So, if you ruled the world...

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What would you do? (in one paragraph!)
We have been asked by RED magazine what our take would be, so I need to consult the Mumsnet oracle. (Guess we should ask Harriet when she comes on too - she should have thought it through at least.)

manifesto for my new world. i think marybs can be my food advisor. i like the sound of research into making low fat stuff tasty

Every day would be the first day of spring.................

Can't beleive no one put that!!

I'd take everything off everyone (land, money..) and redistribute it equally. Relevel the playing field, as it were.

Custy

I'd make it law that ALL cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars etc had baby changing facilities and breastfeeding rooms (with comfy sofas, tv etc). I'd spend less on guns and more on healthcare and I've give prisoners bread and water so our children could all have decent school meals. (Sorry Custardo, but bollocks to adequate accommodation, education etc - Prisons should be as uncomfortable, boring and horrible as possible)

I'd legalise everything. Then abolish it.

I'd fund huge research efforts so that people can physically experience other people's physical experiences (honestly, I thought of this before that film with Ralph Fiennes). I would then make the people who decided to reduce midwife/mother ratios in maternity services go through a 24-hour labour with 6 different harassed midwives popping in and out. And then ask them 'So now what do you think of 1:3 as a ratio then?'

However, this invention would immediately be pirated for sexual purposes, and the functioning of the entire world would end. So it's lucky that I don't rule the world.

Introduce a system where everyone is paid exactly the same amount into their household coffers as everyone else. Therefore the nutcases like me can work if they want to but no one is ever pressurised into or categorised by their love of or lack of work.
Insist that every world wide government is made up from 50% men and 50% women to give balance.
That community, kindness and understanding become our new watchwords and the principles upon which we move forward.

Or a Sauvignon Blanc tap in every house and the Colonel's secret recipe

Do you mean I don't??

I think custy thinks there is a vacant position to be filled. You may have to fight over it, or be quick with your agenda. Custy's interviewing MaryBS for Health and Food Minister as I type.

If Custy's thing of making all the adults in the house work came in, then I would reduce the working week to 20 hours, so that all the adults could participate in the job market and home life equally.

But on balance, I would just release a virus into the atmosphere and kill all the humans, leaving the planet to the tender mercies of the bears and rats.

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah (done in James Bond villain tone)

custy seems to be coming out with some kind of communist nonsense, I am very concerned by this (except the abortion bit and prison bit, I'm with her on that). I may have to retire to my secret Bond baddy lair and plot her downfall...

I would quit, with a big fat bonus and go to the pub.

I would invent (or make someone else invent for me) teleportation so that you can give birth by having the baby beamed out like in Star Trek.

Can I be science minister then Custy?

I don't want to rule the world. I just want a garden big enough for a tree house.
Could whoever ends up with the job please bear this in mind?

I've realised with shock that I can no longer be arsed to rule the world.

Twenty years ago I knew everything and would really have been up for it.

I'd get rid of most of the men in all of the governments and replace them with women. Men rule with testosterone. Women should rule with compassion, we'd do a far better job.

I would put a great big trampoline on every public space & make it compulsory for everyone to just BOUNCE!!!
It would make the world a happier place

Obviously there would be free Tenalady for all!

Yes, like Thatcher, Phantom

She wasn't a woman. She had way too much testosterone!

Friends of mine and I would often debate this issue - our first thoughts were usually who would be first against the wall in the effort to cleanse the world of total wastes of skin and air - I don't think I should repeat the list here.

After that - I would introduce compulsory yoga for schools - starting age 4/5. This would promote good posture, attention, zen-like calm in the next generation and relieve much of the burden of ill health through bad backs; and hopefully much of the crime that comes from bored, inattentive, low-achieving yoof.

Not sure after that...
oh yeah, I'd ban professional football and I would have a system of national service for the yoof that haven't grown up with my yoga regime - not in the armed services necessarily but in the NHS or some other public service area. Anything to instil some form of discipline and respect in them.

Plus all nasty criminals would be imprisoned on old oil tankers.

Friends of mine and I would often debate this issue - our first thoughts were usually who would be first against the wall in the effort to cleanse the world of total wastes of skin and air - I don't think I should repeat the list here.

After that - I would introduce compulsory yoga for schools - starting age 4/5. This would promote good posture, attention, zen-like calm in the next generation and relieve much of the burden of ill health through bad backs; and hopefully much of the crime that comes from bored, inattentive, low-achieving yoof.

Not sure after that...
oh yeah, I'd ban professional football and I would have a system of national service for the yoof that haven't grown up with my yoga regime - not in the armed services necessarily but in the NHS or some other public service area. Anything to instil some form of discipline and respect in them.

Plus all nasty criminals would be imprisoned on old oil tankers.

I would convince Mr Robbie Williams that he needed the love of an older woman with heaving bossoms. He would fall under my spell and drool like Homer Simpson every time he saw me