u/Dimmo17

Some policies from our friends the Greens, for when they need to find out what their policies are. A reminder that the Greens are a member led party and these haven't changed until they vote them out.

• llegal immigration decriminalised
• Complete ban on animal testing that harms or kills the animal including medical research and drug development - AR416
• Use economic measures and farming reforms to begin to transition the population to plant-based diets - AR411 
• Scrap Trident and then ask people to follow suit on nuclear disarmament
• Compulsary purchase on privately owned property to turn them into council houses
• National insurance added to income tax if income is not work related (regulatory headache IMO)
• All new homes to be built to passivhaus standard
• Support offered for coca leaf and opium poppy farmers in the Global South 
• Ban the building of new roads
• 55 mph Motorway speed limits
• HS910 Banning the flouridation of water
• HS1105 review the use of health apps and algorithims in the NHS as they are a "false economy"
• HS1106 GP training expanded to include lifestyle medicine, ultraprocessed food harms and holistic wellness approaches
• HS803 Local breastmilk banks across the country
• AR402: Take pressure off wild animals by voluntarily limiting our population
• Abolish all Zoos unless all animals are part of a conservation program - AR427
• Complete ban on factory farming (unsure how this would impact food imports of meat and trade deals) - AR405 
• Ban on the use of GMO feed to animals - AR407 
• Deportation banned except for serious criminal or national security cases
• All migrants are “citizens in waiting” and encouraged to settle
• Climate change is valid reason to seek asylum
• Abandon fiscal rules to spend more on cost of living crisis
• Rejoin the EU (which has fiscal rules for members)
• Scrap the Home Office for the Department of Immigration
• Visas can be applied for anywhere in the world
• Remove minimum income and all skills requirements on employment visas
• £15 minimum wage
• Remove language requirements on visas
• The community pays for fines when a criminal is too poor to pay for it - CJ115
• Provide free guidance when visas expire to show how to renew
• All prisoners get their own indivdual rooms and unsupervised visitors rights - CJ180
• Women are exempt from going to prison except in cases of serious violence and murder - CJ381
• Anyone entering without a visa automatically granted a 3 month visitor visa
• All resident visa holders get the vote, full benefits or (universal basic income?), housing and NHS
• Any resident visa holder can bring their famiy to settle also
• Children of settled residents eligible for uni and student finance
• All children born in the UK automatic citizens
• Visitor visa Immigrants given free advice on how to settle
• Asylum seekers allowed to work immediately on entering the country with no restriction on occupation.
• Leave NATO to form a european defence alliance including Brazil and Mexico (Polanski policy)
• Recreational drugs legalised with cocaine and GHB sold in specialist pharmacies. 
• Crack cocaine and heroin on prescription 
• Phase out nuclear energy
• Rent controls
• Payments to farmers tripled for them to do nature friendly farming
• Ignore bond markets to adhere more to the MMT policy prescription of printing to try reach full capcity and using tax to slow down inflation (Polanski policy)

Spending promises

• £40 billion a year in decarbonisation funding
• £12 billion in green skills funding
• £33bn on home and commercial insulation
• £9bn on heat pumps
• £20 billion for NHS capital projects
• £28 billion extra for NHS operational expenditure
• Full restoration
• National Grid nationalised (Market cap of UK arm £62 billion currently)
• Carers allowance increased by 10%
• Free dentistry for all including free regular hygienist sessions
• Increase international aid to 1% of gross national income (£7.5 billion)
• Increase climate finance for the Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033 (£11.25 billion)
• Student loan forgiveness (£ 292 billion currently)
• Tutition fees abolished (£20 billion + a year)  
• Signficant pay increases for all public sector workers
• Water renationalised (70 billion+ easy)
• £8.4 billion on universally subsidising energy bills, including the use of fossil fuels, to respond to the Iran war energy crisis (Polanski off the cuff policy)

Migration policies (They hid these just before the locals so they've been waybacked to Feb 2026)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260208182505/https://migration.greenparty.org.uk/migration-policy/

Energy policy

https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/powering-up-fairer-greener-energy/

Animal rights policies

https://greens4animals.org.uk/animal-right-policies/

https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/a-fairer-greener-world/

Drug policy

https://www.greenpartydrugpolicy.org.uk/policy#3-proposed-reform-of-legislative-framework-long-term-policy

Health manifesto policies

https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/building-a-fairer-healthier-country/

Health policies

https://www.greencoordinate.co.uk/archive/autumn2023/files/gpew-health-policy-draft-v-8.1.pdf

Abandoning fiscal rules

https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/03/greens-call-on-rachel-reeves-to-scrap-failing-fiscal-rules-to-tackle-cost-of-living/

Justice

https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/our-policies/long-term-goals/crime-and-justice/

Economics

https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/creating-a-fairer-greener-economy/