You are given the power to make three things illegal. What would you choose?

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I know people will post silly things that irritate them but think seriously. What three things would you make completely illegal right now?
Here's mine:

1. The right to buy your council house
2. Owning more than one property.
3. Not keeping your cat contained in your own home. With hefty fines if it is caught killing any wildlife.

Yes, cash!!! I was just thinking this the other day

All those! But littering is already illegal of course

bikes/electronic scooters
drivers not indicating when turning
Using autism as an excuse for crap parenting

Porn.

I would make it illegal for law enforcers such as police, councils, and other authorities NOT to prosecute law breakers. No point having more laws when the law enforcers turn a blind eye to far too much. If someone breaks a law, any law, then there should be repercussions to the perpetrator, and it's not for the "enforcers" to decide not to bother. If a law isn't going to be enforced it needs to be scrapped. Law enforcement agencies need to be more accountable to actual deal with ALL offences under their jurisdictions, not just the ones they can be bothered to deal with.

Make electric bikes/ scooters have insurance, away of identifying the rider and for over 16s.
Home schooling unless children signed up to an accredited educational site and parents have been checked for complying to making the kids do the work.Exceptions for medical reasons.
Free public transport for all under 22 year old, with companies forced to provide adequate transport links in all areas.

Agree, and also even bigger fines if your cat attacks somebody else’s pets, eg chickens, rabbits.
Also, feeding foxes.

Virtue signalling

Silo thinking

Banoffee pie - clue’s in the name

But, yes, as other PPs have said, scrap Cash. Make it illegal to insist on cash payment as an interim measure, but long term, just scrap it. Far too much misery is caused by cash, i.e. the drugs and arms trade, modern slavery, prostitution, money laundering, illegal working, tax evasion, benefit fraud, child maintenance fraud, selling duty free booze and fags, counterfeit goods, dodgy "cash in hand" tradies who don't finish the job or bodge it, etc. Yes, I know you can still "buy" drugs, prostitutes etc by other means, but at least there's an audit/paper trail if you use a sumup reader to buy a bag of wacky backy and it gives the law enforcement authorities a fighting chance of a prosecution, whereas with cash, it's a lot harder to prove anything.

I echo I and 2 but definitely not 3. Another poster said she would make littering illegal so that would be my no 3.

Smoking (inc vaping)
Cheating when living with someone
Positive dicrimination

what kind of cats do you have round yours? They are vicious little shit monsters here.

Charging interest on loans
Private schools
Pollution

Another good one would be compulsory ID cards like other EU countries have. We really need a proper database of who is in the country, their residency status, rights to employment status, rights to NHS treatment status, rights to pension and other benefits etc. Other countries do it. We could have done so back in the noughties but it was another thing bodged by Blair/Prescott!

Far too many people with more than one identity who are getting away with it because of the absence of a national ID card system.

There'd be no loans if interest wasn't charged. Banks and building societies etc aren't going to give loans for the fun of it!

True, so I think I will have to bring in tougher penalties. I think a week of having you litter glued to you for a start, then a fine for each offence equivalent to two days of your earning/pension/benefit.

that should fix it.

Driving unnecessarily

Graffiti
Infidelity
Drugs, prostitution, gambling, alcohol

Scrapping cash would mean govt, banks, hackers etc could follow every transaction . Also some people are not allowed bank accounts due to past money problems.

So, no2...

What is someone buys a derelict in inner city commercial property that has been on the market for ages and rejected by commercial property developers and the council because it is listed and therefore an expensive PITA. What if they then convert it to domestic property using their own finances. Are they not allowed to do that? Or if they do convert it do they then have to hand it over to someone else? Because why would they go to the expense of converting it if they couldn't then use it to generate income. Would your preferred scenario be that inner city listed buildings are left derelict because they aren't big money spinners? Asking for a friend.

How also would you envisage people who want to rent rather than buy because they have plans to move, or are gaining experience in different locations (e.g. medics), or are living with a new partner and don't want to commit to bricks and mortar until they know the relationship will go the distance etc finding somewhere to rent if there are no landlords? The government can't buy up enough property to house everyone that wants to rent. Would you be prepared to give your house to them for free to fund the greater good? I think the list of people prepared to do that would be vanishingly small. Zero in fact.

Maybe compulsory seizing of property? Does that appeal?

That aside I really don't like the fact the neighbours cats use my garden as a latrine and the dog eats it and then has a severe stomach upset all over the kitchen at night. So the cat thing I can get behind!

As for me I'd ban mumsnet! The time we all waste reading utter rubbish or arguing with strangers about random stuff! If we all of invested that time in something productive imagine the different we could make to the economy? Instead we fritter away hours online. SUCH A WASTE!!!!

1. Single use plastic for anything where an alternative exists.
2. Importing clothing made using slave labour. (Shein/Primark)
3. Listening to music or games in a public place using headphones

No point having a cat then!!! By nature they roam

1 Cosmetic surgery unless on medical grounds, including MH grounds

2 Mobile phone use while cycling

3 Men wearing shorts or joggers unless taking actual part in actual sport

XL bully breed completely banned and culled.

on the smart motorways id say they are smart but its humans thats at fault with those