i can click - UKIP Policy Summary

NHS policy
- more funding
- easier access to doctors
- boost number of med school training places by 2,500 taking it up to 10,000
- encouraging GPs that are retired or on leave with kids to work part time to aid
- increasing places for nurse and midwife training
- remove the pay increase cap for NHS workers under £35,000

Mental Health
- increase funding by £500,000,000 every year
- Employ 6,000 more clinical psychologists witha  atrget of seeing 500,000 more patients every year through this
- Cut waiting times for first appointments to 28 days rather than the 18 week target currently in place
- encouraging a smooth transition between child and adult psych services
- ensuring funding isnt diverted to other services (this is apparently an issue)
- develop a National school-based counselling strategy for England similar to NI and Wales
- introduce health and wellbeing into Oftsed inspections
- encourage schools to ivnite support specialists to let children know that the option is there
- refusal to legalise classified drugs
-anti-weed campaign (inb4 Hitch endorsement)
They're offering good benefits to Veterans as well
- bringing mental health into military medical examinations for sevringa rmed forces
- increasing the period discharged personnel are able to access the DMHS from 6 months to 2 years

on the down sides
- muh healthy body image in advertisement
- muh cyberbullying is a real issue

Primary schools
- focus on mental arithmetic skills
- encourage leanring languages from Primary 1

Secondary
- A grammar school in every town
- start straming at age 11, but add transfer exams up to the age of 16 to avoid restricting people
- introducing on-the-job education by copying the Kraut's Dual Vocational Training system allowing students to receive vocational classes on a job site
- removal of tuition fees for degree courses that lead more than 2/3 of their graduates into related work within 5 years of graduation
- stop offering EU Nationals student loans due to low repayment rates (10k EU Nationals currently owe the UK £89 million)
- adding career development to the curriculum
- encouraging schools and colleges to establish links with local business
- classes for entrepreneurship includded in the syllabus (not sure how effective this will be tbh)
- stop closing special schools to help special needs kids

Downside
- useless classes on employability which never do anything but waste time in school

Family Support
- offer wrap-around childcare between 8am and 6pm during the school term
- require local authorities to keep a record of people willing to provide emergency childcare on short notice
- make place spaces compulary in housing estates
- encourage other locations such as office blocks and housing centres along with public transport hubs to provide nursery/creche
- intitial 50-50 presumption of child time during a divorce/breakup
- remove blanket ban on reporting on placements and adoptions
- require expert witnesses to list previous court cases in which they have given evidence
- publishing case summaries, ekelton arguments, etc of family proceedings on an anonymous basis
- promoting more use of Special guardianship order to ensure children can retain links with their birth-family

Elderly and Disabled care/benefits
- keep winter fuel allowance
- free bus passes
- free prescriptions and eye test for all over-60s
- maintain triple lock on pensions
- encourage businesses to fund job placements for the elderly
- put into laws against age discrimination
- invest £2 billion every year into social care to deal with funding crisis
- ban zero-hour contracts for home care workers
- increase dementia treatment and research funding to £400 million/year over the course of the next Parliament
- protect the ability to choose to be cared for at home as long as it is possible to receive care at home
- no cut to disability benefits
- reform the WCA with consultation with disability charities and the disabled in order to better deal with issues diabled people have in entering employment
- increase Carer's Allowance from £62.30 to £73.10 per week to match highest level of Job Seeker's Allowance

