Reply to: 5 best ways to cut down Britain's budget deficit

[Doggy Styles]

Did you see that Ben Bernanke is on the front cover of Time magazine as "Man of the Year"

With that, and Obama as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2009 has been the most Kafkaesque year for a long time.

Arthur Scargill was BBC's British man of the year in 1985.

[TimberWolf]

Start printing money on a epic scale. Dollars though, not £'s

[Paddy]

Prostitutes should be free to the over 60s.

That idea will be a flop.

[xoggoth]

Prostitutes should be free to the over 60s.

[AtW]

3. Legalise firearms. This is already legal, you can apply for a licence.

Yeah, I love those revolvers that have to be loaded from the front or something like that

[Paddy]

1. Legalise drugs. Not such a daft idea. Decimalise the use of drugs, allow testing of purity so that additives such a talc are detected and removed. Allow hard drugs on prescription. The saving would be addicts not getting ill through contamination, drug addicts not turning to stealing from cars or prostitution, less police time wasted, less insurance claims.

2. Legalise prostitution. Remove prostitution from the streets and take care of vulnerable girls (and men) especially drug addicts. Legalise brothels and run heath checks. This would stop trafficking and abuse. It would stop wasting police time.

3. Legalise firearms. This is already legal, you can apply for a licence.

4. Put Nu Liebor thieves into prison and charge admission fees. Public hanging of all MPs. Bring in democracy.

5. Charge £1 duty per post on CUK, £10 for posts in TDP... No, CUK to run an interim government as long as we can claim expenses.

[AtW]

The government stop spending money, you knob.

Yes that would do wonders in economy that is now like 50%+ public spending based, Einstein.

[HairyArsedBloke]

That would cause collapse in tax revenue - money have to move around as at pretty much every step they get taxed one way or another.

The government stop spending money, you knob.

However, if everyone else deliberately stopped spending money to cause the revenue collapse as you describe then the government would have to address the issue rather than hide it.

[Gonzo]

Stop spending money.

If the UK does have to go the IMF for a bail out then that is what the IMF will impose.

That is not going to happen though.


When Denis Healey went to the IMF in 1976 he didn't really need to - the Treasury civil servants got their sums wrong.

On the plus side, the conditions imposed by the IMF did start to put the economy back on the road to recovery long before Thatcher arrived.

[AtW]

Stop spending money.

That would cause collapse in tax revenue - money have to move around as at pretty much every step they get taxed one way or another.

[bobhope]

Stop spending money.

That would be sensible, so clearly out.

Did you see that Ben Bernanke is on the front cover of Time magazine as "Man of the Year"

With that, and Obama as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2009 has been the most Kafkaesque year for a long time.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Stop spending money.

[cailin maith]

1. Legalise drugs

2. Legalise prostitution.

3. Legalise firearms.

4. Put Nu Liebor thieves into prison and charge admission fees

5. Charge £1 duty per post on CUK, £10 for posts in TDP...
Sorted!

[Cliphead]

Send all the immigrants to Scotland

Too full of English white settlers mate

[joey122]

1. Legalise drugs

2. Legalise prostitution.

3. Legalise firearms.

4. Put Nu Liebor thieves into prison and charge admission fees

5. Charge £1 duty per post on CUK, £10 for posts in TDP...

Sorted!

Send all the immigrants to Scotland