If.

[TWR]

You were the chancellor, how & in what way would / could you help this country?

[Barmaid]

Do you mean Lord Chancellor or Chancellor of the Exchequer?

[Mick-Talbot]

I would build up our once mighty navy.
By building and launching a thousand ships.

[TWR]

Chancellor of the Exchequer?

[doctordb]

'I would tax all foreigners who live abroad'

from monty python.

[ladyalex]

I would reverse the tax cut for the highest earners.
I would use the money that the Bank of England has been printing ( quantititive easing) to pay people to do much needed jobs like mending holes in the road.
Instead of the banks holding on to the QE money or lending it to each other or whatever they are doing with it, it would be used to get people into gainful employment thus reducing the Welfare Bill and increasing the Tax Take.
I would also tax the banker's bonuses at 99%....as it seems to be impossible to stop them getting them.
So there!
ladyalex for no 11.

[society]

"'I would tax all foreigners who live abroad' "

Surely you'd be taxing the entire world's population; everyone who's not living in Britain are foreigners.

[doctordb]

society, have you heard of monty python? :)

[joggerjayne]

The further inland you are, the more of the infrastructure you use, so the more tax you should contribute.

Just by way of a random example, people who live in coastal towns, who have nothing but water on one side, would pay half the rate of tax of people in, say, Birmingham.

[joggerjayne]

society is correct ...

As Flanders and Swann said ...

"It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad"

[parkie]

If I was the present Chancellor I think the best way for me to help this country get back on it's feet would be for me to emigrate.