# Principles & Manifesto **URL:** https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/c/principles/5.md [Latest](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/tags.md) --- ## [About the Principles & Manifesto category](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/about-the-principles-manifesto-category/7)
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The UKJP’s own positions, open to challenge. This is the place to argue with the UKJP as well as for it. Disagreement here is not tolerated as an exception — it is the point of the category. --- ## [What is Britain putting off that the next generation will pay for?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/what-is-britain-putting-off-that-the-next-generation-will-pay-for/52)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 9. Future generations: government should be judged by the country it leaves behind, not only by the next election. Which decision, taken or avoided for the sake of the next election, will cos… --- ## [What should the police stop doing?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/what-should-the-police-stop-doing/25)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 8. Law and order: police time belongs on the crimes that harm people. If you could take one duty off the police tomorrow, what would it be, and where should that time go instead? Any positio… --- ## [How should welfare tell 'cannot work' from 'will not work'?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/how-should-welfare-tell-cannot-work-from-will-not-work/24)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 7. Work and contribution: welfare exists for those who genuinely cannot provide for themselves, and a system that cannot tell them apart from those able to contribute fails both. How should t… --- ## [Should voters be able to sack their MP between elections?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/should-voters-be-able-to-sack-their-mp-between-elections/23)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 6. Democratic reform: voters should be able to remove an MP who breaks the promises they were elected on. Who decides what counts as a broken promise? And would recall make MPs more honest, o… --- ## [Where is the line between opinion and incitement?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/where-is-the-line-between-opinion-and-incitement/22)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 5. Liberty: the law should punish threats and incitement, never opinion. Where exactly does an offensive opinion become incitement? And who should decide? Any position may be argued here, in… --- ## [Who should answer when a public service fails?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/who-should-answer-when-a-public-service-fails/21)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 4. Accountability: every public body should have a named person responsible for its results, and consequences when it fails. Think of a recent public failure. Who was responsible, and what ha… --- ## [Should net migration be zero or below?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/should-net-migration-be-zero-or-below/20)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 2. Borders and citizenship: arrivals no greater than departures, capped each year by a figure Parliament votes on, and chosen for the skills and wealth they bring. What should the number be? … --- ## [Does the law treat everyone equally today?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/does-the-law-treat-everyone-equally-today/18)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 3. Equality before the law: the law should ask what a person did, not who they are. Where does it fall short today? Is the fault in the law as written, or in how it is enforced? Any position… --- ## [Should any court or treaty be able to overrule Parliament?](https://forum.ukjp.org.uk/t/should-any-court-or-treaty-be-able-to-overrule-parliament/16)
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From the UKJP’s principles, 1. Sovereignty: the laws that bind the British people should be made, and able to be unmade, by people they can vote out. Is there anything a British Parliament should not be free to decide? …