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Sorry, got confused lol
2. I'd nationalise all the natural monopolies or long term investments, like rail, air traffic control, national grid, nuclear energy & water and make sure there was decent infrastructure investments since they drain us in subsidy really anyway
3. I'd build a decent offshore wind network, introduce no fishing zones around the UK so stocks can replenish, replace the existing nuclear plants with more efficients but same size ones, and actually do a deep underground disposal(at the moment it lingers in sellafield). I'd introduce feed in tariffs for people with home electrical generation and pump money for research into nuclear fusion electricity. I'd also build the the severn river tidal system which alone would generate 10% of countries electircity demands
- The long term revenue would fund it
4. Allow non-policemen to do all the paperwork so actual policemen can do their job, lower numbers of PCSOs and up the police numbers, and fund decent facilities for the military and withdraw from iraq and afghanistan and cancel the ID cards and NID systems
-number 4 would fund itself
5. I'd make a tax free limit of 15k on all earnings from all sources, abolish NI and just up income tax to 40% across the board for all earnings over £15,000 (a 25k/year job would pay £4000 a year income tax or 16%, and a 115k/year job would pay 40k tax or 34.8%) and increase VAT to 19% and charge capital gains tax at the same as income tax, because unearned income shouldn't be taxed lower than worked for income
and i'd make the house of lords filled with people on a complete and utter lottery on all uk citizens over 18 who will get cushy salary for 90%+ attendance for 6 years and can only get it once
SG - you're loosing your edge.
He's becoming more libertarian by the day.
Not really, he doesn't believe in the social liberalism which that would entail, he's more just a small government conservative with a hardline law and order bent.
1. An immediate cut to fuel duty.
2. A massive reduction in the size of government.
3. A huge reduction in the number of CCTV cameras that litter our streets.
4. The immediate abolition of the Human Rights Act.
5. A reduction in the amount of time that people can be detained without charge.
Number 4 is probably the only one where most of the board would disagree with me. For example, do you know anyone here who argues that increasing the detention limit to 42 days is the right way forward? So I ask you, what was for the "pinko lefties" to get angry about? I should point out, however, that my original list of things to change about the UK did include "Deport all readers of The Guardian newspaper, and boil the editor alive.".
As for this idea of me being a hardline right-winger on law and order - it doesn't add up. I've repeatedly said we should be jailing fewer of our citizens, I've spoken about prisons being used as social dustbins by politicians desperate to conceal their own failings... that doesn't sound very hardline to me.
Kids have classes anywhere from 8am to 4pm, but usually they are finished by 2ish. So they have lots of time in the afternoons to do sports and extra activities. There is no lunch hour as such, and breaktimes are limited to short gaps between classes, between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the time of day. So kids get the same amount of education, but have time to do other things as well.
I think that could help with childhood obesity.
I notice a lot of people coming here from Poland are very highly educated - most of the people I work with at the arcade are educated up to degree level.
Which leaves a gaping hole in the government piggy bank, although I do accept that it is high and probably shouldn’t go any higher.
Fine if you have money, but crap if you don’t. You would see a big dip in the quality of life for a lot of people and crime would increase. But then you have never seemed to care a great deal about society as a whole.
This I am inclined to go with you on, but there are areas where it is a good idea. The biggest problem with CCTV at the moment is the cameras are largely rubbish so they don’t stand up in court.
Coming from someone who says torture is acceptable I don’t find this surprising. I’m curious about what you seem to have against human rights – yes it protects some people accused of crimes, but then if you were accused you’d rather like protection too. I don’t think you have any concept of the sort of fascistic government you seem to be idealising.
It pains me to do so, but I agree.
Well you’ve argued for longer sentences, you’ve suggested torture is an acceptable punishment, you’ve said that people should be deported to torture, forgive me if I see a pattern.
Fair enough, I don’t drive so the fuel price increases of late haven’t directly effected me so I haven’t paid that much attention. If they can be cut and the money to the government is the same then great.
I’m confused, do you want a smaller state or just less MP’s, because in reality getting rid of all of the MP’s wouldn’t make any difference what so ever to the cost of government.
Exactly.
Here you are confusing two totally separate issues. If someone is advocating terrorist attacks then charge them with incitement, it’s a crime after all.
We can deport him, and the issue has nothing to do with human rights at all. The problem lies with the freedom of movement allowed within the EU, we can deport him, its just he can come right back.
And no we should never deport people to countries where they will be tortured, because its wrong.
Thanks SG, I’m rather fond of you too.
Exactly, longer sentences and I remember you advocating torture as a punishment in the past. It is good however to see you growing and understanding that law and order isn’t black and white.
That bloke was allowed to stay in this country because he'd lived here since he was about 4. You're basically trying to get a criminal that's a product of British society on the technicality that he was born in Italy. Why should Italy have to take him off our hands?
It’s a tax on the use of a polluting substance, so I do think it should be reasonably high, perhaps not this high.
Like I said, if you cut the government services people will suffer, which isn’t to say that the government isn’t wasteful but it sounds like you want whole scale change. This will mean, like in the US the poor will suffer.
Nice to see you completely missing my point then, we can deport him, its just that he can come right back, so there is no point.
I would largely agree with longer sentences for serious offences, but I think indefinite ones should only be issued to the most dangerous.
Seems reasonable, move the tax allowance up and put a penny on the rate for earnings over £40k.
Tax credits are supposed to be complicated, same as pension top ups and all the small benefits - if people actually claimed them all the government would have to raise taxes. This way they can proudly claim that pensioners get X amount knowing full well that most cant understand the forms so cant get their money.
So? He was in Britain longer than he was ever in Italy. He doesn't even speak Italian ffs.
the fact remains that he isnt British, His Italian, so we should just get the cunt out of Briton as quick as possible, and all that crap about him being a product of British society, his father was a Mafia hitman, that had more to do with fucking him up then British Society,
Actually, the fact remains that he's an EU citizen and so like everyone else, is free to live and work anywhere in Europe. He's also served his sentence for his crime and so is a free man.
Yes there is, the laws of the EU allow for free movement of people.
And if Italy say "fuck you, we're not letting him in?" What are you going to do about it? Parachute him in?
force him back.
Perhaps because his ideas are stupid they're no more so than anyone else's who's posted here.
Christ, we bought Glitter back to save him from a death penalty he fully deserved. That was a real bad move. I wanted to watch him get shot by the NVA, it would have been a truely momentous occasion.
Fucks sake, this country is crap.
Yeah I know about that one. I was pissed off about that, because I thought they should've had to keep him, just like I thought we should keep the "Italian." But unfortunately, there's a legal requirement for us to take the Aussie back, and there's no legal right to prevent this Italian from living anywhere in the EU.