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how would you run the country

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  • MacMickster
    MacMickster Posts: 3,646 Forumite
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    Buy some Greek Islands, cover them with villas and then incentivise British pensioners to sell up and move there, freeing up more UK housing without building on green belt.

    If successful expand the policy to buy up bits of Spain, Italy and Portugal.
    "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
  • Andy_L
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    Badlyfiller
  • Andy_L
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    Generali wrote: »
    You can't make your own tea if you run the country, what's wrong with you man?

    You'd have to spare someone, maybe someone who has some expertise with dairy farming as you will need a very small cow to provide milk for your tea.


    How about a goat?
  • Mistermeaner
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    I would pick some random person from many years a go who was perhaps good a knocking people off horses with a stick or something the trace their family through history and give their living relatives lots of money a couple of castles and a fancy house in London. As punisheent I would also make them wear silly hats in public every now a nd then
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  • wymondham
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    I'd ban Apple products
    Make Chocolate free
    Up the speed limit on motorways to 100mph
    Put MP's on performance related pay
    Force Clarkson/Hammond/May to only be on terrestrial TV
    Shoot the program producers of cookery shows/x-factor/BGT
    Stop license fee and make BBC pay as you go..
    Stop overseas aid and spend it on defence/hospitals/border


    I'll think of some silly ones and put them up soon!
  • antrobus
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    Spidernick wrote: »
    Surely Thursday (Thor's Day) would be more appropriate? :p

    Nah, Tuesday was named after Tiw, or Tyr who was a Norse deity, just like Wednesday was named after Wodan, or Odin, who was a Norse deity, and Friday was named after Frigg, who was a Norse deity. The English had much the same gods as the Vikings before they got all wussy and christianised.:)
    wymondham wrote: »
    ...Make Chocolate free...

    My wife would certainly vote for you if you made chocolate free.

    Come to think of it, you might have the entire female vote locked in right there with that policy.
  • Dansmam
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    Hey I begin to love you lot. :beer:Am more with elantan than the rest of you. Too much killing and tea, lacking in socialism and something - anything - stronger. I would sack everyone who thinks it's ok to come in early and eat breakfast at their desks and then chat on whenever anyone has to come into the same poisonous room as they're sat in. You know who you are:A
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  • Dansmam
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    :AI hAve liked the ones I like, the others need to try harder. There may ultimately be a prize. Who knows?:A
    I have borrowed from my future self
    The banks are not our friends
  • Generali
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    Andy_L wrote: »
    How about a goat?

    A goat basically is a small, smelly cow.
  • Generali
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    sell off Scotland

    although it's a massively loss making region, there must be a oligarch who would fancy funding it as a tax loss and a safe haven if case they need a urgent refugee

    Safe haven! :eek: Have you ever been to Dundee on a Friday night? :eek:
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