Greens To Ban Everything

Courtesy of LondonlovesBusiness here is a list of many of the things that the Greens (the party of intolerance) wish to ban, aside from the Grand National:

• Privatisation of the NHS
• SATS tests, league tables and academies
• Tuition fees and cancel student debt
• Tax avoidance and evasion
• Rail privatisation
• Workfare and benefit sanctions
• Trident nuclear deterrent
• Biodiversity offsetting (where property developers destroy habitats but create another elsewhere)
• Genetically Modified Organisms
• The production and sale of foie gras
• Cloning of animals for food
• Overuse of antibiotics in farming
• Monkeys (and other primates) as pets
• Importing exotic pets
• Hunting, the badger cull, snares, sport shooting
• Animals in circuses
• Use of a whip in horse racing, and a review of the sport
• Importing fur
• Keeping dolphins, whales, porpoises for commercial purposes, or killing them in the wild
• Non-medical experiments on animals
• Breeding genetically altered animals
• Puppy farming
• Electric shock collars for dogs
• Patenting of genes and living organisms
• Waste food being sent to landfill
• Fossil-fuel-based generation, including closing coal-fired power stations by 2023
• Nuclear power
• Fracking
• Fossil-fuel industry tax breaks/subsidies
• New building on flood plains
• Detention of LGBTQ asylum seekers and culture of disbelief
• Lads mags and porn in supermarkets and newsagents
• Stopping nursing mothers breastfeeding in a public place
• Fit for work scheme where outside person decides if a disabled person can work
• The exploitation of interns and young people in low-wage jobs
• “Phony” patient choice
• Alcohol under 50p a unit
• Opt-in organ donation (move to an opt-out system)
• Mixed-sex accommodation in hospitals
• Children being put in police cells
• Marketisation and outsourcing of education
• Class sizes of more than 20
• Private schools’ charitable status, running schools for profit
• Religious organisations in schools
• Parents paying for school equipment and expensive trips
• Help to Buy
• Stamp Duty
• Big builder “cartels”
• Right to Buy and mass council house sales
• Landlord perks such as tax deductions and mortgage interest relief
• Bedroom tax
• Exploitative zero-hours contracts
• Unequal pay between men and women
• Blacklisting (and set up an investigation into blacklisting in construction)
• Combined retail and investment banking firms
• City of London Corporation
• 20% VAT on cooked food, entertainment and accommodation (reduce to 5%)
• Employees National Insurance upper threshold
• Corporation tax relief on companies which have more than a 10:1 ratio between the highest and lowest paid employees
• Capital gains tax personal allowance
• The seven-year rule on gifts by living donors
• The Universal Credit programme
• Work-for-benefits programmes
• Private sector contracts with government on benefit entitlement assessment
• Childcare tax credits and tax reliefs (in favour of free universal childcare and early education)
• Lobbying Act
• New Homes Bonus
• Individual or company owning 20% or more of a media market
• National major roads programme
• Favourable tax treatment of aviation
• Pavement parking
• Torture and the sale of torture equipment
• Restrictions on foreign students
• Rich people “buying” their way into the UK
• The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
• Police & Crime Commissioners