not need to employ a Secret Police Force, it has a failed Social Services Dept, Education System and yobs and gangs on every street corner to deter the law abiding public from feeling safe. The Government can then step in to protect us from the crime and criminality it creates increasing the State Control over us all. I would make the rights of the criminal secondary to the victim. I would abolish the Human rights Act. We are all equal, there is no justification for making some more equal than others, unless you are operating a Tyranical regime. I would halt crime and anti-social behaviour in its tracks, prevent it from starting and ensure it never returned. There would be a wholesale consultation and change including everyone in each community. It is quite clear that many are having highly paid careers whilst our society crumbles around us.

I have worked with the local Pupil Referral Unit run by Tony Chrisp. Tonly literally hand built the very first PRU with virtually no budget and the hard work of the pupils back in the 1970's. The result was little more than a large shed and some waste ground, but it gave everyone involved a sense of purpose and a determination not to be thrown on the scrap heap because they had were from a poor area, had dysfunctional families, learning difficulties or simply wanted to be at work, not school, but were forced to stay until 16. As a personal community project, I introduced Tony to an incredibly succesful organisation called Youth at Risk. The ground breaking techniques and programs used caused profound results up in the 90% bracket for re-engagement and reoffending rates. The programs are not just about offending but also to bring whole school classes up several grades. I remember once being told by a Principle at a school that she was worried the results for exams would get too high and cause a problem with Ofsted, only allowing the bottom string of pupils to attend! Find out more about Youth at Risk in my links section. http://www.youthatrisk.org.uk/

Drugs etc.

It is not the function of the Government to Police our bodies, that is a Health Professionals job and only in the sense that they are looking to treat us. Having worked closely with many people with drug and problems I am totally convinced that they could lead virtually normal lives if they did not have to spend the entire day robbing and stealing to fund their habit.

There are around 60,000 heroin addicts in the British Isles. Every year about 2,000 die from overdoses, impurity poisoning or as a result of self neglect - not eating etc. Each addict needs to find £2000 - £4000 per month to fund their habit. To do this they either rob or steal or create other addicts they can supply and take a cut from in some ghastly Pyramid Selling Scheme. 60,000 addicts sounds a lot but it is tiny compared to the millions who are impacted every day by the crime and deprivation of the addicts. It is the crime that is the problem NOT the drugs. The drug use is  symptom of the addicts problems and this is the area to focus on to establish the root problems. Why should the rest of society have to go through that with them? After all, you can empathise with a troubled individual using drugs to switch off the outside world in the system we have. Many so called 'normal' people are drinking heavily or taking prescription drugs to deal with their lives. Its big business and they dont like competition from street drugs. Many illegal drug cartels lobby to keep drug laws in place to protect their profits. If you have Prohibition you will get Al Capones.

400,000 people a year die from the effects or the fatty, salty and sugary food they put in their mouths. This dwarfs the amount who die from drugs, alcohol and smoking, yet you dont see a campaign to ban this type of food.

The main point is drugs are cheaply and readily available and the pretense of policing them costs a fortune. Ultimately this fails everyone in the medium and long term. Imagine how countries like Afghanistan, Columbia, Peru and the Carribbean Islands would be without the long tail of drug cartels affecting them? They could grow legal crops and pull themselves out of poverty.

It is interesting to note that opiates (Heroin, Morphine) do very little physiological damage to the body. That's why Doctors like them - they dont have side effects. The emaciated figures portrayed on Police Station walls are a result of self neglect through under eating not as a direct effect of the drugs they are taking. Legalising street drugs would also halve our prison population and leave places open for those who do commit murder other serious offenses. Prison is not for those who wish to get high or blot out personal problems. In the meantime why should their lives and the lives of other they impact be ruined by dependency?

I would have a countrywide and indeed Worldwide Consultation to repeal all drugs legislation and start again. I would leave the final decision to County Councils to protect children, for instance from the sale of drugs in their area should they be legalised. Ultimately it will be your choice, I am saying that we cannot go on the way we are as it serves no one and punishes everyone. There is no logical foundation for the case to make street drugs illegal. It simply makes the problem worse. It has to, the Government is involved.

So there are tried and working solutions out there to all of our social and criminal problems. They are not hard to reverse - it is the system that needs reversing.