The Tottenham Independent has asked each parliamentary candidate why they should become an MP at the General Election.

Here Geoff Moseley, the Hoi Polloi Party's candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green, sets out why you should vote for him.

1) Fracking is frucking madness, and any politician who entertains the idea is not fit for office. It disgusts me the Conservatives support the idea, and Labour and the Lib Dems are dithering with statements like "the science isn’t in yet" or "the jury’s out". Watch a documentary about fracking in America and you’ll soon see what incredible stupidity fracking is. What’s more, few people understand the fuss about fracking until I explain the process to them, and then it becomes abundantly clear: the fossil fools will one day wake up and find realise they can’t drive their shale-driven cars to work because they’ve died of thirst, or their food source has.

2) In a very short space of time – less than a century – our representative democracy has been undermined and nullified by vested interests, which are being represented at our expense. While the rest of us are merely expected to work, pay our taxes and our bills, they receive government subsidies and sweetheart tax deals that are costing is hundreds of billions per year. When you consider £84 billion is handed to the railways as subsidies every year, and £120 billion in taxes is being avoided by big business, our deficit of £90 billion could be settled in two strokes of a pen.

3) Neither health nor punishment should be profitable businesses, and there’s a strong argument for nationalising law just as we nationalised health. Law is one of the founding pillars of civilisation (the other being religion) and should be freely available to all. Nor should it be so complicated: the expression "ignorance of the law is no excuse" is ridiculous. Law should be simple, straightforward and understood by all. How often are we drawn to a distinction between what is right, and what is legal?

4) Monetary reform: we need to take the power to create money away from commercially-run banks (who create 97 per cent of the "money" in circulation) and put it in the hands of a state-run organisation at arms-length from the government. Just as the Bank of England sets interest rates, such an organisation could do the same with regard to money supply. Money was created as a simple means of transaction, but since it’s become commodified it’s traded as a commodity to the detriment of society.

5) Education should be provided on the basis of a pupil’s ability to learn, not their parent’s ability to pay. Intelligence is a national, renewable resource that should be developed for the benefit of the nation, not simply the benefit of the person blessed with intelligence and a good education. We can’t afford to waste good education on thick-headed rich kids, any more than we should allow the education system to act as a social divider. Along with the best tuition should be instilled the concept of noblesse oblige: intelligence is a gift, not something anyone earns. It should be shared, and we need to instil the idea that the strong should protect the weak, not exploit them.