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= The Liberal Democratic Party =

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 * The Liberal Democrats' General Principles
 * Disperse the power. Let every citizen have the opportunity to give back to the nation.
 * Believe in local governments
 * Foreign Policy
 * International action based on a recognition of the interdependence of all the world’s nations and a responsibility of the earth and its resources.
 * LDP will set aside national sovereignty in certain occasions to work with other countries towards an equitable international policy and a durable system of common security.
 * Rejuvenate British image but can only be done by allying with other nations.
 * Work with UN, NATO, and the WTO.
 * Crack down on illegal arms sales and corruption in foreign governments.
 * International – The EU
 * Are seeking to utilize the EU for these reasons:
 * Create a stronger European economy with more opportunities for all.
 * Stop climate change and protect the Environment.
 * Protect civil liberties by catching terrorists.
 * Believe EU should focus on goals that will impact every nation, not each individual one.
 * Britain should be able to govern itself because it can focus more on the people in that area.
 * The Economic Crisis - Financial Stability Programme
 * Cut government spending.
 * Cut taxes from the bottom up.
 * Crack down on big business and the rich who exploit tax loopholes and do not pay their share.
 * Provide more opportunity for the workers and industries.
 * Health Care and the NHS
 * Value the NHS
 * Provide high quality healthcare through the NHS
 * Reduce government regulations so doctors do not have to follow strict government guidelines and can instead provide the best healthcare possible.
 * Believe patient comes first.
 * Check government spending (too much money going towards the bureaucracy of running the health care program and not enough spent on the actual health care services
 * Immigration
 * Fix immigration policies of the Labour and Tories.
 * Want a system which prepares the country for legal immigration.
 * Reintroduce entry and exit checks.
 * Give National Border Force power to arrest.
 * Give existing families who want to give back to UK the power and opportunity to do so.
 * Education
 * Cut class sizes
 * Give more money for more individualized teaching and afternoon classes.
 * Give poorest children a better start in life through high level education.
 * Want to phase out tuition fees but their coalition is not letting them do so.
 * The Environment
 * Green Deal:
 * Companies will pay up-front to insulate your home, recovering their spending from the energy savings that will result.
 * Go Electric: Cars, Electric high-speed rail. Electric ground and air source heat pumps to provide warmth.
 * Cut down on oil and gas
 * Use wind and alternative energy sources
 * Enact a low carbon policy


 * Democracy
 * Seeking to give the people more power
 * No more privileged patronage or political secrecy
 * Three Step Plan
 * One – changes to the central institutions of our political system.
 * Create higher levels of legitimacy
 * Two – steps to transfer power away from that nucleus entirely, shifting it to local communities.
 * Decentralizes give more power to local governments
 * Three – measures to enhance civil liberties, helping re-balance the relationship between citizen and state.
 * No unnecessary spying
 * No arbitrary intrusion or harassment from the state for legal citizens.

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