What would you do if you were Prime Minister for the year?

Came up in a hypothetical with a couple pals.

What would you do if you were Prime Minister for the day??

If I was PM for the day I would:

- Start the reduction of Trident to a level of 50% it's current strength by 2025
- Relocate Faslane to the South East, thereby creating jobs in Devon and Cornwall.
- Renegotiate devolution in Northern Ireland and Wales.
- Hold an EU referendum by 2016
- Scrap hereditary peers completely
- Regional devo and a federal Britain
- Increase investment in arts funding by 20% for the first year and 7% in the second.
- Increase investment in sports funding by 50% (25% for elite and 25% for grassroots)
- Devolve more powers to London to raise taxes, manage health and education etc..
- Implement AMS to replace First Past the Post
-Increase the Commons to accommodate both constituency and party list regional MP's

- Hold a referendum in each British Overseas Territory and Channel Islands to raise taxes and give budget powers to the UK or independence. (Cost cutting measure if we get rid of them)
- Increase military spending to 15% of GDP
- Halt cuts to local government and increase funding to local government by 5%
- Introduce a new tax system which starts at 10% from £25,000 and a top rate of 70% at £250,000.
- Cut foreign aid to a level of 1% of GDP
- Not expand Heathrow
- Give councils powers to compulsory purchase vacant properties for the purpose of social housing.
- Scrap right to buy and right to acquire
- Legalise same sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland.

It's a shopping list I know!

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Reply 1

a10

get rid of tution fees

Reply 2

Asklepios

Abolish monarchy and publicly execute the queen (British revolution)

Abolish House of Lords

Scrap trident

Nationalise the railways, the pharmaceutical industry etc

Allow the new government pharmaceutical industry to be exempt from patent nonsense

Increase corporation tax and tax on bankers bonuses

Reduce tax for public sector workers

Reply 3

a10

Original post by Asklepios

Abolish monarchy and publicly execute the queen (British revolution)

Hahahahaha :rofl:

Reply 4

willock

Original post by Lord Jon

I would
Increase nuclear capability
Increase military spending
Reduce foreign aid by at least 50%
Scrap HS2
Invest more in nuclear power stations
Introduce a points based immigration system
Make national service compulsory
Leave the EU of course 😊
Start building at least 2 more aircraft carriers
Pull out of Iraq and stay away from Syria
Stop interfering anywhere in the middle east
Bring back capital punishment
Legalise marijuana
Crack down on illegal immigrants
Deport Natalie Bennett
Exile Dianne Abbott
Hang tony Blair
Make Ed Miliband my personal jester
Declare July 4th national Farage day

Probably alot more but off the top of my head pretty much this

Reply 5

Maid Marian

I would sack off OFSTED and cut electricity usage by 50%.

Reply 6

SotonianOne

Corporation tax

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Cut corporation tax to a competitive level of 17% for large firms (profit above 500k) and to 10% for small firms.

•

Adopt a wage incentive profit-sharing model where Corporations can receive a 0.1% tax break for 0.9% wage rise for lowest 33% paid employees. (Effective 1% tax cut)

•

Abolish corporation tax completely if profit is withheld within UK, invested into capital or put into research

•

Abolish taxation on foreign corporations relocating here for the first 5 years

•

Abolish taxation (incl. business rates) on the manufacturing industry.

Taxation

•

Establish a flat-rate income tax of 20-22%

•

Devolve business rates to local councils and unitary authorities and allow them to set the rates.

•

Establishing more authoritarian measures on tax evasion, including double-fining and prison sentences

Departments

•

Gradual privatisation of the NHS starting with affluent regions and moving to an insurance-based system on the Swiss model.

•

Increasing education spending with focus on STEM and encouraging establishment of grammar schools

•

Cutting back foreign aid significantly to world average and outlawing aid spending when economic growth is below 1% (zero growth) or when deficit is more than 2% of GDP

Foreign Policy

•

Increase military spending to NATO requirements

•

Ensure the Royal Navy has enough funds to maintain a blue-water navy

•

Aggressively protect UK interests

•

Work closely with the US and NATO to defeat ISIS

•

Divert foreign aid spending to military spending in strategical allies, including Israel, Poland, Philippines and Singapore.

