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This came to me when I saw some online poll or other asking what policies you would introduce if you were head of your own party. My thoughts immediately turned to all things tri and, worryingly, the punishments I would mete out to people who transgress the unwritten, but widely known, rules that hold our sport together.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Having scribbled a few down I read them out to my wife who started calling me Kim Jong-Brunt, suggesting that I was in danger of coming across as more of a mad dictator than a benevolent president.<\/p>\n So I\u2019ve softened my stance a bit with some financial inducements for good behaviour and some policies designed to make life easier, specifically for people in the key \u201850-year-old-near-the-back\u2019 demographic<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 if there must be injustice, then let it be in my favour.<\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m now ready to launch my manifesto on the world and I invite applications for the key posts in my Government such as Minister for Transitions, Secretary of State for Public Lane Swimming, Keeper of the Royal Track Pump, etc.<\/p>\n Feel free to suggest your own ministerial positions based on the key policies outlined below, of which there are 23 for 2022.<\/p>\n 1 | All receipts from bike shops to say \u2018\u00a320\u2019 regardless of how much you\u2019ve spent.<\/p>\n 2 | Immediate imprisonment for people in swimming pools who push off the wall in front of you just as you\u2019re coming in to turn<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n 3 | Non-triathletes who say \u2018I couldn\u2019t do the swim but I could do the bike and run\u2019 to be made to go and do the bike and run.<\/p>\n 4 | Custodial sentences for people who knowingly rack their bikes facing the wrong way in transition<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n 5 | The number \u2018.01\u2019 to be banned from all clocks and replaced with \u2018.02\u2019 instead, thus ensuring the removal of all finishing times\u00a0like 2:30:01.<\/p>\nMartyn Brunt\u2019s key policies for 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n