Jean-Claude Juncker,
The European Union [note: not only the Eurozone] should have a minister of economy and finance. Such a minister should also be the chairman of all euro zone finance ministers and be accountable to the European Parliament.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Carbon Tax
I have long believed that the most elegant way to drive innovation and to reduce carbon emissions is to put a price on it
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
For too many of us, it’s become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or college campuses or places of worship or our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. The rise of naked partisanship, increasing economic and regional stratification, the splintering of our media into a cha... See More
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Net neutrality
Internet providers have a legal obligation not to block or limit your access to a website. Cable companies can't decide which online stores you should shop at or which streaming services you can use. And they can't let any company pay for priority over its competitors.
Mike Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, former mayor of new york city
agrees
Health taxes
Noncommunicable diseases are a growing global crisis, especially in low-and-middle income countries. There’s substantial evidence that taxes and fiscal policies are essential to confronting this health threat.
Jeremy Corbyn, British labour party politician
agrees
Robot Tax
Companies that replace workers with robots should be taxed in a new settlement between work and leisure. We need urgently to face the challenge of automation; robotics that could make so much of contemporary work redundant
Mike Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, former mayor of new york city
agrees
Soda taxes
Noncommunicable diseases are a growing global crisis, especially in low-and-middle income countries. There’s substantial evidence that taxes and fiscal policies are essential to confronting this health threat.
Yanis Varoufakis, Former finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens
agrees
Basic Income
Either we are going to have a basic income that regulates this new society of ours, or we are going to have very substantial social conflicts that get far worse with xenophobia and refugees and migration and so forth.
Emmanuel Macron, French President
I do not believe that autonomous vehicles will exist without any drivers at all. For me, that’s pure imagination. You already have fully automated programs to drive planes. Therefore we technically could have planes with no pilots. But you still have two pilots in every plane. Even if almost everything is automated. That’s because you need to have responsibility, precisely. So what we will reduce ... See More
Emmanuel Macron, French President
Being focused on protecting jobs is not the right answer. It’s the people you need to protect. You do so by giving them opportunities and by training and retraining them again to get new jobs. Don’t block the change because it’s coming and people will accept it. But try to be at the fore-front of change to better understand it and deal with it. Change can destroy jobs in the very short run, but cr... See More
Emmanuel Macron, French President
agrees
Ban Autonomous Weapons
I’m dead against [autonomous weapons]. Because I think you always need responsibility and assertion of responsibility. And technically speaking, you can have in some situations, some automation which will be possible. But automation or machines put in a situation precisely to do that would create an absence of responsibility. Which, for me, is a critical issue. So that’s absolutely impossible. Tha...
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Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury
agrees
State-funded faith schools
The often-forgotten fact that church schools are the main educational presence in some of our most deprived communities means that it simply can't be said that these schools somehow have a policy of sanitising or segregating.
Tariq Ahmad, British Minister of State for the Commonwealth and United Nations
agrees
State-funded faith schools
We must educate our children to understand other religions, in the hope that the next generation will be wiser than those that have come before it. And schools can play this role, including faith schools.
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
agrees
State-funded faith schools
We live in a country where an overarching story, which is the framework for explaining life, has more or less disappeared. We have a world of unguided and competing narratives, where the only common factor is the inviolability of personal choice, which means that for schools that are not of a religious character, confidence in any personal sense of ultimate values has diminished. Utilitarianism ru...
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Boris Johnson,
agrees
Brexit
A vote to Remain will be taken in Brussels as a green light for more federalism, and for the erosion of democracy.
Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director
disagrees
Brexit
It is bound to be a negative on all fronts. For those that stay, because there are fewer of them, and for those who go, because they lose the benefit of facilitation of exchange.
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
disagrees
Brexit
The UK will lose its influence in the world if it leaves the European Union
Bob Inglis, Former Congressman
agrees
Carbon Tax
You then offset that [carbon tax] with a reduction in payroll taxes, dollar for dollar. And that's why I was so flexible. It's a tax swap, that's what I was talking about. It wouldn't grow the government, and it would approximate the attachment of these negative externalities to combustion fossil fuels.
Chris Williamson, Labour MP
agrees
Women-only train carriages
I'm not saying we should go down this road at all, I'm merely suggesting that we consult on it. [It is about being able to offer] that safe space for people if they wanted it
Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary
agrees
Basic Income
I am really, really interested if he will bring that to bear in terms of some really significant changes to the taxation system that would really help us manage poverty in a brand new way,
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Climate change is real
Climate change is the greatest long-term threat facing the world, as well as a danger already manifesting itself as droughts, storms, heat waves and flooding.
Jeremy Corbyn, British labour party politician
agrees
Women-only train carriages
It is unacceptable that many women and girls adapt their daily lives in order to avoid being harassed on the street, public transport, and in other public places from the park to the supermarket. This could include taking longer routes to work, having self-imposed curfews or avoiding certain means of transport. My intention would be to make public transport safer for everyone from the train platfo...
