"Turn the national minimum wage into a genuine living wage"
Sounds nice and everything, but how are they planning to do that? Raising the minimum wage? How do you do that without having a knock on effect on cost of living/inflation? What about youth unemployment? Or those whose labour isn't worth the new minimum wage? Do we want them out of work forever?
First of all, everyone's labour is worth a living wage, that's just a reality human society will have to get used to without throwing faeces at a wall like a monkey having a tantrum.
And actually the Greens are rather keen on a basic income for every citizen, which goes above and beyond a 'living wage', and there is no evidence in all it's trials and pilot schemes that inflation goes up. I guess its one of those bullshit theories klepto-capitalists like everyone to think, so they can continue to pay a pittance to everyone.
In any case, this country's due some rent control and other anti-inflation measures especially in utilities, regardless of whether a living wage is to be enshrined in law.
"Stop the privatisation of our National Health Service and where possible reverse public service sell offs"
How exactly? They've been bought and paid for, they no longer belong to the government, either they force the taxpayer to pay for them to buy it back, or they steal it, neither solution is really going to be beneficial for anyone.
The NHS is more contracted off, we can simply wait for those to expire, and not renew them or auction off any more services in the meantime. And public opinion in this country is greatly FOR renationalisation of utilities and public services, with the understanding that to do so would cost an initial lump sum.
"Bring the railways back into public ownership"
Again, how? Is their really a strong enough argument for nationalization? It would increase public spending significantly and people seem to have forgotten what a debt laden mess British Rail was.
There is an undeniable case for renationalisation. We pay more in subsidies to rail companies than we got in selling off to them originally. Which means we essentially rent it back from them for higher the value of the original sale, and this is not including (ever increasing) fares the public pays direct.
Also, the state-run East Coast line is the most profitable and efficient franchise in the country. Which brings me on to how renationsalition here can be done, we simply wait for the franchises to expire, and don't renew them.
"Disarming Trident" (as mentioned by other poster)
Would strip Britain of it's nuclear deterrent, save only about £2bn a year, miniscule when compared to Britains deficit of £110 billion a year, and put 10,000 jobs at risk.
We don't need a nuclear deterrent, it's not 1968 anymore. And we'd save £2bn a year, as well as the £30bn+ cost of replacing trident. I imagine there's a better way of investing £32bn in the economy (if employment is a concern of yours) than nuclear programs that hire 10,000 people.
Whilst I'm sure the Green Party and their voters have only good intentions for the British people, their policies seem pretty difficult to implement, and in some cases would be potentially very damaging.
The fact that you came to that conclusion without waiting for any answers to your questions, or without any research on your part (that would render such questions obsolete), and indeed the manner and tone with which you posed your questions, is very telling.
EDIT: (Forgot about this one this first time around)
"Scrap university tuition fees"
A noble goal but who's going to pay for it?
It would be paid for by the state, obviously. And it will be the state who reaps the rewards as it gains a highly educated workforce out of the bargain, as a result of people of excellence from all backgrounds receiving the highest standard of education that they deserve on merit. It also means people who pass through higher education are not crippled with the debt they had to incur for decades out of their adult lives - the economic benefits of which surely I do not have to explain.
