So what change would people like to see in this country - given people seem to want change and are fed up with the pace of change?

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That seems to be the message from people in the recent elections.

Clearly immigration - controlled or uncontrolled is an issue for some / many people and the impact on local communities

But apart from that, what other changes do people want to see that are not being delivered?

I know that housing is a massive issue. Affordable places to live
Job opportunities in a local area
People being able to stay where they live instead of being forced to relocate
NHS waiting times, seeing a GP quickly, seeing a dentist who is NHS
Cost of living - life is expensive for many people. How can life be made more affordable for people who are struggling?
Run down town centres, too much shoplifting and a feeling that people are getting away with crime

What changes do you want to see happening?

At which point any large company would leave the UK, taking jobs with it!

Support small independent businesses. Grants for people to start their own business. Severe reduction in business rates for all shops on High Streets, hike business rates for internet warehouses and retail parks. Force banks to lend to small businesses. Let’s get the country back to being a place for self employment and not minimum wage slaves of foreign billionaire business owners and hedge funds.

I honestly don’t see how things can be improved with the current corruption in both politics & the media . Politicians don’t act for the good of the people & few journalists report objectively as billionaires control the MSM .
If I could I would dearly love to repeal the 2012 Health & Social Care Act which destroyed the foundations of the NHS .
It removed the duty of care from the Secretary of State to the people & allowed our taxes to flow into the pockets of private companies behind the scenes .
Too few people are aware ,for example , that the Cameron government sold our blood plasma to Bain Capital in the States which then sold it on to a Chinese company . The NHS have to purchase it back to supply NHS patients. This sort of stuff is why the NHS is ‘broken ‘ & changing it for a US style fully privatised system ( as Reform have pledged ) will make things so much worse . £1000 for an ambulance trip to hospital anyone ?

And always will sadly .

We could tax them properly at same rates as workers wages, ie nic on pensions and property income. Scrap/reduce tax free ISAs. Means test the state pension with a high threshold of say £60k. Get more tax out of the better off pensioners.

Start by making improvements to the basic services we all really on. Make trains run on time, reduce the cost of tickets - improve the quality of the rolling stock (especially in the North). If you are going to tax people out of their cars you HAVE to provide a cheap and reliable alternative.
Invest in our infrastructure - water, roads, airports etc. Nothing is 'world class' - it's old, outdated and shoddy.
Get better quality people running our NHS, transport and Utilities, we see the same underperformers moving from one job to another on vast salaries.
Likewise improve our leadership in the Police. Chief Constables do not currently inspire their workforce or the general public.
Start making small changes which can have an immediate impact - stop ignoring and not prosecuting low level crime.
Immigration - we aren't bringing in the people with the right skills, we need the brightest and best. We're attracting too many unskilled, uneducated young men.
NHS - Focus on outcomes. Stop scanning and sending people for tests when they are too elderly and too frail to undergo surgery.
Overhaul the Civil Service - it's too big and it's inefficient. Place a cap on the amount of pension retired Senior Civil Servants can qualify for.
Look at the triple lock - can we as a country really afford it? If we are borrowing money in order to pay for it - no.

Well we could @Badbadbunny & financially we likely need to go down that route. But look at the outrage over means testing WFA. Instead we may end up with Reform in power because people won't want to acknowledge the reality & pay more. Easier to blame the boat people!

Misogyny should be a protected characteristic and treated as seriously as any other prejudice.

That would instantly result in the closure of banks, supermarkets, Amazon etc

We had no investment under the Tories & the impact of that is playing out now. No investment despite cheap borrowing. Now people want investment super quick but money is no longer cheap.

Making misogyny a protected characteristic means the law would be there to protect misogynists.

I am a retired dentist & marched against the changes the Thatcher government brought in back in the 1980s . Like many things NHS dentistry worked pretty well . We had almost eliminated dental decay in primary school children ( school & community dentists ) . Now dental emergencies ( abscesses / severe caries ) are the leading cause for hospital admissions in young children . All that unnecessary pain , misery & expense . Utterly wicked .

Look at the triple lock - can we as a country really afford it? If we are borrowing money in order to pay for it - no.

