Some suggestions – all public buildings where appropriate should have solar panels and full insulation. All houses to have insulation certificates, and rented homes to have ‘2nd mortgages’ put on the freehold to enable ultimate repayment of the cost to the Treasury – legal measures to prevent rent rises.
Schools to produce environmental policies in conjunction with students regarding recycling, transport to and from school, school meals, etc.
Agriculture to have subsidies for conversion to electric tractors, compulsory fallow land, ban on insecticide use without licence. I suspect the cost of meat and dairy will have to rise, but if so subsidies should be made to alternatives.
Public transport subsidised and taken back into public ownership on a regional basis thus ensuring competition. – co-ordination of timetables between trains, trams and uses – and unified tickets.
Rapid investment in renewable energy sources.
Local manufacturing should be prioritised by supporting apprenticeships and perhaps acknowledging the true cost of imports to this country (a local firm pays taxes, as do employees – so government procurement costs should deduct this, they will get it anyway, from the comparative cost of an import. I assume this is why car firms like Nissan receive government grants to manufacture cars in this country. Can we have the same investment and support for other manufactured items – even if we start off with the high end crafted products. I do not want to start trade wars, ut true costs need to be invoked, especially regarding transport where the cost of fossil fuels needs a surcharge commensurate with the damage with the environment.
New housing should include local work bases, perhaps in conjunction with neighbourhood gardens and public space areas. Thinking about this – a site near me with 150 houses should have to provide work spaces for 5 units, and community public space, all within sensible walking distance.
Above all the government should work with other parties to present a coalition type consensus. This is not about vote winning (Steve Baker and others whose names are too vile to mention), ut survival and the creation of a better future. Those in opposition will have to break the habit of criticising every move by government and support a sensible consensus – this is what should have happened with Covid, but is even more important now.
And then a crucial issue – population – another blog I think!