You are given the power to make three things illegal. What would you choose?

1. Ridiculous salaries (e.g. for footballers, politicians and the heads of certain organisations) that the rest of us could only earn in about 10 years, despite doing more hours and graft than they do.
2. Dropping litter. On a school trip to Berlin, the most amazing thing was the fact that the city was CLEAN, unlike its UK counterparts (and smaller towns).
3. Compulsory Purchase Orders of working farmland. I appreciate that we need more housing in the UK, and nobody wants to live in a 'brown site' area, but we still need to use functioning farmland to raise livestock and crops to feed people... Also, the new farm death tax, because farmland should only really be in the hands of people who know what to do with it (i.e. not just use it as a building site).

Hiring people you know before.
Not feeding one’s own children.
Receiving more money from social care system than people who work full time at national minimum wage.

Cats are designed for the outdoors. Seems more cruel to keep them locked in - and that's coming from someone who started having cats kept indoors! They are happier in their natural habitat.

School holiday price hikes. I get it, it’s a commercial decision but it annoys me!

Phonics, I don’t get it at all. I’m sick of having to do it with my kids in the evenings (though I will continue to do so….).

Linked to this is school projects. Asking my child to make a shoebox representation of her favourite book at 4 years old is ridiculous. She wasn’t the one superglueing bees to a box at midnight or her hand to the table!

1. Sunbeds
2. Using electronic devices in public with the sound turned on and without headphones
3. Parking across someone's drive

XL bully breed completely banned and culled.

on the smart motorways id say they are smart but its humans thats at fault with those

1 Cosmetic surgery unless on medical grounds, including MH grounds

2 Mobile phone use while cycling

3 Men wearing shorts or joggers unless taking actual part in actual sport

No point having a cat then!!! By nature they roam

1. Single use plastic for anything where an alternative exists.
2. Importing clothing made using slave labour. (Shein/Primark)
3. Listening to music or games in a public place using headphones

So, no2...

What is someone buys a derelict in inner city commercial property that has been on the market for ages and rejected by commercial property developers and the council because it is listed and therefore an expensive PITA. What if they then convert it to domestic property using their own finances. Are they not allowed to do that? Or if they do convert it do they then have to hand it over to someone else? Because why would they go to the expense of converting it if they couldn't then use it to generate income. Would your preferred scenario be that inner city listed buildings are left derelict because they aren't big money spinners? Asking for a friend.

How also would you envisage people who want to rent rather than buy because they have plans to move, or are gaining experience in different locations (e.g. medics), or are living with a new partner and don't want to commit to bricks and mortar until they know the relationship will go the distance etc finding somewhere to rent if there are no landlords? The government can't buy up enough property to house everyone that wants to rent. Would you be prepared to give your house to them for free to fund the greater good? I think the list of people prepared to do that would be vanishingly small. Zero in fact.

Maybe compulsory seizing of property? Does that appeal?

That aside I really don't like the fact the neighbours cats use my garden as a latrine and the dog eats it and then has a severe stomach upset all over the kitchen at night. So the cat thing I can get behind!

As for me I'd ban mumsnet! The time we all waste reading utter rubbish or arguing with strangers about random stuff! If we all of invested that time in something productive imagine the different we could make to the economy? Instead we fritter away hours online. SUCH A WASTE!!!!

Scrapping cash would mean govt, banks, hackers etc could follow every transaction . Also some people are not allowed bank accounts due to past money problems.

Graffiti
Infidelity
Drugs, prostitution, gambling, alcohol

Driving unnecessarily

True, so I think I will have to bring in tougher penalties. I think a week of having you litter glued to you for a start, then a fine for each offence equivalent to two days of your earning/pension/benefit.

that should fix it.

There'd be no loans if interest wasn't charged. Banks and building societies etc aren't going to give loans for the fun of it!

Another good one would be compulsory ID cards like other EU countries have. We really need a proper database of who is in the country, their residency status, rights to employment status, rights to NHS treatment status, rights to pension and other benefits etc. Other countries do it. We could have done so back in the noughties but it was another thing bodged by Blair/Prescott!

Far too many people with more than one identity who are getting away with it because of the absence of a national ID card system.

Charging interest on loans
Private schools
Pollution

what kind of cats do you have round yours? They are vicious little shit monsters here.

Smoking (inc vaping)
Cheating when living with someone
Positive dicrimination

I echo I and 2 but definitely not 3. Another poster said she would make littering illegal so that would be my no 3.

But, yes, as other PPs have said, scrap Cash. Make it illegal to insist on cash payment as an interim measure, but long term, just scrap it. Far too much misery is caused by cash, i.e. the drugs and arms trade, modern slavery, prostitution, money laundering, illegal working, tax evasion, benefit fraud, child maintenance fraud, selling duty free booze and fags, counterfeit goods, dodgy "cash in hand" tradies who don't finish the job or bodge it, etc. Yes, I know you can still "buy" drugs, prostitutes etc by other means, but at least there's an audit/paper trail if you use a sumup reader to buy a bag of wacky backy and it gives the law enforcement authorities a fighting chance of a prosecution, whereas with cash, it's a lot harder to prove anything.

Virtue signalling

Silo thinking

Banoffee pie - clue’s in the name

Agree, and also even bigger fines if your cat attacks somebody else’s pets, eg chickens, rabbits.
Also, feeding foxes.

Make electric bikes/ scooters have insurance, away of identifying the rider and for over 16s.
Home schooling unless children signed up to an accredited educational site and parents have been checked for complying to making the kids do the work.Exceptions for medical reasons.
Free public transport for all under 22 year old, with companies forced to provide adequate transport links in all areas.