The Way Forward For The UK?

Question

Okay it is easy enough to criticise others, but lets hear peoples opinions on what and how they would change things with tomorrow being a clean start. 10 points by 9am tomorrow for the most thought through idea based on the future.

Answer 1

The way forward for the UK starts with sorting out the mess that we call society. By encouraging people to be single parents, and to only work 16 hours a week so they can have a council flat, the government has made it easier to rely on the state instead of people working for what they get.

I would only allow those with no job to have benefits for 3 months, by which time they must have a job, and must work at least 25 hours a week, otherwise they loose their benefits and house.
Parents on benefits will not be encouraged to have large numbers of children (which they do now to get more money). Instead, for their first child they will get full benefits, but less money each time for every other child (if you can't afford them, don't have them). And some children whose parent's can't support them without benefits would be taken into care.
People have to live with their parents until they are 18, instead of 16, also.
Scrap the ASBOs, and give people community sentances, but harsher ones, like cleaning the streets, and so on. People who always re-offend at a young age should be sent into the army, to give them disipline, and a sense of purpose.

New prisons should be built, to house criminals. At first the old prison ships would be brought back into use while they are being built. I would then make it illigal for people to not serve their full sentance (good behaviour or not). Also, life would mean life, and not just 20 years.

As for the NHS, I would fire all the pen-pushing administrators, and hire ex-doctors to run the hospitals, as they actually know what the hospital needs, having worked in one all their life. I would also ensure, through legislations or whatever, that all hospitals were cleaned three times a day at least, with the strongest chemicals needed to kill the bugs.

Instead of appointed Lords, I would introduce a partially elected second house. I would also take away the right of the first house to bypass the Lords, if they do not pass a law (like with the hunting ban).

I would hike up the taxes on petrol and electricity bills, to encourage people to use more efficient appliances. Most of the money from these taxes would go on conservation projects, or on building hydro-electric power plants, or whind farms.

I would give every adult the right to vote on this EU treaty, and also the right to vote on whether we stay as part of the EU (which i would strongly encourage we do, as they do keep our farmers afloat).

I would stop using money from the rest of the UK to fund free prescriptions/university fees in Scotland, and would instead let them use their money, while money from all the UK countries would be spent on schemes that apply to all of the UK, not just one country.

I would also give everyone 16 or over the vote - they have a fresh take on politics, and are also adults, many of whom have to pay tax, and so should be entitled to their own political opinions and entitled to choose who runs their country.

I would also put more tax on these city bonuses. Any bonus that exceeds £100 000 would have to pay 50% tax. This money would be used to build new housing, and to provide more services, such as care homes for the elderly/severely ill.

I would put a quota on the number of immigrants. So there would be so many from the EU, so many from the commonwealth, and so many from the rest of the world, per year. At the moment we have plenty of people who live here and are not immigrants, and yet they are not working, and instead claiming money that could be better spent elsewhere.

Lastly, I would makesure that every student can only leave school at 16 IF they have 5 decent GCSE's (A* to C grade), and at least a C in Science, Maths, and English. Those who leave school, and do not go into further education, and do not get a job within a year will be automatically given a job by the local council (which could be anything from joining a building firm as an apprentice, to being a garbage collector).

Answer 2

Stop immigration completely. Boot out illegal immigrants instead of letting them stay, duh.

Put tax mostly on cigarettes & alcohol, as well as vehicle tax, reduce it for the rest.
Smoking surely is adding to global warming too, it is hugely polluting the environment, all the cadmium & other bad things in the smoke, imagine how much smoke is going into the air from smoking right now.

Build hydro & wind power generators.

Create mercury & electrical waste recycling boxes to send the new tube lights & electrical devices to when they are used, have clear warning labels about breaking the mercury tube lights, & have fines for not disposing of correctly, somehow. Otherwise these new bulbs will be very damaging to human health & the environment, which is the opposite of why they are being introduced. Electrical waste contains many toxic substances such as pcb's & heavy metals, which damage the environment & get into the water supply causing increases in disease & weakening peoples' immune systems.

Make it easier to buy organic food somehow, there isn't much & so it's hard to find fresh organic vegetables even from Waitrose & Sainsbury's.

Have population control, otherwise the already low oxygen supply will decrease even further, making health problems even more common, act NOW before it's too late! Although I suppose big pharma will profit from increased disease. Population increase also causes more pollution.

Answer 3

Money should be better spent in local areas, people that are capable should be encouraged to do more. When I was out of work I would have happily cut the grass on the sides of a road or planted trees, that could have freed the council to sort out the empty houses on our estates, instead they are still boarded up

Answer 4

Cut the road tax - it isn't fair rich people pay the same as poor. We already pay the highest petrol tax in Europe - petrol duty is fairer because it taxes car use. Cut duty for green fuels.

Introduce a top rate of income tax - it is the fairest way of taxing people - for people who earn more than a million a year,

I like the idea of liberal democrats in cabinet, maybe even a wet Tory. Inclusivity is the key.

Encourage savings, make pensions attractive and make them opt out- rather than opt in.

Raise alcohol duty - especially on lager and alcopops. maybe freeze it on whiskey and real ale.

Pull out of Iraq within 12 months.

Answer 5

force the lazy louts to work!!
if they dont take work make them do community service..
if they dont turn up they dont get paid simple!!!
we wouldent need all these immigrants then would we?
too many spongers here its all to easy for them.
if eastern europeans dont work they dont get paid.
in their countrys why not same here?
if people mug,rob,rape etc lash them hard and jail them..
make it hard in prison not soft they would not be full then....
ban alcopops and shots they do more harm than passive smoking!!
stop supermarkets taking over the country...
they making maunufacturers use crap instead of quality to keep prices down... result unhealthy nation.
make donner kebabs illegal there so full of gunk they should be banned.
tax the higher earners like footballers more.
put the price of road tax much higher stop too many cars polluting... force people into car sharing or using public transport more.
ban smoking in the house of commons , if the rest of the country cant do it why can they?

Answer 6

Abolish the current criminal sentencing system and replace it with a much more draconian system to help eliminate crime.To big a subject to be specfic here.

Stop all immigraton ,Everyone to have ID cards or chips .Anyone in the country illegally to be detained and deported,If they won't reveal who they are,then detain them indefinatly .with no access to the outside world .

Phase out th NHS .

Toll all roads and scrap road tax.

Invest money with companies that are looking for alternitaves to fossil fuels

Make public transport free.

Invest money in schools so they are no longer having to sell off there green spaces

Either break up the union so we go our seperate ways or put an end to devolution

Stop councils printing leaflets in languages other than English.

Stop companies having access to there pension funds ,to prevent funds being used (and lost) illegally

Answer 7

I think people unemployed could do more for their areas, not anything army style, but if they were taken to places where things needed doing then they probably would enjoy doing it, surely this could also free up council workers to do other much needed jobs in our areas.

Answer 8

I agree with Kit Fang, well thought out....start a party, I will vote for you.