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 Political Reform Party (PRP)

   Serving Voter/Consumer Needs

First Past the Post (FPP) system of elections was imposed because proportional representation (PR) was repugnant to their lordships and the establishment and they drew up FPP to safeguard their interests and the system has proved to be successful and certainly detrimental to the electorates and consumer interests.

Politicians are self ruled without any external or public controls and human greed  in such cases, rules the roost and had PM's and MP's looked after voters and consumers interests, as well as they looked after themselves, it can be said with some truth, that we would all be far better off today and political sleaze and racketeering would not constantly rear its ugly head.

FPP is regulated and controlled by a non elected politically appointed Boundary Commission and this is not democracy by any standard, and adding the words "mother of all parliaments" helps to disguise FPP which in essence fails to respond or react to voters demands which true PR achieves.  Politicians and its media ridiculing Italy and alike who have PR and the many difficulties arising for its politicians, while conveniently ignoring the many successful nations such as Germany who have PR.

Today British governments having the largest administration in the western world, even larger than the USA with politicians free to award themselves salaries, expenses very dubious highly beneficial 'housing arrangements', and gilt edge pensions, in addition to the extra perks of the House of Lords. FPP also suits monopolies of all kinds, hence the cause of non competitive charges, fees and prices for good and services and the monopolies earning the highest Profits on Turnover (PoT) in the western world. Profit on turnover is not a measurement that politicians or the media ever use, as this is the true measurement of a companies competitive trading. A group of companies in any business who all earn a high PoT reflecting their monopoly grip in that business or industry.

A typical example; we are all led to believe that our leading supermarkets are fiercely competitive with politicians, press and media supporting this belief, yet compare like with like with Germany or USA supermarkets, and these supermarkets have a profit on turnover of around 2% to 3% while ours earn profit on turnover of between 9% and 10%. German and USA supermarket directors, shareholders, employees, and more important, customers, are delighted with this margin of success that 2% - 3% profit on turnover returns.

Here in the UK our leading supermarkets all operate on threefold or greater profit on turnover thereby producing phenomenal profits for the group and where 'competition' within this framework of high profit on turnover maintains their high profiteering. We are not permitted to know political donations or boardroom appointments and alike this and other monopoly groups provide.

Today German supermarkets are moving in and while they have the luxury of operating on a much higher profit on turnover here in the UK than in Germany, yet still their goods are remarkably much cheaper than our leading supermarkets.

This threefold or greater profit margins of UK supermarkets, add 33% to the costs of the average shopping trolley and on a ₤50  shopping bill, ₤16 pound of it is extra monopoly profiteering over and abover competative profits. Fiercely guarded secret donations from monopolies to the two main political parties, reflect the dishonesty of their kind of politics. As indeed the rewards greedily accepted by ex-ministers from the corporations that favoured the respective policies of ministers.

It is therefore no surprising that ex-premier and record holder of the most ministry appointments has his billion pound will frozen, for fear of exposing ministerial rewards. We will remove these restrictions and allow freedom of information to prevail as indeed we will publish other related secret facts concerning MP's, Ministers and senior civil servants. Political reform is a dire necessary if the UK is to survive as a nation and prevent voter apathy growing and sections of society splintering into various groups, tell tale signs of this occurring are all around us.

Also our political system ideally suits MP's and their parties, who once elected, are given carte-blanche to award themselves working hours or free not to work, plus set their own virtually unlimited salaries and generous expenses, housing 'arrangements' and secretarial salaries, plus gilt edge, index linked, inflation proof pensions and suffer no repercussions from hard pressed tax payers resulting in widespread voter apathy where vast sums of money attempts to attract voters to elect themselves, instead of practical policies that are pleasing and beneficial to the electorate and such promises are guaranteed under law to be implemented and not as is the custom ignored.

When people are free to satisfy their own greed, as MP's have over generations, then it is with great certainty that greed will be the dominant factor in all matters and voter/consumers are able to judge for themselves if this is true. It can be said with great justification that politicians first serve their own interests, then their party's interests and lastly the electorates' interests. Very sincere sounding honest meaningful words in a stripped suit that readily contradict this will be used by politicians to deny such a charge.

Political Reform Party addresses these and many more problems with firm enforceable policies, (not cheap sincere sounding promises that politicians readily propose) by changing the root causes for bringing about these calamities in the first instance, and eradicating the problems that we are all suffering today. Self serving Tories and New Labour, repeat (recycle) the identical promises decade after decade, while society sufferers greater and greater turmoil that are not addressed with actions that change matters. In truth and the stark facts clearly prove, politicians serve their own interests first, then their Party and utilise word power to try and give the impression that they serve the nation third. Even to the point of introducing laws to 'protect' their interests from the Public Information Act. Politicians and their senior Civil Servants are indeed wealthy people.

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This will continue until the voters elect a political party such as PRP and sweep the moneychangers out of Westminster and Whitehall. Our main platform is to rid the nation of the first-pass-the-post (FPP) system of democracy that politicians, press and media, established practises, civil service, and big business are delighted to retain at all costs, and replace this corrupted version of democracy with Proportional Representation (PR) that will serve the voters first and not, as FPP serves so well, the interests of the sections mentioned above and especially MP's.

There are various kinds of PR and it is incumbent upon the founder membership to draw up the most suitable PR system for the nation. Ultimately under PR, rich-poor, north-south divide will gradually reduce and not continue to widen, many causes of high direct and indirect taxes will be lessened and prices for goods and services will be greatly reduced on a par with USA prices. Eventually disposal incomes will increase and consumers will greatly benefit from PR while boastful big businesses will cease to brag with impunity about their extortionate profiteering and phenomenal salaries and instead, compete without cartel/monopoly/political protection, in a fierce 'open' tiger market.

