BP Motions

British Schools BP Motions

1. THW allow rebel groups to form political parties in exchange for laying down arms

2. THR the rise of reality television

3. THBT the US should provide political asylum to Chinese whistleblowers exposing corruption within the regime

4. THS English being taught as the universal primary language of communication.

5. THW ban workers in essential state industries (such as transportation, healthcare and law enforcement) from striking

6. THW take immediate steps to colonise Mars.

7. THR the rise of cancel culture.

8. TH believes that the EU should not offer the UK another extension on Brexit negotiations after October 31

9. THW legalize all drugs

IICYD Topics 2019

1. This House Would ban developed countries from hiring doctors from developing countries

2. This House Supports the School Strike for Climate

3. This House Would pay reparations for the Atlantic slave trade

4. In countries where compulsory military service for men exists, this house believes that feminists should advocate for the conscription of women

5. This House would teach children that wealth is a source of shame

6. This House prefers a world without religion or spiritual belief

Pre-2019

1. This House would ban cosmetic surgery

2. THBT the feminist movement should reject the glorification of motherhood.

3. This House, as the United States, would stop all arms sales, military support, and other aid to Saudi Arabia

4. This House Would ban private schools

5. This House would abolish the monarchy

6. This House, as the US, would stop all arms sales, military support, and other aid to Saudi Arabia

7. This House would introduce a 50% quota for women in Parliament (this means that half of all Members of Parliament must be female)

8. THBT International Sporting Events Should Never be Hosted in Countries with Authoritarian Regimes or Poor Human Rights Records

9. This house would create a separate league for athletes on performance enhancing drugs

10. THBT social media has done more harm than good

11. This House would ban reporting on the private lives of politicians

12. THW eliminate trial by jury

13. THS quotas for women in parliament

14. THS an 100% inheritance tax

15. THW make voting mandatory

16. THBT international sports should not be hosted in countries with a poor human rights record

17. THW allow the use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports

18. THW tie foreign aid to environmental standards

19. THW ban public opinion polls

20. TH prefers two party political systems to multi-party systems

21. THW make paternity leave compulsory

22. THW criminalise Holocaust denial

23. THW legalise all drugs (ie cocaine, heroin, marijuana, etc

24. THW abolish all medical drug patents

25. THW pay housewives/husbands a living wage

26. THW give two votes to people under the age of 30

27. This House Supports a Privilege Tax

28. This House Would allow parents who have been sent to prison to raise their children behind bars.

29. THW pay MPs the average national salary

30. THBT liberal supreme courts should misinterpret the constitution to advance progressive rights

31. THW not make liberal arts courses (Humanities, English Literature, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts) mandatory in secondary school (age 11-16)

32. THW ban those who have engaged in terrorism from standing for political positions

33. THR the narrative of ‘the one’. The narrative of the one is a narrative about romantic love which says there is one right person out there for everyone, one perfect soulmate that we are working to find

34. THBT former colonial powers (e.g. Britain, Spain) should significantly increase immigration quotas for countries that they previously colonised.

35. THR the commercialization of feminism

36. THW compel media outlets to provide equal airtime to commentators from both sides of the political spectrum

37. TH welcomes the decline of the USA as the global superpower

38. THW actively incentivise the provision of religious services and activities in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation

39. THBT union membership should be compulsory for all workers in large industries, e.g. teaching, manufacturing, and retail

40. THW abolish all patent laws for pharmaceuticals and replace them with government subsidies, grants and tax incentives for pharmaceutical development

41. THR the rise of 'cancel culture'

42. THW abolish the minimum wage

Additional motions from Various BP tournaments around the world

1. This house would reserve seats in parliament for candidates under 30 

2. THW prohibit private ownership of art deemed to be culturally or historically significant.

3. This House believes that developing countries should require all university graduates to work in their country of origin for a fixed period of time.

4. THS feminist campaigns that celebrate the contributions of men

5. THW criminalize the payment of ransoms.

6. THBT Democratic Countries Should Not Allow Family Members of Past State Leaders (e.g. Presidents/Prime Ministers) to run for political office

7. THW prefer to live under a strong dictatorship than in a weak democracy

8. THW ban the reporting of the identities of anyone involved in an ongoing criminal trial

9. THBT parents from minority ethnicities should encourage their children to code switch (R4) Code switching (for the purposes of this debate) refers to the practice of changing the way you speak depending on the context of the conversation. This often results in people of colour using a ‘white voice’ in contexts like job interviews, workplaces and on the phone

10. THS the rise of ‘mummy vlogging’ ‘Mummy vlogging’ is a type of video blogging in which mothers and families show intimate details of their family lives on Youtube. They often feature: 1. health tips, 2. product recommendations, 3. discussions specific to motherhood, 4. footage of their children and day to day lives

11. THW introduce performance-related pay for teachers

12. This House Would pay reparations for the Atlantic slave trade

13. THW make paternity leave compulsory

14. This house would create a separate league for athletes on performance enhancing drugs

15. This House would impose a privilege tax. (A privilege tax is a tax based on factors that make someone advantaged. Factors in a privilege tax would include but are not limited to: race, income, family background, and gender. A privilege tax would replace other taxes on individuals.)