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Erik Solheim, Executive director of UN Environment
agrees
Carbon Tax
The profit of destroying nature or polluting the planet is nearly always privatized, while the costs of polluting the planet or the cost of destroying ecosystems is nearly always socialized. That cannot continue.
John Kerry, American politician, former United States Secretary of State and former senator from Massachusetts
agrees
Cryptocurrencies
People are investing in it, it’s serious amounts of money and it’s got value so it’s going to be talked about.
Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
disagrees
Vaccines
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
All Americans who are qualified to serve should be able to serve
Gary Johnson, Two-term Governor of New Mexico and 2016 Libertarian candidate for President
disagrees
Vaccines
No to mandatory vaccines
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia since 2006
agrees
Basic Income
The rapid replacement of jobs by machines/artifical intelligence will lead to the need for a Universal Basic Income.
Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister
disagrees
Brexit
3 million jobs in the UK are linked to our trade with the EU. The future prosperity of British people, are inexorably linked to our trade and co-operation with other European countries
Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
disagrees
Carbon Tax
I will not support or endorse a carbon tax!
Jim Farley, European President, Ford
disagrees
Brexit
The UK being part of the EU is critical for business.
David C Bannerman,
agrees
Brexit
Our choice is a simple one. Subjugation or sovereignty. The case for leaving the EU is getting stronger every day.
Janice Atkinson, Independent MEP for the South East, member of the Europe of Nations and Freedoms group in the Europe
agrees
Brexit
The possibility of new trade deals across the globe would invigorate the economy, while scaling back EU regulation would create jobs and lead to stronger growth, not weaker.
Tom Harris,
agrees
Brexit
If the UK leaves the EU, all the powers Brussels and Strasbourg currently have over Scotland ... will be automatically devolved to Holyrood. I think those powers would be better used by Scottish politicians directly accountable to Scottish voters.
George Eustice,
agrees
Brexit
We have an annual trade deficit with the EU in food alone of £10bn so they [farmers] need a free-trade deal.
David Icke,
agrees
Brexit
[The EU is] a vehicle for the incessant centralising of power in the hands of a few dark suit bureaucrats ... It’s a farce, it’s a con.
Jonathan Arnott MEP,
agrees
Brexit
Every set of trade figures reveal that the EU is a failing trading bloc, declining in importance to our economy. Free from Brussels shackles we’d make our own trade deals, reactivate our seat at the World Trade Organisation and strengthen our ties with o
Julian Brazier,
agrees
Brexit
I believe, as a former soldier and a serving Defence Minister, that the EU makes the people of our country less safe.
Gisela Stuart MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston, chair of Vote Leave
agrees
Brexit
The NHS is struggling to cope with rising demand. If we Vote Leave we will be able to stop our money being spent on EU bureaucrats and instead invest in the NHS so that patients can get the best possible care.
Yanis Varoufakis, Former finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens
disagrees
Brexit
[Brexit] would make a bad thing [the EU] far, far worse … Monsters don’t have to win elections to be in power.
John Whittingdale,
agrees
Brexit
The living wage was a great idea to give British families a pay rise, but because we have no control of our borders the main people that benefit could be from other EU countries.
Priti Patel, Minister of State for Employment, Member of Parliament for Witham
agrees
Brexit
We cannot control the flow of people coming in from the EU … which means we are actually stopping highly-skilled people from … outside Europe coming to work in many of the higher-value jobs and sectors.
Emmanuel Macron, French President
disagrees
Brexit
When you [Britain] discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the EU, not because you are just UK. You will be completely killed otherwise.
Philip Hollobone, Conservative Member of Parliament for Kettering
agrees
Brexit
I think we can say … that if we remain a member of the European Union it is not absurd to say that crime will be higher and that we will have more criminals in our country.
Dominic Raab, Conservative Member of Parliament for Esher and Walton
agrees
Brexit
In terms of jobs, the real case for leaving the EU lies with the positive opportunities from winning back the freedom to craft our own laws at home, while trading more energetically abroad with the global economies of the future
Margot Parker MEP,
agrees
Brexit
As a Catholic it appals me that the EU imposes huge tariffs on fish, foodstuffs and clothes that are made for example by workers in the poorer countries of Africa. The EU is … preventing developing countries from trading themselves out of poverty.
José Manuel Barroso,
disagrees
Brexit
I believe that if the UK is no longer a member of the EU, there will certainly be a loss of research funding, a loss of EU and [global] research networks.
William Wright , Northern Irish business owner and former Unionist politician.
agrees
Brexit
The bureaucracy of Europe is not conducive to the UK's business interests. I am firmly in the 'leave' camp.
Sajid Javid,
disagrees
Brexit
I am not suggesting everything is certain by remaining but there is a lot more uncertainty [if we leave the EU] … Uncertainty is the enemy of jobs and growth.
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