Also voters will have a say to elect a far more representative government, often at the expense and great inconvenience to politicians, especially as every MP will have parliamentary committee duties to perform and not the peculiar choice to attend or not to attend. PRP will change parliamentary rules to suite the electorate, (their pay master) and MP's pay and holidays will be set by an independent public body. Committees will scrutinise every government funded bodies and its services, with no exceptions and bring to the attention of Parliament any or all of the anomalies they uncover with proposals and recommendations to Parliament. In this respect Parliamentary Committee powers will greatly increase and every aspect of society, such as elderly homes, children's homes, affordable housing, financial services, legal services, rates, local councils and their policies, supermarket practises, retail chains, road safety, public transport, environmental, and no doubt a few more supplied from the membership and so on and so forth.

Such committees will have full legal powers to investigate injustices of all kinds or harm and injury inflicted and restore a sense of fairness within society. With regard to all government funded concerns the Committees will set a standard of expectancy, such as value for money, fit for purpose and other relevant points. General public annoyances such as confidences tricksters such as jerry builders, conmen, and premium phone line deceits, etc, etc, will be tackled head on and these people will know that there is now official opposition to their deceits.

PRP will reform Parliament and MP's will be required to attend office hour's sessions and at most eight weeks holiday breaks in total per year. We will abolish all perks and privileges and pay MP's professional salaries out of which they meet all their expenses including housing and transportation needs. We hope to attract people to serve in Parliament as a duty to the nation and pay them an attractive salary, sufficient to carry out their duties and not to seek and amass a fortune. We are sure that ordinary men and women with a modicum of good old fashion commonsense will be delighted to serve their county.

We condemn the Liberal Party politicians and the more recent Lib Dem politicians for accepting the insulting terms and parliamentary pay and privilege of FPP, in preference to striking and picketing the house and draw public attention to the grave shortage of seat entitlement for their millions of voters that PR would have allotted them. The two main parties gleefully shared out liberal voter's entitlement of seats that the Boundary Commission provides. This is the underhand FPP system at work totally ignoring millions of voters denied democratic and rightful representation in Parliament. Double standards liberal politicians are not deserving of their voters and it is therefore not surprising that voter apathy has spread from liberal voters to others.

PRP will outlaw political donations and 'external' campaign drives funded by 'supporters' and a government scheme will be introduced to match party membership fees, thereby ensuring parities are independent of outside interests. Parties are only beholden to their electorate. Parties will only be permitted to publish policy proposals strictly restricted to a limit per politician and even stricter control of party headquarters and media supporters who will be forced to provide balanced views and opinions on both sides of political arguments and their attempts to mould and form public opinion will be countered.

Naturally we strongly oppose monopolies we will not accept secret donations or share allotments or lucrative boardroom appointments that are permitted under FPP. PRP represents the interests of voters and consumers, especially consumers, while respecting the interests of small and big business, on the premise that they operate in a fair competitive manner and not, as is the FPP custom, under unfair cartel and monopoly practises. In this respect we will introduce USA style Anti Trust Laws (ATL) to outlaw all cartel and monopoly practises and the powerful opponents of ATL and their media will have to answer to the rich and vibrant economy of the USA and their low competitive prices for all consumer products and services. Naturally these powerful opponents and their political puppets will not want the public to delve upon anti trust law benefits and will resort to every dirty trick to rubbish it. ATL will drastically reduce prices, fees, charges, even prohibit and rid us all of despicable utility standing charges, where for decades people have paid hard earned money for the ink demanding payment for standing charges which is the only cost to these utilities and only ATL with powerful enforcement teeth, (not any modified or corrupted version such as 'off-watch') will eradicate cartels and monopolies. It is therefore not surprising that financial services, utility services, supermarkets, and store chains, generously contribute to political party coffers. We view such donations and other secret contributions as bribes and it is understandable why the parties keep their practises secret. We are the only party who prohibit our MP's, Ex-Ministers and their families, accepting gifts of shares and boardroom appointments, as this will give rise to suspicion of previous acceptance of favours and bribes.

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Despite all these powerful arguments in favour of ATL, politicians and their press and media will never support ATL, claiming that (lamentable toothless quango) 'off-watch' and 'self regulation' is sufficient to combat 'unfair' practises. These well paid bodies are also 'entertained' by their supposed care and only after years of malpractice by their care are these 'public protectors' exposed as shams. It must be understood that the launch of a 'market economy' is the covert word for greed, and greed is the driving force behind the market economy and the politicians (Thatcher and her Tory cronies) who launched the programme knew full well that this would allow the rich to get even richer and the north-south, rich-poor, gap will increase and their claim that the 'trickle down' effect was also known to them to be another sham. Beware of political duplicity. They even changed national pension from earnings related to inflation knowing that eventually annual pension rises would drastically reduce, while the civil servants who drew up the ghastly plan, protected their own pension with inflation proof, index linked (costly to taxpayers) plus other privileges, to which Thatcher readily agreed. FPP allows this grave anomaly to continue and only PRP will redress this.

The only trickle down that is possible when greed is the driving force, is the poorest in society will become even poorer and this section will produce a society who will be forced to become dependant upon the black economy and their 'value of life' will be less eventually they and their offspring will regard life as cheap, leading to a south American style gun carrying criminal gang culture society. Market economy is the direct cause why Britain has the highest child poverty in Western Europe and this shame will continue under FPP. Today this country is flooded with lies and deceits and the spread of the language of duplicity is now total. Politicians all lie from the same hymn book, followed closely by advertisers who have also mastered the art of duplicity and greed motivation has spread outwards from Whitehall and Westminster to boardrooms, financial and legal services, utility services, supermarkets, etc, etc. Greed has now extended to the press and media, including TV phone-in shows, whereby 'premium phone lines' are fully exploited by these greed motivated people to the point of barefaced robbery, while their respective off-watch dogs were bribed to look the other way or they simply cared less, and the government despite public outrage against the very existence of premium phone line that has cause outrage for over a generation greedily introduced unopposed by BT to increase their rip-off fees to their monopoly captured customers, emulated by mobile phone companies, while the respective political party or parties received generous 'donations' and perhaps their boardroom dotted with ex-ministers.

