First UK Non-Political Party
Stratford-on-Avon
Well I have now stood in my first election and it was a great learning process. I’d like to thank everybody who spoke to me and supported me.
Even though the votes were disappointing I learnt a very valuable lesson. Most people liked my manifesto, my speeches and conversations and my manifesto mail drop was viewed very highly. The honest and kind people have said to me, and they were many, ‘I love what you say and your manifesto, but as you are a new and unknown party with a single candidate, you have no chance, so I can’t waste a vote for you.’
This honesty has been of huge benefit and made me very determined that by the next election not only will everybody in Stratford know me, but NONPOL as a party will be known all across the UK. In fact my new campaign has already started. Watch out for the ‘650 club’, coming to you soon.
Everything you need to know about me and my ideas for Stratford shown below, still stand and I am leaving them here as they are just as important for the next election.
More importantly, and this is aimed at you, one of the reasons the Lib Dems won was because they had an army of volunteers out on the streets and on the doorsteps, when basically it was just me for NONPOL. I need to build up an army of supporters for the next election. If you want to join my team, please send me an email to 
The Gloves are off! The legendary flyer
I challenge you to Vote
In most elections between 30% and 40% of people do not vote, often giving the following reasons:
1. They are all as bad as each other.
2. My one vote won’t make a difference.
3. My candidate or party has no chance.
4. I can’t be bothered.
5. I don’t have time to read all the manifestos.
6. I don’t trust any of them.
If you use one of these reasons, you have more power than you think. You are called the ‘Silent Majority’ and have the power to change Governments. Of people who do vote, most of them know who they will vote for, Red, Blue, Green or Gold. However, the winner normally wins with about 30% of those eligible to vote. Therefore the ‘Silent Majority’ CAN make a difference. Once again there was a low turnout and in Stratford, 30% of you did not vote. I am now going to try and work on that silent majority.
King Edwards School (KES) Hustings
I recently attended the KES Hustings in Stratford and it started in a jovial manner with all the candidates getting on very well, and in fact we still do. However, the whole charade was dominated by the chairs own agenda to bash Tory and Labour, open the field for Lib Dem and give the small players very little airtime. In fact, I had to fight to get a 15 or 30 second response, while the main parties had many minutes per question. We may be a small party, but we have big answers. Even my 15 and 30 second comments were begrudged or cut short by the chair. Don’t take my word for it, watch the full hustings video on the Herald’s page or the clips we show below. Anyway, the reason I am making this video is because of one of my 15 second answer to the question, ‘How do we repair the roofs in schools’, which no one else answered, may need repeating as I think it went over people heads due to its enforced brevity. I maintain that we should sell our schools to large facility companies who can then use all the wonderful facilities within a school to run it 24/7 and turn a school into a revenue stream. Now let’s look at that. First the sale of all schools in the UK would bring needed billions into the education budget; not for the treasury to send arms to Ukraine. Of course, each facility company would be contractually required to provide school facilities for teachers and pupils. Next, and this was the direct answer to the question, the facility companies have the resources and capabilities to fix the roofs, the cement and all the other problems in our schools, without using the taxpayer’s money. A good facilities company would make the school the hub of the neighbourhood and could generate a lot of revenue, jobs and tax to run a school 24/7. This also supports NONPOL’s long term objective to triple GDP by running the UK 24/7…but we explain that elsewhere in our manifesto. If you like this video and want me to make more on the other questions in the Hustings such as a complete and full answer to our education manifesto, let me know and I will.
Let me introduce myself
Hi, my name is Neil O’Neil, and I will be standing in the Stratford upon Avon constituency at the next general election for the New Open Non-Political Organised Leadership Party, also known as NONPOL. We are the first formal Non-political Party in the UK and if you want to see what non-political means watch the short video on our home page at nonpol.com. It is easy to remember, None Political equals nonpol.com. Our headquarters are based here in Stratford upon Avon.
