Vote for your top three policies for the Labour manifesto

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Vote now!

Each of your top 25 policy proposals has now had a full hearing, and we’re ready to open voting on the New Ideas series.

You can vote for any three of the 25 pitches that have been argued on these pages over the last ten days. The most popular five choices will be taken to the party and presented as your preferred ideas for the manifesto.

I can’t guarantee that they will appear in the final draft of Labour’s 2010 manifesto, but I fully intend to lobby for their inclusion over the coming months as the choices of grassroots Labour supporters.

The rules are simple:

* You may only vote once. Duplicated votes will be filtered out by IP address.

* You may only vote for three policy proposals. Voters who select more than three policies will have their votes disqualified.

Please do read the supporting arguments, which are linked below, before voting.

Vote for your three policy proposals here.

The final 25 policy proposals are below:

A full wide ranging housing plan to include demolition and filling of derelict homes.

A national living wage.

A public share in the private profits of local green energy generation.

A fully elected House of Lords.

Lower the voting age to 16.

Create universal childcare.

A youth club in every ward.

Clamp down on tax evasion through tax havens.

Commit to building a national high-speed rail network.

Make advertising of Junk Food to children illegal.

Investment in off-site and outdoor education programmes for children.

The National Curriculum should include credit management and personal finance education.

Introduce post graduate student loans.

Free minimum standard of long term care for all older people.

Make hospital car parking free in England.

Re-nationalise the railways.

Increase the basic rate of income tax threshold to £10,000.

Remove private schools’ charitable status.

Introduce free prescriptions on the NHS.

Create a national standards agency to regulate private housing standards.

Liberalise the Sunday trading law to allow weekday opening hours on Sundays.

Improve access to parenting classes and offer them free to those on low incomes.

Both parents should have the option of taking shared amounts of maternity and paternity leave.

Use public buildings, such as schools, for community and social events.

Link a commitment to curbing domestic flights by 2025 to further electrification of the railways.

These short descriptions are not perfect, and are expanded upon and improved in the individual posts.