The right to protest and express dissent without fear of reprisal is fundamental to a democratic society and the exercise of freedom of speech. The Pirate Party seeks to uphold and protect this right, wherever people wish to make use of it. Withholding labour is also part of the tradition of protest and must also be protected.
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- Civil Liberties
- Culture
- Defence
- Digital Economy and Digital Rights
- Welfare and Work
- A “Robin Hood Tax” on financial institutions
- Bring in a tax minister
- Carry out trademark reform
- Create jobs
- Encourage entrepreneurship through micro-businesses
- Fair Tax brackets
- Implement a land value tax
- Make pensions fairer
- Make work, work
- Move toward a Citizens Income
- No more bank bailouts
- No-one will pay more tax than those earning more than them
- Personal liability for directors
- Put the Treasury's economic models online
- Reduce tax evasion
- Reform the patents system
- Remove commercial restrictions on suburbia
- Require subsidy matching
- Education
- 'Set up a business' experience
- Abolish requirement for collective worship in schools
- Abolish university tuition fees
- Eliminate school rankings by GCSE or SAT results
- Have a national curriculum that says 'What' but not 'How'
- Invest in teachers
- Let all schools access a national media library
- Lifetime access to education
- Make publicly funded academic research available to all
- Reduce class sizes
- Reduce the school leaving age
- Reinstate the Education Maintenance Allowance in England
- Switch to a percentile-based grading system
- Teach entrepreneurial skills in schools
- Environment
- Health
- Abolishing drug patents
- Address LGBT health challenges
- Administration by administrators, medicine from medical staff
- An evidence based approach to alcohol education
- Bring appropriate support services back into the NHS
- Deal with drug abuse as a health issue
- Equality in blood donation
- Securing the NHS for now and the future
- Widen public access to Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT)
- Justice
- Local
- Restoring Trust In Government
- Aim for a balanced budget
- Demand accountability from government suppliers.
- Democratise the City of London
- Full disclosure of government deals with corporations
- Implement proportional representation
- Increase government transparency and accountability.
- Independent public spending reviews
- Make parliament work
- Rate all spending in pounds per QALY
- Reform the House of Lords
- Require sensible service contracts
- Votes at 16
- Social Policy
- A fairer deal for Interns
- A rational points based immigration system
- Alter the method by which ESA is assessed
- Balanced and flexible paid parental leave
- Digital Accessibility
- Efficiently process asylum seekers and treat them properly
- End age discrimination in the benefits system
- Review laws relating to sex workers
- Right to marriage regardless of sexuality
- Sure Start
- The Mutual Mentoring Project (MMP)
- Common European Election Programme