Ideas for solving economic woes

[expat]

Originally Posted by TimberWolf

Misses the point IMO, by assuming that money is real wealth. We need to get our energy supply sorted and our population under control. If not, we will always rely on the rest of the world as a life-support system, and pay for it by being good at providing something they want in return, like building cars or having a City of London. I think this is risky.

Too much insight here. Move along.

[expat]

Originally Posted by DodgyAgent

Free Blow jobs for agents

Does that come under #2, after 6 months dole you have to do jobs that nobody else will?

[DodgyAgent]

Originally Posted by expat

Does that come under #2, after 6 months dole you have to do jobs that nobody else will?

I am going to learn to code in PHP.. Brainbench here I come

[Doggy Styles]

Originally Posted by sasguru

1. Nationalise the big 4 clearing banks (for a pre-determined fixed period) and institute proper lending policies with the interest rate cuts passed on- i.e. Yes to sound small and large businesses, Yes to mortgages up to 3.5 times income, No to 100-125% mortgages, No to increased unsecured credit card debts and personal loans for unsound borrowers.

Certainly, although regulate rather than nationalise. I'm always a'feared when Labour control money. It just seems to leak away...

Also, instead of funding that dubious VAT cut, hire more staff to bring immigration back under control.

[b0redom]

Why doesn't the government set up a massive work project to build a huge windfarm? Similarly to the Hoover Dam project in the US, this could provide:

• A big boost to spending in the economy which could be paid for through borrowing
• A big boost to employment in planning / designing / deploying the wind farm
• An asset which the government could use to generate an income to pay back the funds borrowed - through selling wholesale energy back into the grid
• A reduction to fossil fuel usage

Presumably they could also look to build hydroelectic power plants etc too?

[TimberWolf]

Originally Posted by b0redom

Why doesn't the government set up a massive work project to build a huge windfarm? Similarly to the Hoover Dam project in the US, this could provide:

• A big boost to spending in the economy which could be paid for through borrowing
• A big boost to employment in planning / designing / deploying the wind farm
• An asset which the government could use to generate an income to pay back the funds borrowed - through selling wholesale energy back into the grid
• A reduction to fossil fuel usage

Presumably they could also look to build hydroelectic power plants etc too?

We should get the Severn Barrage built. It could supply something like 6% of our electrical energy and if built properly might last hundreds or thousands of years. It could also store excess power from less reliable / intermittent sources, and in this case could return more power than is put in (by pumping water up at high tide, and letting it flow out through turbines at low tide).

[d000hg]

Originally Posted by sasguru

Can the CUK collective solve the country's economic problems?

No. Come on, you read the crap people suggest here...

[DodgyAgent]

Originally Posted by Doggy Styles

Certainly, although regulate rather than nationalise. I'm always a'feared when Labour control money. It just seems to leak away...

Also, instead of funding that dubious VAT cut, hire more staff to bring immigration back under control.

why, why why why why why ? do so many people keep on suggesting that governments run things when there is no single example anywhere that they have ever run anythin with any degree of competence?????

[Cyberman]

A good start would be to stop paying the EU 55 Billion pounds a year for membership and to base public sector pensions on their employee contributions...... and sack a million of those in non-jobs and put them on the dole because it will be cheaper than paying them to do nothing.

[EternalOptimist]

EO's brainy idea.


What is it we are trying to achieve here ?

1 get all those lazy bums doing something
2 a low cost option
3 Something that will generate a steady income for thousands of years
4 Something that puts the country on the map
5 Something visible, to be proud of
6 Something visible from space would be good

A Pyramid.
The great pyramid of Bootle, to house the mortal remains of one of CUKs greatest posters.