Mark Thomas: The Manifesto

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Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best

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Mark addresses tax avoidance, quantitative easing and voting reform.

The comedian-activist and his audience consider tax-avoidance, quantitative easing and voting reform. From February 2012.

Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience consider policy proposals for a People's Manifesto. 

The show's agenda includes:

1) Excluding Non-Doms from free access to the NHS
2) Every citizen to be given £10,000 in quantitative easing vouchers, to be spent in the next 6 months
3) Proportional voting rights for MPs based on the size of their majorities

"Any Other Business" policies are also taken from the studio audience throughout the show.

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.

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