Migration
They trashed both Labour and the Tories on this page. Its beautiful.
- Establish Migration Control Comission and bring net migration to zer over the next five years
- place moratorium on unskilled and low skilled immigration for 5 years after leaving the EU to aid working class people in finding work
- New International Visa System comprised of four parts
1 - Work Visas which will priotize high skill workers with job offers of a minimum of £30,000 per annum
2 - Tourist and Visitor Visas: valid up to twelve months for tourists and those who wish to visit, conduct business, and visit families
3 - Student Visas: same as normal
4 - Family Reunion Visas: Places burden of proof back on foreign nationals with regard to showing the primary purpose of their marriage is not to obtain British citizenship (this is really fucking good btw)
- All new migrants will be expected to make contributions in tax and national insurance for at least five consecutive years before they are eligible for UK benefits or claim non-urgent NHS services
- application for Citizenship comes after 5 years of work, paying home taxes, and maintained their medical insurance througout that time period.
- pledge to revoke citizenship of those who obtain it via fraud or deception and deport them
- no amnesty for illegal immigratns
- increase number of immigration compliance and enforcement teams
- migrants who commit crimes resulting in a custodial sentence will have their visa revoked then be detained until deportation
- EU Nationals who entered the UK after March 29th 2017 will not have the automatic right to stay and will lose access to immediate benefits and non-urgent healthcare
-UKIP will test the social attitudes of migration applicants

One Law For All
- establish a leal commission to draw up proposals to disband sharia councils
- protect the rights of women with no ideas of cultural ignorance as an excuse for law breaking
- take a zero tolerance stance on FGM, breast ironing, "honour" crimes and killings, and forced marriages
- make failure to report a known case of FGM a crime
- screening check for girls considered to be at risk of FGM including non-invasive physical checks
- carry out additional checks for girls who often leave the UK to countries where FGM is customary
- make FGM an indictable offence with a minimum sentencing of six years
- make breast ironing a specific criminal offence
- add honour crimes to the list of aggravating factors (gives ability to impose greater sentences)
- prosecute all cases of child and forced marriages and refuse British citizenship and/or permanent right to remain to any adult known to have procured a child marriage for themselves or their children
- ensure that the British Legal System will never recognise polygamy
- include information on cultural crimes in safeguarding training for teachers, staff, and school governors
- ban the Niqab and the Burka
- give schools the right to dismiss any teacher supporting rdical mosques or imams
- immediately put special measures into schools found to be exposing kids to Islamism
- Require Ofsted to conduct snap inspections of schools where pupils or staff have raised concerns that:-
  - girls are being discriminated against in
  - anti-western, anti-semitic, or anti-equality views are being expressed by staff or governors
  - Muslims or non-Muslims who do not share hardline views are being bullied or ridiculed

Policing, Prison, and Punishment
- train and employ 20,000 more police and 7,000 more prison officers
- reinstate full Stop and Search powers and reduce the amount of paperwork police have to complete each time they use the power
- reduce overcrowding by deporting as many foreign nationals in prison as possible, serve sentences in their country of origin, and appeal against convictions from their country of origin
- bring all those who commit violence in prison before the courts
- prisoners who test positive for illegal drug use while in prison will be limited to closed visits from family and friends
- counteract radicalization of prinsoners by ensuring no prisoner has better perks based on faith
- refuse admission to prisons to any imam, preacher, or individual known to promote views contrary to British values
- give prisoner governors new powers to impose measures to combat Islamic extremism (powers aren't outlined)
- repeal to 2003 Licensing Act and bring in new legislation to reduce density of alcohol outlets while restricting trading times
- Opt out of the European Arrest Warrant while cooperating fully with extradition requests. Refuse to allow extradition for minor crimes, when there is no clear case against them, or when fair trial is viewed as unlikely.

Britain's role in the New World
- Look to work with the Trump administration and stop the petty bickering between politicians
- Support the recent tradition of consulting Parliament before forces are committed to combat
- Avoid Britain becoming involved in needless overseas conflicts
- Seek a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
- Seek better relations with Russia on the basis that Russia changes policy to remove involvement in politics of Western nations and respect for territorial integrity of other Nations
- Retain Britain's Independent Nuclear Deterrent

Defence
- Spend 2% of GDP on defence and scale up defence spending by an additional £1 Billion per year by the end of the Parliament.
- pledge to reverse the de-militarisation of the Nation and rebuild the Armed Forces
- Overhaul the defence procurement process, end the close relationship between ministers, officials and arms firms that lies at the heart of the waste in the defence procurement process
- Continue pledge to create a Veteran's Administration, independent and seperate from the MoD in order to look after veteran's interests.
- VA will issue a Veterans' Service Card to ensure fast-track access to the NHS and mental care, and award a National Defence Medal to all veterans.
- Enforce the law stating a strong military must provide homes for its veterans
- Ensure no veteran is homeless by building eight halfway houses with 200 rooms for veterans
- assign 500 affordable rent homes to ex-forces personnel every year
- Pledge to end legal harassment of ex-service personnel and refuse to permit veterans to be tried for allegations of misconduct from "half a century ago under any circumstances"

