Wessex Socialist Party

 

 

 

 

 

TO DEAL WITH THE IMMEDIATE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS, WE PROPOSE:

INDUSTRY

In the short - term we must reverse the dramatic decline in Britain's manufacturing and production, in special in Wessex region, by:

1- Re-opening coal mines, steel plants, engineering works and shipyards.

2- Beginning to rebuild the rail industry, textiles and all industries that generate real wealth.

THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental concerns go hand in hand with resurrecting our industry:

1- An integrated public transport system involving rail canal and road.

2- Clean coal technology, an immediate end to nuclear power, a halt to opencast mining and the development of renewable energy resources.

UNEMPLOYMENT

The scourge of unemployment can be wiped out, but only with radical policies:

1- A four day week without loss of pay, a ban on non-essential overtime.

2- Voluntary retirement at 54 on full pay.

POVERTY

1- Immediate introduction of a national minimum wage based on two thirds of median male earning.

2- No taxation on incomes below £ 10,000.

3- The doubling of state pensions within one year coupled with their linking to average wages and the cost of living.

HOUSING

To end homelessness and provide work for hundreds of thousands of unemployed builders:

1- A million new homes every year for five five years.

2- All empty properties to be identified, modernised, upgraded and converted into homes.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Rebuilding and further development of the Wessex regional NHS and social services will be a high priority for WSP.

1- The right to health and social services to be enshrined in law.

2- Universal acess to free health and social services.

3- The abolition of all forms of private health care and social services - no-one will get rich from the ill-health and suffering of others.

EDUCATION

1- Free and decent education for all, comprehensive education and lifelong access to learning.

2- The management of schools and colleges to be returned to local communities.

3- Abolish the class privilege of private education.

4- proper funding for further and higher education.

5- Restore mandatory student grants and state benefits taken from students inthe 1990s ; link student grants to minimum wage levels.

REGIONAL AUTONOMY

The WSP proposes the creation of Regional Assemblies with high level of Autonomy within Britain for all its regions.