Tyrannical said:
Let's see what the BNP web site says about non-immigration issues....
I like what I see.
Law & Order
http://bnp.org.uk/policies/law-and-order/
Britain suffers from more than 27,000 crimes per day, or more than ten million crimes per year – the direct result of decades of softly-softly politically correct policing and a failed social engineering policy which has put the rights of yobs and criminals above that of victims.
To this end, BNP crime and justice policy will:
- Free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket which is stopping them from doing their jobs properly;
What does that actually mean? Freeing up the police from certain bureaucratic practices is all well and good but some of these practices are in place for good reason in trying to enure that the police do not have free reign over the public and that they can be held accountable (although I agree that the bureaucracy has gone too far at the minute)
- End the liberal fixation with the “rights” of criminals and replace it with concern for the rights of victims – and the right of innocent people not to become victims;
I wasn't aware that criminals were placed above victims in the law.
- Re-introduce corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals;
I'm not against this in principle but in practicality we already imprison more people than most other European countries and our jails are already full. Filling them even more will not fix anything.
- Restore capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute (such as with DNA or other compelling evidence).
I guess this just comes down to personal opinion. IMO capital punishment is wrong but that's purely subjective.
Economy
http://bnp.org.uk/policies/economy/
Britain’s survival depends on a technology-intensive manufacturing base, protected from globalisation and rampant internationalist exploitation – the core of the British National Party’s plan for rebuilding this nation’s economy after decades of Tory and Labour neglect.
In a nutshell, the BNP plan to rebuild Britain will consist of the following steps:
- The nurturing and encouragement of new and existing British industries;
Fair enough although they have to find a way to pay for it.
- The protection of British companies from unfair foreign imports;
Great idea, let's isolate our trading partners so that they do the same to British goods limiting our own exports.
- The promotion of domestic competition;
Good idea though not sure how it can be done.
- Increased taxes on companies which outsource work abroad;
Those companies may then simply decide to up and move abroad altogether in that case.
- The reintroduction of the married man’s allowance;
Why?
- The raising of the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million;
Happy with that, although again the fall in tax revenue will have to be made up
- The encouragement of savings, investment, worker share-ownership and profit-sharing;
I agree
- Halving council tax by centralising education costs and eliminating multiculturalism spending and unnecessary bureaucracy;
Just seems like buzz words here, not sure how they plan to save enough money to halve all council tax!
- The renationalisation of monopoly utilities and services, compensating only individual investors and pension funds. Privatising monopolies does not benefit either the consumer or the country. All that happens is the ‘family silver’ is sold off and monopoly utilities and services are asset-stripped, often by foreign competitors.
Good idea in principle but will create many of the problems they claim to fight against as it will only increase bureaucracy and decrease domestic competition.
Well Fare
http://bnp.org.uk/policies/pensioners/
Originally, benefits were meant as the state’s obligation to support those who genuinely are not in a position to support themselves. This guiding principle must always remain the guiding light for a just and humane system – and it is the core of the British National Party’s welfare policy.
The BNP’s housing policy is:
- Make all benefits and social housing only available to British citizens;
Seems a little inhumane on genuine asylum seekers
- Make length of residency in an area the key criterion for council house allocation;
Seems fair
- Preserve the ‘right to buy’ of individual tenants, but with the money from sales being used to build more council houses;
Seems a good idea
- Take all privatised social housing stock back under local democratically controlled council ownership;
Again I'm not against this
- Ensure that the billions being spent on the utterly bogus asylum seeker and immigration swindles is redeployed to alleviate the appalling conditions under which many of Britain’s old people are forced to live.
What according to them is a 'bogus' asylum seeker? I get the idea that description is purposely vague.
- A BNP government will restore the earnings link with pensions and ensure that elderly people who have paid a lifetime of taxes and reared families should not have to sell their homes to pay for care in their old age.
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