The First-Year Charter
Ten things we do straight away
The promise: No five-year wait to see if anything changed. In year one, ten concrete actions — and you watch them land on the dashboard.
- Turn on the National Spending Dashboard — every payment, contract and supplier public within 24 hours.
- Freeze big government IT buying — pause anything over £10m for a 90-day value-and-sovereignty review.
- Cap consultants — no new engagement over £500k without the PM’s written sign-off.
- Freeze and audit foreign aid — keep disaster and life-saving relief; pause the rest until it’s audited.
- End the carer’s cliff-edge — scrap the trap that punishes carers the moment they earn.
- Set up Utilico — the public utility company; start taking over failing water and energy suppliers.
- Set up Transitco — the public transport company; one card, one fare, under-18s free.
- Build FlameOS GOV — a 200-person sovereign tech team; first job, a single government login.
- Start the Palmer Budget — VAT 20%→15%, Carer’s Allowance to £125/week (no cap on hours worked), minimum wage to £15/hour, first £5bn for nuclear.
- Hold the first Confidence Vote — every 5th November the public decides whether we continue.
Year one is not a plan for later. It’s a receipt you can read by Christmas.
The charter above is the plain-English promise. Below is the original brief in full — reconstructed archive document, with the costed detail.
The Ten Immediate Reforms
First-Year Actions
Status: Reconstructed archive document
Purpose: First-year action list for a new NRSA government.
1. Launch the National Spending Dashboard
Every payment, contract, supplier, department, target, and outcome published within 24 hours.
Purpose: end hidden spending and make waste visible before it compounds.
2. Freeze Major Government IT Procurement
Pause all new government IT procurement over £10 million pending a 90-day sovereignty and value-for-money review.
Purpose: stop new outsourced dependency before FlameOS GOV can assess whether systems can be built in-house.
3. Cap Consulting Spend
No new consulting engagement above £500,000 without written PM approval.
Purpose: force departments to use internal capability or justify why they cannot build it.
4. Freeze and Audit Foreign Aid
Continue disaster relief and life-saving humanitarian commitments. Freeze non-urgent aid pending audit.
Purpose: redirect non-essential spending to domestic infrastructure, carers, utilities, and public systems.
5. Suspend the Carer’s Allowance Earnings Cliff Edge
Immediate statutory instrument removing the binary income trap.
Purpose: stop punishing carers for working and prepare the route to £125/week carer recognition, with no cap on the hours a carer can work.
6. Establish Utilico
Create the statutory utility corporation and begin acquisition assessment of failing water and energy suppliers.
Purpose: end dividend extraction from essential utilities and move to cost-plus-maintenance pricing.
7. Establish Transitco
Create the statutory public transport corporation.
Purpose: one card, one timetable, one fare structure, under-18s free, rural service treated as infrastructure.
8. Assemble FlameOS GOV
Recruit a 200-person sovereign technology core team from open source, small UK firms, and competent civil service maintainers.
First deliverable: unified government authentication replacing fragmented identity systems.
9. Begin the Palmer Budget Path
First Budget actions:
- VAT cut from 20% to 15%;
- Carer’s Allowance to £125/week, no cap on hours worked;
- minimum wage to £15/hour;
- emergency services wage floor;
- first £5bn nuclear tranche;
- foreign aid reduction to 0.15% of GNI;
- contracting and outsourcing limits.
10. Hold the Annual Public Confidence Vote
First November 5th vote.
If yes: continue.
If no: Parliament dissolves and a general election is held within 60 days.
Purpose: make the government answer annually to the public, not just internally to party machinery.
First-Year Success Metrics
- Dashboard live and used by citizens.
- Consulting and outsourcing spend falling.
- First Utilico acquisition complete.
- Transitco running in first areas.
- FlameOS GOV authentication pilot live.
- Nuclear sites selected and early works begun.
- Carer pay increased.
- VAT reduced.
- Confidence vote held.