We need a political party that will…

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I work in finance and this country is on the brink of collapse. It’s spending too much, it’s not growing the economy and needs someone to come in and make good decisions quickly if we are to survive. It’s in a really serious state now and action must be taken. I’vote Labour, and did so hoping Keir would be brave enough to take the hard decisions needed but he’s been a pathetic wet blanket. We need a government who:

1. get rid of the triple lock. It’s laughably unaffordable.
2. reassess the whole benefits system and get rid of disability payments for anything but the most severe conditions, increasing the amounts to those who have these conditions.
3. restrict benefit payments to those born outwith the UK to those that have been in full time work for a large proportion of their adult lives here.
4. Reduce the minimum wage to help companies hire again.
5. Reduce housing benefit. People will have to move to somewhere cheaper or landlords will have to drop prices to what people can afford.
6. Go to an insurance backed healthcare system like they enjoy in Europe.
7. Ditch 95% of planning regulation and get Britain building again.
8. ditch net zero. No one is going to run a successful business in a country with the highest energy costs on the planet.
9. Reopen Scotland oil and gas production (inc refineries) and explore for more areas.
10. Simplify income taxes. Roll income tax into NICs. Give everyone child care hours, child benefit, personal allowance and increase tax rates to pay for this. Stop artificially restricting people from earning more.
11. Simplify VAT. Drop the threshold to £20k to ensure no one has a ceiling on earnings.
12. Simplify IHT. 5% on everything. No nil rates or exemptions.
13. rejoin the single market and customs union.
14. Explain policies better! Tell people how unaffordable the triple lock etc is. Tell them what the single market and customs union non is and why you’re rejoining. Tell people what the ‘bond markets’ are and why they’re important. Tell people why paying for rich people’s child care is much better for the economy than forcing high earners to drop their hours.
15. Probably ought to start deporting economic migrants with no right to stay quickler to throw some red meat to reform voters.

We need a party to take on ALL of these policies and move AT PACE on them. Who’s the party that will do this? I thought it was Labour but BOY was I wrong on that!

What are people adding to the list?

And in the NHS none of that is provided for you! You have to bring your own ones.

Barely. I’m on £12.91 an hour and it’s a real struggle. But yes, we should have our wages cut to put more money into the pockets of business owners.

Our local A&E has an out of hours GP onsite. Nobody gets turned away, regardless of their ailment, and they don’t clog up the ED either. It’s the way forward.

Tax and legal. Big 4, mainly private financial institutions, some third sector (NGOs). Tax / fiscal research part of my role..

As stupid as the weetabix comment is i wouldn't be against charging patients for food. I spend a lot of time in hospital and I would happily pay for food why there

I think we need to introduce more friction to it, because people do take the system for granted.

I don’t think that’s right - you’d then have patients who have nothing that are starving. I had surgery last year and had to eat before they’d let me go, because I’d been starved from midnight until I came round at about 3pm. If they presented me a couple of slices of toast and a card machine I’d have laughed in their face. The issue is patients taking the piss.

When did we decide that every job has to pay enough for the person doing the job to live independently of anyone else? That was never the case in the past.

This is similar to ours i don't understand why every single a&e department doesn't have this ours is also attached and then you can also be sent straight back to a&e from urgent treatment/ooh if the initial wrong decision was made.

Some pay loads of tax. Some pay zero. We need to filter them and remove those who aren’t working / paying enough. Looking at a whole populace on average doesn’t work does it?
But you seem to want to punish both! Punish the high tax payers and they'll go elsewhere. Easier for them than the Brits to move away!

@bltwithoutthet yes I think it's solely Weetabix 🙄
No that was an example of unnecessary waste.

The problems are multifold

Thank you. Are you working for a private financial institution currently?

Yet on here if you’re a younger person living at home because you don’t get paid enough, you get told you’re a failure. Pick one line and stick to it! The idea that people should work full time just to not be able to afford anything is absolutely fucking wild.

Why would they have nothing they feed themselves at home.

Feeding patients is a waste?

You don’t know that. What if you have a patient who is genuinely on the bones of their arse, every single penny is accounted for and they end up in hospital? The idea that they should go without food or pick one meal a day, delaying their healing, is insanity.

You don’t know that. What if you have a patient who is genuinely on the bones of their arse, every single penny is accounted for and they end up in hospital? The idea that they should go without food or pick one meal a day, delaying their healing, is insanity.

People who are granted asylum cost the taxpayer approximately £400k. We are currently granting over 50,000 applications a year. That's a lot more than £4-5bn, which I assume relates to hotels.

"Deliver unicorn fairies in the gold leaf trees and chocolate rain drops on Tuesdays."

Honestly, if it's so "obvious" (and seemingly thus easy) what to do then why don't all the moaners run for office and change the world for the better themselves? Just get out your magic wands finally, why don't you.

Pfffffffftttt.

We already do “chug down the gas that’s in the North Sea”. What makes you think we don’t? Unfortunately we use more gas than we produce so have to import it - mostly from Norway (easy, it’s the same gas fields as ours so uses the same pipelines) but also from the US (by tanker).

So, 50% from our own fields, 38% from the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and the remainder from the US.

What would you like to see change?

Personally I would like to reduce our dependency on gas, particularly for electricity production. This means rapidly rolling out the SMR (small nuclear reactor) programme and renewables. As well as making the grid a lot more flexible with both grid and small scale storage. Luckily all this is happening at pace, you just don’t hear about it in the media as most people aren’t interested in reactive load balancing and small-scale feed-in tariffs and the like.

Branded Weetabix !! Cheaper versions available .we can't afford branded stuff we look for cheaper so how can NHS afford it

The real issue to our problems is removing the triple lock and means testing the state pension. It’s 48% of the welfare bill and is a transfer of wealth from the working to the retired. But a lot of people don’t want to hear that.

Im not talking about making a profit like a restaurant im talking about covering costs so 50p for a couple of slices of toast is reasonable and something the majority can pay. You could still subsidise the poorest people but the majority would be able to afford it.

Do you think they’re popping down their local Tesco in the morning to get boxes? They’ll be getting it direct at a discount 😂

They also use Cadbury hot chocolate 🤣🤣