What do you want out of the new government?

[chillymorns]

Whoever they are.

I want -

A better management and investment in key areas of the NHS

Cheaper utilities

More money for disabled people and their families

More tax on those earning over a certain %, so maybe those on £100k plus being taxed a bit further

Cheaper railways being introduced

Better investment in local facilities

Please share yours I voted Labour last time and will do so again. The Tories just need to be gone, and I'm not convinced those with any sense will say otherwise

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Yours sound a good start. More on state education.

Encourage more into apprenticeships.

Help unpaid carers more than the £82 a week they currently receive. Some carers can also work. For many the care needs are do great they couldn't work since 24/7 care needed.

Far more emphasis and funding for "manual" skills, trades, right from aged 14 upwards to allow the less academic to change path sooner onto something more suited and more useful. Extend that to adult education so mature people can also more easily be retrained into trades and other manual skilled work. The lack of skilled trades and manual workers is about to blow up in our faces with the ageing demographic and far too few people coming up to fill their boots.

A cross-departmental policy to decentralise the country's employment and economy and to encourage businesses to grow and relocate to the regions as the first aim for any new policy decisions, including tax breaks and other incentives for firms relocating/setting up in the regions, etc, tax breaks/incentives for organisations who employ the long term unemployed and disabled, etc. A "localism" policy to help the smallest of businesses set up and grow and help them compete with bigger firms such as larger "office based" firms, supermarkets, etc.

A proper transport policy to beef up public transport where feasible, i.e. more trains on existing lines, new stations where there's a real need, more "parkway" stations out of town with car parks, more bus routes and more frequent buses, buses and trains to start earlier in the day and finish later so people can get to/from work. And added to all that, stop the war on cars, as cars will always be necessary for some people (especially rural areas where public transport is crap or non existent) - we need more carrot and less stick and more public consultation/agreement around pedestrianisation, congestion charging, etc rather than them being imposed against the majority.

—No building on the green belt.
-All new properties to focus on minimal land use, so terraces and flats.
-All new properties to produce their own electricity through panels or air source heat pumps for example
-The Government to build their own council housing
-A huge crack down on all forms of tax and benefit fraud. Of everyone whether big or small sums.
-Incentive to buy electric ( or for now hybrid ) vehicles.
-Smaller class sizes and more discipline in schools, giving more rights to schools to expel students
-Protection of the rights of biological women.
-An increase in the minimum wage and banning zero hour contracts.
-An increase in the number of training / university places for all health professionals including doctors, nurses and mental health practitioners.
-Lowering the motorway speed limit to 60mph and 20mph in all towns. A review of lowering the mph on rural roads as well.
-A stop to all out of town shopping complexes
-A more affordable rail network
-More police. We are at the same rate of 171/100,000 population ( the same as during the last Government ) but more crimes are being committed so obviously we need a higher rate.
-Increase arable land cultivation and the planting of hedgerows and trees
-Ban plastic grass and solid surface driveways.
-More protection and rights for people suffering from harassment
-A tax increase of sugary and processed foods and support for organic food producers
-Car road tax to be based on mileage
-Crack down on migrant smugglers and a quicker method to asses asylum seekers.
-A review of UC and all benefits in view of the predicted increase over the next 5 years.
-A review of costs in hospitals, I would suggest meals to be paid for by patients at cost for example.
-Building respite homes for short stay people who no longer need medical care in hospital but await assessment for alternative accommodation to free up beds.
-The self employed required to pay into private pensions as well as national insurance
-Higher taxes on air travel and banning private aeroplanes
-Raise taxes on alcohol, tobacco and vapes.
-Ban the import of anything from the killing of endangered animals and hunting trophies
-Ban fox hunting in all forms and jail those involved in hunting where animals are killed. Ban trail hunting. The current ban just doesn’t work.
-Stop the use of half jail sentences and build more prisons.
-Use of a similar house buying system used in Guernsey where the number of non residents buying property is limited to a certain number of limited properties.

