Adjustment Pay - Labour should replace the present system of service-related Redundancy Compensation with a universal worker's right to receive "Adjustment Pay", for a period of up to six months following any termination of employment (other than for gross misconduct) - Adjustment Pay would be paid on the same rate and on the same footing and in the same instalments as prior employment pay, and would cease if suitable alternative employment were commenced within the six-month period - no Government can prevent specific job losses, in the ebb-and-flow of market forces, but Labour should seek to minimise the anxiety occasioned by unemployment and the threat of unemployment;

Benefits - in the redistribution of wealth, Labour would commit itself as a Party, as the preferred option wherever practicable, to the use of universal fixed-rate benefits, clawed-back through a progressive Income Tax system, in which the higher rate of tax would be restored to 50%.

Community governance - Labour would strengthen and empower community governance both by granting greater powers to parish, town and community councils and empowering Londoners to elect their own community councils - Labour should implement the spirit and the letter of its own Constitution, which asserts that decisions should be taken by the communities most directly affected by them;

Company governance - Labour should lead an international movement to reform international company law, to combat corruption and crime in the corporate sector, the abuse of corporate power, trade union oppression, tax evasion, and terrorism - see Tame the Corporations!

Compulsory education - Labour should reduce the degree of state coercion underpinning our secondary education system, and remove from 15 year-olds any compulsion to stay within state education or training, developing an alternative voluntarist approach to all subsequent education;

Devolution - Labour should continue the process of redistributing constitutional powers away from Westminster and Whitehall, by both legislative and executive devolution, recognising the centrality of UK provincial cities and their regions, using the Welsh devolution model for England and strengthening the Greater London Authority;

Europe - Labour, under future leadership, should strenuously seek to rebuild the UK's links with the European Union, so damaged by the alignment of New Labour with the United States in the Iraqi War - and in due course ensure the UK's full participation in the Euro currency zone - Britain should continue to press for a more dispersed federal structure, moving away from the pretentious European Parliament model;

Foreign policy - Labour should re-assert its traditional commitment to the evolution of a consultative and consensual world order, free of the hegemony of any single state, and re-double its efforts to affirm the role of international treaty networks, including the United Nations;

Guardianship Allowance - Labour should facilitate the lifestyle choices of young families, where financial support is needed to enable one parent of young children to perform a home-based guardianship function, without being forced to enter the employment market;

Human Rights - Labour should build upon New Labour's important initiative with the Human Rights Act 1998, create a heavyweight Human Rights Commission, and seek to promulgate, both externally and within its own ranks, a recognition that any equitable future social order and every future Labour Government, must honour these universal principles of human entitlement;

Immigration - Labour should initiate the international drive for the creation of a new international concordat, wider than the confines of Europe, for the future humane regulation of international migration, compatible with the human rights of migrants and asylum-seekers;

Income Tax - while low tax thresholds and a large 10% band should be maintained, there should be a more rapid rise in income-tax levels, rising to 50%, thus inter alia allowing a system of universal benefits to be effectively deployed.

Judicial institutions - Labour should recognise that, in contemporary society, judicial and arbitral institutions command a respect and authority which is not accorded to other arms of the State, and should ensure that their composition is diverse and authoritative, thus enabling them to consolidate their role in the maintenance of civic order.

Law - Labour should re-affirm its earlier commitment to upholding the the Rule of Law, both by way of respect for the judicial institutions and development of new legal norms to regulate future forms and sources of conflict.

Lords - The second chamber should be reconstituted on a wholly-elected basis, without impinging upon or diminishing the authority of the Commons as the primary legislative Chamber;

Means-testing, which has become Party orthodoxy under New Labour and Gordon Brown, should be reined back and deployed only as a fiscal method of last resort, where no satisfactory universal-benefit system (combined with claw-back through Income Tax) is practicable.

Minimum Wage - this has proved a successful measure, and should be consolidated and extended;

Nursery provision, childcare - this should be extended as a matter of public policy but it should also be supplemented by a universal flat-rate Guardianship Allowance enabling one parent to remain at home during primary-school years, without having to seek employment outside the home;

Pensions - Labour should as a matter of priority introduce a new and more substantial Old Age Pension commitment, paying to each person at least £150 per week (without marriage abatement) commencing at the earliest practicable age, and payable by the State from general taxation without the need for individual capital-fund accumulation;

Private property - Labour should affirm the pivotal importance of personal private property as a primary institution of of a liberal democratic society, of public confidence in social equity, and the realisation of individual aspirations, while countering the abuse of private property power wherever it occurs;

Public Primacy - for any public function, Labour's presumption should be of delivery by directly-employed public servants, while acknowledging that presumption may be displaced by particular circumstance;

Public Interest trading initiatives - Labour should open up new forms of public-service trading, beyond the present scope of trading charities - by creating a new sector of public-interest companies, operating under the Companies Acts and unlocking new public service resources throughout society, see the public interest company;

Royal Prerogative - Labour should systematically dismantle the Royal Prerogative and seek the establishment throughout the UK Constitution of a true democratic order;

Studies throughout the system, during school and certainly up to the age of 21, should be financed (both as to maintenance grants and fees) from general taxation, without recourse to charging at the point of use.

Trade unions should be empowered to act as agents for workers in the enforcement of their individual rights, without the need for any prior "recognition".

Unemployment benefit should be abolished, and replaced with Adjustment Pay - following the Adjustment Pay period, the prevailing minimum-income guarantee system should come into play;

Votes at 16 should be accorded to all teenagers, for all governmental elections;

Workers' rights should be greatly strengthened, giving each citizen the legal means of countering the abuse of employer power, and seeking the creation of a Europe-wide network of common workers' rights as a template for a wider international charter of justice in employment.

 Well - would you vote for me, on this Manifesto?