16. This House believes that government should be able to interfere in the justice system for political purposes.

17. This House would break up  the big tech companies (Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon)

18. In post conflict societies, This House would grant amnesty to perpetrators of crimes rather than seeking prosecutions

19. A pill exists that ensures "moral behaviour", THW ban the morality pill.

20. THBT government must grant economic compensation to those unemployed by the automation of their work

21. THW ban all beauty pageants

22. THW give out scholarships solely on the basis of academic potential

23. THW ban the use, in schools, of literature that reinforces traditional gender roles.

24. THW not lie to its children about Santa Claus

25. THW cancel permanent membership and veto power in the UN Security Council.

26. TH, as the United States, would reopen full diplomatic relations with the Assad government

27. THW ban international commercial surrogacy

28. THW grant police the ability to stop and search without reasonable suspicion during designated areas and times. 

29. THW never, ever ban books.

30. THW introduce a sin tax on all meat products

31. This house would scrap hate speech laws

32. This house supports proportional representation

33. This House supports the militaries of western liberal democracies engaging in extensive genetic and bionic enhancement of consenting soldiers

34. This House would legalize squatting

35. This House believes that justices on national Supreme Courts should be democratically elected

36. This House believes that, within broad budgetary constraints, environmental policy should be decided by a panel of scientific experts selected by their peers

37. This House as a prestigious media company, would always refuse to publish anonymous opinion editorials

38. This House believes that only LGBTQ+ actors should play LGBTQ+ roles

39. This house believes that the International Criminal Court should use private military contractors to arrest people wanted by the Court.

40. This house believes that Western democratic countries should unilaterally evacuate relics of historical or cultural importance located in unstable countries and take possession of them.

41. This house believes that we should recognise a right to be free from intentionally offensive speech.

42. This house believes that charities should not accept money from donors they consider immoral.

43. You are a humanitarian charity operating in a conflict-zone and have been instructed that to remain working in the country you must provide 50% of your donations to the government or else all access to the country will be forcibly cut off. This house would remain in the conflict-zone

44. This house would enforce surrogacy contracts, even if the surrogate mother refuses after giving birth.

45. This house believes that feminists should criticise decisions made by women that seem to entrench patriarchal norms even where women claim it is their choice (e.g. foregoing careers to raise children, having cosmetic surgery).

46. A Western democratic nation has recently been the target of a relatively large terrorist attack. That nation has elections scheduled in a week. This house would cancel those elections.

47. This house supports a movement towards granting human rights to AI.

48. This house would abolish income tax in favour of consumption taxes.

49. THW not punish those who live below the poverty line for economic crimes, e.g. theft

50. THW cooperate with any leader or regime to defeat non-state actors that systematically violate human rights

51. That the government should regulate automated driving systems (e.g. google driverless cars), so that in the event of a potential accident, the programme makes decisions that prioritise the safety of those outside of the vehicle over that of the passengers within.

52. That non-white actors shouldn’t pursue roles where characters they would portray are based on ethnic stereotypes.

53. That governments in democracies should not control the school history curriculum

54. That people who currently choose to be vegetarian on the grounds of animal welfare should instead consume products where the production process treats animals well

55. This house as  a women would run her campaign to appeal to women specifically as opposed to the overall voter

56. Thw not contact extraterrestrial life

57. Th opposes a norm of strong party discipline

58. This House believe that countries should be able to vote in elections of their international allies

59. This house opposes the guilt tactics of charities

60. This house regrets the invention of nuclear weapons

61. Thw make it illegal for police to tactically lie during criminal investigations and interrogations e.g. lying about witnesses or evidence

62. Ths AI taking all jobs and every human is provided universal basic income

63. This house is a wealthy developed country would only provide development aid on the condition of environmentally sustainable development

64. This house would grant citizenship to foreign athletes to improve the national sports teams

65. In poor areas this house would prioritize vocational schools over academic ones

66. This house would prefer a world in which there was only one language

67. This House believes that feminists in developing countries should separate themselves from mainstream feminists

68. Assuming that it is feasible this house would put an absolute cap on nonmedical nonemergency expenditure by parents on each of their children

