how would you run the country

michaels

I would make the it directors and chief executives of any companies who fail to look after personal data personally liable for any fraud resulting from data loss.

zagubov

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Holes.

Everyone would be obliged to dig massive fu cking holes everywhere.

Anyone of 70 down in the holes. Anyone on benefits down the holes.

Privatise everything. Set tax to zero. Disband all public services apart from my private military guard.

If they're your private guard they'd hardly be in the public service.

Generali wrote: »

So basically neo-feudalism. Like it.

Lord Generali of Sydney has a certain ring to it.

Better hope that gen doesn't make a better buyout offer for the private guards and stick them under new ownership. He's probably ordered the new insignia (sorry logos) and uniforms already.

Generali wrote: »

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

Just got back from there! There's a poem by William McGonagall carved in his statue in the city square, about a famous visit by
" A poster from MSE,
known as Generali,
who crossed the silvery Tay,
and sadly then went away"
I've obviously tidied it up, made it rhyme and boosted the excitement level of it, as to be honest, it wasn't his best ever poem.:eek:

[Deleted User]

abandon the vanity project that is HS2,not replace trident,build 250,000 council houses,increase interest rates to 1%,abandon the stupid eu referendum,increase state pension by just 1% for 4 years and means test all pensioner benefits,remove income based jsa and esa leaving just income based,abandon PIP and tax dla,increase basic income tax to 25% reduce vat to 15% but apply it to everything,increase top rate of income tax to 55%,double stamp duty but exempt first time buyers....

Generali

woodbine wrote: »

abandon the vanity project that is HS2,not replace trident,build 250,000 council houses,increase interest rates to 1%,abandon the stupid eu referendum,increase state pension by just 1% for 4 years and means test all pensioner benefits,remove income based jsa and esa leaving just income based,abandon PIP and tax dla,increase basic income tax to 25% reduce vat to 15% but apply it to everything,increase top rate of income tax to 55%,double stamp duty but exempt first time buyers....

Let me guess, these are mostly tax increases other people will pay and cuts to the taxes you pay.

Nice touch in slashing incomes for disabled people. And you reckon Tories are barstewards.

gazter

Dansmam wrote: »

Ready, steady, go. Blank sheer of `paper`

You dont get a blank sheet of paper. Your starting point is where we are.

gazter

Generali wrote: »

Let me guess, these are mostly tax increases other people will pay and cuts to the taxes you pay.

Nice touch in slashing incomes for disabled people. And you reckon Tories are barstewards.

Just because you are disabled doesnt mean you are poor.

zagubov

gazter wrote: »

You dont get a blank sheet of paper. Your starting point is where we are.

Oh I wouldn't start from here if I were you.

Spidernick wrote: »

Well, I wouldn't let ANYONE who posts on here be involved (myself included)!

We could all do with re-reading Steinbeck's "The Short Reign of Pippin IV";)

Anyhoo, if you build a betting shop, you need to build a library, or fund a night school class in maths.

You can't chase foxes unless you've apprenticed in an honourable pest control job like being a council unpaid volunteer ratchatcher for ten years.

You can only propose bring back the death penalty if you let them test it on you before you submit the proposal to demonstrate that the inevitable mistakes don't really matter.

You can only buy a TV if you have it attached to an exercise bike to power it.

If you're a NIMBY and block a sensible amenity/housing proposal near you you can keep your landscape but you get a nuclear waste dump built underneath it: fair's fair- that'll keep the landscape neat and the developers away.

Dansmam

michaels wrote: »

I would make the it directors and chief executives of any companies who fail to look after personal data personally liable for any fraud resulting from data loss.

Yep, it's the only way they'll realise why they employ us. They currently have no clue. I'd also stop the ico fiines and have them reinvested in data protection in the organization that got it wrong. But I may just be a biit of a nerd ...

globalds

Invest 10% a year on defence for the next five years .
Then invade Norway ..

Plunder it's sovereign wealth fund and live like a king for 20 years.

Sorry Norway ..Nothing personal ..You should have blown your cash on useless twaddle like the rest of us ..

antrobus

globalds wrote: »

Invest 10% a year on defence for the next five years .
Then invade Norway ....

The last time we tried to invade Norway it was a bl00dy disaster and led to the fall of the government.

globalds wrote: »

...Plunder it's sovereign wealth fund and live like a king for 20 years.......

Although it might be possible to take physical possession of Norway's oil and gas reserves, I'm not that convinced you could get possession of their sovereign wealth fund aka the Pension Fund Global. Surely the Norwegian government which just go into exile in Sweden or somewhere, and you would have a devil of a job persuading the likes of Nestle or Apple to start paying you the dividends just because you had 3 Para on the streets of Oslo.

globalds wrote: »

..Sorry Norway ..Nothing personal ..You should have blown your cash on useless twaddle like the rest of us ..

You've still got all those darned fjords to deal with.