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    You are the boss

    Ok, you've been elected with a landslide majority. You have absolute control of what happens in the country.
    What steps do you take?
    How do you drive the country forward?
    How big a wall would you need and who's first against it?
    Seriously, what would you do?
    Discuss, or abuse chico or whatever.
    Why not?

    #2
    Find out who takes the brides from EDS and send them to france.
    National service for unemployed people under the age of 25
    Bring in Younger Court/High Court Judges
    Points system for imagration
    Tax relief for large UK based call centres
    Take back BT & take power of the Serven Bridge
    Stop all the PC Stuff - If you want to live in the West act like it.
    Tax religion @59.5%
    Remove VAT from tampax
    Throw them to the lions - WC2 5.4

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      #3
      Originally posted by Dundeegeorge
      Ok, you've been elected with a landslide majority. You have absolute control of what happens in the country.
      What steps do you take?
      How do you drive the country forward?
      How big a wall would you need and who's first against it?
      Seriously, what would you do?
      Discuss, or abuse chico or whatever.
      Day 1: Have a big party and everyone gets sozzled.
      Day 2: ... hang on, let's take this one day at a time ...

      Fungus

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        #4
        Make all junk mail illegal.

        Only allow in the same number of immigrants as emigrants leaving. Less to start with, to get population levels down to what they were a few years ago before it went bonkers. That puts a cap on future overcrowding of roads and shortage of housing. And don't allow applicants free in the country until their application has been approved.

        Remove the law against fox-hunting.

        Return hereditary peers to the Lords. It is obvious that nobody knows how to replace them effectively, which proves that it was as good a system as you could get in the first place.

        But first, start simplifying the tax system. Drop NICs, inheritance tax, stamp duty on houses, and all those other invidious little stealth taxes.

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          #5
          Tax relief for companies who allow significant working from home (why the fook to people need to travel to work to sit at a computer?) this will remove most of the problems with congestion and free the roads for those who really need to use them.

          Reduce benefits to an existence only level. The savings are passed over to increase the state pension, which is set at the same level as the minimum wage.

          Police to stop treating theft and fraud as minor victimless crimes.

          Disruptive children (in or out of school) are made to perform community service.
          I remember the good old days of this site when people used to moan about serious contractor related issues like house prices and immigration. How times have changed!?

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            #6
            Immediately withdraw from the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights, and reintroduce praemunire statutes to deal with europhiles who continue acting on EU authority in contradiction to British law.

            Impose hiring freeze for civil service, and then disband the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Education apart from school inspectorate. (Give responsibility for school syllabuses back to university syndicates.) Privatise National Health Service.

            Destroy DNA records of anyone not convicted of an arrestable offence carrying a minimum of at least two years' imprisonment, and cancel Identity Card program.

            Reintroduce death penalty for any murder (other than legitimate self-defence), felony-murder, and a few other crimes, including treason and carnal knowledge of an infant under the age of seven.

            Abolish Crown Prosecution Service and restore grand juries (as in US). Also reintroduce Court of Exchequer for complex fraud cases, with Exchequer barons chosen or elected from among retired accountants and directors of public companies.

            Increase funding for UK science projects (especially robotics research and development program - It would be nice not to miss the boat yet again).

            Start urgent program to build two dozen nuclear power stations.

            Ditto Wendigo's very sound suggestions.
            Last edited by OwlHoot; 9 January 2006, 00:24.
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              #7
              Ensure divorcee's who did not work because they stayed at home looking after the kids had the same entitlement to state pension as the partner who worked.

              Made divorce laws and access to the kids fairer to both partners.

              Bring in laws that enforce criminal bankruptcy so criminals actually pay the real cost for the police etc needed to look after them not stupid £50 fines - includes dangerous drivers who should pay hospital bills etc of their victims - not the taxpayer or insurer.

              Remove any form of taxation from vocational training

              Allow MP's to vote with their conscience not as the party whip states.

              Particulary where I live - ban those salespeople who knock on your door espescially pikeys wanting to resurface my drive - musn't forget banning Jehovah's Witness as well.

              Move people out of social housing if on sufficient income to buy their own - and make the house available to key workers such as nurses/teachers on low pay.

              Put an ASBO on TB and GB

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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot
                reintroduce praemunire statutes to deal with europhiles who continue acting on EU authority in contradiction to British law.
                Shoot the English who keep talking of "British Law" as if Scotland is governed by English Law!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by expat
                  Shoot the English who keep talking of "British Law" as if Scotland is governed by English Law!
                  I'd let Scotland become fully independent. Then they can stop whinging about every perceived slight by the English, while they spend English money on benefits for their drunks and other ne'er do wells.

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                    #10
                    and they might cut off the North Sea oil and gas supply then
                    I believe that brings a fair amount of money to England and our esteemed chancellor GB
                    Chico, what time is it?

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