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?

I agree on Rejoin EU but I have 2

1. Call a general election tomorrow
2. Recover all the ill gotten gains they have handed out to their friends/donors etc in the last 5 years

Make 100% mortgages compulsory

Another for funding SEND services properly, with actual practical support for parents who are to be honest, abandoned and forced to remain in their homes outside of school term times.

Free childcare

Sad people you must be.

Ban old people from Post Offices on Saturday mornings. They can go in the week.

Also this.

Me personally. Let us get a mortgage. I'm a carer for a disabled child and my husband works full time. We pay £900 every month on time but can't get a mortgage and I'm terrified of our landlord selling. I'd love the security of our own home

If a child is disabled we don't have a choice and wouldn't choose not to anyway 🙄

Increase Carers Allowance from £75 a week to a figure that actually pays the bills. And stop making it taxable.

Pay civil servants properly.

Continue Widowed parents benefit for children in full time education, including university.

In general...make big companies pay tax.

Selfishly.... get rid of property tax

Lo lat all the rejoin the EU comments, we still had shit nhs back then too. If only the money we actually give was spent properly, with proper commercial agreements not chappy pfi..BTW in Blair yrs when that happened its not the EU who made him do that. Thise bloody pfi contracts sacked so much money from NHS.

Being bsck in the EU won't magically .are our NHS or schools funding better.

We need better policies, no more wasting money on vanity projects. Proper wages to attract and retain staff and a better education system. These are all UK policy decisions that need to be done better.

You could throw a trillio pounds at the NHS tomorrow and it would devour it and demand more unless the entire institution, commercial contracts and bureacray is rethought

Just give us the help we deserve for our disabled kids and adults. It's hard enough as it is without having to fight for EHCPs and other rights.

Stop making DLA and PIP so difficult and stressful.

Rejoin the EU, its been an obvious shitshow since we left, as we knew it would be.

Stop bankrolling Scotland, they don't like us, they want independence so give it to them, we'll have their share back and it will help fund our NHS and social care. I love Scotland, don't get me wrong, but they really don't know they're born with their free prescriptions, free bus travel for all up to age 20+, free school meals in primary school, chromebooks in all primary and secondary schools for all pupils. They have it very good.

Sorry, couldn't chose one.

Pay me a reasonable amount for the amount of work they expect me to do!

@KindleAndCake

England doesn't bank roll Scotland

We pay more tax than you and don't have a tory govt.

And the chrome book thing is a load of shite lol.

Not so much government but people in general - healthier population

Rejoin the EU

Re-join the EU

Raise public sector pay in line with inflation rather than real-term pay cuts

Nationalise the water companies (well, all essential utilities, but I'd start with them)

Force price drop for energy, petrol, food

Ban live export/import of animals and accepting they are sentient beings.

Tax me more. I earn loads. I give lots away, but i can't solve that teachers, nurses and doctors are leaving in droves because they aren't paid enough.

I want to give more back. Lots of high earners do. Stop assuming we'll all leave the country if asked to pay our way, we fucking won't! Let us contribute to allow this country to be a thriving economy with a happy well paid population.

Align capital gains tax with income tax to start with, then add in more gently graded tax bands. I'd actually lower the 40% rate that kicks in around 50k to 35% because middle earners get hammered, but start grading the tax rate up gradually eg 40% at 65k, 42% at 80k, 44% at 95k, 46% at 110k, 48% at 115k, 50% at 130k plus. Get rid of the personal allowance claw back as it creates a cliff edge that interacts with other benefits like 30h childcare and so incentivises people to delay hitting it by dumping into pensions.

Gradual tax banding for sure.

Lower retirement age.