A new manifesto

1) All manifestos will be legal documents. Any signatories to those documents that don't vote in favour of the measures laid out will be liable to criminal prosecution and forbidden to re enter politics upon conviction. Lack of pursuance of these manifesto policies will likewise be an offence. The legal documentation to enforce this will be difficult and reviewed frequently to make sure it doesn't affect situations which are beyond the control of MPs.

2) Career politics must end. We need people who have experience with normal everyday jobs and life to enter politics after they have had at least a decade in the workplace. After political appointments of high level they will be required to return to normal life. Politics is a vocation not a career.

3) National Security is to be re-defined as the welfare and safeguarding of ordinary citizens, not a term that can be used against those very people. Whilst some issues may, of necessity, have to remain secret we need stronger rules to make sure that only the secrets that prevent danger to our military and intelligence personnel are kept. False information (not based on unforeseen errors in detailed justifiable research) fed to the public and the military that leads to the loss of life of military personnel will be a criminal offence.

4) An independent elected panel, that can only serve for a designated term, will be set up for reviewing the basis for prosecutions.

5) On the basis that serving in government is a vocation then expenses and pay will be lowered to a level that will help end career politics.

6) It will be necessary to look into the situations whereby politicians have to return to careers they have left for public appointments and how they can be reintegrated without loss to them. The requirement to return to normal life may be only appropriate for those who have had high level ministerial involvement. Other lower level MPs could potentially continue to be both MP and working local citizen with support. Higher level MPs may also be allowed to return to parliament but not hold any future high level posts.

7) Non-political independent scientific research must be encouraged, as this will inform government decisions. Universities and other such groups will be supported to regain that status and then protected by law from political interference, including funding constraints.

8) Only two things can inform government policies. These are strong ethics and robust scientific research. The latter must be pursued and made available to the public to view. An ethical/ideological statement must be attached to the manifesto and all policies to be pursued must be justified by that, and also research documentation (where appropriate).

9) A society is built on its freedoms and they may well prove to be the best defence against extremism. To pit one against the other and reduce civil liberties for "defence purposes" is morally wrong and shows an attitude of "firefighting" problems that we helped to create in the first place.

10) All decisions regarding the welfare of this country's citizens will be made by this country. An alliance of states may be useful and necessary for trade, defence and other issues but each and every group policy must be voted for in parliament before it becomes law. Furthermore the law can be changed by future parliaments without recourse to the international group.

Further additions to this document will be added........