More vocational training so that we don’t have to import skilled workers, Government bursaries for courses in areas where there is a skill shortage.
Local production for local need.
End the PFI. Government contracts in Wessex should only go to Wessex-based public sector organizations, co-operatives or worker-owned businesses. Preferably, services should be provided in-house.
A Regional Health Service for Wessex.
A proportion of shares in railway companies to go to season ticket holders.
Worker boards and local authority boards, along German lines.
Short-term fund management investors should not be able to vote at company meetings.
All companies over a certain size should have three audits: financial, social and environmental.
No company should have more than 16% of the market in its sector in any given county.
A regional development agency for co-operatives, like the one in Emilia-Romagna, where co-operatives supply 35% of regional GDP.
Creation of a regional development bank. The break-up of RBS while it is still in public ownership may provide an opportunity for this.