Under the political spin and media gloss, this one truth completely repudiates their claims. Regretfully until the most powerful weapon that consumers possess, the vote is utilised to sweep the money changers out of Whitehall and Westminster, the root causes for our high direct and indirect taxes and ever growing government administration the largest and costliest government admin in the western world, taxes and prices will continue to rise and remain a drain on the economy. FPP is now reduced to serving governments and the opposition party pleasing the people in marginal seats and pay lip service to the remainder of the country. Boundary Commission safe seats are not served as well as the collective interests of the people in marginal seats and that is not democracy.

I had long figured out that the established system of first-past-the-post (FPP) democracy blocks any form of change and prevents proportional representation (PR) democracy which reflects the public will and compels MP's to allow popular laws and measures to be produced, in order to be re-elected which FPP will never allow. FPP is a corrupted system, incorporating a politically appointed; none elected body, known as the Boundary Commission who decide the number of votes allotted to the two main parties to the determent of any third party (sorely witnessed by past and present Liberals) and forcing the two main parties the 'merge' whereby they become indistinguishable form each other. Even today Cameron's Tories are adopting New Labour's centre ground policies. Add an unelected upper house (Lords) to this strange scenario, and the majority of backbench government MP's in the 'gift' of the PM's promotions awards and appointments, the word democracy is replaced by a one party state with little or no opposition. This in a nutshell reflects the truth.

Regional authorities will have powers to force all financial services to reinvest parts of their profits back in the region and thereby stimulate the economy. In the USA despite powerful opposition by financial services, a law was brought in to force these services to reinvest in their local communities and regions much to their surprise the investments returned them profits. It is interesting to note over the past few decades Minister appearing on TV in a crises concerning a large corporation or industry always defend the 'supplier' over the 'consumer', even recently the Turkey bird flu Ministers defended the 'practises' of the supplier, (as did the mad-cow disease) even adding undue haste to renew its licence to restart processing before the 'investigation' has been concluded, leaving the voter/consumer wondering who was protecting his or her interests. Again a Ministry have been found wanting and ill prepared for the crises and found its lack of procedures contributes towards the cause of the crises. It should be understood that all big businesses and industries operate a cartel or monopoly practise. Compare our financial service and their fees, charges and practises. Take white goods and compare our UK prices to that of Germany or USA and other countries. Look at opticians prices, which since the war overcharged when compared to Europe. Shoe chain stores fix the high price of their products. Children's clothes, electronic goods, motor cars, spare parts and accessories of all kinds, the list goes on and on. Political and press tolerance of these undesirable yes dishonest practises can only be stopped with 'voter power' that is when the House of Commons is emptied prior to a general election and the voter is all powerful. The Party has its teeth into government practises and its supposed servants the civil service, all of whom are 'self regulating' and free to pay themselves as they choose fit, notwithstanding additional 'extras' such as generous expenses, second homes, generous transport allowances, and of course index linked, inflation proof pension, unbelievable lengthy holidays, including highly favourable early retirement and golden handshakes, with the voter/taxpayer forced to pay for these extortionate practises unable to 'vote out' such practises, or employ a body to eject such practises.

It is astonishing to uncover those government ministries and departments make panic purchases of spending to meet annual budgets for fear of 'budget cuts' instead of 'inflation' increases. In essence the whole lot had been corrupted by human greed. Even local government senior executives salary and increases are kept secret the fiddles go on and on and on. Remember politicians freeing the 'market' from restraints and regulations and allowing markets to regulate themselves, politicians knew full well that the powerful human element 'greed' unleashed upon an unsuspecting public would greatly benefit big businesses and in 'return' themselves.

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PRP will decree in its election manifesto that the two hundred or so ministries, departments, and quangos, will be judged on a 'value-for-money' and need basis, or 'fit for purpose' and the few that survive this stringent scrutiny, will be transferred out to the regions, within and under the pay of a Regional Authority whose task is to ensure that their employees are suited and qualified to serve the public. These employees will be entitled to normal holidays, state pensions and alike. All MP's will have to serve 'full time' on Parliamentary Committees, which in turn will oversee every aspect of our society, such as children's homes, old peoples' homes, unfair practises of all kinds, such as cowboy builders, deceitful practises, such as 'small print' deceits, and other deceitful advertisements, blatant rip-offs by 'premium phone line racketeers' etc, etc, with strong parliamentary powers to correct any malpractices. In effect elected MP's will have set jobs and tasks to achieve as part and parcel of applying for such a candidacy. MP's will not be free to set their 'job description' pay, expenses and holidays, which is long overdue. The House of Lords will be abolished and half the parliamentary seats to be sent to the new upper house with a complete modernisation of the whole house, in keeping with the 21st century. Six hundred lower and upper house seats and supporting staff is more than sufficient to manage the affairs of this nation, especially as elected Regional Authorities (RA) will take over most of central govern duties, such as NHS, Education, granting licences to the utility services in their regions with emphasis upon no monopoly rigged standing charges, and fees and charges fixed to supply and the most efficient and competitive tenders accepted. Today Britain has the largest government administration in the Western world, astonishingly ever higher than the USA administration. VIP will bring our government in line with most modern administration and naturally reduce one of the many causes for our record of high taxes.

