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

[SpringSunshineanddaffodils]

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.

It's not impossible. I'd enforce it in the exact same way we enforced roaming dogs. It would soon become a thing of the past, just the same way dogs no longer roam.

People only think it's ridiculous because they are not used to it. And they only don't want it because they don't want to have to take responsibility for their pet.

• Having your phone on loudspeaker in a public area
• Vaping
• Dynamic pricing on tickets

Yup😉

Swearing

If a social housing tenant loses their job due to the incompetence of the HA. Constant no shows from contractors, Or endless visits the tenant has to take time off for (on one of my threads an MNer was on the 7th visit and repair STILL wasnt done) it should be law that the HA should NOT be allowed to evict when they have caused you to lose your job.

Oh, and given that my nostrils have just detected this -

bonfires during daylight hours, and outside of Oct - March.

Say you're given a council house in the 1990s or 2000s because you need one. Your children are young, you're struggling to afford to live etc etc. During this time, there's plenty of council houses to go round. You're given this house at a very low rent, subsidised by the tax payer. Fair enough.
Fast forward to the 2020s. There's a housing crisis, families are living in bedsits or cramped into one bedroom flats. You're all good though. Your children have left home by now, you're sitting pretty in a nice 3 bedroom council house, with two empty rooms and a nice big garden, just you and hubby. You could even rent some rooms out if you wanted and make money. You've had time to save up, work your way up in your job so you're financially comfortable. You are paying a tiny amount of rent, say 150pw which you can more than afford, while the family down the road are paying private rent of £1200pcm for a two bedroom flat.
You decide to buy this house you have paid very little for over the years, and the council sell it to you at a very low price, say £89k. Houses of this size in your area are easily going for £300k+
After five years, you can now legally sell this house, for market rate. You sell the house you were given at a very low price because you were hard-up, to help you out, built with taxpayers money, and you pocket a huge profit of over £200k, for simply being helped out one day 20 years ago.
Meanwhile, that house has GONE from the social housing market now. It can never be used to help another family in need, like you were helped. And it's very possibly been bought up by a landlord who will rent it out for extortionate private rent (in my area, 3 bed houses re going for £1850pcm) to families in the same position you were once in.
Is this a fair use of houses built with taxpayers money to help people in need?
They should be there for people who NEED them. Under-occupancy is bad enough but they should absolutely not be for sale.

i second all of this!!

Go on then, explain to everyone why you think the earth's climate hasn't always changed.

I misread ignore

1. Chewing with your mouth open or smacking your lips
2. Whistling
3. Smart phones/tablets for under 16s

My cats are indoor so it doesn’t apply to me.

To be fair, our requirements for getting a licence are much stricter than other countries, where they give them to younger kids. America, for example, where they are handed out to kids as a given, after they've driven round some cones in a carpark for a few minutes.

With you on the fireworks though. Organised displays by licenced professionals only. It's actually madness that we sell literal explosives in Tesco to anyone over 18. Littering is my pet hate.

1. Homemade food that’s been brought to a second location
2. Yawning and/or coughing without covering the mouth
3. Playing anything out loud on public transport = instant death penalty

IME on here a lot of posters only care about poor families in temp accomodation when they can use them as a tool to bash those already living in social housing. The rest of the time the same posters are saying these families shouldnt have had kids that they cant afford.
Tactics like this have been much easier to spot since Covid The same thing was done back then. Disabled and ill people were used as a tool to emotionally blackmail others into following Covid restrictions Now they want to cut their disability benefits. Im sick of people USING people (they usually like to feel superior too) as a tool to win their side of the debate when they couldnt give a fuck about them the rest of the time!!!!!!!!!!!

The newest one are bum scrunch leggings, where they dip in to the bum crack.and show pretty much everything, including what they ate for lunch!

I think it is a good idea. It may solve the problem of people keep refusing the assigned housing too. Social care should be there only for safety net, not for life style support.

Your statements are irrelevant that's why

yes climate has always changed, claim a tiny gold star...
But over the past 2000 years, only in the last 150 years has the climate all around the world changed at the same time, and in the same direction, with warming of over 98% of the surface of the planet. But don't let critical thinking get in the way of your sound bites

1..Parking on the road outside someone’s house (yes I know it’s allowed but I’m playing the game)

2..Taking children to supermarkets.

3..Cheap see through leggings.

You’ve been prosecuted because your dog killed a sparrow? Or a wild rabbit?

No, of course you haven’t.

We are talking about social housing not social care. They are two different things The electrician is coming to mine tomorrow to change my fuse box because H&S laws have changed. Hes not coming to help me on and off the commode
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One car or one vehicle?
What about owning one car, for family use, and a workvan?

Men in Lycra with bicycles
Religion
Traffic lights for mending potholes or minor road repairs

Damn, I replied to the wrong person and now I can't find the comment I meant to reply to! sorry @OurChristmasMiracle

No... because my dog hasn't killed a sparrow? or a wild rabbit?
Dogs are not recognised as being responsible for killing 40 to 70 million birds each year?!

Sorry, what on earth is your point?