If I were Prime Minister....

[Diver]

I'd deport all the useless parts of society to the Isle of Wight.

Is there room for all those politicians and council workers ?

[Platypus]

Futurewife's school has just brought in a new policy:

Any backchat/rudeness to a teacher results in an instant exclusion for the rest of the day and the next day.

I think this should be adopted in every school.

Rubbish!! How many kids do you think will be delighted to get the time off? Quite a few. You see... there will be an increase of backchat especially from the usual suspects.

Punishments like exclusion and detention DO NOT WORK !

P.S. And where do these kids end up? On the street. Causing trouble.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Rubbish!! How many kids do you think will be delighted to get the time off? Quite a few. You see... there will be an increase of backchat especially from the usual suspects.

Punishments like exclusion and detention DO NOT WORK !

Just tell their parents, if they are not liberal lefties they'll give them an old-fashioned bitch slap. That'll sort 'em.

[Moscow Mule]

Rubbish!! How many kids do you think will be delighted to get the time off? Quite a few. You see... there will be an increase of backchat especially from the usual suspects.

Punishments like exclusion and detention DO NOT WORK !

P.S. And where do these kids end up? On the street. Causing trouble.

Well, I agree that there will be some "hardcore" who use the opportunity to get some time off. But the disruption it will cause to their parents should be worth it.

[BrilloPad]

Bring back the death penalty for parking on double yellow lines.

Has that been abolished?

[wobbegong]

Well, I agree that there will be some "hardcore" who use the opportunity to get some time off. But the disruption it will cause to their parents should be worth it.

I think you'll find the parents of 'career troublemakers' won't give a stuff about it. After all, "it's the schools problem, not theirs".

[BrilloPad]

Well, I agree that there will be some "hardcore" who use the opportunity to get some time off. But the disruption it will cause to their parents should be worth it.

WHS. these days most kids have both parents working.

[chris79]

They would think twice if they got frogmarched to the headmasters office and given the cane / cricket bat / shoe / rolling pin / golf club / etc... it worked back in the '50s...

[ace00]

Vote For Me:

1. Join the Euro
2. Severe restriction on immigration from outside EU
3. Decimate the quangocracy
4. Abolish VAT
5. Increase forces budget

[Moscow Mule]

Reform of the tax system.

Set the single persons allowance at a level that allows somebody working 40 hours a week on minimum wage to not pay any tax.

Abolish NI and tax credits

Adjust basic rate of tax to 25%.

Adjust higher rate threshold to make it apply to anybody earning 200% of average wage.

Adjust higher rate of tax to make all of the above revenue-neutral.