1. Reforming the banking system
Now that this has slipped out of the headlines, it’s easy to forget the outrage over bankers’ behaviour - or the debt that will burden future generations after the Government had to bail them out.
But there is now a risk that the bankers are being let off the hook and real reform is being swept under the carpet. This can’t be allowed to happen.
2. Investing in new green jobs
People are finding it hard to get work right now, and young people have been hit hardest of all.
With rising unemployment figures, the Government is having to borrow billions just to balance the books and keep the benefit cheques coming.
But there is another option: why not spend the money instead on investing in our future?
Investing in green energy, high speed rail, and home insulation would give us the infrastructure we need to be ready for the upturn - not to mention creating thousands of much-needed jobs.
3. Fairer, simpler, greener taxes
If this sounds simple, that’s because it is! Quite simply, we need to switch from taxing things we want to encourage - like going to work - and instead taxing bad things like carbon emissions.
That’s why the Liberal Democrats want to cut income tax to the lowest level since 1916 - paid for by new green taxes and by closing tax loopholes exploited by the rich.