People are just not ready to hear it.

Making misogyny a protected characteristic means the law would be there to protect misogynists.

I don't think it's just maths that needs to be compulsory for longer! 😆😆

It probably depends on where you live, where I am the average house has doubled in the last 10 years, which is just insane. I've never heard of a price dropping

Oh in central london prices have dropped 20% in last 10 years. When adjusted for inflation it's 40%. There was a mumsnetter who started a thread recently about how she was able to buy her london flat outright with 50% owned by a family trust but she would have been better off investing as it had gone down relative to inflation.. It was a highly desirable postcode too.

There needs to be a massive crackdown on crime, bring back the death sentence and make prison sentences longer and prison conditions much more harsh. Build more prisons if necessary.

Also a rollback of the benefits system. Money needs to go back to being something that is worked for, not just something you receive. No-one on benefits should receive more money than someone who works full-time, without exception.

Education needs radical reform, schools should be given leeway to kick out bad kids and placing responsibility for them entirely on their parents. Teachers need to be there to teach, not to be social workers and/or crowd control. Give a proper chance to kids who go to school and want to learn and get on in life.

The public sector in general needs a massive overhaul. Concentrate on doing the things that most people want the public sector to do, get rid of all the people in non-jobs, malingers and clockwatchers. Multi-skill all staff so that there aren't people sat in offices twiddling their thumbs when there are roads full of potholes and bins that need emptying.

They need to sort out immigration because if they don’t, Farage will end up in power.

If Reform win an election that means no worker’s rights, no WFH, no annual leave, no protection against being sacked, he might pull us out of the EHRC. He would probably remove benefits, disability payments, funding for social care. It would be radical.

But it’s as though people are willing to take these chances because they want the boats to stop and non-UK criminals to be deported. The UK does feel less safe so you can hardly blame them. I really think it’ll be an election about immigration. I hope another party wisens up and we don’t see a Reform win.

So to sum up:

• huge investment in public services

• very very low taxes

Good luck with that one.

you’re joking??

Nationalised and subsidised rail travel. It’s impossible to travel around this country without spending a fortune (or else using a car or an overly time consuming bus) and its a disgrace.

Reinvestment in industries such as farming and steel so we are not dependent on other countries and with re food production not shipping food from the other side of the world, thus damaging the environment.

less focus on gender issues, more focus on actual issues that affect more than the tiny amount of people relatively that have fluid gender or whatever. I don’t care what anyone has in their knickers. I just don’t want to hear about it constantly or have endless discussion about it when there are other very much more pressing matters at hand.

Huge investment and overhaul of the social care system.

housing is a priority. Make it affordable through schemes which enable young working adults to buy a home. It’s crazy that they’re caught in the trap of paying more in rent every month than a mortgage would cost them, yet unable to raise the deposit required because of paying rent. And as far as renting goes, schemes which provide greater security through long term rents. Put strict controls on service charges on leasehold property. Immediately. It’s shocking that so many people caught in that trap of renting, unable to raise a deposit to buy, are now finding their service charge going up by in some cases about 3 or 4 hundred per cent.

Make work pay. Anyone working should be significantly, tangibly better off than if they don’t work/ deliberately keep their hours part time. It’s basic common sense. A culture has emerged where for many people, they see money not as something they earn but as something they just get given.

Much tougher more immediate response to crime. It’s possible, we saw how quickly people were convicted and jailed in the wake of the riots last year. There was a very powerful, visible connection between committing the crime and having a tough consequence imposed fast.

More tax inspectors on the ground employed at local level to look into money laundering in some of the shops in high streets

Could the posters who say "sort out immigration" explain what they mean by this and what they hope would be achieved? Do they want stop the vast amount of legal migration which props up our labour market? (Health, social care, hospitality, education and other sectors are highly reliant on migrant labour). Do they want to stop people coming here to seek asylum which is their legal right? Do they want to stop the small amount of illegal migration? Considering you can't claim anything from the government if you are here illegally, what benefits would that bring anyway?

I’d quite happily tell lies to the ‘monarch’…they’ve been robbing people blind for centuries!