McGSP 1999 Manifesto Contents

Shelter: a basic Human Need

Building or buying your own house has become far too expensive in New Zealand, and now that the government has stopped providing them cheaply for the poor, we have a rapidly worsening housing crisis with many people now homeless. This is just too cruel.

This will never again happen in this country under McGillicuddy Serious Government. During the GREAT LEAP BACKWARDS, the Peasant Employment Programs (PEP) workers will erect a medieval hovel for absolutely everyone, depending on their needs, their choice of approved styles, and the location of their Clan. To assist total home ownership, we will nationalise all foreign-owned Plantation Forests (eg. Kaiangaroa) and give the trees away free to New Zealand citizens (1). After we’ve provided a roof over everyone’s head all repairs and subsequent construction become the responsibility of the Clan. Clan members will have either taken part in the massive reconstruction or will have been trained up separately through a work skills development scheme; MACCESS (or Medieval Access). It will be their responsibility to pass on their knowledge to future generations, to ensure there is never again a housing shortage (see EDUCATION).

Smashing the Building Codes

The total relaxing of all building codes, particularly the finicky annoying ones that presently stop most people from putting up their own houses will greatly encourage this building boom. The real point of modem building codes is not so much to make houses safe but to prevent rip-off-artists selling dodgy dangerous dwellings to dimwits. As houses will no longer be a saleable commodity under a Clan based subsistence lifestyle, this ceases to be a concern(3). If people want to build a house that crashes down on their loved ones heads, that’s entirely up to them.

(1) Every man, woman and child will receive approximately 72 full-sized logs each.

(2) Following the introduction of the new calendar system.

(3) see MAORITANGA