Fantasy general election....

[d9f1c7]

Ok you win absolute power tomorrow. What 5 things would you change instantly? I'll add my own later.....

[rowanwitch]

Don't vote for Ed... I've only got a few weeks til I retire

[mike11111]

Why increase the pension age to 75, Ed, if you're going to abolish the state pension?

I agree with every one of Mark Rae's points. They all have either a neutral or a beneficial effect on England. Pity it will not come true; Scottish voters will NEVER vote for independence, more's the pity.

[rowanwitch]

If we blew a channel along the boundary and made below sea level we could cut them off and have a toll bridge to charge them for coming into England...

[Davethedog]

Ed Thats a big stick :-) I agree with Crafty no pension all the money I have paid in with compound interest, back

[albaqwerty]

1. Reduce the cost of petrol and diesel to 50p a litre.
2. Abolish Road Tax
3. Make Chips Shops more affordable.
4. Retirement age for men and women is 60.
5. a Decent pension is payable if you can prove you have been worthy to Society.

[AB Editor]

Dave & Craft, I meant for future pensioners.

[mike11111]

She's actually only 57.

[MarkRae]

> If we blew a channel along the boundary

Part of that is already done for you at either end :-)

[craft1948]

lol alba so all the 'unworthies' should be shot or starve..............

[VHG]

>>>>>>Road Tax abolished and placed on the cost of fuel....(I have yet to hear a reasonable argument against this).

Well first of all the way it is now provides the governemt with TWO ways to collect tax, on the Road tax and on the petrol. No government ever REDUCES the number of ways to collect tax. No tax collection is ever 100% so the more types of taxes you have the more chance you have of raising the money you need.

Secondly if you add MORE tax to petrol you make it much more expensive and much more likely that people will avoid ways of paying that tax.

More people may start to use "dodgy" petrol (like the people who drive around using "farm" petrol), you will also get people stealing petrol from cars (which already goes on), and get far more people driving away from petrol stations without paying (which again already goes on).

By leaving things as they are, a bit of tax via road tax and a bit of tax on petrol, it sort of evens it out.

Now if you were to ask WHY we all have to keep paying more and more tax, that is another matter.

The goverment should begin a DRASTIC reduction of how much tax they need. Housing benefit for example costs this country BILLIONS every year, but it was not that long ago the whole concept of housing benefit did not even exist. All housing benefit does is drive up rent for property and provide the benefit fraudsters with another way to "steal" money.

[New Judge]

1. UK’s immediate withdrawal from the EU.

2. Repeal of the 1998 Human Rights Act.

3. UK’s withdrawal as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights.

4. Immediate end to all immigration.

5. Reform of the criminal justice system for defendants aged under 18, shifting the emphasis away from the well-being of the defendant towards the well-being of the victim.

Can I have five (or perhaps twenty-five) more please?

[chaptazbru]

I go along with New Judge ......

[d9f1c7]

judge, you can have as many as you like, i agree 100% with those 5.

[cj69]

Nationalise all accountants- they could then look for ways to get the rich to pay rather than avoid tax

Abolish faith schools - we shouldn't allow children to be indoctrinated with nonsense

Raise the minimum wage to a living wage- then we wouldn't need to subsidise profits of the rich by paying working family tax credits

Have full published information on court sentencing - this would explain why some repeat offenders get seemingly soft punishment and make it more open to challenge

Encourage everyone to stand together against people behaving in a bad way towards society, litter droppers, drunken louts, erc.,