So what is your top 5 issues you want the government to work on?

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Climate change related top 5 for me

-Solar and wind power investment (bring in jobs)
-degrading soil and mono farming we need a new way.
-Building on green spaces needs to end. something needs to be done about the thousands of decrepit buildings, car parks etc build on them.
-bike lanes
-plant more trees, specifically fruit trees/ but trees/ bushes and give access to local people to pick their own like when you go to a strawberry farm but everywhere. (also to help with flooding, and air pollution)

Bring back Surestart.
Massive restrictions on online gambling.
Tax increases for the rich.
Allow asylum seekers to work while their applications are being processed.
Take VAWG seriously.

Things that would particularly help me:

• Dentists
• NHS, in particular availability of GP appointments and waiting times/cancellations of further appointments
• Cost of living, in particular food prices and the fact that my mortgage is now astronomical. Energy prices appear to be stabilising

Faster, safer, kinder immigration service and better treatment of AS
Proper funding for public services especially the NHS and children's/adults social care
Fair tax and end of non dom status
Education Education Education
Cost of living/poverty

Agree wholeheartedly with all of the others too!

Housing. Actually affordable and social housing.
Family friendly policies. Make childcare affordable, increase leave allowance & pay and strengthen discrimination laws.
Education. Student loans need abolishing.
Taxation. Needs to be fairer and simplified. The whole system needs a root and branch review.
Environment. Just everything really.

No more ltns or ulez

Make it easier to see a gp

Pay teachers properly so schools can recruit the people needed

Reform the rental system.

Ban those horrible XL bully dogs

Support grass root level community local economic development and support the third sector to effectively improve social care rather than outsourcing to the private sector.
Open up the homes for Ukrainians to all countries at war.
Support a fair and effective asylum process, treat people with dignity.
Stop privatising the NHS and fund it properly.
Make all schools unselective. (No more private, grammar or religious schools) as they create divide.

oh I would change fines to % based. So 10% of your monthly salary.
If you earn 500 you pay 50 if you earn 5000 you pay 500. fines aren't a deterrent or even punishment for the rich.
I would tax big companies more

I wouldn't allow second homes what a waste.

1. Improve social housing to ease the burden on private sector and stop selling off council houses especially in prime areas or we will keep getting stuck in this cycle that Thatcher began.
2. Allow asylum seekers to work and introduce safe legal channels for tjem to apply before they reach Britain.
3. Reduce tuition fees
4. reinstate youth clubs and surestart centres and reopen the libraries which have shut down during “austerity”
5. get a grip on the NHS

Crack down on tax avoidance by companies and individuals
Better control or even re-nationalisation of utility companies - water, energy, even broadband.
More investment in health and education
Brown field development to build more accommodation plus overhaul of legislation re landlords/2nd home owners
Universal income and / or review of benefits system

NHS
Education
Fair tax system
Government accountability ( referendum on all major decisions, budget spending which negatively impacts UK population)
Cost of living

1.) Housing.
Deal with housing issues. Build social housing that lasts. Put heavy penalties on people who buy homes as investments and don't even rent them out (half of central London!) Reintroduce fair rent schemes. Create much longer mortgages so people can afford to buy in their twenties with a small deposit, on a modest wage.

2.) Nationalisation.
Nationalise all services that society relies on in order to function and ensure they are run economically and properly reinvested in: railways, utilities, mail, all health services including dentistry. Cap rates on all utilities and transport - these should never be run for a profit.

3.) Pay.
Increase the Minimum Wage and incentivise employers to offer full time long term contracts not zero hours. Incentivise

4.) Education.
Radically reduce the volume of admin teachers are expected to do and allow them to focus on teaching. Proper investment in state schooling. Develop training schemes and scholarships for areas with skills shortages.

5.) Environment
Fund and develop new green manufacturing industries in UK, with a focus on longevity, recyclability and zero carbon/low pollution - white goods, clothing, vehicles etc

NHS- if you aren't holding a British passport then you have to pay. Where you aren't allowed in unless you have health insurance.
Pay the staff properly FFS - its a shambles- and bring back matrons. No, we don't want it privatised thanks.

Prisons. Anyone not british sent to their own country and barred from UK forever.

Defence spending increased and Ben Wallace listened to.

Getting shot of the pm and let's have a general election with someone we can vote for and know they are good at their job. No back stabbing fuckwit candidates pls!