Law and Order

•

Legalisation and taxation of cannabis

•

Legalisation and taxation and regulation of prostitution

•

Adopting more authoritarian measures in the event of rioting (London 2011) in the form of curfews and aggressive police advancements to disperse population

•

Immediate deportation of non-British citizens who commit a crime

•

Legislation to establish policies that create aggressive monoculturalism to push British values, culture and identity at a young age with racial and religious profiling to achieve this

•

Re-establish National Service (6 months) for everyone who has been in prison before the age of 25 and mandatory National Service for first and second generation immigrants (at age 21 / 22 / 23)

Europe

•

EU Referendum

•

Embargo on Icelandic goods and vetoing EU membership until full repayment of debts is made to the British Government, British corporations and British bond-holders

Other

•

Immediate construction of HS2 and further research into HS3

•

Setting up a UK Investment Bank for small corporations to develop (increasing business grants funding)

•

Liberalising planning laws to encourage private corporations to build new houses

•

Abolishing the London Green Belt

•

Immediate construction of Heathrow with monetary compensation to be made to families affected by housing demolitions

•

Enforcing a referendum to be held in Greek Ionian Islands for a return as British territory

•

Continuing climate change tackling by establishing a fund to make sure all Government-related building are powered by renewable energy by 2030 (excl. military) and going ahead with tidal programs in Bristol channel

•

Setting up a UK-based Fracking Council to advise the UK Government on areas where it is safe to frack and incentives to councils allowing fracking including profit-sharing

•

Re-bordering of Scottish constituencies to stop Scottish power being above it's worth by ensuring all Scottish constituencies have on average 60 000 voters, not 40 000.

•

Setting up an unelected technocratic Economic Council to veto policies they deem too damaging to the UK economy.

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Reply 7

DoubleSpeak

Original post by Lord Jon

Meaningful and radical changes:

1. Overturn any laws which support political correctness from everything to double standards on males/ whites/ heterosexual people to World War II revisionism.

2. End generational property discrimination. Make sure that certain generation are not disadvantaged because they don't get a fair crack of the property ladder just based on when they were born.

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Reply 8

Swanbow

Nationalise the Railways, or rather allow rail franchises to come under public ownership when they expire.

Start a project looking at the feasibility of an independent British nuclear deterrent to replace Trident.

Reform our electoral system to a mixed member proportional system. 200 MPs elected regionally via PR, and the other 400 MPs voted by constituency.

Set a term limit of 12 years for every member of the House of Lords. Slowly let the numbers thin out to around 500 Lords, of which 50% are elected. Have spread out elections every 6 years electing 25% of the House of Lords. The remaining 50% of Lords to be chosen by government appointment.

Give more powers to the regions of England over issues such as health and transport, thereby easing the West Lothian question.

Introduce tax breaks for the manufacturing sector so long as they pay the living wage and offer a number of high skilled apprenticeships.

Invest in science and technology, to allow the technological sector to grow and replace our dependence on the service and financial sectors.

Scrap HS2. Use the funds to update existing infrastructure in the North, as well as increase the capacity of the road links between the Northern hubs.

Move the focus away from London and the South East to a more even economic distribution.

Special measures in place to ensure that rural communities have their services protected. Financial help so young people aren't forced out of the area due to property prices and extra council tax rates for holiday homes to help solve the problem. Also ensure the EU Common Agricultural Policy is re-worked so it can be better serve British farmers.

Legalise Cannabis, and decriminalise all drug possession for personal use. Divert funds saved in policing and imprisonment towards drug treatment and mental health services.

Look at the feasibility of bringing nuclear power plants under public control. Ensure that any newly created nuclear power plants are run by a publicly owned entity, if not owned.

Invest more in renewable energy.

Re-open mothballed coal power plants as an interim measure.

Start a British Sovereign Wealth Fund. Take advantage of cheap rates for borrowing and use a small amount of it (£5 billion a year) to invest across the world, which will in future bring a return to the Treasury. Ensure that a certain proportion of any future budget surplus goes towards the British Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Scrap the Bedroom Tax.

Reform council tax so it is more dependant on your income rather than the size of your property.

Also:

Reduce the ridiculous business rates, and set a smaller corporation tax for small businesses with a yearly revenue under £200k.

