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?

Rejoin the EU

Increase taxation for higher earners (and yes, this would have an impact on us)

Use the revenue from increased taxation to further subsidise childcare (but a real subsidy that doesn’t bankrupt nurseries) especially for families on lower incomes and single income household.

Better support for those with additional needs, be it children in education, or adults .

Reverse privatisation in various areas, such as rail, energy etc.

Reform the criminal justice system, we need greater education and support as they are proven to reduce reoffending.

Renationailse railways/utilities/energy.

Bring back bursaries for nurses so they can train without debt.

Less focus on all kids going to universities with more support and places to train in a trade.

Huge Taxation of rental income for people that own multiple properties, or outlaw the ownership of more than 2 properties. Start at the ones who own 100 plus and work the way down.

More social housing.

Business rates breaks for small businesses to set up shops in towns that are nothing but charity/betting/pound shops or vacant.

Close tax loop holes for corporations who are fiddling the system.

Scrutinise the relationships between MPs and government and which companies get awarded government contracts

Build or reopen convalescent homes for the elderly who are to unwell to go home, but well enough to leave hospital

Because if they're children and orphaned there's noone to care for them?

Bereavement is horrible for everyone. It means change and often moving and of course grief.

The only difference is a kid who is orphaned from wealthy parents would receive a payout and a kid who is orphaned from non-wealthy parents would not. They'd be forced into a system that is massively underfunded and leads to worse outcomes.

Why is your deservedness dependent on who your parents were?

Many of these families are in a loop of disengagement.
More support in the early years and through school, positive engagement for children who otherwise grow up feeling hopeless. Perhaps parents can be helped, but at the very least give the children a fighting chance to break free from the loop they’re born into.

@Fairyliz no it's not left of field at all

I say teach life skills in school because so many parents don't bother!

You'd basically be legitimising there being a permanent underclass, people with no job, no hope of ever getting a job, eventually people with no cultural memory of ever knowing anybody that worked for a living. What do you do with people like this? How do you encourage them to do well at school, not break the law, not take drugs, not sink to the depths of depravity? And how do you justify to working people taxing them in order to pay for this underclass? Sooner or later people would have had enough, one side would turn on the other and you'd have genocide.

25 year plan for the country - all parties to agree to the plans and revised each 5 years.

My children wouldn't be orphaned if my husband died, they would have me. But not a chance could I afford to keep this house if I had to pay half its value in tax. Also if I lost the car, which is in his name, and half of our savings.

More urban walking to supermarkets / work / gym etc.

Yes to closing tax loopholes and increasing tax on the richest and highest earners.

Use the money to properly fund mental health support, social care and family support workers, so that schools can concentrate on education. Teaching life skills is already happening in schools, but we also have to be food banks, financial advisors, social workers, counsellors and mother/father figures to the children, to fill the gaps from overworked, underfunded other services. And it falls on us, because the young people HAVE to come to us 5 days a week.

Ban social media and unmonitored use of devices to under 13s.

Life skills are the responsibility of parents

Get rid of the Royals

Free early years education

Insulate everything.

That's a leap. Give everyone the same bit of money every month and there would be anarchy and genocide? Why exactly?

I'm sorry to hear about your folks, that must have been very difficult.

I believe a better funded social and welfare system that is able to support all is better than pot luck with some being lucky enough to have wealthy parents and getting a house and all the security that comes with that and others falling through the net of a failing system that leaves people homeless.

A better funded system for everyone, regardless of the wealth of their parents has to be better surely?

Is that you, Rishi?

Pay teaching assistants a decent wage.
Cut working hours for teachers e.g stop expecting them to work for free for hours each week.
Get rid of Ofsted, at least in its current form.
Stop all the testing and teaching to test. It makes school boring and stifles creativity.

This hasn't worked out well in the US where it's much more common to be sent to prison and they have much longer prison sentences

Well then you need some sort of way of teaching life skills to parents who don't have them. One way or another, someone is going to have to be taught them until the gap is closed and that will take a couple of generations.

Don't underestimate how quickly those skills are lost with chronic illness, addiction, unemployment. Support for those affected by those issues AND teach life skills to children and their parents and you break the cycle. But it takes time

Wouldn't it better to ensure parents had life cover for their kids

Get rid of the Tories

Rejoin the EU

Send Farage somewhere far, far away

More social housing

Just reading about Zara Aleena, anyone with over max 3 serious convictions should be left in prison. 28 fucking convictions this piece of shit had.

The criminal justice system taking violence against women a bit more seriously

The child support agency actually making an effort to ensure deadbeat dads actually contribute to the upkeep of their own children.

Childcare costs are too high

And are your kids more deserving of a stable home than kids whose parents don't own a house?

Mental health emergency service as part of 999. Compulsory solar panels on new warehouses, schools, etc. Return funding for lifelong learning and adult education.

Well something is going to have to be exempt from inheritance tax then... if you have insurance but it is all taken?