Our Ministries are overmanned where for example the Home Office is not fit for purpose, the Ministry of Defence employs more civil servants than service men and women, reflecting the corruption when human greed regulates itself without control, even our MP's salaries, promotions and pensions are linked to Whitehall, the greater number of Ministries and Departments the greater number of senior and junior ministers in government and of course their equally paid opposite numbers in the opposition parties. Recently it was revealed after a long struggle by MP's to block revelations under the Freedom of Information Act, the astronomical rip-off travel expenses by MP's and now the hurried haste to close this 'loophole' before all MP's total net earnings, including pensions are made public, for fear this truth will bring the house down. When all the totals of both houses are made public, which the PRP will publish, then the public will judged and then when top civil servants net incomes are revealed the penny will drop. In reality, Public opinion accounts for nothing. If millions demonstrated opposition to a PM's policy the PM's believes himself/herself elected to rule in dictatorial manner providing this is done in a condescending and open manner or spin, while totally ignoring any opposition providing it not to close to a general election. This blind ignorance is permitted under our First Past The Post (FPT) system of democracy a corrupted form of a true proportional representation (PR) democracy. The powers of the office of PM have built up over the centuries whereby in the gift of this office are hundreds of lucrative jobs for backbenchers and responsive opposition appointments, quango appointments, and the inherited authority to declare war without resorting a free voting parliament or a massive tide of opposing public opinion. We note that that this and previous governments unashamedly use deceit and lies and their Ministers are experts in the language of duplicity. For example all present day government Ministers and even the PM are completely aware that crime has risen under their ten year watch, and yet to a man and women, using the most sincere honest voice express that crime has fallen, then citing a statistic from the truth quoting it has fallen in the past six or seven months. All of their publicity machine presses home this misinformation. No wonder the voting public are turning away from politics in droves. The need for ten or so elected regional authorities throughout the UK will become apparent. It is said that the EU collectively spends the same as USA on defence, yet produces only one tenth of USA military hardware. Most of the EU's defence budgets are wasted upon bureaucracy (MoD typical example).

Today Britain and Europe have failed to prepare for the greatest threat confronting the EU; of internal and international terrorism and the certain likelihood of defeating an enemy with a 'dirty bomb'. Any General will reveal that he requires at least a highly trained rapid response army of gunship helicopters in the thousands with overhead support and naval support, with divisions of specially trained anti terrorists ground troops all supported by a vast counter intelligence service, the best that money can buy. In effect, a UK superpower force. Britain alone cannot afford such a force, Britain and France are able to provide a Nuclear Umbrella and with Germany, lead the EU into a joint single command, Pentagon style, purchase of equipment and intelligence network, with a clear mandate then none interference of the EU to produce a force fully equipped with the most modern (and proven) weapons, whereby any terrorist threat to unleash its hate and venom upon the EU will be met by all the powers at the command of the EU superpower force, where the terrorist or terrorists will have nowhere to safely hide.

A future General will have at his command, thousands of lethal helicopter gunships and ground troops where however remote a mountainous region a General will be fully equipped to defeat an enemy. Cutting bureaucratic waste across the EU Defence Ministries and transferring defence budgets into a single administration centre, will kick-start the programme, however EU bureaucracies will strongly oppose any measurers, preferring to ridicule any future threats from 'dirty bomb' terrorists, to safeguard their own careers.

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Today, ignore political claims that crime is falling (inferring that they are successful) but in truth, knife and gun crime are rising at an appalling rate and political spin to blind us to this truth only serves to escalate the problem. The PRP believes that street crime and drug related street crime criminality is a greater threat to the vast majority of descent law abiding citizens and only drastic action (not cheap words) will eradicate street crime from our streets. We will set up an Anti Street Crime Terrorist Force, fully equipped with specially armed police officers with a mandate to identified street crime terrorists, utilising the most modern surveillance equipment to bring suspect before special military style, street crime terrorists Courts, to firstly be satisfied that the suspect or suspects are classified within the strict mandate of street crime terrorists, yet to be defined, with a defence team mandated to test all the evidence to ensure that no innocent person is found guilty. There will be set up military style camps with strictly enforced discipline combined with education/trade/job/sports training up to an acceptable standard of qualification for work upon release, this achievement is one of the qualifications for release. Within this Force will be specialists units for combating national/international terrorism who work in conjunction with their respective authorities.

PRP believe this policy is long overdue and the sooner the massive funds are made available to set the process in motion the sooner citizens security will be improved and eventually street crime terrorism is eradicated. We will set up ten or more regional authorities Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with their own authority and the remainder of England divided on a par with the average of the first three the numbers yet to be agreed. Let it be recorded that since we joined the EEC, between all of our national newspapers almost every day EEC and its subsequent growth to the present day EU had been ridiculed almost daily and this 'conditioning' or drip-feed was so powerful it even swelled the ranks of extreme right wing nationalists even strong enough to elect an anti EU party to serve in Brussels while inadvertently crushing the Tories hopes of ever forming a government while supporting their right wing press and their self cantered middle England ideas. The press were happy to sacrifice the Tories as long as public opinion opposed EU ideals. Until the Tories realise that they must adopt New Labour's rhetoric and policies and quietly drop their EU phobia image only then will they have a hope of forming a government.

In 1997 when the Boundary Commission was forced by keeping it's most favoured party in power and cause a public outcry for keeping a hated party in government, who had been kicked out of Scotland and Wales and the North and West of England the boundary adjustment allowed New Labour with its 'assurances' that its left wing would not be allowed to restore powerful trade union laws and nationalisation and that the party would in general move towards the centre and they even promised to keep the Tory 'spending plans' the political spin for 'cuts.' In effect the people in their droves voted for New Labour and cuts in the social infrastructure (Health, Education, Public Transport and Law and Order) all of which suffered nearly twenty years of cuts under the Tories, where these popular essentials services badly needed massive amounts of investment to bring them in line with EU standards whose social infrastructures put the UK to shame.

The 1997 FPP general election proved to be 'Lambs to Slaughter' the fickle easily duped general public, voted in droves for spending cuts to its social infrastructure. Political duplicity of a main platform of 'sticking to Tory spending plans' while knowing in reality they were cuts is the 'hallmark' of this New Labour government and ten years of duplicity or speaking in plain language, compounded lies, upon lies, upon lies had to be the inevitable consequence of a party launched upon bare face lies. Naturally I am aware that speaking plain truths or telling it as it is will never be popular as 'comfortable words of sincere assurances' or 'spin' is far more preferable to the public's ears. While I am at it, let have a few more 'home truths'. It is know that the EU collectively spends the same on Defence as the USA, yet produce only a fraction of its military hardware. It is a fact that in Britain and the EU bureaucracy eats up most of the defence budgets, our own War Office employs more civil servants than service men and woman and its military procurement is abysmal.