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Reply 9

balanced

Original post by Lord Jon

-Increase military spending to 3%
-introduce a immigration points based system
- make gcse's academic only (non-academic/facilitating subjects would get separate qualifications)
-deport immigrants ( last 10 years) who have been convicted of sexual harassment/assault/more serious crimes
- start a bombing campaign in syria
- cut more to cover for damage from labour
-eu referendum
-streamline nhs
-increase random checks to catch illegal immigrants
-increase the pay for soldiers
-give universities more places for doctors
-Increase tuition fees as too many go to university
-ban contextual data based on race, your race shouldn't matter in my view
-enforce equal pay (women get 3% more than men before maternity leave)
-help the oppressed white working class.
-continue to stop the spread of sexism, make sure women arn't forced to wear burqa/niqab
-scrap windfarm/ solar panel subsidies.
-stop green taxes (green taxes force companies to relocate to india/china, where they pollute more.)
-less tax on fuel
-ban companies employing people based on gender (ie the report suggestion ftse 250 companies should have to employ a woman as a board director)
-scrap h2s
-imprison andrem choudry + father of the one of the girls who went to syria (the one clutching a bear) as he led the march in support of lee rigby's killers.
-clamp down on muslim patrols
-do more to protect are girls (1/4 of girls are approached by men with sexual intent (of which 90%+ are of asian origin)
-nationalise rail
-spend 2bn on improving the countries internet speeds, it's more essential than we admit.
-education on "the bedroom tax" last time I checked a tax was when part of your earnings were took, not benefits reduced.
-av+

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Reply 10

ActuallyIDo

Original post by Lord Jon

Came up in a hypothetical with a couple pals.
What would you do if you were Prime Minister for the day??
If I was PM for the day I would:
- Start the reduction of Trident to a level of 50% it's current strength by 2025
- Relocate Faslane to the South East, thereby creating jobs in Devon and Cornwall.
- Renegotiate devolution in Northern Ireland and Wales.
- Hold an EU referendum by 2016
- Scrap hereditary peers completely
- Regional devo and a federal Britain
- Increase investment in arts funding by 20% for the first year and 7% in the second.
- Increase investment in sports funding by 50% (25% for elite and 25% for grassroots)
- Devolve more powers to London to raise taxes, manage health and education etc..
- Implement AMS to replace First Past the Post
-Increase the Commons to accommodate both constituency and party list regional MP's
- Hold a referendum in each British Overseas Territory and Channel Islands to raise taxes and give budget powers to the UK or independence. (Cost cutting measure if we get rid of them)
- Increase military spending to 15% of GDP
- Halt cuts to local government and increase funding to local government by 5%
- Introduce a new tax system which starts at 10% from £25,000 and a top rate of 70% at £250,000.
- Cut foreign aid to a level of 1% of GDP
- Not expand Heathrow
- Give councils powers to compulsory purchase vacant properties for the purpose of social housing.
- Scrap right to buy and right to acquire
- Legalise same sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland.
It's a shopping list I know!

Original post by SotonianOne

Corporation tax

•

Cut corporation tax to a competitive level of 17% for large firms (profit above 500k) and to 10% for small firms.

•

Adopt a wage incentive profit-sharing model where Corporations can receive a 0.1% tax break for 0.9% wage rise for lowest 33% paid employees. (Effective 1% tax cut)

•

Abolish corporation tax completely if profit is withheld within UK, invested into capital or put into research

•

Abolish taxation on foreign corporations relocating here for the first 5 years

•

Abolish taxation (incl. business rates) on the manufacturing industry.

Taxation

•

Establish a flat-rate income tax of 20-22%

•

Devolve business rates to local councils and unitary authorities and allow them to set the rates.

•

Establishing more authoritarian measures on tax evasion, including double-fining and prison sentences

Departments

•

Gradual privatisation of the NHS starting with affluent regions and moving to an insurance-based system on the Swiss model.

•

Increasing education spending with focus on STEM and encouraging establishment of grammar schools

•

Cutting back foreign aid significantly to world average and outlawing aid spending when economic growth is below 1% (zero growth) or when deficit is more than 2% of GDP

Foreign Policy

•

Increase military spending to NATO requirements

•

Ensure the Royal Navy has enough funds to maintain a blue-water navy

•

Aggressively protect UK interests

•

Work closely with the US and NATO to defeat ISIS

•

Divert foreign aid spending to military spending in strategical allies, including Israel, Poland, Philippines and Singapore.

