More reasons to vote Conservative: (these are not all of the policies

Comment on Reasons to Vote Conservative 2010 General Election by VoteNo ToBNP.

More reasons to vote Conservative: (these are not all of the policies just the ones I like most)

Advancing Opportunity:

1. Over 220,000 new school places being created
2. Diverting more resources to pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
3. Measures to make it easier for companies to run apprenticeships
4. Creating 100,000 additional apprenticeships every year with a £775 million injection of funds
5. A £100 million NEETs fund aimed at youngsters not in any kind of education, training or employment
6. A £100 million injection into the adult community Learning Fund
7. Providing a careers adviser in every secondary school and college in the country

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Nurturing Responsibility

1. Those recipients of Incapacity Benefit who cannot work will receive continued support
2. A comprehensive programme of support for jobseekers
3. Welfare-to-work services to be provided by organisations on a payment by results basis
4. Rapid assessments for new and existing claimants
5. People who refuse to join a return to work programme will lose the right to claim out of work benefits until they do
6. People who refuse to accept reasonable job offers could lose the right to claim out of work benefits for three years
7. Time limits for out of work benefits – so people who claim for more than two years out of three will be required to join community work programmes

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Business:

1. Establishing a temporary National Loans Guarantee Scheme to get credit flowing again and help protect jobs
2. Cutting small firms’ payroll taxes
3. Helping companies with the costs of hiring new staff by giving tax breaks for new jobs
4. Cutting the main rate of corporation tax
5. Cancelling Labour’s planned increase in the small companies tax rate, and cutting the rate instead
6. Reducing the burden of regulation to give businesses more freedom and greater flexibility
7. Reforming the Regional Development Agencies to create a vibrant, business-focused force

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Climate Change and Energy:

1. Transform electricity networks with ‘smart grid’ and ‘smart meter’ technology that automatically matches supply and demand, allowing a huge increase in renewable power
2. Provide up to £6,500 worth of home insulation improvements, enabling households to reduce their gas and electricity bills
3. Create a decentralised energy revolution by introducing a system of feed-in tariffs to encourage micro-generation of electricity
4. Expand offshore wind and marine power and provide government backing for a network of large-scale Marine Energy Parks
5. Making it illegal for energy companies to charge unfair price premiums on prepayment meters, reducing bills for 5.8 million households
6. Requiring every energy company to offer social tariffs (special low rates for electricity and gas) to vulnerable households

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Crime and Justice:

1. We will scrap stop and search forms and cut bureaucracy to allow police officers to spend more of their time on the streets fighting crime
2. We will reform the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which regulates police surveillance, so that authorisation is not needed in straightforward cases. At the same time, we will take steps to prevent the misuse of surveillance powers by local authorities.
3. We will strengthen police powers of stop and search to enable officers to respond decisively to incidents or threats of serious crime

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Defence:

A Conservative Government will match resources with commitments by launching a Strategic Defence Review and introducing a US-style system of quadrennial defence reviews. It is completely unacceptable that the last Strategic Defence Review was conducted a decade ago.

Future defence procurement projects will be determined on five criteria:

* Capability
* Interoperability
* Adaptability
* Affordability
* Exportability

We will streamline the procurement process to ensure the speedy delivery of equipment to the front line. And we will immediately reinstate the Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) to ensure a healthy UK defence sector.

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Democracy:

1. Restore the integrity of the ballot by introducing individual voter registration and addressing the disparities that exist between constituency populations
2. Address the West Lothian question and give English MPs a decisive say on laws that affect only England
3. Replace the Human Rights Act, which has undermined the Government’s ability to deal with crime and terrorism, with a British Bill of Rights.

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Economy:

1. We will freeze council tax for two years by reducing wasteful spending on advertising and consultancy in central government
2. We will introduce a £50bn National Loan Guarantee Scheme to underwrite bank lending to businesses and get credit flowing again
3. We will provide tax cuts for new jobs with a £2.6bn package of tax breaks to get people into work, funded by money that would otherwise go on unemployment benefit
4. We will cut the main rate of corporation tax to 25p and the small companies’ rate to 20p, paid for by scrapping complex reliefs and allowances
5. We will give small and medium-sized businesses a six-month VAT holiday, funded by a 7.5% interest rate on delayed payments
6. We will cut National Insurance by 1% for six months for firms with fewer than five employees, paid for from the above changes to the company tax regime
7. We will abolish Stamp Duty for nine out of ten first-time buyers and raise the Inheritance Tax threshold to £1 million. Both of these changes will be funded by a flat-rate charge on non-domiciles.

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And many more but that’s a good start