Naturally an EU Defence Force with a single pentagon style administration and single procurement body would produce a super power defence force equipped with thousands of helicopter and transport helicopter backed up a powerful air force and navy with its own well equipped and financed intelligence service and a nuclear umbrella provided by Britain and France. This is the force to combat threats to Britain and EU in the future and our powerful EU sceptics and their press strongly oppose any defence of this kind for our future generations. While present and future military commanders scream out for modern combat weapons and equipment of sufficient number to counter growing international terrorism set to wipe out the western world, even if it destroys their own societies as these demented fanatics will blindly follow their misguided beliefs and if necessary wipe out humankind. EU sceptics and their ignorant press will hear nothing and remain blind to the realities of international terrorism and will ridicule any idea of an EU super military power to combat this ever growing threat. In truth, New Labour and Tories strongly oppose any EU superpower state to the delight of international terrorists. FPP will keep these bigoted parties in power for decades to come. PRP even with a surge of public support could not rid us of FPP only a landslide surge and support at a general election can oust FPP and its corrupted political parties.

Britain alone cannot combat international terrorism the nation is hard pressed to combat national terrorism and only an EU Defence Force has the means to achieve this.

Regretfully the market economy with hands off by politicians that allowed greed to govern society, kindled the no hope 'have not' class that bred generations of drug led street criminals and introduced a gun and knife culture will little respect for life. The minority rich class are gradually being forced back behind security areas and eventually society will have its go-no-go zones. We now suffer two generations of criminals who are producing the next generation and if no drastic positive action is taken to combat this growing element in society, it will engulf all of society.

PRP will treat this criminal element as Street Crime Terrorists (SCT) defined as burglars, shoplifters, muggers, car thieves, drug dealers and peddlers, and especially drug barons, and will set up a powerful national Anti Street Crime Terrorists Force (ASCTF) fully armed and fully equipped backed by a national intelligence department that will full utilise the most advance surveillance equipment whereby every all street crime terrorists will be logged and identified and information gathered to where there is sufficient evidence to convict these street crime terrorists in special courts here if found guilty will serve in special military style detention camps where strict but fair discipline is the rule and where education and trade training is provided. SCT Courts will be military style but with foolproof safeguards to fully test prosecution evidence and where necessary to protect security sauces and witnesses. Discipline in schools will be restored under the jurisdiction of a Parliamentary Committee and education tailored towards jobs. Also anti social children will be identified and their parent or parents will be informed and expected to correct their offspring under a penalty of financial discipline if total breakdown arises the guilty offspring will be punished. ASCTF will be mandated to eradicate street crime terrorism also acting in association with the police as a counterforce against national terrorism.

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After WW2 Britain accounted for over 50% of the world's invention but failed our inventors to the point of criminality. The UK Patent Office far from being a none profit making concern set about to profit from their captured customers. The result was that tens of thousands of private inventors were penalised by greater and greater charges until they were forced to abandon their projects and the Patent Office disposed of their works (blueprints and full written details) to the highest bidder from abroad. Today this cream and seed growers of industry has been battered into submission and force these unfortunate inventors to submit to televised programmes displaying their desperate plight in front of greed motivated panellists overlooking the total rejection by our bankers and financial institutions, who automatically reject private inventors and inadvertently bring about the demise of Britain's industrial legacy. It is a hard rule that Banks and financial services do not invest in any invention unless it can be shown that it complies with its unwritten law of "assured return on investment within four years, eleven months and twenty-eight days". Most if not all invention require a few years of research and development, then market research and production planning before sales return. This unwritten rule is typically British USA, Japan, and Germany who industrial economies have streaked away from the UK while our financial services mainly benefit from their monopoly dominance of the market. We will set up an Innovation and Business Institute (IBI) which in turn will set up a innovation centres throughout the UK fully funded and equipped with workshops of all kinds including technical laboratories, plus engaging retired trades and craftsmen to volunteer and help inventors to produce their R&D from ideas. Staff will only accept projects within the centres capacity where ultimately successful projects will be put forward for full investment by the IBI. PRP will levy a windfall tax upon financial services to finance IBI a none profit making concern and eventually will become self financing on its majority share of all investment into its worthwhile products, which will eventually (if suitable) be launched on the Stock Exchange.

National Regional Authorities, possibly numbering around ten will absorb most of the administrative duties of Whitehall. These Authorities will elect one of their members to serve on a National RA Council to advise where combined purchases are a greater benefit to the RA's. RA's will be empowered to levy a Regional Tax which will be strictly subject to a yet to be devised level or percentage of this tax used for administration and these figurers will be published annually including to total cost of the RA's administration costs which must remain under a yet to be devised figure. PRP will not tolerate run-away administration costs that FPP encouraged. One of the main platforms of PRP is its Reindustrialisation Programme (RP) we do not accept the Thatcher's cronies and supporters of the Services Economy propaganda that our manufacturing industry is dead. We know that during the seventies our Banking Institute transferred Inward Investment to investing in South American countries and foolishly as British bankers (accountants) are, lost vast sums of money to the point that they hiked up bank charges and fees to the highest levels in history. Our starved of investment industries suffered even greater strain on increased bank charges and interests rates. This combined with grossly inferior senior management of our manufacturing industries who were the old-school-tie brigade and knew nothing of the industries they were well paid to manage. In truth total incompetent fools. This was the main reason for our industrial demise not as politicians and media would have us all believe the Trade Unions which reacted to foolhardy management policies who ignorantly expanded the 'class divide' while trade unions became more reckless and resorted to its only weapon the strike. When Thatcher withdrew support from our manufacturing industries and transferred the vast powers of government to serve the service industries our industries were doomed. Spain gleefully grabbed our shipping orders and became a leading shipbuilder in the world, West Germany increased its coal and steel output, and then vehicle output, to leave Britain trailing in its wake. Today only industries with their own finance are flourishing completely independent of the banks and to ridicule the 'cronies' our arms industry, which received government backing is highly successful with management and unions working jointly and exporting all around the world. The anti manufacturing cronies who incidentally oppose the EU will simply ignore the truth, that given investment and now training we will be able to restore our industrial heritage. PRP will introduce a massive reindustrialisation programme and transfer services investment back to manufacturing industries. This programmes is quite extensive and reference to my other works will show how this can be achieved.