I have lived in the Stratford area for around 7 years and expect to live here for the rest of my life, so Stratford means a lot to me, both now and in the future. Stratford is a fantastic place to live and is seen as one of the most popular towns in the UK for tourists. Besides interest in Mr. Shakespeare, our markets and fairs attract people from all over the world and new projects, like the Marina, are making Stratford more attractive, but we can always do better. I believe Stratford spends too much money and effort on pleasing the tourists and not enough on the local residents. As a Stratford resident I receive very little information from the council or other bodies on projects that directly support residents, and this is one of the reasons I am standing at the next election. However, many of the issues I see in Stratford are common throughout the UK and some of the Nationwide issues, such as Immigration, Education, Health, Foreign Aid and the Economy have a direct and indirect impact on Stratford and for this reason I have set up the NONPOL party here in Stratford.
I was educated at King Edwards, have been in two wars, lived and worked in five countries with most of my children now living abroad, so I understand where we do things well in the UK and where things are done better elsewhere. I truly have a worldly vision and want the UK to be best of breed in all areas but more importantly I want to bring happiness and joy back to people’s faces and lives. There is too much negativity around as we are pitted against each other and although we are in the best of times we are also in the worst. Each generation walks into more materiality, more opportunities, and more excitement but at the same time the mine field of life is faster, harder and darker, as mental health is already the hidden pandemic we are not addressing. I am not a politician and in this world of Bollotics, I think there is a good opportunity for an outsider to bring change. Rather than be a politician I want to become a change agent. I am not owned or controlled by anyone nationally or internationally, I oppose globalization and will fight to keep our freedom of speech, which I believe is the biggest threat to the western world. The second biggest threat is a 3rd world war and nuclear casualties in the UK, see our video on our home page on how to avoid this. I work together with the Freedom Front, see freedomfront.co.uk to raise awareness on issues hidden from the public. As a polymath, I can think outside of the box and come up not only with radical but common-sense ideas, but also how I can fund them. NONPOL has an extensive UK wide manifesto but if you want to see what I want to do for Stratford, see my personal videos below and keep a look out for my public meetings in your area.
Repurposing Vacant Properties
For the 7 years I have now lived in Stratford upon Avon I am dismayed that I see so many unused properties. Good properties in prime locations that have sat vacant for years. It seems the council are doing nothing about it or do not have the power to do anything about it. I also see this in other areas around the country, such as in Blackpool where beautiful old nostalgic properties are left to rot away. Something has to change, and I suspect it will need a change in the law, which is where, as a politician if I represent you, I can bring a new law to the house of commons. I would like to use Stratford upon Avon as a test constituency to get all vacant properties repurposed for the local community. Here is my approach: If a property is left vacant for more than one year and does not have an active development project running, it can be repurposed by the local community to benefit the community. I would set up an elected local committee made up of residents and not the council. These residents would not be connected in any way to developers or property companies, with their key objective to support the community and not to make profit on the property. Each repurposed property would have a lease for 5 years, with a minimal rent paid to the owner. If the property is used for commercial purposes, it would be rates free. After 5 years the owner can decide to take the property back if they have a plan to use the property appropriately and pays for all the improvement costs spent on the property. If they don’t take this option a further 5-year lease is issued, & the cycle continues. Once a property has been identified, people will be invited to submit a proposal for the properties use, including how it will be funded. Each proposal will be reviewed by the committee and if appropriate to the community, put up for the residents to vote on. Projects would be to support local housing needs, youth development, rehabilitation and mental health support, tourism, small businesses, or regeneration of areas. Besides getting this working for the Stratford upon Avon constituency it would work well throughout the whole country.
