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    Given the present anti-politician mood Douglas Carswell MP and Daniel Hannan MEP, have already the perfect policy response in their book The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain .

    Below is a very brief outline of the ideas in their book. While some things are much more controvercial than others (the NHS for instance) I personally would not disagree with any of it.

    * Clean Up Westminster by abolishing MP's perks, binding MPs by the same laws as everyone else and decreasing the size of HMG and the House of Commons.
    * A Return to Law, Order and Accountability with directly-elected sheriffs, local control of police and local control of prosecutions.
    * Supremacy of the (Reformed) Parliament, by scrapping the Human Rights Act, withdrawing from the European Convention Human Rights and reserving certain powers exclusively for Parliament.
    * Independence for State Schools, by scrapping the National Curriculum, granting parents rights to take their children where they'd get a good education and getting HMG out of classrooms.
    * True Localism, by aboloshing QUANGOs, granting real powers to counties and replacing VAT with a local sales tax to fund it.
    * Putting Patients in Control, by allowing people to opt out of the NHS and into private insurance, retaining a strong safety net and incentivizing prevention rather than cure.
    * Neighbourhood Welfare to secure social justice; fighting poverty and allocation of benefits to be local.
    * A Great Repeal Bill to get rid of burdensome and costly red tape, provide a mechanism for continuous repeal, and introduce sunset clauses on new laws.
    * An Independent Britain, with foreign policy controlled by Parliament and replacement of our current relationship with the EU by a genuine free trade zone.
    * Introduce Direct Democracy with the right of citizens to propose laws directly, referenda to block bad new laws and local referenda established as a new way of thinking about democracy.

    They have some very radical ideas here but many of them are very much about getting politicians out of our lives and reducing the power and role of the State. That is just what we need.....

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