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?

More accountability when spending public money eg the £12bn NHS pissed up the wall with its scrapped IT system

UBI would be an absolute nightmare. Definite no to that from me. If people want money, they need to work for it.

A lot of them don’t though or do cash in hands jobs and still claim benefits

Nationalisation of all utilities - power and water and Nationalised Rail Services

If the broadband is good, a lot of people could do wfh or hybrid jobs, either employed or SE. Might encourage the transport links to improve too.

I preferred the old road signs, things like
STOP, MAJOR ROAD AHEAD
and the school one, some sort of Olympic Torch.

I also think everything looked much nicer when photographs were in just in Black and White .

More balanced wages. Higher wages for people who work in nursing, care, support work, nurseries.. anything that is helping people.
And less for those sitting on their arses on computers not doing much.

Bring back the Public Safety Information films. Children need to be scared of dark water and foot-amputating railways again.

I think all Govs over the last 10+ years have pandered to newspaper headlines and now to the last ranting tweet. FGS man up , make decisions and stick to them.
I cannot believe there is this fuss over winter fuel allowance - FGS pensioners have a triple lock on their pensions - they go up faster than wages. Don’t listen to whingers -do what is actually best for the country.

The country is SKINT - tell the public this and point out if they don’t work harder,get fitter,get their kids to school, get off benefits nothing will change (except we get poorer as more immigrants pour in).

I take it you realise some pensioners are SKINT too??

Probably wouldn’t hurt! Those things proper traumatised me as a kid. 😄

First change has been announced. Only national flags to be flown from council buildings. County, St George and Union Jack.

You are aware there are four countries in the UK.

You’d get my vote for PM!

If they’re that skint, they’ll qualify for pension credit and get wfh etc

Better quality housing / more housing.

Proportional representation not first past the post.

Better healthcare.

Plans to tackle climate change - decarbonisation.

Wealth distributed back to people-tax wealth.

Invest in strategic defense and pharmaceutical industries.

I don't know how you do these things.

Immigration

Haven’t RTFT but some good ideas on the first page such as the need to incentivise working, address the housing crisis and wage stagnation and stop letting private companies get away with stuff like polluting the water then trying to get the customers to pay a premium to sort it out while shareholders rake in the profits

Reform Councils are in England.

I want to see government supporting the universities. They are in crisis thanks to visa changes and Brexit and there have been far more job losses due to this than those facing the steel workers.
I want to see the British Energy they campaigned on.
I'd also like to see proper wage and career training structure for caring roles so those looking after our children and our elderly are fairly rewarded and caring becomes a valis and atractive career path.
The government should close vape shops down too because I don't like them.
I'd like a four day week. With the rise of AI we should be able to create a better life/work balance.

This is bollocks.

You think that paying politicians more is going to change anything?

Tall me about one country where this has ever worked?

Kier starter is about as intelligent a person as you can get, in the traditonal sense, and look at ehat he has done.

Rashi was billionaire status, didn't need the money, look what he did.

Look what Boris did.

Blair was also minted, look what he did.

🙄

I've always thought that we will have a 4 day week eventually.

However I also have a hunch that the day they introduce it will be the day I was retiring anyway as that seems to be my luck in life 😂

Agreed. I was just challenging the apparent assumption that pensioners are all comfortably off.

Immigration is a massive issue how we can’t see we are being taken for a complete ride by boat after boat of young undocumented men who are costing us over £1 billion is completely beyond me, if we stopped giving them a free ride they wouldn’t come, simple.

affordable housing we are currently on a 3-5 yr waiting list for a suitable Council home after being made homeless due to a relationship breakdown because as a single mum even with benefit assistance I cannot afford the private rents in my area

cost of living is just ridiculous I have to regularly visit community pantries just to be able to feed my children and am in constant fuel poverty due to my prepayment meters

Life has never sucked more in my opinion

Singapore pays its ministers million dollar salaries. The PM literally earns 1.64 million usd per year. I wouldn't say it's perfect but it's one of the richest countries in the world now and it's gdp per capita only exceeded uk in 2010. Now third richest country in the world with 89% home ownership.

The difference with Blair, rishi is their fortunes were earned outside politics. Singapore ministers tend to have to focus on the day job.