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Senior Tory backbenchers will today demand tax cuts and two referendums on Europe in an ‘Alternative Queen’s Speech’ designed to urge David Cameron to give voters more traditional Conservative measures.
The MPs want action to prove the Tories are the party of small business and ordinary consumers, rather than the rich and big business.
Their proposals include bills to take more workers out of the 40p tax bracket and slash Capital Gains Tax from 28 per cent to 20 per cent.
Tory values: Senior backbenchers David Davies and John Redwood will call on David Cameron to make deeper tax cuts and return to Conservative values
A Fairness to UK Taxpayers Bill would introduce road charging for foreign truckers who use British roads and foreign visitors to British museums.
It would also require NHS trusts by law to make foreign patients pay up â€" putting an end to health tourism into the NHS.
The plans have been drawn up by a group of Tory backbenchers led by grandees David Davis and John Redwood.
Mr Davis said yesterday: ‘We are five sixths of the Government and there should be a reflection of that.
Pressure: David Cameron will be urged to push through tax cuts and a Euro referendum by senior backbenchers
'What a number of backbenchers have heard on the doorstep is, “Where’s the beef? What is it that’s telling us this is a Conservative government?â€.’
The MPs will call for a referendum on which powers Britain should seek to repatriate from Brussels.
The Government would then negotiate the changes with the EU and voters would have another referendum on whether to accept the final deal.
In a further nod to classic Tory values, the MPs are demanding an expansion of grammar schools and the right for companies to make profits running new schools so long as they plough some of the money back into education.
The mini manifesto focuses on providing measures to boost the economy and kickstart growth.
The raft of bills proposed includes demands for more banks to challenge the Big Four by breaking up the state-owned bank RBS.
The MPs are demanding a change in union laws so that strike action would be legal only if at least 50 per cent of those eligible to vote took part in a ballot on industrial action.
They also demand that union members should have the right to donate part of their subscription to any political party, not just Labour.
The alternative speech wants decisive action on crime and justice, an area where Mr Cameron is perceived to be weak.
A Make Prison Work Bill would send the one in seven UK prisoners who are foreign nationals back to their home country to serve their sentences.
Mentally ill criminals would be passed on to hospitals or the social services, freeing prison space for career criminals and funds to pay for drug rehabilitation.
The MPs also want the Prime Minister to push ahead immediately with a British Bill of Rights to supplant the Human Rights Act.
On constitutional issues, the Scottish government would be given powers over all tax apart from VAT and National Insurance to encourage greater accountability north of the border.
In return, Scottish MPs would be banned from voting on English-only issues at Westminster.
Another crowd-pleasing suggestion among Right-wingers would be a Bill to clip the wings of the University Access Tsar.
An Anti-Congestion Bill would force local government chiefs to make reducing traffic problems a requirement of their highways strategy.
A Competition Bill would introduce competitive challenge to all water companies, by making the pipe network a common carrier system.
The proposals also contain an affordable energy bill to slash subsidies to expensive energy sources and promote shale gas and competition between suppliers.
Instead of throwing billions at High Speed Rail, the MPs want long-term investment in existing railways to improve journey times, reduce overcrowding and minimise fare rises.
The full text of the bills will be published today on the ConservativeHome website.
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This proposal is ....... NOT..... about an EU REFERENDUM. This is simply having a Mickey Mouse referendum on - what powers we should take back from the EU. I want the British people to have a - REAL - referendum with an - IN or OUT option. I don't know about you - but if I can't have all of the dog - I won't just settle for it's tail !
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Come back David Davis !
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I thought the EU sold more to Britain than Britain sells to the EU . - Eric Grinham, Dee Why , Australia, 7/5/2012 1:35 Exactly. We need the EU more than it needs us. The UK would not only have to find new markets for our exports but would also need to find new (cheaper) markets for our imports. Do people really think we would still get "mate's rates" from the EU? - John S, Bromley, 7/5/2012 ...........go and read the lieburn treaty. it states " ANY COUNTRY THAT LEAVE THE EU, THE EU MUST SET UP FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTRY THAT LEAVES" WE ONLY DO 40% 0F OUR TRADE WITH THE EU AND 60% WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. WE IMPORT MORE FROM THE EU THAN WE EXPORT TO IT, WE ARE THE EU LARGEST MARKET, THEY NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM. WE ARE IRELANDS LARGEST MARKET WE IMPORT 80% OF THE GOODS THEY PRODUCE THEY WOULD GO BUST WITHOUT US, THAT WOULD MAKE THE EURO COLAPSE, AGAIN THE EU NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM
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A referendum on the EU is too close to democracy for Cameron to allow it !
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It's all well and good for "Tory backbenchers" to demand this and that......but the only problem with their demands, etc, is that THIS is not a Conservative government. It's a coalition government!.....And as frustrating as this might be for people like David Davies, (whom I actually quite like), the Tory party have to realise that they don't have the final say in how this shared coalition is run. One can only hope that this government now focuses upon the really important issues our country is facing, instead of deflecting public concern with the introduction of so many 'sideshow' proposals. House of Lords, etc,. Actually, what I'd really like would be another General Election.
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It's a start. But can we add to the wish-list : reduce fuel duty. Our high transport costs impact on everything we buy, and also leave households less to spend. No single measure (except perhaps leaving the EU) would do more to increase growth. To pay for it, cap all public sector pay to 10 x average wage in the private sector. It wouldn't affect the people who do most of the work, and it would concentrate the minds of mandarins, council chiefs and their ilk on finding ways to increase private sector pay. Which would also mean increased growth.
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Good ideas boys at least it's a start
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When will you idiots understand that this is NOT a conservative government, you have not won an election for over 17 years !! This is a coalition government. If you do not like that , call an election NOW. ...and see what happens to tory votes !!
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Good to hear from some CONSERVATIVES
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Let us tell the political elete that in no uncertain terms a referendum on change is Not what we want. neither is a second referendum on whether we should accept any proposed changes. WHAT WE WANT IS A REFERENDUM ON EXITING THE E.U. ALTOGETHER. Perhaps they simply do not understand the meaning of EXIT, OUT, FINISH, END, ect ect. Precisely what do we have to do to make our demands heard and understood by these deaf politicians? Granted Davis and Redwood are moving in the same direction as the electorate, but sadly not at the same speed, they seem to lag behind what the electorate really wants and demands. We put you there to implicate our wishes, something you havnt done so far. We will also be the same electrate that will destroy you if you dont carry out our wishes and demands. You have been warned, and last thursday was the opening shot over your bows.
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