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)

@socialmedia23 how would that all be paid for?

Infrastructure — improve the roads (including better and more infrastructure for EVs), railways, metros and tramways. Major investment in connecting cities to each other by rail, and in urban public transport systems. Every big UK city should have a joined-up metro/tram/bus network like Amsterdam or Berlin.

Decouple public systems from politics, a bit like they did with the Bank of England: NHS, schools, criminal justice system + prisons, the BBC, the civil service.

Immigration — I want more of it. I would like to see politicians make more of the positive case for immigration and counter the prejudiced narrative that feeds misinformation, hatred and violence.

Housing. We need to build it, and not just huge estates of four- and five-bedroom homes just outside bypasses. Starter homes. Properly built and maintained social and council housing. Incentives for FTBs to buy derelict homes and renovate them. Estates of over a certain number of houses should be obliged to build/contribute financially to an increase in local services, including public transport, GPs and healthcare, emergency services, and schools.

Proportional representation.

Bonus points for abolishing the monarchy. £100million+ so a posh man can put on a hat? Ludicrous.

Combination of property tax, tax on assets, capital gains tax being aligned with income tax rates, closing of tax loopholes.

Shouldn't underestimate property tax. there are many million pound properties in London and many are basically paying £3k per annum for their council tax. I am a london homeowner myself (though my flat is only worth £400k) and i would probably be paying more by this measure, but i think it is only right. it is ridiculous that I pay less council tax than a renter in yorkshire despite our household income being 4 times more...

1. Provide safe routes to apply for asylum for people from every country
2. Stop pollution from water companies
3. Facilitate non-car travel (trains, buses, bikes)
4. Reform and increase funding for education (school and university)
5. Introduce proportional representation

1. Invest in renewables and help fund insulation/solar panels for all homes through loans and grants.

This sounds great but you'd need to find a way to engineer army of electricians. There are already far too few to meet business as usual, and that's before you get to the additional training required to install green tech.

Air pollution
Drug related crime
Decarbonising the economy and housing
Inflation
NHS waiting times

Also in a european style insurance system, we would probably be paying more for our healthcare esp for middle and higher earners. The money saved can go into the state building housing. I think paying £200 more per month for state funded health insurance is preferable to having to fund a £100k deposit for my future child because the housing market is so dysfunctional (and for people to be stuck in insecure private rental). Also bad housing means worse health outcomes so the NHS is very overstretched.

This is probably better in the long term (you pay for what you get!) and cheaper than going private. We get a false sense of security with the NHS. I would end free prescriptions for everyone except the most vulnerable.

NHS
Poverty and inequality
Increase basic wages for most jobs
Housing
Education, university etc

Banning anyone from owning and distributing a newspaper unless they are resident and paying full tax in the UK.
Adopting France's system for funding healthcare.
Adopting proportional representation.
Properly valuing and paying teachers and funding schools properly.
Stop pumping shit into our waterways.

Dentists - make it worthwhile for dentists to do nhs work
Nhs - keep the nhs and increase pay, more nhs training grants
Housing - build more council and housing association homes. Cap private rental prices
Education - increase pay, more TA staff and supporting roles
Cost of living - increase living wage and tackle extortion energy, food and fuel costs.

NHS - invest, revive and protect it (maybe some reforms are necessary but only ones aimed at improving on all levels)
Environment - tackle air and waterway pollution
Environment - change infrastructure ASAP to react to and mitigate effects of climate change
Economic - try to repair the damage Brexit has done and aim to rejoin EU
Deal with porn - access for over 18s only, paywalls, regulation and no violent content.

Education
Cost of childcare
Much better public transport and much less car dependency
Work should pay substantially better than benefits
Move to a French or German style healthcare system.

1. Education - properly funded schools and changes to teachers pay and conditions to attract and retain high quality teachers for all schools. Also reform of the University tuition fees and student loans system.
2. NHS and caring professions- proper funding and reform of pay and conditions. I include carers (for the elderly, people with additional needs etc) in this as I think the 2 are very closely linked and it's criminal that carers are not paid enough to pay their rent and bills.
3. Tax reform- should be fair tax for all. Currently there are lots of ways that the wealthy can arrange things so that they pay very little. I'd include VAT in this- it's a well know fact that the burden on VAT falls most heavily on the poorest
4. Energy companies- renationalise them. This would end the insanity of energy companies making record profits whilst individuals and other businesses can barely afford to survive due to high energy bills. Not to mention the tax payer picking up the tab for any subsidies whilst the energy company profits continue to rise. The profits made by these companies under state ownership could be reinvested in renewable energy projects.
5. (Definitely not the least important). Tackling unfair treatment of women and girls, including but not limited to VAWG. This would include a total reform of the way that so called 'low level' crimes and discrimination are dealt with.

Poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, environment.

Mines a bit different as its the Scottish government who have made a lot of the cock ups!

1: Sort the education system out - standards have fallen massively and the promise of free uni is a farce as universities are capped on Scottish students and use a point system which uses a postcode rather then students results

2: Childcare costs - no promise up here for subsidies for under 3s

3: Sort out scottish NHS - severely lacking in consultants etc it's hard to compete with RUK when taxation is greater

4: Sort out transport for outside of the central belt - the ferries fiasco is ridiculous huge waste of money and all Govt caused!

5: Properly fund and Understand environmental policies outside of the central belt - we have sweeping targets which will cost households tens of thousands of pounds with no funding available but also can't be installed in rural old properties as they simply won't be effective, can't cope with the extreme low temperatures etc. Or trying to force huge highly protected Marine site areas on communities which rely on fishing industry as a job in areas where jobs are few and far between because they have a target.

Environment - unless we prevent climate collapse nothing else is going to matter

Reduce inequality - virtually every social policy issue (health, housing, education etc) can be improved, though not completely solved, by a fairer more equal society

Tackling violence and discrimination against women. And yes - being able to definitely say what a woman is (based on biological sex) has to be part of this.

Housing - publicly funded house building on a massive scale. Also tax hikes that make second homes, and landlords making £££, much more unappealing

Rejoin the EU - a no brainer for me. And unlike the others on this list it’s 100% achievable

Tackle car culture. It's the root of so many of our problems, from obesity to depression to respiratory health, not to mention climate change.

Remove all the layers in the NHS which are difficult to negotiate and a direct hangover from the internal market and the Health & Social Care Act.

Education. Cut class sizes in half.

Rejoin the EU.

Cut working hours

Increase the minimum wage. Make employers pay staff a decent wage for their labour instead of simply topping up with UC.

Increase the education budgets to schools. They have been cut back too much. Ring fence SEN budgets for SEN children. Schools use the money meant for the benefit of SEN children for all children. This is wrong. With better budgets this could stop.

Increase the lower threshold of personal allowances so instead of £12.5 k free from tax we get £13k free from tax. Then increase it following year to £13.5k. increase the higher threshold to £58k before paying higher rate income tax. As a nation we are taxed too much and our taxes are too high.

Change the stupid unfair rules that stop a family getting Child Benefit if one parent earns £60k but if both parents earn £50k that's ok. Make it £75k joint/household income. The current rule is very unpopular and perceived as unfair.

Change rules for benefits claimants so that a parent of a child of school age has to work 30 hours before getting UC top ups unless disabled. Once a child is at school no reason for the parent not to work but if they choose to stay home that's fine, just don't pay them to be home when they could be working.

And fix the potholes.

Bike lanes? They’ve spent £26 million on them in my city, are planning even more and nobody uses them! I hate to think how many houses that could have built for people that need them.

Housing. More social affordable housing and lower house prices.

More childcare availability at an affordable price

More nhs dentists

More funding for education

More funding for neurodiversity and camhs with the nhs. The waiting lists are awful.

Energy security - renewables only

Water security - with off shore wind farms we could be turning sea water to drinking water for export in the future - build pipe lines to Spain

Food security - we need to rely much less on imports

Housing - council homes , good quality , insulated , district heating

Thats all

Cost of living
Housing - trying to buy is a nightmare
NHS and salaries it's s*
I think More help for disabled, children and mh services. So that
Pot holes omg everywhere has so many terrible pot holes.

Actually, I have ONE priority:

Evidence based policy.

Base all public policy decisions on actual data, analysis and evidence.

Who are the rich? Anyone that earns more than you?

Quite telling that no one thinks economic growth or enterprise is a priority. It almost as if people think money grows on trees. Like no it has been doing for the last few years. Hence creating the mess we are in.

The biggest priority has to be educate people to make them economically literate. So they understand how stuff is paid for and demand better economic growth.