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Rebooting Britain
Some progressive ideas for political and constitutional change in the UK
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Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Replace SATs with teacher assessment
In a 2018 National Education Union survey of primary school teachers, over 90% said that SATs are detrimental to pupils mental health and…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Apprenticeship Levy exception for education establishments
Organizations with a payroll over £3m a year are required to pay an apprenticeship levy of 0.5% of their payroll to the government. For…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Education reform — SEND funding
When the National Association of Head Teachers surveyed their members on Special Educational Needs provision in 2018 they found…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Education reform — academies & free schools
At present academy trusts are not required to publish their accounts in spite of receiving huge amounts of public funding. We also hear…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Scrap Universal Credit
When the Universal Credit concept was introduced in 2010 it sounded like a real step forwards — simplifying a complex and bewildering…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 29, 2019
Ban zero hours contracts
The TUC have found significant evidence that zero hours contracts penalise workers, who are paid significantly less for the same work, and…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
VAT exemption for those most in need
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 43% (23 million) of the UK’s 54 million adults have such low incomes that they do not pay…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Ban micro-targeted online political advertising
The recent Cambridge Analytica investigation by the DCMS Select Committee showed the extent to which the lack of any meaningful regulation…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Regional assemblies for English devolution
From 1998 to 2010 we had eight largely invisible regional assemblies in England, concerned principally with oversight of the Regional…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Give the Welsh Assembly the same powers as the Scottish Parliament
Due to a quirk of the way that devolution was implemented, the Welsh Assembly can only amend legislation in specific areas devolved to it…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Irish border poll
The people of Northern Ireland have become a political football in the ongoing wrangling over Brexit, but without any say in the matter…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Top up National Insurance contributions for guaranteed free health and social care
In the UK we seem to be piggy in the middle between an almost fully marketized health and social care system like the one in the US and…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Civil contingencies for the climate crisis
There is a very real danger that significant areas of the UK will become uninhabitable due to climate change. These include low lying…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Resilience measures for the climate crisis
The UK is a minor direct contributor to global warming, and a very large indirect contributor — e.g. through system effects like food…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Turn the Palace of Westminster into a museum
It might be one of the world’s most iconic buildings, but the Palace of Westminster is wholly unsuited to running a modern democracy. Once…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Withdraw the whip, for good
One of the biggest structural problems we have in UK politics is that we elect MPs to represent us, but then whatever our own and their…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Elected House of Lords
The House of Lords still does a great job of providing checks and balances for legislation, but it has many structural weaknesses such as…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Limit on MPs’ term of office
Many of our elected representatives have essentially had no career outside of politics, entering straight after university as an intern…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
A written constitution for the UK
Over 150 countries have a written constitution that sets out how they are governed. The UK is one of a handful of countries that relies on…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
Convert the UK from a monarchy to a republic
The monarch plays a crucial part in the UK’s political process, but their hands are tied by constitutional convention. The upshot is that…
Martin Hamilton
Aug 28, 2019
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