Cost of living. Tories should be fined for incompetence for the distrastous mess Liz Truss made, and Rishi Sunak for making it worse. Personally sued, actually. Make the fuckers accountable.

Business rates set at a v low rate to allow independent and rhe high street/ pubs to remain open. Abandoned office blocks turned into flats and housing. Renovation of properties. Community led buy schemes for local people.

Invest in railways and rebuild where they were destroyed. Enviroment and climate change action.

Stop nagging everyone to be amazing at school / maths ( looking at you, Rishi) and have material things to define themselves. Being kind, practical and living a good life are to be aspired to, not being Alan b'stard

Shut down twatter, Instagram, til tok and all the rest of the bullshit distractions.

Stop selling booze in supermarkets - and allowing gambling companies to advertise on the telly. This is crazy.

Oops, that is more than 5:) maybe I should find a box and head for Hyde Park Corner:)

What do you all mean by ‘tax avoidance’ and ‘taxing the rich’ specifically?

For me it would be:

1. Environmental issues - huge focus on clean air/water by whatever means necessary, and compulsory purchase of unoccupied housing to prevent yet more green land being built over
2. More investment in social services and give them more powers to remove at risk children. Foster carers to be paid a generous full time wage for looking after children.
3. Education - reform to learn useful things that will benefit our economy; eg not Shakespeare or ‘PSHE’ type things. No phones in classrooms. Focus on technology, life skills and sport.
4. Stop letting people choose to work part time and top up with universal credit. Raise NMW by £2 p/h
5. Create many more public green spaces, parks, playgrounds, public sports facilities etc

I’m voting on you @Beesandhoney123

1. Cost of living crisis
2. Nhs reform - properly funded, de-privatised; cultural sea-change to ensure decent working conditions for staff and ensure staff retention
3. Law - properly fund our legal system and widen access to legal aid
4. Human rights - repeal protest bill is an excellent start
5. Ridding our government of corruption and multi-billion lobbiests- ensuring oil companies pay proportional tax is a good starting point

I'd have a sliding scale of percentage, £50 to someone on £500 would still be a bigger punishment than 10% on a large salary.

Women's rights

Children's safeguarding

Stopping the privatisation of everything and the profiteering that goes with it (and that includes school academies, universities, health trusts, water companies, other utilities, the countryside, social housing, and even areas of government)

Basic citizen income

Housing

@Beesandhoney123

NHS- if you aren't holding a British passport then you have to pay. Where you aren't allowed in unless you have health insurance.

So it's about passports is it? Not residence? So a British expat gets off scot-free and some poor soul paying UK taxes year on year has to cough up on top of that. My aren't you quite the charmer.

A cap on the number of houses one person can own.

Child maintenance to be deducted routinely rather than single mothers having to jump through hoops for it.

Fathers being able to pay pension contributions into mother's pension pot if mother takes a career break to raise children (or vice versa if father is the sahp). This would reduce the gender pension gap.

Rather than having to study "maths" until age 18, young people should have to study personal finance and life skills (budgeting, meal planning, DIY skills like changing a plug, putting up a shelf, hemming curtains, household/garden maintenance, emotional regulation etc)

Review funding/staffing levels for the NHS so they can hire the right number of nurses from the beginning rather than paying twice as much for agency staff to cover the gaps left by the shortage of nurses!

"Prisons. Anyone not british sent to their own country and barred from UK forever."

So you don't want them to serve their sentence creating a fucking free for all until they are caught? Fuck me

A lot of good suggestions here but I think @Beesandhoney123 has it. 👏

I'd also include the housing market. Somehow, we have to prevent people taking up housing for holiday lets/holiday homes/AirBnB. Build more council houses, set fairer rents and give people secure tenancy.

Childcare costs
Teacher retention
NHS
Climate change
Cost of living/renting costs going sky high

Shut down twatter, Instagram, til tok and all the rest of the bullshit distractions.

Shut down social media - says the person on social media 🙄

@GrumpyPanda I didn't mention residency - as this is just bullet points and not a discussion on residency. Or resident non domiciles. Don't want yo derail tbh.

There are british expats that come home for treatment and there is no way for the NHS to bill them even if they ask. And they do ask ( some of them)

I am more thinking of people traveling here without any historical tax paying history or partaking in living in the UK and contributing in different ways to their communities.

I have been overseas and been refused treatment in an a&e as I didn't have my health insurance docs on me. It seems unfair the NHS creaks in return.