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Sick and tired of current politics - my proposals if I were Prime Minister!
If I were PM of the UK I'd introduce the following:
Rent cap. A limit on the rent charged on a property. The precise amount would be based on area, size of property, condition of property. Properties would be put into groups A, B, C etc. If a landlord charged more than the legal top amount they'd be fined or face imprisonment. An independent regulatory group would determine the price (this group would not be directly linked to the government). Property purchase cap. This is the most radical step, perhaps. A curb on property prices. This will stop the racket between estate agents and banks/mortgage lenders artificially inflating the price of properties resulting in less people capable of affording to buy a property. This scam of inflated pricing - rigged - keeps the wealthiest people owing the most properties (as well as rich foreigners). This also inflates London house prices at the expense of the rest of the country. The price for every property in the UK would be given a pricing based on its size, area, condition. An independent regulatory group (as mentioned above) would determine the price (not directly linked to the government). Any rise in house prices would be every ten years (subject to the economy not entering a sustained depression). If an estate agent/estate agent company charged more than the legal top amount they'd be fined, closed down or face imprisonment. The independent regulatory group would make sure the rules are enforced. It would work with the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS would determine if there is enough evidence to proceed with a criminal case. City wage caps. Under a new City Finance act introduced in Parliament, no city employee can earn more than three million per annum. Anyone making more will face criminal prosecution. The new act would make offshore tax havens illegal. If it can be proven a British citizen is using offshore accounts to hide their wealth the individual can be prosecuted. If they renounce British citizenship - i.e. no longer entitled to live in the UK - they can take their money where they like. Limit on train and air fares. Prices can go up every ten years but not per year. You can retain first class and second class but the limit would prevent any train company or airline deliberately hiking up prices. Any train company/airline consistently providing a bad service will lose its operating licence. No MP can have another job. If a MP is found to have other employment he is automatically de-selected and there's a by-election. Scrap the House of Lords and turn into an IT office for Commons staff. Scrap the monarchy. Keep all the Royal Palaces etc and charge a moderate fee to tourists/other visitors. Kids under eight have free admission! Removing the monarchy will mean no civil list and the 'saved' money can be used for other government expenditure. The incumbent Prime Minister is the head of state. No president. The deputy Prime Minister would attend many state functions if the Prime Minister is too busy. Make the Bank of England directly accountable to government. The incumbent government would set interest rates, not the governor. Motion a United Nations resolution to reduce all countries' debt by a fixed amount. In the region of 10 - 40 percent. It's a mockery of logic and common sense for a country like the UK to be fast approaching two trillion pounds debt and yet we're the six largest economy. The two stats are not compatible. A reduction in debt - wiping a percentage away - would seem a moral thing to do. Introduce a new law of cyber-manslaughter. Any adult of child proven to cause death to another person via computer abuse (extreme trolliing, death threats etc) can face the charge of cyber-manslaughter. Too many young adults and children have taken their lives due to online bullying and I think it's time to introduce changes to criminal law. Reduce the MPs count to 400.We don't need 650. It's an absurd number. The lower MPs count would necessitate full boundary changes. Where possible, each MPs constituency would be the same size (with the exception of areas of large countyside). 10 year cap on MP's salaries. Every decade there can be a rise in line with inflation. No rise in the intervening years. Allow Scotland to go independent if they choose. No point having them around if they don't want to be part of the union. Under the terms of their independence, Scotland would have to pay most of the annual budget to patrol the new border between England and Scotland. Why should the English pay for something they didn't ask for? Reduce Trident or update Trident to 30 percent of current capacity. What I mean is scrap all of Trident and update/upgrade to the equivalent of 30 percent. The 70 percent reduction will pay to get more doctors/nurses/funding for the NHS. Automatic 5 year prison sentence if you carry a knife or handgun/other firearm,. You have the right of appeal but if the evidence is overwhelming - and most police wear cameras - you serve the time. Too many kids killed due to knife/gun crime. A new court system would be introduced to fast-track these cases. Scrap the BBC licence fee. BBC would offer a monthly subscription service. The scrapping of the licence fee - total cost 3. 