Law and Order

•

Legalisation and taxation of cannabis

•

Legalisation and taxation and regulation of prostitution

•

Adopting more authoritarian measures in the event of rioting (London 2011) in the form of curfews and aggressive police advancements to disperse population

•

Immediate deportation of non-British citizens who commit a crime

•

Legislation to establish policies that create aggressive monoculturalism to push British values, culture and identity at a young age with racial and religious profiling to achieve this

•

Re-establish National Service (6 months) for everyone who has been in prison before the age of 25 and mandatory National Service for first and second generation immigrants (at age 21 / 22 / 23)

Europe

•

EU Referendum

•

Embargo on Icelandic goods and vetoing EU membership until full repayment of debts is made to the British Government, British corporations and British bond-holders

Other

•

Immediate construction of HS2 and further research into HS3

•

Setting up a UK Investment Bank for small corporations to develop (increasing business grants funding)

•

Liberalising planning laws to encourage private corporations to build new houses

•

Abolishing the London Green Belt

•

Immediate construction of Heathrow with monetary compensation to be made to families affected by housing demolitions

•

Enforcing a referendum to be held in Greek Ionian Islands for a return as British territory

•

Setting up a UK-based Fracking Council to advise the UK Government on areas where it is safe to frack and incentives to councils allowing fracking including profit-sharing

•

Re-bordering of Scottish constituencies to stop Scottish power being above it's worth by ensuring all Scottish constituencies have on average 60 000 voters, not 40 000.

•

Setting up an unelected technocratic Economic Council to veto policies they deem too damaging to the UK economy.

What.....

Reply 11

Rakas21

Tax

Business rates will be abolished.

National Insurance will be abolished.

VAT will be abolished.

A review of all taxes with revenues of less than £10bn will take place with a view towards abolition where possible - an example being betting and gambling duty.

All PLC's will pay a 20% rate of corporation tax. A review of corporation tax for other business types will take place.

The income tax threshold will be raised to £30k with a flat rate of 40% on earnings between £30-100k. The 45% threshold will be lowered to £100k and the personal allowance abolished.

A 'mansion tax' will be brought in for all residential properties valued in excess of £1.2m where the 40% tax rate is applicable to at least one individual in the household.

The stamp duty threshold will be raised to £600k and a review as to the optimum tax rates will occur with intervals of 600-1.2 and 1.2m+.

A land value tax will apply for any residential property owner with more than 1 acre of land. A flat tax rate will set at the optimum revenue raising level.

Fuel duty will be frozen.

Utilities

The UK government will no longer provide new guarantees to private firms - this simply increases the level of unfunded liabilities on the British taxpayer and is a bastardisation of the market.

Energy

The UK government will roll out new nuclear plants to the point at which nuclear accounts for 50% of electricity and will adopt a goal by 2030 of being a net energy exporter.

The National Grid will be brought into public ownership once the franchise for Transco expires.

Water

The intermittent drought conditions imposed by water authorities are unacceptable. Desalinization plants will be built to provide water for regions which have suffered drought conditions since 2010.

Transport

All rail operating franchises will be allowed to reach their end at which point restructuring of the railway operations will occur and transition to a 1 year open access model will take place. Private operators (must have their own trains and carriages and pay the access charges to Network Rail) will register to operate any route they like once per hour for a period of 1 year. Any routes not serviced by an open access operator will be ran by the state. Unprofitable routes will be subject to review every 10 years with a view towards culling any that do not service the capitals or 'core 8 cities' plus Hampshire.

Both Heathrow and Gatwick will be permitted new runways and terminals provided that no government money is needed.

Housing

From 2020-2030 the state will build 1 million social houses to be distributed in London, the Core 8 cities and Hampshire.

Taxes on the construction of new residential properties will be abolished.

Local Government

The Greater London boundary will expand to include those towns in which more than 75% of residents commute to work in Greater London.

The core 8 cities and Hampshire will each have a single council governing the county in which they are located.

West Yorkshire will be declared Greater Leeds.

Immigration

All non EU immigration from countries with a GDP per capita of less than $30k will cease. Exceptions will be granted to individuals with a job offer in excess of £30k and students.

Spouses will no longer be prohibited residency and must apply for residency in the same way as any other non-EU immigrant.

EU assecion for states with a GDP per capita of less than $30k will be vetoed.

Health

The consumption of illegal drugs will now be punished by fixed penalty notices.

A review of all NHS services will occur with the intention of culling those not deemed necessary such as transgender surgeries.

