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.

I would focus on adequate punishment for stuff that is already legal tbh.

1. Knee jerk ideas about making things illegal without any respect for the fact that our justice system is already massively underfunded and in total meltdown, police forces are a mixture of struggling honest and evil corrupt individuals and our courts are unable to keep up with the backlog of cases, and prisons are bursting at the seams, and there is still NO COSTED PLAN to deal with this dire mess and making more things illegal is going to add to the existing shameful misery

1. Tailgating on the motorway

1. People who park across my driveway

I wish there were more regulations about home renovation and large DIY projects to include some sort of noise impact assessment for neighbours. Sick of the having to tolerate projects that go on for years with never ending drilling, banging, sanding etc. I think there should be more obligations to complete loud and messy projects within a certain timeframe so it limits the impact on other people.

but do their cats ?!?

Why would you want to stop cats being cats? It’s the nature of predatory creatures.

Benefit bashing on social media

Companies hiking up costs mid-contract (looking at you Sky).

Electric scooters, unless they have a mechanism that makes them self destruct if used on public land

OK. I'll change that to Ed Milliband's nutty net zero/climate change policies. I'd still like him to be illegal though.

The cats one is daft and impractical but I am with him on the council houses.

This thread makes me feel very sorry for MPs, councillors and others who have to put up with the public every day. I hope you’ve looked at the voting % OP.

Mine are

1. NRP paying for and supporting their kids. I have no clue why this isn’t dealt with now
2. banning social media for kids
3. banning all smoking.How stupid were we to allow the growth of vapes after managing to reduce smoking. And I am bloody sick of smelling weed everywhere

You want to punish stuff that's legal? 😲

1. chewing gum
2. not walking on the pavement in a small fishing village (where I live) because you are on holiday so nobody else needs to drive along the road that you, your small children and your dog are ambling along eating ice cream. May be niche.
3. parking over two spaces because you drive a BMW and someone who doesn’t have one might park beside you or even look at your precious car without permission. Particularly in small tourist trap fishing villages in high season. Some day an angry fisherman with a forklift is going to deposit a shiny car in the harbour to the cheers of locals, if he can manoeuvre round the “parking for fishermen only sign”. Again, possibly niche.

Cycling/being on a scooter.
The last one is a joke. Kinda.
They're always in the way! When you're on the pavement - nearly get mowed down by cyclists

Cycling on the pavement is already illegal; it's just not enforced.

Actually, where I am it's still not back to the appalling levels pre-Covid.

My choice:

Rats - just exterminate the lot.

Snakes can go too.

Introduce licences for cyclists, and ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS.

1. Smoking
2. Feeding any animal that isn’t yours, so many people treat horses etc as though they’re public entertainment or their garden backs onto a field containing animals and they think tipping their grass cuttings in there is ‘kind’. It can kill.
3. Utility companies not passing on their insane profits to the customer and charging stupid amounts.
4. Donald Trump

Caravans and mobile homes being towed on country roads / single track road or at any time when roads might conceivably have traffic. If people must own them they should only be moved between 2-4am.
Chewing gum.
Parking on pavements, near junctions or anywhere that makes driving or walking harder for others.

Also, rough sleepers pooing etc in the street. Just gross.

Drunks who are sick in the street, ditto.

Littering.

Standing still on the moving walkway in the airport. Immediate removal to the firing squad area.

Dithering.

1. Dogs as pets
2. Dogs as pets
3. Dogs as pets

Thank you!

and I also agree about electric scooters. Absolute menace. They have recently come to my area and they are left blocking pavements including the ones on the way to school. Gives me the rage.

i’m interested in number 3. Can you explain why this is bad? Genuine question.

Why all dogs?

What's wrong with buying your council house?

Dogs are brilliant and help lots of people ☺️

• spitting

• dogs in restaurants, pubs, shops etc etc (assurance dogs excluded)

• people letting their dogs shit on pavements etc and not picking it up, this may already be illegal so if so waaaaaay harsher penalties are needed cos there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of deterrent at the moment.