69. This House supports property destruction as a form of protest against gentrification.

70. THW grant police the ability to stop and search without reasonable suspicion during designated areas and times

71. THW introduce a sin tax on all meat products

72. THW give out scholarships solely on the basis of academic potential

73. THS a 4-day work week

74. THW ban providing military aid to authoritarian regimes

75. This House would abolish university tuition

76. THW allow the use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports

77. THW introduce performance-related pay for teachers

78. THW ban public opinion polls 

79. This house would ban children from participating in reality TV shows e.g. Junior Masterchef, Canada’s Got Talent.

80. This house would replace compulsory English with compulsory science in high school 

81. This House believes that that violence can be an appropriate form of protest in a democracy 

82. The Canadian government should build the proposed oil pipelines 

83. This House would return cultural treasures in museums and art galleries to their countries of origin

84. This House would imprison only violent offenders

85. This House would legalize all drugs

86. This House would ban affirmative action programs

87. This House would hold parents responsible for the actions of their children

88. This House would adopt a system of proportional representation in Canadian elections

89. This House would abolish the monarchy

90. This House would allow parents to genetically modify the next generation 

91. This House would have medical experts rather than parents make health decisions for children

92. This House would prioritize well being of the environment over people

93. This House supports the formation of a permanent UN military force

94. This House supports the expansion of the UN security council

95. This House would allow performance enhancing drugs in sports

96. This House would allow the use of academic performance enhancing drugs in university

97. The Canadian government should decrease funding for university programs with low employment prospects

98. Post-secondary education should be free

99. You are a recent graduate and you have been offered two jobs. One is highly paid and prestigious but utterly boring. The other will never bring you wealth and fame but aligns with your passions. THW choose the former. 

100. THW disclose all people’s salaries, bonuses and benefits 

101. THW allow citizens to sue political leaders and activists for misleading or deceptive conduct 

102. Instead of sentencing offenders to fixed terms of imprisonment, THW sentence offenders to indeterminate sentences of imprisonment and release them when they have been rehabilitated 

103. This house believes that the criminal law should not distinguish an attempt to commit a crime from successfully committing a crime. 

104. THS the implementation of mass surveillance by governments on their citizens. 

105. THBT sports leagues should implement redistributive schemes where income is transferred from higher earning players to lower earning players. 

106. That evidence that is reliable but illegally obtained by the police should be excluded as evidence in all criminal trials. Needs a status quo info slide. 

107. This house, as a Hollywood film maker, would tailor casting, content, dialogue and plotlines to appease censors in Beijing 

108. You are the curator of the national museum. On his death bed, your head of security admits he stole the museum’s most prized collection decades ago and replaced it with a brilliant forgery which is indistinguishable from the original. THW not reveal the forgery  

109. THBT liberal democracies should constitutionally enshrine the right of regions to unilaterally secede 

110. Assuming they have control of the US Congress and Presidency, THB Democrats should appoint additional SC justices (The US Supreme Court currently has 9 justices. The constitution does not fix the number of justices and congress has the power to create additional Supreme Court seats, although this power has not been used since 1869. Appointments to the Supreme Court are for life. Donald Trump appointed 3 judges during his term, including, controversially, Amy Coney Barrett in the final days before the 2020 election.) 

111. The right to silence is the right of a person in a criminal trial or investigation to not answer questions, and for guilt not to be inferred from a refusal to answer questions. That we would abolish the “right to silence”. 

112. In a world in which humans have obtained the ability of interstellar travel, humans should never make contact with, or interfere with, the development of alien civilisations that are not also capable of interstellar travel. 

113. TH regrets films that cast non-2SLGBTQ actors as 2SLGBTQ characters 

114. THBT film, literary and artistic awards such as the Oscars and Nobel Prize in Literature should be decided by members of the public rather than a panel of experts 

115. THW impose trade sanctions on nations that refuse to take action on climate change 

116. This house, as a democratic liberal economy, would adopt a wealth tax. A wealth tax is a tax on all wealth and capital owned by an individual rather than just their earnings for that year. 

117. THS the narrative that goodness always prevails over evil in childrens media. 

118. You are a humanitarian charity operating in a conflict-zone and have been instructed that to remain working in the country you must provide 50% of your donations to the government or else all access to the country will be forcibly cut off. This house would remain in the conflict-zone. 

119. THBT Western states should invest heavily into climate engineering technology. (Climate engineering technology is technology which artificially alters the climate on a large scale in order to control the effects of climate change. Research on climate engineering is at an early stage and understanding needs to improve to judge their adequacy and feasibility.) 

120. That, assuming it were practicable, sports teams or people that develop novel strategies or techniques should be able to “copyright” them for two seasons after they are first used successfully. 

121. Various countries have rigid secondary school streaming or banding systems which segregate children into ability groups based on exam results from primary school and/or middle school. That we should institute a streaming system for secondary schools 

122. THW prohibit the private ownership of art that is deemed to be historically and culturally significant 

123. THBT the state should have no role in attempting to protect people from themselves 

124. THBT governments should actively discourage home ownership 

125. THR the recent tendency to produce sequels, reboots, and remakes rather than original content 

126. THW introduce a sugar tax 

127. Drug X completely prevents children from engaging in 'bad behaviour' (disobedience to parents, truancy, lying). THW allow parents to give Drug X to their children. 

128. THBT the economic priority of governments should be to reduce inequality (e.g. through very high top rates of tax, wealth and inheritance taxes, generous transfers to low-income people) 

129. THW replace all forms of development aid with direct cash transfers to impoverished people in low-income countries 

130. THBT the government should only fund tertiary education courses which have high employment rates for graduates 

131. THW ban schools from offering sports scholarships 

132. THBT that Western states should make development aid contingent on developing countries enforcing environmental protection laws 

133. This house regrets severe social sanctions for offensive speech. 

134. THBT developing nations should refuse to honor patents on medicines and other healthcare technologies 

135. This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment in an attempt to combat global warming.