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

[verdantverdure]

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?

Sorry, *marginal tax rate. I'm tired.

Affordable dental treatment! I'm in dire need but can't find anything i can afford. Really considering a loan before my teeth get any worse.

These. From July standing charges will be a third of my yearly energy bills as unit rates are dropping but standing charges aren't. Means I have very little power to do anything about my bills.

My child and I also lost our NHS dentist six months ago. Everything is just going to shit.

Hospices to have official government funding
Air-ambulances - ditto
More centralised UK wide policing for closer crime and information sharing.
Immediate deportation to home country for crimes committed on UK soil

Repeal section 24

Privatise the NHS

Rejoin EU

Put a percentage cap on rent increases for existing tenants, since massive increases will now be the go-to for forcing people out of their homes when no fault evictions are gone.

Affordable dentistry for all.

VAT on private education. These are not charities.

Rejoin the EU.

Support for the disabled:
Strengthen reasonable adjustments with some money and clout behind the law and wider scope. Make ablism as socially unacceptable as racism. (They can offer more training for both while they are at it, especially with police)

Make it somewhat easier to buy a house?
I've been renting for 15 years, I've paid someone's mortgage off I'm sure, however I am unable to afford the same mortgage payments I pay in rent.

Reduce childcare costs in line with what other countries like Sweden pay!

Ground up re-build of public services including the NHS.

Rethink the taxation system and safeguard a portion for funding public sector salaries so we can pay our nurses and teachers properly

Sort out the child maintenance loopholes once and for all and develop an absolutely no-tolerance approach to non-payment. Work out something legally binding where care is shared 50/50 so one parent isn't paying for more.than their fair share.

Rejoin the EU.

Widen criteria for disability benefits for adults, particularly where parents routinely receive DLA but get nothing once the child turns 16, despite the obligation to have the child in school.

Find a cure for my son's condition.

Sort out schools.

Fund schools and hospitals properly!

For me personally increase my wage by 50% as that’s how much my monthly payments have risen by in the last year

im shockingly underpaid for the work I do (yes I am looking for another job)

That will be quick then.

Universal basic income

@verdantverdure

Are you for real?
Have you not read today that the eu powerhouse is about to head into a very nasty worrying recession? The one money making country in the states?
That Germany has labour issues and huge inflation so does France and Italy?
Food supply issues, labour issue's the energy crisis... Do you really think all this is just happening to us.

@Flora56 how would you see a wealth tax working?

@ToK1 who are the rich and what is the correct way to tax them?

Taxes in Scotland are now higher than in the rest of the UK however England - the SE of England specifically - does indeed bankroll Scotland and has been doing so for decades. As it does for Wales and NI. Public expenditure has been significantly higher per capita in all three than in England consistently, for decades, as a result of the Barnet formula. So England generates the most wealth per capita and the other nations get more spending per capita. This was the case long before devolution or divergence or tax rates and remains so.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula#:~:text=Its%20principle%20is%20that%20any,Wales%2C%20Scotland%20and%20Northern%20Ireland.

Education for SEN. The battle is absolutely draining me. My boy is 4 and never thought I would be where I am now fighting for his education that he deserves just like any other child his age.

Build more social housing

Mine would be sort out the NHS. Get waiting lists down. Get A&E and ambulance waiting times back to safe limits. Make GP appointments widely available. Improve mental health support - no 2 year waiting lists for counselling etc.

We've just had to scrape together over £7000 for me to have an operation because the waiting list for NHS was beyond ridiculous.

If people can't get healthcare in a timely manner, means more people off work, more staff shortages which affects every business. Fixing the NHS would do so much for so many people and the economy.

I’d be happy do adopt a fucking monkey too. Just think, the biggest, most affluent, market in the world and we went and shat on it from a great height. It may not have been perfect, but Jesus Christ, it’s a million times better than what we have now, and the euro would have the advantage of not having Charlie King’s face all over it.