6 billion - would help to off-set the loss of revenue from the abolition of inheritance tax (see below): The BBC would get a small government loan'' in its first year as a subscription service company to help its transition. The loan would have to be payed back within a set period of time. Scrap inheritance tax. No civilized country should allow such a tax. Parents should be entitled to give their fortune to their next of kin without government taking a large share. Scrap zero-hour contracts. No-one can be contractually employed on a day-to-day basis. It's big business exploiting people. Introduce a new national minimum wage. 10 pounds per hour. Every five years the amount would be reviewed with the intention of raising it. Scrap the current tax code and make it simpler and shorter. All tax lawyers and legal advisors would have to undergo new training and an examination to understand the new tax code. This would be achieved within a year. The new tax code would remove any existing tax loopholes, pension loopholes, assets hidden away loopholes. Scrap the current doctors contract. Renegotiate, Four month strike limit. No public sector organization can strike more than once in four months. This means that there's a train strike in January,they can't have another strike until May. If they do go on strike before that time period the company is fined. There's far too many strikes at the moment - be they for legitimate reasons or not - but enough is enough! Scrap future plans for more CCTV, online internet monitoring, motorway cameras. We're not supposed to be a police state! Post Brexit: The UK would make all its own laws - local and foreign policy. It would retain NATO membership, be part of Europol and other other European organizations fighting against terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, prostitution, cyber-crime, chiild/adult slavery. Not support every US-led war/invasion. The UK would not automatically support the US in future wars. I accept these are radical ideas but it's time to stop the excesses of capitalism. Capitalism does benefit many people but it has no soul, no conscience. If left unchecked it creates profound inequality. If you introduce new laws to keep control of capitalism I think everyone can benefit, not just the rich or on middle-incomes. If people think my ideas are crazy.... consider this: If 20 years time house prices will be vastly higher than today. Less and less people will be able to put down the money for a mortgage. Some landlords will charge crippling rents and force some people to live with their parents or to co-inhabit with lots of other people. This is happening right now. Train fares will continue to sky rocket and this is a massive tax on people's incomes. The train fare hike and property/rental prices is the biggest scam in modern capitalism. You can see how austerity is designed to keep the people at the bottom so they can never aspire to much, this protects the middle-incomers and super-rich. This is social engineering and it's been going on for decades but the problem is more acute in the 21st century. Irrespective of how bad the economy is, how bad austerity is, how many cuts there are to gov expenditure, to local services, the city bankers will always be rich, the MPS will always vote for above-inflation increases in their salary, the bosses of QUANGOS get huge salaries.You can see how the spiral of inequality never ends. Without RADICAL change we'll never never live a fairer country. It will never be absolutely fair but it can be fairer. |
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Allow Scotland to go independent if they choose. No point having them around if they don't want to be part of the union. Under the terms of their independence, Scotland would have to pay most of the annual budget to patrol the new border between England and Scotland. Why should the English pay for something they didn't ask for?
Scotland haven't asked for a patrolled border either.
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Just to add - I altered a few typos!
I'm back to talk about Celebrity Big Brother now or the price of milk! But hope you enjoyed my outline! I plan to run for Parliament in 2020!
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Just to add - I altered a few typos!
I'm back to talk about Celebrity Big Brother now or the price of milk! But hope you enjoyed my outline! I plan to run for Parliament in 2020!![]() Rent cap. Have never worked and you end up with substandard housing. Property purchase cap. Biggest cause of the price of property is the land it sits on, and really there is only one way of reducing property prices - you need to create enough houses to cover demand. Quote:
The price for every property in the UK would be given a pricing based on its size, area, condition. An independent regulatory group (as mentioned above) would determine the price (not directly linked to the government). Any rise in house prices would be every ten years (subject to the economy not entering a sustained depression).
And how on earth would you manage that - assuming you do not spend time in courts as people realise that the legal price is less than they paid for it! And you also end up substandard housing as builders now try and build houses as cheap as you want - not only that any figures used to calculate this legal price is likely to be out-of-date as is often the case with government statistics. City wage caps. City workers can make billions for their employers - they are worth it. But even here do this and watch the city - the taxes of which finance much of this country - up and leave. Quote:
Limit on train and air fares. Prices can go up every ten years but not per year. You can retain first class and second class but the limit would prevent any train company or airline deliberately hiking up prices.
We already have regulated fairsQuote:
Any train company/airline consistently providing a bad service will lose its operating licence.
Train companies can and have been stripped of there franchise.Quote:
No MP can have another job. If a MP is found to have other employment he is automatically de-selected and there's a by-election.
Do you want a corrupt House of Commons?Quote:
Scrap the House of Lords and turn into an IT office for Commons staff.
The House of Lords provides two very important checks - one to ensure that legislation is workable, fair - it also prevents the lower house gaining too much power.Quote:
Scrap the monarchy.
The monarchy provides an important constitutional check as I pointed out in the other thread. Nor is there much support for a Republican government in this country.Quote:
Keep all the Royal Palaces etc and charge a moderate fee to tourists/other visitors. Kids under eight have free admission! Removing the monarchy will mean no civil list and the 'saved' money can be used for other government expenditure.
There is no money to 'save' - the civil list or sovereign grant is paid from the Crown Estates which are not the states - but the property of the monarch.Quote:
The incumbent Prime Minister is the head of state. No president. The deputy Prime Minister would attend many state functions if the Prime Minister is too busy.
