To ask how you would tackle the worlds problems?

[LadyCordeliaFitzgerald]

For starters I think world leaders should have to participate in a bake off before any matters of policy or territory can be discussed.

They could get the competition and one upmanship out of the way in the baking part, and then conduct negotiations, over cake in a happy sugar haze.

Clearly the current way things are done is massively dysfunctional.

Along the same lines, every politician to take a truth drug before speaking. Or telling lies to be made a criminal offence and actually prosecuted.

Dance off for all the world leaders, only good dancers would be put in charge then, and I whole heartedly believe that good dancers don't start wars 🤣

I have seen many videos of grumpy world leaders dancing badly, and this is the basis for my reasoning.

Prosecute newspapers/ media outlets for lies too.

A proper wealth tax. There's nothing wrong with being rich, but no individual needs billions.

"Promises" made during campaigning must be put through all due diligence to establish if actually possible then a mandate to be signed by the new PM to hold them to delivery within X months. Failure to deliver is then punishable by law as a breach of contract to the nation.

Committees should be designed to apportion all public spending and whilst guided by the party in charge, each committee must be staffed by members of the main party, the opposition, the Head of the Sector the committee is focused on, and at leat 5 people who are not connected to the government in any way but are directly employed within that industry at various levels.

Caps on public spending should be enforced from the top down. Salaries for teachers/nurses are set - so should every single role which is paid from the public purse including CEO/Chair of Board etc.

Any private/non funded organisation should be forced to absorb a portion of "times of crisis" rises in costs. It should come directly from profits. Governments can then mandate additional profit dips if the crisis has gone on past (say) 6 months.

Make renewable energy affordable, make solar panels mandatory and free.

Give a cash incentive for sterilisation, a tax break for higher earners and cash for lower earners.

Give real support and financial reward for fostering and caring.

Offer everyone on unemployment the option of an apprenticeship and stop the trap of benefits.
Rehall benefits so they support people and enable them to get back on their feet.

Give tax breaks for healthy practices, for example, your gym membership can be tax deductible

Legalise cannabis and tax the hell out of it. Decriminalisation of most drugs and treat drug dependant people as vulnerable.

Tax unhealthy food so much it becomes the more expensive option

Get rid of all plastic packaging, turn brownfield areas into bee havens filled with wild gardens

Exterminate the belief that the profit-motive is morally valid, and utterly shame those who promote it.

Achievement should be measured by service to the community, and only such service should be rewarded with wealth and status.

All should undertake National Service (either military, social or health) before earning the right to vote or stand for election.

Ignorance, emotional incontinence and selfishness should be regarded as the greatest weaknesses and grounds for shame and contempt.

OP, I like that idea!

Personally, I see myself running a benign dictatorship. I’d cap house prices and put up interest rates up a bit but not massively. And nursing studies would be free. I’m still considering wether or not to extend that to medicine as a whole.

People would be required to brush their teeth and use deodorant before boarding any firm of public transport.

Sentencing would be harsher.

And some people may be required to pass an IQ test before they open their mouths.

But general,y speaking, I think my world would be far better than the one we already have.

I think most leaders need therapy. I would give them whatever type of therapy they most wanted (play, talking, CBT etc etc) and see how they were in six months.

Decent and affordable housing for everyone, to start with.

Ultra processed food to be either banned or made more expensive.

People encouraged to shop locally, and to cook from scratch.

Schools to retain or create playing fields, with at least one afternoon or the equivalent, spent playing sports.

Nuclear weapons to be banned and all blueprints for making them destroyed. (A vain hope, I think).

Acceptance of people as individuals, regardless of ethnicity, intelligence, sexual orientation, disability.

Education reformed to limit the number of people going to university, with increased capacity for vocational training in every kind of manual skill. (Electrician, plumber, hairdresser, beautician, etc).

Early and sustained intervention in early years, so that all children, regardless of background or economic status, can benefit from crucial skills needed for school entry.

Affordable and high quality childcare available for all who want it.

Loving these ideas

I’m curious to hear from the 30% who feel iabu?
We could have sugar and gluten free cakes too if that helps.

At least a year doing a minimum wage job full time while minding their own kids and doing all the things needed about the home before they can stand for election.
If they drop even one of the balls they aren’t good enough.
I would also appreciate some sort of qualification in spoken English (in the UK anyway, native language for other countries) and how to present yourself in public, but fear this may all be asking too much.
Perhaps also a cap on the number of MPs admitted from private schools, like universities do. That might work.

No free/ subsidised housing for them ( Chequers type thing) All politicians allocated a 2 bedroom flat in high rise block.
All potential politicians have to do 6 months at minimum wage job with 100% attendance. If elected, each year they have to work one month at a minimum wage job.
Psychological testing for all before they can be elected.
Wealth tax. No one needs more than 5 million absolute maximum.

Exterminate the belief that the profit-motive is morally valid, and utterly shame those who promote it.

So destroy the economy as we know it, and replace it with the ideas that made that economic powerhouse the Soviet Union the success it is today?

Also, presumably this involves banning salaries for work, over and above what people need to stay alive so that they can continue to work. (If people have any money left over from what is needed to sustain their work output, that is profit.)