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.

Ooh that's a good one!!

1. Pet dogs
2. Ed Milliband
3. Mass immigration (both legal and illegal)

1. Parents allowing kids to be unruly/loud/in people's faces in public areas. If your kids bothering other people in any way and you can't stop them/teach them, then you and the kid get out of there.

1. Dogs being off leads in public places. Designated off lead areas exist, but strictly no dogs off leads outside these areas.

1. Mandatory office attendance or any travel for jobs that can be worked from home. It's stupid and the people who demand it are idiotic control freaks who need to get other themselves... Or just want to justify spending stupid money on renting/buying office space I guess.

Eating with your mouth open
Sniffing
Spitting

@cadburyegg very good point about child maintenance. The system is a disgrace and seems to be engineered to facilitate anything but child maintenance.

the three things I would make illegal are:

• allowing abusive men to use the family court to carry on terrorising women and children.
• being able to buy second and more homes and turning them into hmos
• electric cycles and scooters hurtling around housing estates, parks, children’s play areas, shopping precincts. Absolutely lethal vehicles quite capable of wiping out a child or other individual.

Dogs are different, they shit on pavements and grass, can bite, can form packs, more intimidating, move about quicker.
Cats are chilled, mostly go around unnoticed, bury their poo usually, move slowly.

Why can't they move her to a smaller property? Because she doesn't want to or none available?

1. Giving your children a smartphone before the age of 16/ unsupervised access to the Internet.
2. Taking your dog to John Lewis, Clark's, and every kind of social space. It's not your friend helping to choose accessories, it's a dog.
3. Using 4x4 vehicles in a busy city. No need, and very wasteful.

1. Ultra processed food and beverages
2. Social media for under 16s
3. Scrunchy bum leggings

Smart phones, social media and pornography for under 16s
Plastic
Pronouns in email signatures

It will never happen here. And I say this as an indoor cat owner

Ed Milliband should be illegal? That's a bit strong.

No way would I want this power. Bound to be unintended consequences and what's the point of criminalising things that are unenforceable.

If I could just change people's habits, have a magic power not legal one, I'd like

• People to usually turn their car engines off when stationary
• People to turn on a reasonable minimum of lights in a building they are using, and turn them off when they leave
• Everyone to be kinder & more forgiving & tolerant and patient

1. Those really noisy car engines that you can hear 10 miles away.

1. Bullying.

1. Cheating.

1. Cycling on pavements
2. Parking on pavements
3. Attendance awards at school.

1. ultra processed food
2. hanging dog poo bags in trees
3. bright and flashing lights in public places

The last one is interesting. No new wedding dresses/wedding guest/prom dresses? Vinted is fab for selling on one off items.

and impossible

I was wondering this too? Most HA’s around here will actively help you to move to a smaller property, usually a newly built flat which all seem very well insulated. DM is in one and it’s so warm she barely ever has her heating on.

Putting the clocks back in winter
Certain hidden charges
BT and other utilities having so called 'appointments' that can be a time window of 'morning' or 'afternoon' i.e five hours- two hour maximum time window.

This was on my list too but I bumped it for litter droppers. It was close though

1. Drivers who stay in the middle/right lane whilst not overtaking
2. Vapes
3. Gym gear as 'normal' clothing

If you abolish landlord property you will make hundreds of people homeless. Councils simply do not have sufficient homes for all those needing them.

Many rented properties are very nice. I would far rather have my attractive rental property than an old run down council house.

I mean, it’s not. Lots of people manage it.

@QueefQueen80sI love your description of cats😂 We had a magnificent moggy a big Tom near us. He’s sadly now in the great garden in the sky RIP (old age). I once watched him kill two huge rats in quick succession at the bottom of our garden. I had taken to calling the rats ‘the twins’. They always arrived under the fence together from the field next door. Until one day super Mog was waiting for them.