Poll of Polls
Here, as promised, are the suggestions you made for the policies that you would most like to see David Cameron announce as part of his Blizzard of Ideas after Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister. If there are ideas that you did not submit in time to be included but still wish to contribute, you may post them in the comments. Voting has now closed. A summary of the results appeared at Your Policy Ideas Results.
| Making our economy more competitive |
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| Leave the EU 13% (21 votes) |
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| Establish a new ‘Commission for Public Procurement’ 1% (2 votes) |
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| Increase home ownership 8% (14 votes) |
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| Encourage personal pensions and savings 13% (21 votes) |
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| Reduce means-testing 10% (16 votes) |
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| Improve the quality of vocational training 10% (16 votes) |
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| Increase the income tax personal allowance to about £10,000 18% (29 votes) |
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| Merge Income Tax and National Insurance 10% (16 votes) |
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| More flexible mortgage lending regulations and provision 6% (10 votes) |
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| Grants to bring unused or under-used properties into occupation 9% (15 votes) |
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| Drop congestion charging in favour of higher fuel taxes 3% (5 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 165 |
| Improving our quality of life |
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| Reduce immigration 18% (25 votes) |
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| One-to-one midwifery care 10% (14 votes) |
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| Allocate more money to pro-life counselling and support for unintentionally pregnant women 15% (20 votes) |
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| Allocate funds to sexual health programmes advocating abstinence as a positive life-style choice 16% (22 votes) |
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| Privacy laws to prevent paparazzzi hounding famous people 7% (9 votes) |
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| Replace the Press Complaints Commission with a joint Commons & Lords Select Committee 4% (5 votes) |
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| Reduce traffic in inner-city areas through limited bans on cars 4% (5 votes) |
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| Make more cycle paths 12% (16 votes) |
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| Introduce a free school transport system 15% (20 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 136 |
| Public service improvement |
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| Secondary schools to be state-funded, independent trust schools 18% (19 votes) |
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| Abolition of all LEAs and most of the Department of Education 15% (16 votes) |
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| A universal school voucher system 25% (26 votes) |
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| Simplify rules to set up new schools and access state funding 19% (20 votes) |
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| Provision for public petitions to trigger Parliamentary debates 22% (23 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 104 |
| Protecting our security |
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| Invest in our armed forces 25% (22 votes) |
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| One year conscription for 18 year olds 10% (9 votes) |
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| Re-install border controls 27% (24 votes) |
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| Require parliamentary approval to commit British troops to combat and treaty ratifications 24% (21 votes) |
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| Simplify legislation into: unenforced guidelines and laws the police should enforce 15% (13 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 89 |
| Social justice |
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| Reserved seats in Parliament for children and the unborn 0% (0 votes) |
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| Reduce the legal time-frame in which abortion is allowed 53% (24 votes) |
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| Enforce strict guidelines on allowing state-funded abortions 47% (21 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 45 |
| Globalisation & global poverty |
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| Create a worldwide League of Democracies 25% (7 votes) |
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| Champion a Global Free Trade Association 75% (21 votes) |
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| Total voters for this poll: 28 |
2 comments:
Raise the age of consent for homosexual relationships
Limits on Sunday trading
Protective employment legislation for churches/faith-based organisations
Reduced benefits for immigrants until nationalised for some years
Institution of more grammar schools
More publicity for Christian-based and British national celebrations
Celebrate our Christian heritage
Promote marriage as the best environment for raising children
Affirm our identity as a nation with a long history, rooted in Christianity
Encourage newcomers to our nation to accept and honour our culture and traditions
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