VB asked each of the prospective parliamentary candidates to send us a 500 word manifesto to share with VB readers. What you read below is an unedited version of what we received from the candidate. Ed
To listen to and further consult with the whole Island for our future to develop a vision and plan for the Island so we become a place of opportunity and excellence for all with a Private Members Bill for an Economic & Social Act for the Isle of Wight.
For the Island to be a Special Economic Development Zone Area with a flat 20% tax for both local residents employed here and businesses, with a £12,000 tax threshold for all and the establishment an economic and social development and investment bank to fund community and locally owned social and business enterprises including a third ferry service, tidal energy and a digital wideband infrastructure, micro finance small business and including the establishment of a digital and technical university and a school of entrepreneurs these would create investment and employment with opportunities for all especially for our young.
This act would encompass all the practical solutions to the many issues we need resolving now with ongoing mechanisms to make our democracy work on an ongoing basis! WE SAY WHAT WE WANT AN I WILL PRESENT IN TO PARLIAMENT AS A PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL FOR THE ISLAND. I say lets help each other take control of our lives back but lets do it reasonably.
And for this to include the LA and other public services like police, health etc be accountable locally and not entirely run from the mainland so we have local decisions made by local people and not dictated by Gov or the EU.
To see the retired treated with dignity respect and care where their needs are really met and as an incredible untapped resource that can add so much wisdom, experience and life to our Island and its future, we are ignoring such wealth all around us and to see our young given opportunity.
To do this under a platform of “POLICIES and PEOPLE NOT POLITICS” and an Island wide collaborative process of Information, Innovation, Application and Transformation in Partnership. Starting with an MP’s Commission for the Island and an MP’s cabinet with people from various sectors with an advisory body of wisdom and experience to work with new and to be established local elected democratic forums to involve the whole Island in a new way of doing democracy, with People!
To show my personal commitment if elected as MP I would initially either refuse to take or to donate to the Island through the Island Foundation at least 50% of the MPs salary and would encourage other high paid public servants and others to do the same. I will also adhere to the MARTIN “BELL PRINCIPLES.”
Collective decisions cannot be made if one group has, or appears to have, all the power. If partners have respect for each other’s abilities and potential contributions, power struggles should be avoided. “A collaborative is most effective when all partners exercise leadership.” Partners need to work collegially instead of dominating those they perceive as less powerful.
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