The outdated Bank of England will be modernised to the high standards of Germanys Bundasbank (incidentally designed by Britain) possibly named UK Industrial Bank (UKIB) that will lead the way for Britain's reindustrialisation programme, and grant favourable terms and conditions for our manufacturing base. High street bank will be encouraged to invest in their regions and RA's will grant favourable conditions to encourage manufacturing into their regions. Also RA's will gear education towards the skills required and fund technical colleges for advance training. We believe in British craftsmanship and given the right conditions prevail and senior management are appointed on skills not the old-school-tie, whereby the TUC and CBI are jointly involved in RP, reindustrialisation will flourish and jobs and our economy will benefit. Having all of our economic eggs in the service basket is unwise and high risk. Having a manufacturing creation policy, the first step towards job creation, a strong manufacturing base as a back up and one that FPP politicians are not prepared to consider anything that requires work and what they regard as risky, especially as most of their seats are assured.

Today FPP has led to spin even Cameron's Tories caught on and abandoned its tired old policies and adopted spin the covert word for what the party aspires to achieve while omitting to draw up any detailed policies. PR will force politicians to account for failures and produce hard and fast policies to attract voters the very opposite of FPP politicians. In this paper policies and ideas are abound and have been sprouted since the seventies, and Cameron's inability to 'devise' policies other than publicly pleasing policies that they would 'aspire' knowing under FPP this is sufficient to gain popularity and the only way back to power and the rich rewards that 'power' in the UK holds. The office of Prime Minister is the most powerful in the land, verging on dictatorship. The PM has it in his or her 'gift' to employ, appoint, and promote most of his or her backbenchers, thereby guaranteeing a strong backing in the House. Also when it suits the PM he/she need not refer matters to the House and is free to act independently his/her powers are absolute. Naturally, Whitehall benefits greatly from this peculiar system and as the PM increases 'posts' Whitehall absorbs this and continues to build up rival ministries competing for greater power. Opposition parties are delighted to cooperate as they benefit by also increasing they 'shadow posts'.

Everybody wins except the hard pressed taxpayer. Political Reform Party will end this corruption, the sooner the better. Tories are not interested in reform, not the kind proposed in this paper but feel confident, with the backing of the majority of the media; they will be able to come to power as the Boundary Commission now favours them providing they can capture more marginal seats. FPP allows this despite the Tories abysmal showing in Scotland, Wales, Northern England, so they need not trouble themselves with 'bothersome' policies to attract these voters. PR will change all this and the Tories will be exposed as a defunct political force. New Labour came to power on a blatant lie mentioned before bragging they would retain the Tories spending plans, deliberately omitting their plans were spending cuts, fooling the electorate into believing they were spending increases. Deceit, painfully clever deceit is the hallmark of New Labour and the evidence is now clear, where not a single promise has been kept, our social infrastructure is shamefully the worse in Western Europe, direct and indirect taxes have woefully increased, government administration costs have escalated, house prices are now beyond the average persons ability to pay, child poverty shames second world nations, and disposal income is the lowest for generations.

That is their true legacy and Blair can be retire to wallow in becoming a multi millionaire, writing his memoir, and attending lucrative lecture tours, plus collecting his congress medal while this nation suffers in the wake of his legacy. The greatest concern to the nation under FPP is that both parities court the over fifty house owning vote in the marginal's, reflecting government/opposition polices, and governments failing to build affordable housing is perhaps the worse legacy of the Tories and New Labour. When Banks and Building Societies fail to attract buyers despite every trick in the book, then the buying chain disappears and the whole industry collapses. Also the youth will learn to their cost that renting or buying property is beyond them and their parents well suffer their offspring staying at home trapped and despondent and parents cashing in to pension off their properties to afford professional care. Under FPP this grave anomaly will continue neither party will endorse concreting over the 'sacred' green belt, and turning a blind eye to the dire consequences for the younger generations.

In conclusion I repeat my apologies for the many repetitions and I have to hope that the points raised strike a chord. PRP is a fledgling party and this acorn requires support from all over the country where 'local' interested and likeminded people form a founder membership club and hopefully via this website and its contacts the foundation builds until we have a founder membership body, spread around the country, sufficient to draw up an agreed consensus of the party's policies.

Paul Lehmans (Founder)

email contact:- founder@politicalreformparty.co.uk

UK's two main political parties greatly benefit from first-past-the-post (FPP) system, imposed upon us, where two main parties are protected from any third party intrusion into this cosy arrangement, via a politically appointed, non elected Boundary Commission (BC), who as past Liberal voters and present Lib Dem voters are able to testify, where their millions of votes produced a handful of seats and where their seat entitlement was divided out between the main two parties.

This whole system provides a buffer for the two main parties, who are free to act for their own interests and respond to financial backer's demands, and treat the electorate in a far less important manner. The system also allows the parties to concentrate on just marginal seats and simply allay fears of remaining majority, with very sincere honest sounding believable words and nothing else. This in turn forces the two main parties to merge their policies into the centre ground and today Britain ceases to have any effective opposition, other than pretence opposition, which in turn creates a form of dictatorship, especially as parliamentary backbenchers are themselves regulated, insofar their promotion hope or promotion rise, depends upon obeying leadership orders, where for example the Iraq war was voting on and passed by MP's of both main parties, when the majority of their constituents and the nation, strongly opposed the war, bringing into dispute the word democracy.