........

More to come tomorrow.

Reply 12

Vav Sartrean Po

I would buy myself into Oxford University and change all of my recorded online grades to A*

Reply 13

!!mentor!!

I would get the Bank of England to print off enough money to make everyone a millionaire in the UK (maybe even the world).

Reply 14

Bushido Brown

Original post by SotonianOne

Corporation tax

•

Cut corporation tax to a competitive level of 17% for large firms (profit above 500k) and to 10% for small firms.

•

Adopt a wage incentive profit-sharing model where Corporations can receive a 0.1% tax break for 0.9% wage rise for lowest 33% paid employees. (Effective 1% tax cut)

•

Abolish corporation tax completely if profit is withheld within UK, invested into capital or put into research

•

Abolish taxation on foreign corporations relocating here for the first 5 years

•

Abolish taxation (incl. business rates) on the manufacturing industry.

Taxation

•

Establish a flat-rate income tax of 20-22%

•

Devolve business rates to local councils and unitary authorities and allow them to set the rates.

•

Establishing more authoritarian measures on tax evasion, including double-fining and prison sentences

Departments

•

Gradual privatisation of the NHS starting with affluent regions and moving to an insurance-based system on the Swiss model.

•

Increasing education spending with focus on STEM and encouraging establishment of grammar schools

•

Cutting back foreign aid significantly to world average and outlawing aid spending when economic growth is below 1% (zero growth) or when deficit is more than 2% of GDP

Foreign Policy

•

Increase military spending to NATO requirements

•

Ensure the Royal Navy has enough funds to maintain a blue-water navy

•

Aggressively protect UK interests

•

Work closely with the US and NATO to defeat ISIS

•

Divert foreign aid spending to military spending in strategical allies, including Israel, Poland, Philippines and Singapore.

Law and Order

•

Legalisation and taxation of cannabis

•

Legalisation and taxation and regulation of prostitution

•

Adopting more authoritarian measures in the event of rioting (London 2011) in the form of curfews and aggressive police advancements to disperse population

•

Immediate deportation of non-British citizens who commit a crime

•

Legislation to establish policies that create aggressive monoculturalism to push British values, culture and identity at a young age with racial and religious profiling to achieve this

•

Re-establish National Service (6 months) for everyone who has been in prison before the age of 25 and mandatory National Service for first and second generation immigrants (at age 21 / 22 / 23)

Europe

•

EU Referendum

•

Embargo on Icelandic goods and vetoing EU membership until full repayment of debts is made to the British Government, British corporations and British bond-holders

Other

•

Immediate construction of HS2 and further research into HS3

•

Setting up a UK Investment Bank for small corporations to develop (increasing business grants funding)

•

Liberalising planning laws to encourage private corporations to build new houses

•

Abolishing the London Green Belt

•

Immediate construction of Heathrow with monetary compensation to be made to families affected by housing demolitions

•

Enforcing a referendum to be held in Greek Ionian Islands for a return as British territory

•

Setting up a UK-based Fracking Council to advise the UK Government on areas where it is safe to frack and incentives to councils allowing fracking including profit-sharing

•

Re-bordering of Scottish constituencies to stop Scottish power being above it's worth by ensuring all Scottish constituencies have on average 60 000 voters, not 40 000.

•

Setting up an unelected technocratic Economic Council to veto policies they deem too damaging to the UK economy.

Sounds good. Whats your reasoning behind having income tax at 20-22%?

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 15

TheDefiniteArticle

Boring, can't do much useful politically as PM for the day due to international constraints. If we're ignoring that (as well as the need for Parliament's support, so we're in effect a dictator) I'd seize all private property and redistribute perfectly evenly, so at least we have equality for a while, though the natural course of things would see inequality expand again over time.

Oh, I'd also set up a requirement for any EU referendum that those who vote be able to pass a short test on EU law, especially the requirements for residency for longer than three months.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 16

diamondluck

make KFC/mcdonalds deliver to everyone's house

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Reply 17

Rakas21

Original post by !!mentor!!

I would get the Bank of England to print off enough money to make everyone a millionaire in the UK (maybe even the world).

Congrats, you've just caused hyperinflation.

QE is fine when it never makes it to the normal circulation (the BOE targets it to buy GILTS) however when you simply give people it, you screw things royally. Its what Zimbabwe did.