To ask if you have an idea you believe would significantly improve life in the UK?

[ConfusedmumUC]

I’ll go first.

I can’t help but think making someone’s rent payments eligible to prove you can pay a mortgage would go a long way to housing security for so many people. And limiting the amount of properties owned by one landlord / amount a landlord can charge in rent, would also go a long way. I can’t help but think profiteering massively off of a basic need and right such as housing is really not ok.

Im sure there’s a reason why my idea wouldn’t work, feel free to put me right 😂

What’s your idea?

6 months, use-it-or-lose-it paternity leave.

Subsidised child care for working parents. My child only goes 2 days a week and we pay £600 a month. No free childcare in Northern Ireland.

100% inheritance tax

Tax wealth not just income

Proportional representation for elections

Build houses in proportion to birth rates

Mandate both parents have to take 6 months parental leave (less bias towards not hiring women of childbearing age)

Overhaul education system to teach a love of learning and practical life skills and curiosity rather than abstract concepts

National Carer Service funded by wealth taxes - including paying family carers

This^
Punish cruelty to children and animals -
severely. I don’t want them to go to prison.

Stop right to buy and buy to let and instead of building numerous luxury self contained student pads build some good quality social housing of all sizes and manage them properly. Huge amounts of private letting have caused a total free for all in something that is a fundamental of living- housing!! It impacts on everything else- ludicrous amounts needing to be paid in housing support- people who are receiving benefits(working or not) needing to use money intended for food or essential bills other than rent to top up the amount actually needed to pay the rent , when allowances are often far below 'actual' rent.

@Vimto1 100% inheritance tax? Even if someone has died leaving dependent children?

I would also say bringing back self declare mortgages at say85%. There are an awful lot of people who on paper can't get mortgages but in reality given the rents they are paying could well afford them- a lot of freelancers and self employed fall into this category.

Reliable, on time and frequent trains serving the major northern cities.

Where I live is about 35 min drive into a large city, but there is one train per hour from the local train station into the city which is often cancelled. Hence many people commute by car from where I live, and the traffic is horrendous every day. Frequent reliable trains would transform many small villages / towns in the north.

Universal basic income. Bin FPTP. Ban Murdoch. Vastly increase the early years and lifelong learning budgets. Rejoin the EU. Impose a maximum differential between lowest and highest paid employees in a company. Index link Mp salsry to national average wage. Teach music and art in all schools, with school choirs. School catchment lotteries in areas of high inequality.

Introduce universal basic income.

Properly fund the NHS.

Close tax loopholes.

Pump money into community projects that would actually make a difference such as exercise programmes and healthy eating subsidies and education.

There should be a national monorail system and they should run as fast as the Japanese "Bullet Train". It would mean travel from Glasgow to London would be possible in just over 2 hours instead of nearly 7 hours.

Build thousands of small two up, two down houses in rows, rather than all the 4 and 5 bed houses on large plots going up everywhere. Then a lot more people could afford to buy.

Mandatory litter picking for everyone who is able bodied.

All dogs on leads unless in designated dog fields.

More support for childcare and young families.

So those that are born into families that aren’t able to provide such education continue to be less fortunate than other through no fault of their own. Great.

UBI would be an absolute living nightmare and would lead to anarchy and genocide.

The more responsibility you put on schools, the less responsibility some parents will take. We already have kids getting to school unable to use cutlery, unable to sit upright, barely able to speak, unable to go to the toilet independently.

Agree with this. And stop ghettoisation of areas, mix things up.

You're on the gin early tonight.

Or the parents could try and educate themselves? It’s easier now to learn anything than at any time in history, and education doesn’t stop just because you have left school.

If the state actually provided robust social care (as mentioned in my post) dependents would be provided for regardless of whether their parents were wealthy or not.

Why are only some (i.e. when their parents happen to be wealthy) dependent kids deserving of financial support?

There have been several small scale experiments into UBI, and it looks very positive.

Why do you think that? Genuinely don't understand this

But why should kids who have been bereaved have to move out of their home which could well be the result of 100% inheritance tax?

The problem with building more houses is that people move into them and fill them up and then have kids who grow up and want houses of their own. What do you do then? Build even more houses? Sooner or later you run out of space. We are already one of the most densely populated countries on earth.

Not send white collar criminals to prison but make them work for communities.

I also agree with lenders taking into account the ability to pay rent when applying for a mortgage.

It's just interesting...my sis and I were only late teens and early twenties when our remaining parent died....we both lived at home. I'd have been left destitute without my inheritance.