There could be more 🤔

Sort the nhs

Sort out housing and bring back 100% mortgages for young people

A lot of things people have already said. So won’t repeat them but my own personal one.

Banning neonicotinoids. Easy to do. Saves the bees.

I'd like the changes in their manifesto about ofsted to be implemented asap.

Amen to this.

I'd like the global tax system changed so there aren't billionaires any more. It seems absurd to me that some people have that much money at all.

I would also like climate change addressed before we all fry.

But mainly I would just like an honest government that does its best for the people, even if sometimes the problems are too hard to fix. I think honest trying would be great.

FWIW, I was grateful for the lockdowns.

That's a huge list. Where are the hundreds of billions yo do all that coming from?

Yes to all of these and also to add:

reinstate dog licences

stop teaching gender unscientific bullshit as fact in schools

keep women’s spaces sacred

Another one - some mini deals with the EU on vet standards, prof qualifications recognition, financial services and a youth mobility pact. Win win

I think I mentioned a few areas that could reduce cost or bring in more money to the public purse that currently aren’t being exploited.

Tax increases on certain foods, alcohol, tobacco and vapes ( huge increases )
Huge crackdown on tax and benefit fraud
Car use mileage tax ( might be higher than standard road tax )
Paying for meals in hospitals would reduce nhs bill
Possibly full working week for prisoners ( no pay ) and stop giving prisoners money each week
Higher minimum wage would increase tax payments.

These are just the ones I’ve mentioned above but we could
fine / tax all polluters as well.

Some of the stuff I’ve suggested won’t have a cost. Like womens rights, new housing restrictions, protection of animals, banning private planes, speed limits etc

If fraud within the tax and benefit system is dealt with more effectively there would be little need for taxing some people so much more than others.

If the minimum wage was increased too people would have more money through their own earnings.

High taxes on high earners just leads to them leaving, it’s a dangerous game to play

Reducing speed limits will definitely cost money- it would be inflationary as it increases haulage costs/ lead times, unless you're proposing that lorries will be allowed to drive faster than cars, or that the current 60mph limit for articulated lorries wouldn't be further reduced in line with reductions for cars.

It’s the accidents caused by those doing 70 that I’m personally thinking of.
Plus driving at a lower speed uses less petrol so obviously better for the environment.
I didn’t mention anything about reducing beyond 60 on motorways.

The difference in take home pay between £100k and £120k is already only £7.5k (the government already takes the other £12.5k).

You want to take another 'small' £5k, so that someone earning £120k only actually gets £2.5k more than if they earn £100k???

Or maybe they'll just take 2 months unpaid leave each year instead? I'd far prefer 2 months paid to chill in the garden (on top of my usual annual leave) instead of £200 extra a month!

If your employer would allow you to take two month’s unpaid leave every year they’d probably be questioning why they needed you at all, let alone paid you a six figure salary.

Or maybe you're so valuable that they're willing to be flexible.

Alternatively reducing to 4 days per week would be achievable for many people.

I doubt anyone’s that valuable. If they were it’s unlikely they’d be earning in the region of £120k, the employer would be rewarding them much more handsomely.

Do you not know anyone whose employer has agreed to them reducing to 4 days per week?

I don’t know anyone whose employer would agree to them taking two months off every year which was your original premise.

Either works for me.

I'd rather have a day off each week than £50 extra.

We need a long term energy policy preferably cross party which ensures the UK have secure , reliable and affordable energy and which will transition into increasingly clean energy. Without this our economy will not grow and all the public wish lists of services, health, schools. additional spending etc will not happen.

For this to happen we need to get qualified scientists to work in the civil service and as MPs and political advisers. The current parties know f all about science especially the greens who think men can become women or David Lamy who thinks men can grow a cervix if they take certain drugs. The public also need to be educated out of this net zero by 2030 nonsense.