And what checks and balances are there on the power of this primeminister/president - I suggest you read a history book and see what happens when the Political leadership gets too much power.Quote:
Make the Bank of England directly accountable to government. The incumbent government would set interest rates, not the governor.
We had that before - independence was granted by Gordon Brown and ensures that economic decisions are not politically motivated (say reducing interest rates before an election).Quote:
Motion a United Nations resolution to reduce all countries' debt by a fixed amount. In the region of 10 - 40 percent. It's a mockery of logic and common sense for a country like the UK to be fast approaching two trillion pounds debt and yet we're the six largest economy. The two stats are not compatible. A reduction in debt - wiping a percentage away - would seem a moral thing to do.
Much of that debt is owed to pension funds and the like - that is people like you and me - what is moral about taking money from the pensions of ordinary people. Further if you wipe out such debt - what is there to stop countries accumulating debt in the full knowledge that some kind person will wipe it out - this is one of the problems Europe has - countries creating debt in the hope it will get wiped out.Quote:
Introduce a new law of cyber-manslaughter. Any adult of child proven to cause death to another person via computer abuse (extreme trolliing, death threats etc) can face the charge of cyber-manslaughter.
There is already legislation to imprison people for these crimesQuote:
Too many young adults and children have taken their lives due to online bullying and I think it's time to introduce changes to criminal law.
And Physical bullying does not happen? Again how are you going to prove a link beyond reasonable doubt.Quote:
Reduce the MPs count to 400.We don't need 650. It's an absurd number. The lower MPs count would necessitate full boundary changes. Where possible, each MPs constituency would be the same size (with the exception of areas of large countyside). Have you seen the problems of reducing the number from 650-600Quote:
10 year cap on MP's salaries. Every decade there can be a rise in line with inflation. No rise in the intervening years.
Would you like your wage to only change every decade? Quote:
Allow Scotland to go independent if they choose. No point having them around if they don't want to be part of the union.
They already had a referendum and chose to remain part of the unionQuote:
Scrap the BBC licence fee. BBC would offer a monthly subscription service. The scrapping of the licence fee - total cost 3. 6 billion
and what of risky programming or less popular - what do you want - wall to wall Big Brother? - The license fee allows the BBC to be experimental and some of our more popular programs (including Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing) were risky propositions when they started.Quote:
Scrap zero-hour contracts. No-one can be contractually employed on a day-to-day basis. It's big business exploiting people.
What of those who actually like working this way - and surveys indicate that is most people.Quote:
Introduce a new national minimum wage. 10 pounds per hour. Every five years the amount would be reviewed with the intention of raising it.
Just set the existing one at that level but again would you like a pay rise only every 5 years? Thought notQuote:
Scrap the current tax code and make it simpler and shorter. All tax lawyers and legal advisors would have to undergo new training and an examination to understand the new tax code. This would be achieved within a year.
In 1997 Tolleys Tax Guide was 5000 pages long - in 2007 it had doubled and it has doubled again since then - if you think that can be stripped out in 1 year you are frankly barking - yes it does need reforming, but that is a lot easier said than done.Quote:
Four month strike limit. No public sector organization can strike more than once in four months. This means that there's a train strike in January,they can't have another strike until May.
The right to strike is an important protection for workers - some unions are abusing it but I am not so sure the answer is to reduce the number of strikes. Quote:
If they do go on strike before that time period the company is fined.
And how on earth will that stop strikes - the union calls a strike and you fine the employer! Surely you should fine the union.Quote:
Scrap future plans for more CCTV, online internet monitoring, motorway cameras. We're not supposed to be a police state!
This I could agree with.Quote:
The UK would make all its own laws - local and foreign policy. It would retain NATO membership, be part of Europol and other other European organizations fighting against terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, prostitution, cyber-crime, chiild/adult slavery.
And how would we deal with treaty obligations which effect the rules we have.Quote:
Not support every US-led war/invasion. The UK would not automatically support the US in future wars.
We already can - the US government has invaded countries without us, indeed against our wishes (see Grenada)So frankly most of your proposals are unworkable, would make the country more corrupt and taken from the headlines without any real though of how they could work. Others are ill-thought out and do not take into account our obligations nor the reason why things happen as they do. |
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MPs should not have other jobs?
An MP is elected on 5 year cycles. Many have been Doctors. During the summer recess, that long break when they all go to Spain. None of those Doctors go back to their hospital and spend time learning about their other job. Just in case after 5, 10 years they are not voted in. What sort of MP do you want? How big a salary will you offer? Should a banker, take a wage cut then find themselves unemployed after 5 years. |
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I plan to run for Parliament in 2020!
- The license fee allows the BBC to be experimental and some of our more popular programs (including Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing) were risky propositions when they started.