I stood for parliament in 2014. I stood on the TUSC anti-austerity programme (short!! version below) and not as an individual. I have to say I didn't get many votes but I still believe the policies are correct
Stop all privatisation re-nationalise all rail, bus and ferry services, Royal Mail, and prisons, probation, and all other parts of the justice system
For a high-quality, free National Health Service under democratic public ownership and control.
Stop council estate sell-offs and build high-standard, eco-friendly, affordable council housing.
No to academies and 'free schools'. Good, free education for all, under democratic local authority control; student grants not fees.
Bring banks and finance institutions into genuine public ownership under democratic control, instead of giving huge handouts to the very capitalists who caused the crisis. Progressive tax on rich corporations and individuals and an end to tax avoidance.
Repeal the anti-trade union laws, reverse attacks on facility time and the right to collect subs by check-off for trade unions. Support the TUC's demand to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour (this figure is under discussion!!)
Scrap zero hour contracts. Invest to create and protect jobs, including for young people.
Solidarity with workers taking action to defend jobs, conditions, pensions, public services and trade unions. Reinstate full trade union rights to prison officers.
Invest in publicly-owned and controlled renewable energy. Oppose fracking. Move to sustainable, low-pollution industry and farming - stop the pollution that is destroying our environment. No to profit-driven GM technology.
Produce for need, not profit, and design goods for reuse and recycling.
Abolish the bedroom tax.Reverse cuts to benefits; for living benefits; end child poverty. Scrap benefit sanctions.
Restore the pre-Thatcher real value of pensions. Reverse the increases imposed on the state retirement age, creating jobs for younger people.
Promote inclusive policies to enable disabled people to participate in, and have equal access to, education, employment, housing, transport and welfare provision. Equal pay for equal work.
Welcome diversity and oppose racism, fascism and discrimination. Defend the right to asylum, repeal the 2014 Immigration Act and all racist immigration controls.
Ensure women have genuinely equal rights and pay.
Full equality for LGBT people.
Defend our liberties and make police and security democratically accountable.
For the right to vote at 16.
No to imperialist wars and occupations! Justice for the Palestinians, lift the siege of Gaza, recognise the state of Palestine. No more spending on a new generation of nuclear weapons, huge aircraft carriers or irrelevant eurofighters - convert arms spending into socially useful products and services.
An independent foreign policy, based on international solidarity - no more being a US poodle, no moves towards a capitalist, militarist United States of Europe.
MPs to be subject to right of recall by their constituency and to receive only the average pay (plus legitimate expenses).
For a democratic socialist society run in the interests of people not millionaires. For bringing into democratic public ownership the major companies and banks that dominate the economy, so that production and services can be planned to meet the needs of all and to protect the environment.