What policies would you introduce for the UK.
1. Alcohol duty would continue to rise but be frozen at traditional pubs (not late night cram them in watering holes), to maintain a sense of community that is sorely missed in these days of social media and hectic schedules.
2. Unemployment benefit to be halved after 6 months, but with the recipient to be then placed in a work place where the employer pays the rest for a further six months. Then after six months the employer would be given the opportunity to fully employ a trained worker. If the company found any excuse to not employ them and was deemed to be simply using it for cheap temporary staff there would be severe financial sanctions.
3. I would severely restrict what MPs are allowed to claim as expenses, all assistants etc would also be provided for them to stop over claiming of wages.
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From a managerial perspective it's commonly referred to as 'mentoring'!
Well, the one I'd start with is taxing the churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and all those oddball offshoots. In particular, I'd take 50% of all their tithes. Think of it as a modern day reformation.
Longer weekend means people spend more money.
And tell us its fairer society this way.
Will never happen of course
⦁ Right to leave school at 15 if you had a job to go to and could prove that you'd reached a certain standard in English, arithmetic and life skills.
⦁ Greater emphasis on certain learning through repetition at an early age - I realise that this sounds like a backward step but modern studies on brain plasticity indicate that educationally we threw the baby out with the bathwater.
⦁ Less emphasis on passing exams, more emphasis on the utility of subjects.
⦁ All education to be secular; if you want to indoctrinate your kids do it at your own expense and in your own time - that's what us football fans have to do.
⦁ Change in emphasis so that education isn't just something that you do in your youth, but something that's life long.
Crime:
⦁ The countdown on all custodial sentences would only begin when the convict could prove they were totally clean of all drugs. Subsequent random testing which would pause the countdown and could reset the sentence for repeats.
⦁ Devil's Island type scenario for those with no chance of release - I don't want to pay for them or be reminded of them when they die.
Health:
⦁ Greater emphasis on education, preventative programmes and palliative care.
⦁ No public funding of fertility treatment, gender reassignment, homeopathy.
⦁ More A&E units, but fewer/bigger traditional hospitals.
Economy:
⦁ Tax the rich until their piles explode.
⦁ Major infrastructure projects - hospitals, schools. Maybe something with maglev.
⦁ Tax evasion to be a capital crime. Tax avoidance to be criminalised. Everyone to be happy to pay tax.
Transport
⦁ Nationalisation of public transport to ensure consistency of high level service, good integration and understandable fare structures.
⦁ Armed guards on all trains with the right to instantly evict anyone putting their feet on the seats, leaving bags on seats, taking too much space, sweating profusely, applying makeup or holding loud phone conversations.
⦁ All BMWs to be fitted with those new fangled indicator lights that some other cars have.
⦁ Increase public transport subsidies.
Environment:
⦁ Death penalty for fly-tippers, litter louts and those who smoke in public.
⦁ Major investment in green technologies.
Then add the cost of the course to student loan figure, OR make them go onto taxi/psv training, then lease them a vehicle with a payback plan.
It is ridiculous that we have to import labour to drive taxis/delivery vans etc, when we have so many young people who want to drive and want to work.
I know 2 young people that drive for supermarket home deliveries and they would be on the dole if their parents hadn't paid for them to pass the driving test.
Now they are working tax payers, providing a valuable service.