Conservative Manifestos

1979 Manifesto:

• Increase individual freedom


• Decreasing the role of the state


• Control inflation


• Create new jobs


• Uphold Parliament


• Uphold the rule of law


• Increase home-owners


• Concerntrating welfare to those in real need


• Strengthen Britain's defences


• Reduce Government borrowing


• Reduce Government intervention in industry


• Reduce the trade unions role


• Picketing limited to those who's place of work it is


• Cut income tax


• Cut marginal rates of tax


• Privatise Aerospace


• Making planning restraints less rigid


• Improve pay and conditions for police


• Tougher sentences for criminals


• Cut court procedures to stop wasteful delay


• House of Commons to vote on capital punishment


• Decentralise the NHS


• Encourage families to look after each other


• Increase in retirement pensions


• Increase Britains defence


• Counter Soviet threat in the middle east

1983 Manifesto:

• Reduce unemployment


• Keep inflation low


• Strengthen the rule of law


• Uphold parliamentary democracy


• Improve the publics quality of life


• Curb legal immunity of trade union to call strikes


• Training for the unemployed


• Make the job market more flexible (part-time work)


• Minimise legal restrictions on creating new jobs


• Privatisation


• Cut business tax


• Lower income tax


• Lower tax on capital and savings


• Ecourage loval self help initiatives


• Increase nuclear power


• Develop the motorway


• Increase owndership of property


• Raise child benefit


• Build new hospitals


• Decrease state intervention


• Suppot independent schools


• Build more courtrooms to reduce time wasting


• Build more spaces in prisons


• Keep travel costs low


• Support NATO

1987 Manifesto:

• Keep inflation low


• Cut unemployment


• Increase ownership of properties


• Encourage savings


• Increase oppotunity to rent


• Increase share ownership of homes


• Privatise state industries


• Establish a national core cirriculum for schools


• Give governing bodies of schools control over their budgets


• Increase choice for schools with different varieties


• Suport independent education


• Expand higher education oppotunities


• Protect the rights of individual trade union members


• Reduce Gornverment borrowing


• Curb state spending


• Cut income tax


• Guarentee job training places for many


• Exert pressure on Japan to open up their markets


• Fight for free and fair international trade


• Build motorways


• Increase nuclear power for electricity


• Expand hospitals


• Reduce NHS waiting lists


• Encourage occupational pension schemes


• Benefits will depend on income after tax


• Build more prisons


• Tougher sentences


• Increase police numbers


• Tighten law on immigration


• Strengthen local government and accoutability


• Fixed rate charge for local services for all over 18s


• Support NATO


• Support Trident


• Suport a world wide ban on chemical weapons
  
  

1992 Manifesto:

• Suport intervention for peace-keeping


• Strengthen NATO


• Support ban on chemical weapons


• Increase Trident


• Keep inflation low


• Control public spending


• Reduce taxes


• Increase home ownership


• Privatisation


• Reduce tax on business


• Deregulation


• Create a more open Government


• Complete the national cirriculum


• Allow for a variety of schools


• Expand higher education oppotunities


• Continue to finace training programmes forthe unemployed


• Increase police numbers


• Tougher sentences


• Continue prison building programme


• Gurantee a waiting time for operations in hospitals


• Reduce waiting times


• Encourage personal pensions


• Introduce new disability benefits


• Continue motorway building


• Replace local commubnnity charge with council tax


• Raise the threshold for inheritance tax

1997 Manifesto:

• Low inflation


• Curb Government spending


• Reduce income tax


• Reduce unemployment


• Cut Coporation Tax


• Raise the threshold for inheritance tax


• Encourage personal pensions


• Set national targets for schools


• Support choice and diversity of types of schools


• Encourage self governence for schools


• Allow schools to select some pupils


• Encourage grammar schools


• Decrease waitingtimes in hospitals


• Against national minimum wage


• Increase home ownership


• Privatisation


• Install more CCTV


• Tougher sentences


• Decrease waiting time for court


• Regenerate housing estates for better quality


• Provide more hostel spaces


• Argue for a more flexible Europe


• Support NATO


• Open Government