In turn MP's give great credence to dealing and managing their constituency affairs where in reality most of the work deals with immigration problems where eventually it is returned to the local council who are responsible for dealing with such matters, but MP's in the absence of real UK Citizens work are able to grasp at immigration straws.

Under Proportional Representation (PR) any MP's who ignores his or her constituents, will be punished by voters in a following general election. PRP will tackle the problems and complaints of the electorate by introduction of powerful Parliamentary Committees. Even party leaders must take great heed of public opinion and for these reasons alone PR is far more preferable to FPP. New Labour and Tories will fight tooth and nail to retain FPP and with the help of their powerful financial backers and media supporters, will succeed, unless voters, on mass, vote the whole corrupted form of democracy out of power and elect pro PR parties, who have policies more in keeping with voters and consumers demands.

Today the party in government is powered to please its marginal's, while the opposition, well their wealthy backers, must 'pump' greater publicity at great costs, in order to combat government advantages, witnessed today as Tory financial backers and supporters succeed in making great inroads, with massive publicity campaigns into marginal seats that has gradually, over the years, made inroads into government's lead in national polls.

Cameron's; Tony Blair style of pure rhetoric attracting many voters outside marginal's appears to work and soon we start the cycle all over again, with Blair 2 serving its backers, its media supporters and pleasing it's marginal seat constituents. He Cameron believes that his aspiration creation of policies (with no teeth) is sufficient to hoodwink the electorate and elect his party to power.

This peculiar electoral arrangement produces a calibre of MP that must follow party lines and therefore not the kind of person able to make commonsense decisions, where eventually the whole party comprises people devoid of decision making abilities, clearly witnessed today where the nation is flooded with problems that everyone knows will never be solved. Northern Rock is a typical example of dithering Ministerial decision making that should have been decided in 24 hours or 48 hours at most and dragged on and on and on compounding the damage further.

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In USA, their Northern Rock, Bear Stearns problem, was solved over a weekend reflecting UK indecision errors. Added to this scenario are junior party MP's are judged on their ability in mastering duplicity speak, and promotion is linked to this ability, hence senior MP's and Ministers are very adept at duplicity speak. Typically MP constituency seat selection for party candidates are selected on smart or attractive appearance, politically ambitious, well spoken, clearly obedient to party rules and instruction, all the qualities of the obedient yes man and not the calibre of a decision maker, resulting in the low competence of backbenchers without ability of making a decision.

Individual thinkers and action delivery peoples are automatically excluded and soon as has occurred with Ministers who all appear to be a blend of the same mould, MP's will soon under FPP become junior versions of Ministers who are reluctant to make decisions as this could prove to be a mistake which will ruin their political career. The old adage "people who don't make decisions don't make anything" applies to MP's who are more concerned about looking after their backsides, than dealing with matters that require decisions.

The two main parties claim that FPP avoids a hung parliament and that Britain would plummet into Italian style elections but behind such false claims the truth is that PR compels MP's and their parties to act and please their voters and not their financial backers and this role reversal demand greater effort, greater decision making, forcing attention to domestic problems and less attention to problems abroad and above all, producing results that satisfy their voters needs, where failure in a PR election equals dismissal and replacement by a person of greater commonsense and ability.

Today British society suffers an array of problems that are simply ignored or at best given strong words to allay such fears, while year on year, decade on decade and generations later the same problems continue to flourish. It is in the hands of MP's to keep FPP and all of its advantages and block and oppose PR with all of its demands on politicians and the two main parties.

Under FPP city institutions and financial service powerful backers of Thatcher's Tory party forced through its treasured Service Economy, and allowed high street banks to withdraw finance from our manufacturing industry and invest in what they perceived as lucrative third world countries, where as predicted, by economists, such ventures can only prove disastrous and soon city institutions suffered severe cash equity. Thatcher came to their rescue and gifted city institutions our utility companies and shock horror, generous tax payer 'inducements' for short of funds, city institutions to purchase the bulk of these utilities. These inducements have never been exposed or for that matter if the institutions have paid back taxpayers money. In effect it is possible that tax payers purchased our utilities and this is just another example of FPP and its underhand dealings at work.

For decades sensible economists, who are edited out of the media, condemn chartered accountant bankers as the most inept type of person to judge investment values or act in an astute businesslike manner and today we witness another bankers blunder, where bankers fell over themselves purchasing valueless debt packages, dressed up in attractive packaging that would not fool and astute business person, which completely fooled gullible Bankers, resulting in losses of billions of pounds, instead of greed motivated profit.

Since the eighties, sound economists advocated that financial services must be induced into investing in our manufacturing industry while services led media propaganda, conducted a laborious campaign against our manufacturing industry and all things trade union, while omitting the damages inflicted by withdrawal of financial investment and ill trained senior management where both these scenarios added to trade union intransigence. It should noted that Spain grabbed our ailing shipbuilding orders and soon became a leading shipbuilding nation as indeed many other industries were grabbed by West Germany and Japan. There are many other examples where governments need not trouble themselves with voter and consumer problems, as FPP guarantees both main parties assured government or HM opposition and the generous perks associated with this.

It is well overdue that UK enters the 21st century and rid itself of outdated established controls and rigged markets and badly trailing behind EU in every social respect, where our public transport is laughable, education lamentable, law and order is ludicrous, and our health service shameful where EU strive ever further foreword with improvements, with its social infrastructure, while here in Britain we receive sincere, honest, believable assurances aided with glowing statistics that our services are leading the way, not mentioning the direction, up or down.

Our outdated politics supports monopolies and alike and provided toothless watchdog quango's to regulate and control monopoly and cartel practises. This arrangement may please politicians and allow them to claim free competitive markets, where in reality monopolies and cartels flourish.

