What's the one single thing a government could do to make your life better?

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Mine?

Rejoin the EU.

It the single most powerful lever any government could employ.

It makes the country significantly better off at a stroke and improves all kinds of situations, growth, investment, labour shortages, farming, fishing...

What's yours?

@Whatthediddlyfeck

'Cancelling' other political parties is a dictatorship not democracy

How would getting rid of the Scottish Parliament improve your life?

It's a modest one, but I think easy access to physiotherapy with self-referral would help a lot of people, rather than their physical issues getting worse and worse.

socialise/redistribute the profits of big business and wealthy people rather than just the losses.

Rejoin the EU

Have the Cabinet member in charge of a Dependent spend 6 months in the workplace, earning the average salary, before they are allowed to sign off on a single policy.

Department

This lot: lock themselves in a burning building.

Govts in general: remove things like the NHS, public infrastructure etc from governmental control. Then lock themselves in a burning building

Properly and fully find public services such as schools and the NHS.

Bring all of our zero carbon targets forward. Ban fossil fuels and adequately fund/invest in the alternatives. Mandate that all new bill social housing reach passivhaus standard. Fund a mass retrofit homes programme.

A smaller and more self-indulgent one - bring in the free nursery hours for all children from 9 months in immediately not by bloody 2025.

Cut interest rates before my mortgage payments rocket in a couple of months.

Proper funding for schools, apprenticeships (so businesses can pay better wages for them), early years provision that you're actually able claim the hours properly.

Essentially, more money for all education. Except higher education which should be charged for accordingly, with grants available for those who qualify. Universities should be for the academic not used as a milestone or right of passage.

Extend maternity pay.

Make if VERY clear to the judiciary, schools, NHS and all other public bodies that woman are adult human females, protected in law and that transwomen are transwomen, not women.

I know this isnt top of the list but right now as a house mover - Why the fuck have we never reformed the house buying and selling process in this country? For my sins I have owned 9 houses over the past 20 years and it is still as hellish as it always was.

Sort housing out.
Stop people having unoccupied properties
Convert some town centre offices and unused shops into social housing
Rent cap in London
Build more decent homes

SMP to be the same as minimum wage

Massively invest in public services, make them truly first class.

And rejoin EU immediately - if they would have us 🙏

Those that want to re-join the EU, would you be happy to adopt the euro? Because the EU would never let us back in on the old terms we had before.

Bring the pension age back down to 60...it will free up lower skilled jobs other than fruit picking to those that need to find one under uc new rules

Resign. 🙄

I would like my government in ROI to cut tax for middle income earners.

Pay the winter fuel allowance to UK pensioners in France. Just because the overseas territories are warm doesn't mean that lots of France is -10 in winter.

Stop charging more to renew a British passport from overseas.

Make absentee parents legally liable to pay child maintenance

Guess what? Economist here. Businesses pay enough tax. People in this country need to get their heads around the fact that they - the general public - need to pay more tax if they want better public services. Things cannot be funded purely through ‘taxes I don’t pay’. Educate yourself please. And no, wealth taxes on the most wealthy won’t pay for public services either as most of our ‘richest 100 people’ are very much international people. And no, people like Jacob Rees Mogg are not committing tax evasion / using loopholes that can easily be closed. They are investing in perfectly legal tax efficient ways. And Amazon etc are using perfectly legal ways to minimise their UK corporation tax bill.

I want better public services but I am grown up enough to realise that we are going to have to pay for them.

Back to the original question - a massive house building process to reduce the price of houses would fix most of the problems the UK face. The reason why the UK public quite rightly baulks at paying a reasonable amount of tax to fund public services is that they have so little left after housing costs.

Perfect reply 👍🏼

@OneMoreCookieMonster

As a teacher and a parent, I could not have worded that better myself.