If I were Prime Minister thread

[Bagpuss]

But back date it a year or so. That way they will have to pick up the bill for HBOS, RBS.

Also, how come everyone wants to blame the City of London when it has been muppets in Bradford, Halifax, Newcastle and Scotland that have been paddling up diarrhoea creek?

Yeah get rid of any bank not founded in London. Which leaves?

[Ravello]

1. Abolish IR35
2. Increase welfare support for those that need it (e.g. Pensioners, disabled) abolish benefits for the long term unemployed, providing instead minimum wage employment similar to community service - don't turn up, don't get paid.
3. Increase the speed limit on Motorways, remove speed cameras and use funds collected to date to employ proper traffic cops. Also, put in place an immediate and enforced 5 day driving ban for hogging the middle lane, 3 strikes and you're out rule applies.
4. Abolish 'action groups', 'focus groups', 'study groups' and any other quango and spend the cash on the actual beneficiary (hospitals, schools etc.)

Vote Ravello!

Sensing this might not be in keeping with the tone of the thread, my alternate answer is:

1. Start a war to sort out the economy

[Bob Dalek]

Introduce fabulous incentives to have no kids, or at most one child, until the population drops to a sane level... about a third of what it is now.

[DimPrawn]

Introduce fabulous incentives to have no kids, or at most one child, until the population drops to a sane level... about a third of what it is now.

We don't need children, we just bring in more immigrants. 'Innit?

[DiscoStu]

Introduce fabulous incentives to have no kids, or at most one child, until the population drops to a sane level... about a third of what it is now.

Wouldn't that present us with an even bigger problem to compound our already ageing population?

Like who's going to pay taxes to support all the old people?

[DimPrawn]

Wouldn't that present us with an even bigger problem to compound our already ageing population?

Like who's going to pay taxes to support all the old people?

You are a New Labour drone and I claim my five Afghan asylum seekers benefits package (approx £4M pa).

[Bob Dalek]

Wouldn't that present us with an even bigger problem to compound our already ageing population?

Like who's going to pay taxes to support all the old people?

If we adopted a Maoist approach, then yes; if it was done with a bit of thought, then no.

[DiscoStu]

You are a New Labour drone and I claim my five Afghan asylum seekers benefits package (approx £4M pa).

Laugh all you like. It doesn't take a someone of AtW's economic genius to figure out that given more old people who require support from the state and less people of working age paying tax that something's got to give somewhere.

[DimPrawn]

Laugh all you like. It doesn't take a someone of AtW's economic genius to figure out that given more old people who require support from the state and less people of working age paying tax that something's got to give somewhere.

And when they get old? Import more people? And when they get old?



PS. Most "economic migrants" are a net drain on society in their use of public services. Bringing them in doesn't add to the pension pot.

But hey ho, keep voting Labour. You'll find out when you grow up.

[Bob Dalek]

Laugh all you like. It doesn't take a someone of AtW's economic genius to figure out that given more old people who require support from the state and less people of working age paying tax that something's got to give somewhere.

Tut! It'd be so novel as to be anathema to many... then slowly it'd take hold. It'd be decades before it had meaningful effect - but unless we can staple another planet to ours, then what else can be done? Collectively we all seem to have decided that having as many kids as possible is some sort of unquestionable right - it's not.