Potholes Over Cycle Paths
How on earth can the highways team at Warwickshire county council build expensive cycle paths leading out of Stratford and not fix potholes? Potholes are now so bad, besides wrecking the suspensions on cars, people drive around them to avoid wrecking their car which leads to accidents. Car accidents lead to deaths, so now potholes are becoming a risk to life. If I am elected and there is one death in the Stratford constituency attributed to potholes, I will hold the Warwickshire county council to account under the 1980 Highways Act, especially as they appear to have prioritised the cycle paths over potholes. Pothole fixing is a national wide issue but in a tourist town like Stratford, it affects the tourists as much as the residents. I recommend everybody in the Stratford Constituency report every pothole to the Warwickshire County Council pothole team, go to services.warwickshire.gov.uk/report-a-pothole, as they have a statutory obligation to repair them. If Stratford were able to get recognised as a pothole free town, it would attract more tourists in their cars, where we can generate additional revenue from parking. NONPOL would give all Stratford residents free parking and increase tourist parking by 30% to pay for the locals free parking. Also to raise money to fix the potholes and an ongoing maintenance plan to stop them coming back, we would introduce a tourist tax for overnight stays in our hotels, as they do in other tourist cities in Europe. This would be a 2-tier system, such as £1 per night for UK passport holders and £2 per night for non-UK passport holders. Once all potholes are fixed, this tourist tax would be spent improving Stratford for Tourists and residents.
Youth Clubs
Due to budget cuts and higher local priorities, the youth of Stratford seem to suffer on evenings. I would look to introduce a major youth club scheme, with a goal to introduce a youth club in each ward. When I was young I used to go to the co-op club, which was sponsored by the co-op and held above cooperative shops. It was great fun and I have fond memories, but this was way back in the sixties. As most schools or church halls are empty at night, there is plenty of locations to run them from. I would look for major Brands like Morrisons, B&Q, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco etc to sponsor each club and for each club to compete in competitions with each other in such things like football, table tennis, pickleball and many more sports. It effectively would be brands against each other, which would encourage the brands to invest more in their youth club. More importantly I would encourage real activities that young people would be interested in such as; graffiti art training, with winners of competitions being commissioned to create murals around Stratford; on-line games such as Fortnite or FIFA, again having inter club competitions, robot wars, where parents can join in for clubs to build their robot to participate in local robot wars, I would encourage music groups and run battle of the bands, there would be a dragon’s den for people to come up with good ideas, there would be film making activities so we could run a film festival there would be an investment competition where the youth could have virtual money to paper trade on the stock markets, there would be science competitions between the clubs, I would run fashions shows where young people could design and make fashion for a professional fashion show, we would run portrait artist of the year and many more activities that young people really want to do. The youth clubs would be three times per week and young people would be excited to attend. Besides all the exciting activities, each club would have a mental health professional first aid professional as well as specialist in each activity. The youth club would also be used help young people to take their driving test theory, learn about cyber security and other key things to help them cope with life, such as learning about mortgages, credit cards and pensions. With these clubs being funded by brand names there would only need to be a minimum entry fee per evening, such as 1 pound. We need to engage the youth of today and also to recognise the huge talent within our youth. Besides Stratford, this model would work throughout the UK.
The Bridge in Stratford
We all know the river bridge in Stratford causes major traffic issues and over time will be so worn that it may not function properly. The particulates created from the congestion of large diesel vehicles is also causing pollution and poisoning our children. Recent crashes have closed the bridge for days and hugely affected the local economy and the tourists. Many ideas to fix this have not materialised for whatever reason, mainly because of dissenters or political posturing against each idea. The time has come to introduce common sense and quieten the nay-sayers. The prosperity of Stratford is for future generations, not the current objectionist brigade or the controlled powerful elite. Having lived in Germany, Switzerland and Austria I know how these nations are more efficient with their roads than us. There is enough greenery either side of Stratford to allow a 1-mile tunnel to go under the city and the river. In the US the Boring company are currently testing this approach. This tunnel would have a simple and cheap toll, such as 2 pounds each way using ANPR technology like the Dartford tunnel, however because of ANPR we can make it free to residents. Also, any HGV traffic coming through the town must pay a congestion charge in order to try and reduce congestion and pollution. The revenues from the HGV congestion charge and the tunnel toll would fund the project, with a view to start making a profit for the town within 15 years.