Other International
- Repeal the law requiring the UK to spend 0.7% of GNI on roeign aid and reduce spending to 0.2% over time saving at least £10 billion/year
- Have a single Minister For Overseas Development working out of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office administer aid
- Construct a dedicated Hospital Ship that carries no arms in order to give it full Geneva Convetion protection
- remove 'unethical tariffs' to aid foreign, developing economies
- secure a FTA with the EU

Transport
- Scrap HS2
- Invest in upgrading existing lines to create additional capacity, expand electrification, and improve East-West rail services along with connections across the North of England
- End toll roads
- Support the transition to zero-emission vehicles
- prevent diesel drivers from being penalised through higher taxes, parking fees, or emissions' zones charging
- Provide start-up grants to support community bus services
- Seek to reduce Air Passenger Duty with the long-term goal of scrapping it completely
- Plan to revive aviation at Manston Airport in Kent and support the continued expansion of smaller regional airports
- create a 'BritDisc' to identify all foreign vehicles entering the UK, can be purchased prior to entry and will aid in identifying overseas drivers who break UK traffic laws and facilitate enforcement action prior to their exit of the country

Environmental Protection
- Give ancient woodlands 'wholly exceptional status' to make them untouchable. This puts them on par with World Heritage Sites.
- Ammend legislation to promote includsion of trees and open spaces into new developments
- require new developments to use permeable or porous surface materials for single story, ground level domestic car parking, and front gardens as a flood-prevention measure
- investigate the practicality of introducing a deposit scheme on plastic drinks bottles to encourage recycling

Farm produce
- subsidies capped at £120,000 per year
- consider transferrance of support to farmers who farm without anti-biotics to combat Anti-Microbial Resistance
- to qualify for subsidies land must be used for genuine agriculture and meet Entry Level Stewardship conditions meaning it must be managed to certain environmental standards
- Organic farmers will be given 25% more
- additional support to hill farmers

Animal welfare
- ban live exports for slaughter
- label all ritually killed food as hala or shechita
- regulate animal testing and challenge companies concerned regarding necessity
- install CCTV in every abattoir and deal wil any animal welfare contraventions severely
- Forbid Jewish and Muslim methods of slaughted being carried out by unqualified individuals in unregulated premises - severe punishment for both
- triple the maximum jail sentence for animal cruelty
- impose lifetime bans on owning and/or looking after animal on any individual or company convicted of animal cruelty
- keep the ban on animal testing for cosmetics

Energy security
- repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act and support a diverse energy market based on coal, nuclear, shale gas, conventional gas, oil, solar and hydro, as well as other renewables
- Withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and EU Emissions Trading Schemes to enhance indsutry competitiveness
- cut VAT from domestic fuel and scrap green levies to reduce household bils
- review ownership and profits of British utilities and the impact on consumers of steadily rising prices with a view that legisltion should be passed given any excesses uncovered
- Invest in shale gase with a ban on drilling for shale in national parks or other areas of outstanding natural beauty

Real Democracy
- Propose Proportional Voting System that makes seats match votes
- Scrap on demand postal voting
- Abolish the House of Lords
- Institute an English Parliament
- Half the size of the House of Commons to 325 directly elected members from across the UK according to a PR system
- Hold a referendum once every two years on the issue gaining the highest number of signatures on approved petitions with a legally binding outcome included the Queen's Speech.

Keeping it Local
- Review statuatory duties placed on Local Government to assess whether the cost burden on councils and taxpayers can be reduced
- advocate a committee system of local councils
- put prioty on basic needs of the constituents of a council area before councils think about other things - basic needs are collection of rubbish bins promptly and regularly, fixing pot holes, removing fly tips, fixing streetlights, and keeping parks and libraries open