We're regularly told by the SNP that Scots are not having enough children. However, the SNP has absolutely no policies to remedy matters (other than encouraging more people through immigration, which is no remedy at all). So here are 6 policies to make family formation financially easier and to support the rearing of children. 1. Transferable Married Couples Tax Allowance The income tax allowance for a working person in tax year 24/25 is £12,570 before tax kicks in. If

Farming is energy intensive – even relatively small-scale farming requires cheap fuel and fertilisers. This means that a successful farming, fishing and rural economy flows from National Energy Independence. WHAT IS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY? Food sovereignty means self-sufficiency in food – or as self-sufficient as you can reasonably achieve within your circumstances. The ability to feed yourself means independence, safety and survival. Food sovereignty is also a def

Every British Citizen must have a statutory right to a Bank Account. Private banks may claim the right to "de-bank" someone of whom they disapprove. Perhaps that is their contractual right. However, it is not possible for a person to live normally , in the digital age, without a Bank Account and without access to their money. It is not acceptable for any law-abiding British Citizen to be "de-banked" – which amounts to an enforced exclusion from participation in modern society

In order to achieve the policy objectives of rebuilding fishing communities and ensuring proper environmental management of fish stocks, we must re-establish control of Britain's 200-mile exclusive fishing zone . If each country caught fish in areas that were exclusive to itself, there would be an incentive to conserve and nurture fish stocks. We would restore respect for the ocean's providence and we would rebuild fishing communities. Once a community has a secure freedom

Our government is at the mercy of the Bond Markets because "borrowing" from the Bond Markets (aka selling them government bonds) is the main way that a government can raise money (outside of taxes). As a consequence, and as we examine in our series of 3 Policy Documents below, Bond Markets are able to force a government to raise taxes and cut spending whether the government wants to or not. In this sense, the government is "in hock to" the Bond Markets. How do they do thi

Statistics released by Holyrood on 17 March 2026 show that 1,146 people were suspected to have died from drugs. This figure is up from 1,065 during the previous year. 1. We support the concept of a "Right to Addiction Recovery Bill" along the lines introduced by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross. This would guarantee a legal right to addiction treatment, including residential rehabilitation, for people struggling with drug or alcohol abuse. It would prevent such ca

BUSINESS RATES RELIEF We have to massively reduce business rates for shops and pubs in towns and cities. Business rates exist primarily to fund local council services, by taxing non-domestic properties (similar to how Council Tax works for domestic properties). However, the current level of business rates across Scotland make it extremely difficult for shops, bars and pubs to exist. For example, pubs are closing at a faster rate in Scotland than in England. Almost 300 hav

ATM machines are closing because it doesn't pay the private commercial banks to keep these services open. However, people need cash, and so if it doesn't pay the private banks to maintain a system of ATMs then we're going to need ATM machines run by the national British Central Bank to provide the means of exchange that we need. POLICY: When elected to Holyrood, we will publicise this matter and support efforts towards it. Background: All the banks in the UK are private,

SUMMARY of our HOUSING POLICIES We advocate: 1- We must Build More Social Housing and the only way to do that is to subsidise it via the UK Government. 2- Social Housing to facilitate Family Formation and Working from Home. In particular, we should be building affordable "family" homes such as those relatively spacious Council Houses which were built from the 1930s onwards and which are still going strong. These should have sufficient living space and bedrooms for 2 parents

We are Animal Welfare advocates. We make a distinction between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights. "Animal Rights" is a theory, and lifestyle, which claims that animals have the same "rights" as humans, and therefore should not be "exploited". This leads to the comparison that livestock farming – of any kind – is equivalent to human slavery and genocide. Consequently, all Animal Rightists are vegans (not just vegetarians). Animal Welfare, however, is a different concept and

We explain why "the bond markets" are a threat to the sovereignty of a nation, and why we should seek to reduce their power over our country. TakeAway: The Bond Markets are basically the Loan Sharks for the Nation. We have to go to them, because we have no other option, with cap-in-hand, and ask for more money, and if they don't like us they can demand extortionate interest rates which will impoverish us as we attempt to pay them back. The answer – for any government – whe

Around 80% of transactions in Scotland are via digital methods such as cards and mobile phones. A 2022 Westminster Parliament report stated: In 2009, 56% of transactions were in cash, but today cash payments represent only 17% of all transactions. Despite this, cash remains the second most frequently used form of payment, second only to debit cards. Currently, 5.4 million people, or about 10% of adults in the UK, are reliant on cash. In Scotland, approximately 500,000 peo

Scotland and the wider United Kingdom must develop a National Credit and Debit Card Payment System outside of USA Control. In Scotland, for example, over 60% of payments are made with Visa and Mastercard cards. The US and international financial elite controls this technology and in the worst case could actually shut down the use of these cards in the UK. Perhaps they might want to threaten us, or punish us, for some reason. Imagine the chaos! ATM machines could also fail, b