Supporting Small Businesses
Small businesses are a huge part of the local economy and I have a unique idea on how to support them. An MP, during parliament sessions, spends around 4 days per week in Westminster. The other day should be used to hold a public clinic in their constituency. Most MP’s work out of a static office in the largest town of the constituency, such as in Stratford on Avon. I would run my weekly clinics from small business premises in the constituency, a different business each week. This would allow me to meet and understand the needs of the small businesses and to bring customers and public exposure to their business through the clinic. I would also include businesses in the rural areas, who often don’t get the exposure or visibility of the businesses in the larger towns.
Bring back the river festival
Stratford is world famous for the River Festival, I knew people who used to come from Australia and Canada to attend. For some reason this year’s event was cancelled again at short notice as announced by Stratford BID, due to unforeseeable circumstances. That was a valid excuse during Covid, but not to hold it last year or this year sounds like bad planning, red tape or resourcing issues. Without more information it is impossible to know the truth. What seems strange is the announcement was made by LSD Promotions, the people who run the Stratford markets who seem to be very organized and provide great markets. Whether they have had red tape issues or what. If I am elected it will be my mission to understand why it did not happen this year or last year and if needed name and shame the culprits. I will make every effort I can to reinstate it.
Proportional Representation
I have been out on the street to feel the temperature and of the public and one question that keeps coming up in Proportional Representation. So I did some research. Out of the 43 European Countries only 3 do not have Proportional Representation, the UK, Belarus and France. The other 40 states already use it. However, it is quite a complex issue as there are different ways of doing and we need to understand them more to decide what is best for the UK. I have laid out these different options under the NONPOL Manifesto; under the Manifesto menu item click on Proportional Representation. If I was elected to Parliament, I would pressure the government into holding a referendum on this subject and let the people, not the Government, decide what the fairest system is.
Rural Issues
The Stratford on Avon constituency has many rural and agricultural areas. NONPOL understand the issues in these areas and are supporting the Countryside Alliance. In particular we would support these areas in the following ways.
1. Farmers. – Through our sister site Freedomfront.co.uk we are supporting the No Farmers no food campaign, and would be happy to speak and support them on any related rallies. We know how the green and zero carbon agenda are adding unnecessary overheads, constantly reducing their already tight margins. We want to totally remove the stupid Net Zero initiative.
2. Rural Crime. – We understand how rural crime goes unnoticed. It doesn’t help that lots of villages don’t have streetlights. We also understand the argument of light pollution and dark areas. We would compromise by having motion detection streetlights that are animal proof, and install motion detection CCTV by the streetlights.
3. Competition. – We would look to increase import duty on produce coming into the UK that are in direct competition the UK Farmers produce to ensure there is a fair market. The money taken in by this import duty would go directly to supporting our farmers to increase their output.
Overall NONPOL is behind the farmers. They are one of the hardest working sectors with low rewards and lack of true recognition. They are life blood of our families, our future and the nation. NONPOL has a long-term strategy of trying to make the UK as self sufficient as possible. The farmers and the agricultural industry are fundamental in achieving that goal.
Immigration
Immigration is a complex issue but NONPOL has a simple answer. We would declare a ‘State of National Emergency’ allowing us to legally engage our military. We would recall all our non-critical military back to the UK to patrol our borders 24/7. We would then set up a huge army tented area in a remote location such as the Yorkshire Moors, like those seen on MASH. The army would feed and house the legal immigrants, thereby emptying the hotels. This legal immigration workforce would build a University Campus where they would all learn English and a Trade. They would build toilets and showers first, then the dormitories and finally all the classrooms. Once they have earned a GCSE in English and Maths and a certificate in a trade, we would give them a National Insurance Number, passport, job and place to live. We would then calculate how much it has cost us to feed, cloth, house and teach them and all this money would be paid back, similar to a student loan or through their tax-code. In time Immigration would become a revenue stream. How would we pay for the “Immigration University Campus”? The current high cost of our military logistics in exotic or unnecessary regions would be redirected to this project as the troops come home. The illegal immigrants, who by definition have broken the law, would go to a similar army camp in remotest Scotland and build prisons to house them until they were deported to their home country. This would manage the current illegal immigrants and deter future illegal immigrants. Anyone coming illegally in the boats, would be bio-metrically registered and be refused legal immigration status; again providing a deterrent. Besides turning Immigration into a revenue stream, we would have a well trained and eager workforce to help the UK economy to go 24/7, which is our major economic goal, see our manifesto on the economy. Legal immigration is essental, illegal immigration is toxic for the whole of the UK.
