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If you were appointed PM tomorrow

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Fatcat00 · 08/10/2023 18:55

What 5 changes would you make/enforce immediately? In a realistic world or just the one your own head would like to exist.

mine would be

  1. no children would go hungry
  2. reduce energy bills
  3. limit amount of children allowed to mothers or fathers that can’t look after the ones they already have (controversial, I know.)
  4. shorten the working week
  5. Take action on large companies and corporations being more “green”
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coodawoodashooda · 08/10/2023 19:03

All children would be able to swim, reasonably, write and count before age of 7 unless a specific need.
3 hours outdoor exercise daily for all school age children
All medical qualifications, fees and expenses paid for by the tax payer, including accommodation and food.
Portable overnight jail type accommodation for anyone out and about breaking the peace in an abusive
manner.
Cms overhaul. Don't know how.

Eviebeans · 08/10/2023 19:10
  1. build houses/flats for low rent
  2. reduce energy bills
  3. tackle pollution particularly water
  4. nhs - general overhaul of service
  5. education/schools- proper resourcing, maintain buildings/grounds, good pay for staff
Fatcat00 · 08/10/2023 19:16

jails is a good point actually. Much harsher sentences for the likes of paedophilia, murder, rape - life should mean life.

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Oysterbabe · 08/10/2023 19:17

How will you enforce number 3?

TheMildManneredMilitant · 08/10/2023 19:33

I'm not an expert so sure there are loads of issues with these but throwing them out there...

  1. Pay civil servants properly and stop implying they are all workshy freeloaders
  2. Everyone to pay some kind of social care insurance 3} integrate NHS and social care. Look at alternative funding/delivery methods that will mean I don't have to worry about whether I'll get the right care if me or my family get Ill.
  3. Ideally get rid of private schools but as that's not going to happen then something like 40% of children from genuinely disadvantaged backgrounds get fully funded places from a young age.
  4. cheaper, reliable and better quality rail travel.
  5. standard four day working week for same salary (or equivalent hours reduction if eg a DR, retail worker etc).
enchantedsquirrelwood · 08/10/2023 19:45

I would:

introduce stricter rules on dog ownership

ban pavement parking, garden bonfires and fireworks except for organised displays, and the ones for organised displays would have to stay under a certain noise threshold

tax second/holiday home ownership much more heavily to get people to release houses back into residential use

make sure HS2 goes into Central London (Old Oak Common is pointless)

stop all the vouchers etc for childcare and simply give people tax relief on childcare costs (and phase out child benefit altogether)

combine employee NI and income tax

increase IHT

congestion charge for all SUVs

all companies to have to have proper contact methods for customers and have to deal promptly with queries, no hiding behind chatbots and silly messages telling you they are experiencing a higher than average number of calls; also make getting out a subscription or cancelling an order as easy as getting into it in the first place

Whitepeacelily · 08/10/2023 21:47

Regulate under 18 use of smart phones.

Make it illegal for new drivers to have anyone in the car younger than 21 for a year after passing test. Or more than one person in the car.

Join Europe again

Address the hysteria surrounding education and allow teachers to teach without the million and one things they have to address daily.

Ban the buying of second homes and tax heavily the ones already bought.

Make it compulsory to create cycle paths around cities

KateyCuckoo · 08/10/2023 21:56

I would make a mental health tier to our health service.

So doctors which you can get regular appointments with like your GP in your local area, everyone is assigned one like the doctors surgery.

A 4th emergency service to call, freeing up ambulances, police and hospitals. Call 999 for immediate help and specialist professionals respond instead of police officers.

Emergency walk in centres like A and E, triaged and directed to appropriate immediate or follow up care.

Out patient and in patient hospitals like you have for physical health reasons. Specialists in every area of mental health.

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