Originally posted by WTFH
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1. But if you can't consider it to be OK to consider discussion without automatically branding people with one thing or another, how can you consider it possible for government?
You can't its like listening to James O'Brien
2. Should "the government" privatise the NHS and take us to an American model, where if you can't afford insurance and don't have a credit card, you don't get into a hospital?
No but the NHS needs a hard review as it is riddled with inefficiencies & fiefdoms.
Luckily they don't waste much time with patients!
NHS Health Check: Short GP consultations crazy, say GPs - BBC News
Average consultation length is 10 minutes in the UK - thought to be the shortest in the developed world.
Are we allowed under the EU? Of course we should, charging vat on low level purchases would be a start.
4. Should "the government" encourage small businesses and local enterprises, or only go after big foreign investment?
Both of course
5. Should "the government" build affordable housing for young people,
Actually its housing for all age people, its just most older people made provision while houses were a sensible price which of course will be stolen off them to pay for their care. We could make social housing means tested and stop all the £50k motors parked outside council houses.
At £4K a year housing associations are a cheap way of supplying social housing.
Social Housing - News - Housing association average costs per unit revealed by regulator
6. and prevent old people from buying it all up? Plenty of young landlords out there. The problem is supply (we need to build > 1 million houses to cover the shortage - government figures) & demand (250K net arrivals = +125k houses and service places when we are building none) not a small number of people doing Buy to let (the clue is the name).
7. Should "the government" tax off-shore owners of UK property? A punitive absentee council tax makes a lot of sense if they are not rented.
8. Should "the government" introduce tolls on motorways so that drivers pay per mile, then reduce the tax on vehicles and fuel? No they should encourage home working and retrofit pollution devices on most vehicles before scrapping them and paying the environmental cost of building new cars.
9. Should "the government" look at long-term UK plans for power, water and transport, rather than just what will get them through the next couple of years in parliament? Yes we need a 50 year plan.
10. Should politicians be on a maximum of 3 terms then they are out?
1-2 terms fallow makes sense. Maybe we can do the same with parties
11. Should politicians be required to have worked in the real world for at least 10 years before being allowed to take their jobs? Nice idea
12. Should politicians be forced to reveal their tax returns, including any associated companies/trusts? Yes
13. Should politicians be held accountable for their promises and commitments? Within reason
Shall I go on?
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