Freedom of Speech
Loss of Freedom of Speech is the biggest threat to the western world, with extreme efforts by communist countries using it to divide and conquer us. The woke mind virus is now making this much easier. President Trump used Twitter to bypass the mainstream media to say what he wanted, good or bad. His freedom of speech was then removed as he was cancelled by Twitter, together with any other person going against the Woke narrative, such as the truth about covid vaccines. Musk bought Twitter with the sole purpose of allowing free speech and for people you don’t like, saying things you don’t agree with. Everything needs to be challenged so that we have a balanced debate. Brazil has now banned the ‘X’ Platform, the EU, Kamala Harris and Kier Starmer have all threatened to ban X. Currently China, Russia and North Korea ban free speech, all of which are dictatorships. Keir Starmer is frightened of Free Speech (see #twotierkeir) because he wants control of the UK public. NONPOL will create a British Constitution and like the US First Amendment, give everybody the right to free speech, within the law.
More importantly, if elected, I would spend 4 days per week representing Stratford in Parliament, and at the national level here are some of the bigger issues I would be fighting for:
- Controlling immigration and the cost and impact of it on local communities. We should always house veterans and the homeless before immigrants. Willing immigrants can become a large work force to build their own homes in the UK and then pay back all of the costs to support them through their tax code.
- Stop sending taxpayers money abroad to Ukraine, Israel or funding proxy wars – taxpayers’ money is for UK citizens not for foreign aid or long term 3rd world poverty. Charity groups already do a fantastic job.
- Teachers have too much time off and after national lockdowns our kids need to catch up with their lost education. The curriculum is being run by the nanny state and needs to be more focused on how to live and survive in this world, not on useless subjects. We would have every student pass their driving theory test in school, learn about how finance and credit work, learn your rights, understand cyber essentials and risks of social media and grooming, understand how to protect your data, understand the basic of society law. School is not the place for Gender related issue. Family and community trained professionals should deal with this.
- Net zero is pointless and we need to stop bashing the motorist. War creates a much larger carbon footprint than motorists, so when wars stop, we can look at the motorist. We will remove 20mph speed limits, increase limit to 80 mph on motorways like the rest of Europe and remove ULEZ zones. Support, not punish, the motorist they are the life blood of the economy.
- Motor scooter drivers and cyclists that deliver food MUST have a delivery permit, full license and insurance for deliveries.
- We would remove VAT and give everyone a 20% pay increase instantly, once replacement thresholds are met. We will generate the revenues to replace VAT as follows.
- All road tax collected in 2024 would be used to fixing ALL potholes in our roads. No more new roads until all current roads are fixed. Let’s have the best, not the worst, roads in Europe.
- Losing your freedom of speech (let’s not become another Scotland). Vaccines do cause harm and we are entitled to challenge the Government and big Pharma without being cancelled. See www.freedomfront.co.uk
- Protect every UK citizens rights, freedom and future against unelected global organisations like World Economic Forum (WEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO).
These are just a few of things I can represent Stratford in if I get elected. See NONPOL's full manifesto for other issues. If you have ideas or suggestions on what you want done in and around Stratford then ask a question below. I will answer every question.
Neil O'Neil Protesting against the WHO Pandemic Treaty at the United Nations Geneva - June 2024
