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Right you lot - Let's Change The World - Take 2

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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    What a fascinating lot of suggestions.

    I never knew Jeremy Clarkson posted under so many different usernames. :)


    Thanks for some interesting, thought-provoking ideas lir, tomterm8 and JoeCrystal.

    Anyone else - any more brilliant ideas? :)
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    any more brilliant ideas? :)

    Make Jeremy Clarkson PM, James May culture secretary, Stephen Fry minister of equality, Anatole Kaletsky Chancellor, and Kirstie Allsop minister of housing.

    Well, we may get the last one anyway if the Tories win, but a full house would be better.;)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Every time you walk past a piece of litter, pick it up, bin it, and the world will be a little bit of a better place.


    Grr. The increase in litter over last few years has been truly depressing. e.g. there are two regular people that I know of who sit and have there lunch looking out over the field. Its great I'm glad they get enjoyment from it. :) It makes me happy and it delights e it makes other people happy...bt why why why leave a yogurt pot and empty crisp packet every day. If someone didn't pick it up the view would be less lovely.

    And if they take the dirty yogurt spoon home why not the pot? It's always puzzled me. :o

    I also noticed recently we've been getting cigarette packets and the occasional can of lager. I'm presuming this is local kids we are a long way from a town where someone would walk too and this has been in the barn. I'd be worried if we still ahd a full seasons supply of hay in there: its so easy to have an accident with hay and a cigarette. :(
  • aelitaman
    aelitaman Posts: 522 Forumite
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Every time you walk past a piece of litter, pick it up, bin it, and the world will be a little bit of a better place.

    Tough on litter, but not tough on the causes of litter.
  • sss555s
    sss555s Posts: 3,175 Forumite
    I think we should cut down on MP's which should be quite easy to do by enlarging the "areas" they cover.

    I also think their expenses should be cut and limited a bit like say the NHS get's so much from government then has to distribute it wisely.

    I hardly know who my PM's are other than seeing the odd one in the local paper having a jolly up opening some new building and spamming me with leaflets come voting time.
  • ukcarper
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    Take a good look at what savings could be made in the NHS by consulting patients and staff. Not management and consultants and by consultants I don’t mean medical consultants
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Increase speed limits by 20mph on good open roads outside of urban areas.

    The braking distance contained in the highway code from 60mph can now be achieved from 100mph in many modern cars. The extra time saved would be hundreds of hours a year for many commuters, which would be good for families and work life balance.


    Decrease speed limits to 20mph in small country villages, where children are not as conditioned to traffic as they are in big cities, and the old fogies can't move as fast. ;) Take the cameras from dual carriageways and A-Roads and put them all outside schools and nursing homes instead.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    They should install speed cameras outside brothels.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Legalise Fox hunting again.

    And if that proves too contentious for all the squirmy city dwellers, then legalise Chav hunting instead. That one should fly through without any objections at all.:p
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    Legalise prostitute hunting.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
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