If you were prime minster tomorrow....

[RobHawk]

If you were made prime minister tomorrow, and you were allowed 3 policies that you could guarantee would be approved, what would do?

 

just a bit of fun and hopefully gives us a chance to talk political ideas without the bitchiness of the politics thread.

 

my 3 things would be:

 

1. Legalise cannibis

2. Outcome of brexit negotiations referendum, so we can vote on what we are getting.

3. With the tax income from the weed, I'd centralise social care spending and create a national care service which could be actually fit for purpose.

 

theres loads more things I'd like to see but I thought I'd start with some of the bigger things.

[lifted*fox]

6 minutes ago, RobHawk said:

hopefully gives us a chance to talk political ideas without the bitchiness of the politics thread.

 

[Buce]

 

1) Switch to an electoral system of proportional representation.

 

2) Nationalise the banks, utilities, and the railways.

 

3) Abandon Brexit.

[Harry - LCFC]

Fortunately the Prime Minister doesn't get to do what he/she likes. Bills have to be passed through parliament to become law.

 

Items I'd suggest for parliament to consider, not sure if these are my top three but they are the three that came to me first:

 

1. Planning Reform - Make it easier for councils and private companies to build new houses. Less attention paid to NIMBYs.

2. Not so much a firm policy but a directive to look closely at healthcare systems on the continent, realising that many of them work better than the NHS and that we could learn a lot from them.

3. I think free speech is pretty well protected in this country, but copying and pasting the First Amendment of the US Constitution into our law would be nice. Having powerful norms in favour of free speech is valuable but ironclad constitutional laws are a step up.

Edited 23 February 2018 by Harry - LCFC

[Carl the Llama]

Bin brexit. Legalise & regulate. Copy the Belgian union system.

[leicsmac]

As above, the PM isn't executive, but these are bills I would heavily propose

 

1.) Increase the scientific budget in general and ESA contributions in particular, as well as encouraging more space startups.

2.) Proportional rep.

3.) Switch to a Korean-style system of mixed nationalisation and private enterprise for railways.

4.) Pursue increased reliance on renewable and nuclear (specifically thorium) power, with an increased budget for fusion research.

 

There are others, but that would be the big four.

Edited 23 February 2018 by leicsmac

[ealingfox]

He did say these are policies you could guarantee would be approved.

 

I'd finally do what's best for everyone and ban baked beans forever from our country. Vile substance that you'd all be better off without.

[RobHawk]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

As above, the PM isn't executive, but these are bills I would heavily propose

 

1.) Increase the scientific budget and general and ESA contributions in particular, as well as encouraging more space startups.

2.) Proportional rep.

3.) Switch to a Korean-style system of mixed nationalisation and private enterprise for railways.

4.) Pursue increased reliance on renewable and nuclear (specifically thorium) power, with an increased budget for fusion research.

 

There are others, but that would be the big four.

I was hoping you'd reply Mac. In regards to point 4, I'd also agree to the Swansea bay lagoon as I still can't work out why they are putting the brakes on it.

[RobHawk]

1 minute ago, ealingfox said:

He did say these are policies you could guarantee would be approved.

 

I'd finally do what's best for everyone and ban baked beans forever from our country. Vile substance that you'd all be better off without.

I'd not thought this through at all, I ****ing love beans!

[yorkie1999]

1, Throw every pot smoking hippy in jail for using gateway drugs.

2, Tell the self appointed commie bastard bureaucrats where to stick their schezwan zone

3,  With the money saved from keeping pot smoking hippies off the street i'd introduce a national "visit the Caribbean and lie on a beach drinking pina coladas watching the yachts sail by" day.

4, Every overweight mcdonald munching lazy fvcker sitting at home all day watching Jeremy Kyle and claiming a national basic income would be forced to visit a electricity generating facility and spend 2 hours daily on a cycling machine that is connected to a dynamo therefore both creating power for the grid and losing weight.

Edited 23 February 2018 by yorkie1999

[Carl the Llama]

OK I'll change one of mine for mandatory reeducation of anyone intellectually challenged enough to push the gateway drug theory.

[Innovindil]

1) have anyone using the word "totes" shot dead

2) hard brexit 

3) invade France, just for the chuckles

[yorkie1999]

1 minute ago, Carl the Llama said:

OK I'll change one of mine for mandatory reeducation of anyone intellectually challenged enough to push the gateway drug theory.

Bet you smoke pot.

[The Doctor]

Compulsory vaccinations (if you're an antivaxxer you're a moron, stop trying to kill your kids)

Bigger research councils budget 

nationalise the tories for a laugh

[Carl the Llama]

4 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Bet you smoke pot.

And yet I'm not sticking needles in my arm. Crazy I know.

[yorkie1999]

Just now, Carl the Llama said:

And yet I'm not sticking needles in my arm. Crazy I know.

Yet

[Fox92]

Just do something with Brexit so it's just sorted and not in the news every day.

[Carl the Llama]

Just now, yorkie1999 said:

Yet

pal I have no desire for anything more than a good beer/whiskey and the occasional spliff. Should be locked up really.

[Dr The Singh]

Legalise all prostitution, porn, drugs etc

[winteriscoming]

1. Fvck kelly brook 

2. Fvck natalie sawyer 

3. Have threesome with 1 and 2. 

After that sort brexit out. 

[Collymore]

1. Build lots more prisons and lock more scroats up for longer. 

2. Scrap TV licence

3. Create a supersonic airline subsidised for general public by reducing military budget

 

[peach0000]

1. Nationalise key industry (rail, water, energy).

2. Drug reform (legalise cannabis, decriminalise all other drugs).

3. Reorganise the NHS into a part state and part private system.

[peach0000]

1 hour ago, yorkie1999 said:

1, Throw every pot smoking hippy in jail for using gateway drugs.

2, Tell the self appointed commie bastard bureaucrats where to stick their schezwan zone

3,  With the money saved from keeping pot smoking hippies off the street i'd introduce a national "visit the Caribbean and lie on a beach drinking pina coladas watching the yachts sail by" day.

4, Every overweight mcdonald munching lazy fvcker sitting at home all day watching Jeremy Kyle and claiming a national basic income would be forced to visit a electricity generating facility and spend 2 hours daily on a cycling machine that is connected to a dynamo therefore both creating power for the grid and losing weight.

You seem quite angry, reckon you could do with a joint. 

[Guest]

Tomorrow is Saturday. I'm not working weekends.

[Rogstanley]

1. Borrow money at some of the cheapest rates in history to fund a large programme of infrastructure investment 

 

2. Ban non-residents from owning residential property 

 

3. Do something drastic with tax, maybe bin off income tax altogether, whatever it takes to make overall amount of tax paid in better proportion to overall wealth