Political Reform Party is the first voter/consumer party with all of its policies concentrated upon domestic problems and concerns with a range of policies that will create a PR electoral system, creation of Reindustrialisation Programme to restore Britain's industrial base and increase jobs, bring down prices for goods and services, slash government administration by at least 50%, clear the streets of street crime criminals, greatly improve Schools, Health Care, Public Transport, and improve Police Forces, and other favourable voter/consumer policies, which FPP failed to tackle for generations.

It's leader, Paul Lehmans in response to opposition critical of the party's policies and charges that the nation could not afford implementing such ideas, his reply was, whatever the truth, these policies will receive top priority be that they are phased in as the nation can afford, or as the money appeared out of nowhere to finance billions of pounds for Middle East wars and billions of pounds more, to bail out the Banks suffering under its failing Thatcher led service economy, then if these massive unexpected 'costs' are possible today, then I'm sure the party's policies are affordable, even if they are phased in over the years.

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My speech to the Oxford Union Debating Society 15th May 2008.   MOTION - This house Would Reintroduce National Service

Mr President,  Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening  ....... For an ex-national serviceman with a modest interest in politics, the motion before the House is intriguing and I assume it applies in peacetime and to young men of eighteen.

During my army experience, as those who have read my book On Her Majestys National Service, will know, I had a great time and, frankly, I never stopped laughing from start to finish. However, at the time I bitterly resented conscription; a view shared by most, if not all, national servicemen.

In the fifties people obeyed officialdom, and national service was the continuation of wartime practice. Today public support for it would be mixed, with a strong body opposed and a sizeable majority, who believe that military discipline would be good for our unruly youngsters, in favour.

The immediate threat to Britain and the West is international terrorism, a misused term these days, but its end product, a portable dirty bomb, is a real threat to us all. . . . To put it simply, Star Wars technology is no match for the type of modern terrorist warfare that is spreading round the globe.

Our generals, and for that matter the US generals too, are begging for thousands of attack and troop-transport helicopters and divisions of well trained, well equipped ground troops to swamp terrorist strongholds and territories. They also want extra manpower and equipment for search-and-destroy missions when terrorists and their leaders flee from selective counterattacks.

This is what our commanders in the field demand.

Terrorism must be crushed at its roots before it achieves the ability to produce, in the near future, portable weapons of city-wide destruction and, God forbid, a number of portable dirty bombs. Any of these smuggled into a Western country could wreak havoc on the government and its people - the nightmare scenario.

Reference to my website; political reform party.co.uk ,,, provides a broader view involving the EU in tackling the problem of international terrorism. In my view there is no difference between a declaration of war on this country, which automatically triggers national service, and the threat of international terrorism. Both are intent upon inflicting sabotage and great harm on government and people.

It is clear that Britain does not have sufficient ground troops to crush the level of terrorist forces set against us, whereas terrorists are continuing to expand and increase in strength and weaponry. The recent US surge in Iraq demonstrated the need of frontline troops for search-and-destroy missions against fleeing terrorists and their leaders. The enemy has the ability to regroup, rearm and redeploy and continue to terrorise the population and attack US forces.

Afghanistan is another example of failing to complete the job. Within a few years, the dispersed enemy has regrouped, rearmed and reappeared in greater strength, and as a result British and NATO forces are now on the back foot.

Increasing our armed forces by voluntary means is unlikely to meet the high level demanded by our military commanders. It is a particular anomaly that the Ministry of Defence employs more civil servants than servicemen and women, drawing attention to past and present government failings. I believe we must get full value for money in defence procurement and improved modern equipment for our servicemen and women and prevent bureaucracy absorbing the bulk of defence budgets. I can only see our ministries as having more coxes than oarsmen . .... Not Oxford, I hasten to add ..... Perhaps Cambridge. **********

Some form of national service is required to bolster troop levels and I believe a procedure of  selective deferment suited to the nations economy and reasonably fair, would meet the level of conscription our generals require. There is no easy solution and therefore I propose the following formula:

All males born in the UK are liable for national service on their eighteenth birthday, regardless of any exclusion claims, and must register at military offices on receipt of registration papers.

National service should comprise two years: one year of military service and one year, for recruits in need of further education and trade training, transferred to a military technical college. All other national servicemen on demob should be transferred to the reserves for one year. However they should entitled to apply for Military College courses subject to vacancies.

In effect, military service lasts just one year, which is the minimum period needed. I expect the military authorities would prefer a minimum of eighteen months though.

Deferred exemptions, on a sliding scale, are awarded to men serving apprenticeships or who are in government-approved trades and industries, including technology, or taking college and university courses, or those who are fully employed in jobs, trades and services regarded as essential to society and the economy. These deferments are prioritised in descending order and should the need arise the lower priorities are liable for conscription.

All other classes of non-eligible jobs and trades, including part-time workers and the unemployed, are classified the lowest priority should be the first eligible for conscription. Qualified or part qualified ex-servicemen passing out of military technical college should be given priority for consideration by employers for jobs, and further job training with the government providing inducements to employers.

This formula kills more than two birds with one stone. It provides military manpower and improves job opportunities for ex-national servicemen. I expect resistance from some unruly youths but I suspect that once they have got used to the idea that national service is inevitable their school work and exam results will improve. And as the noose of national service hangs over the horizon, their behaviour might take a turn for the better. Also education and job training has its own rewards in society.

I repeat the point I hinted at earlier whereby terrorist leaders obtain portable biological or nuclear devices and succeed in placing them in vulnerable locations around the nation. Such an occurrence is inevitable if terrorism is not defeated, and I ask the house to dwell on this.

This House should send out the message that it supports the provision of means to equip this country to combat and defeat international terrorism, as indeed I am sure this house would have opposed fascism in the last century.

I therefore ask the House to accept the motion, with the proviso that limited numbers are subject to conscription to meet military requirements only, with education and job training provided for recruits who need it, and I commend the motion to the House. . . . . . . . . . Thank you.

Debate Result    Ayes 74        Noes 87