HOW WOULD YOU RUN YOUR COUNTRY?

How would I run my country?!…. into the ground (‘cuse I’m no politician…)

I’d just be an honest polititian……..nothing fancy………just listening to peoples views and trying to take them on board………….. 🙂

Put Tony Blair in charge. Oh sorry, thought that said RUIN!!! 😀

LOL 😀 😀 😀 …………

If I ran Britain, I’d make the teaching of basic economics compulsary in school, perhaps along with basic nutrition and other life skills such as simple plumbing, how to fit a fuse, and so on.

Good idea, I sometimes think they don’t teach you certain subjects at school because the knowledge might make someones job more difficult, bankers and lawyers for example 🙂

Make it illegal for illegal immigrants to get schooling, health benefits, driver’s licenses, and anything else a taxpaying citizen pays for.
Abolish the PC movement.
Pass an Equal Rights ammendment to the Constitution.
Get rid of Affirmative Action and any racial quota systems. If you aren’t the most qualified, you won’t get the job or school spot.
Classify gangs as organized crime and make them a federal problem.

I think the PC movement is responsible for most of the problems we get in the UK too, mainly because they prefer to talk about problems rather than solving them. I guess solving a problem would put them out of their jobs 🙁

Police numbers would be massively increased ( & many more reservists) & they would be removed from such wastes of time & money as form filling & guard duty, to be sent on the streets for uniformed & non-uniformed policing.
The benefits fraud department would become a separate law enforcemet agency with powers of arrest & prosecution.Same as the police.
Rioting & serious public order problems would not be tolerated.If the Police struggle to cope, mounted infantry & military police would be sent in instantly.If needed, other troops as well.
Prison sentences would be made honest.None of that sh*t about cutting sentences in half or less. Causing death by driving would be taken seriously, with the same sentences as manslaughter & murder

I agree, anyone who thinks rioting is acceptable behaviour deserves to find out what a brick in the face and being set on fire by a petrol bomb feels like.

Have to agree with that, steveo. Except maybe on rehabilitation. That should be a part of a prisoner’s time; along with work & basic education.
If I was leader, I would first proclaim myself Comrade Leader & start a massive reform of the state.
On Law & Order:
I would repeal the merger of customs & excise with Inland revenue & give them increased powers of arrest & prosecution & increase their uniformed presence.
The coastguard would become a real Coastguard (armed & with powers of arrest & prosecution), instead of just a coast agency. Too much stuff is smuggled & fishing areas invaded by foreign boats, not too.
Police numbers would be massively increased ( & many more reservists) & they would be removed from such wastes of time & money as form filling & guard duty, to be sent on the streets for uniformed & non-uniformed policing.
The benefits fraud department would become a separate law enforcemet agency with powers of arrest & prosecution.Same as the police.
Rioting & serious public order problems would not be tolerated.If the Police struggle to cope, mounted infantry & military police would be sent in instantly.If needed, other troops as well.
Prison sentences would be made honest.None of that sh*t about cutting sentences in half or less. Causing death by driving would be taken seriously, with the same sentences as manslaughter & murder
On democracy:
The un-elected House of Lords would be either replaced or forced to become democratically elected.
The sponging monarchy would either be replaced with a democratically elected ceremonial head of state, or its ceremonial functions transferred to the democratically elected national government.
Elections would be forced to become properly democratic (as in certain other countries) with separate government & legislature (Parliament) elections.
The country would be officially neutral & only commit troops for genuine reasons such as peace-keeping, foreign aid & self defence.
Also a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan & Iraq;
no aid or co-operation with terrorist,oppressive or un-democratic states like Israel, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Turkemenistan, Arab monarchies, Myanmar etc;
& massive enforcement of environmental protection (supporting sustainable energy, banning hunting & introducing clean-fuelled public transport).

LAW AND ORDER

In my opinion crime mainly exists because the legal system would put itself out of a job if they did too much to stop crime. Repeat offender = return customer 🙁

I’d put a stop to this, no one should make money out of crime, all defenders and prosecutors should be government employees on fixed annual salaries, they should not be claiming/charging large sums of legal aid for a particular case.

Punishments should be fixed and not subject to the whims of a Judge or a parole/probation committee. Prisons should be cheap temporary camps, not multi-million pound architect designed, landscaped gardened, all mod cons accommodation. Prisoners should work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week on a 3 shift system so that one bed is shared by 3 prisoners further reducing the cost of the camp. No leisure time or rehabilitation programs would be allowed in prison, rehabilitation should begin after the sentence has been served only.

The Police should be increased in numbers and be equipped with camera phone type devices to record all incidents. I think that 25% of the Police should patrol in plain clothes at all times to increase the chances of catching criminals in the act, this would also act as a very good crime deterent on it’s own.

I think most jobcentres must be crummy, stressful places to work in….

Oh, you’d be right on the money there, BuffPuff…….. no end of bullying, intimidation, unrealistic expectations, tantrums, threats.

And that’s just from the management……. :diablo:

I’m going to approach this as what I’d like to accomplish were I given a free hand to run the USA.

well if I were to run the USA.

Manipulate the UN to your own advantage
Get out of NATO
No more freebies to Israel
divide Iraq into fiefdoms
make rapproachments to Iran
make war with N.Korea
turn a deaf ear to the PC movement
Make fed gov’t smaller by passing more responsibilities to state govt’s
get rid of National guards and re-incorporate them into the other respective branches
heavily enforce southern borders
increase tax to control deficit
support stem cells
increase funding to other energy alternatives, increase state role in energy (some vital natural resources should be under gov’t control rather than private)
give more rights to homos
put more regulations on consumer vehicle emissions (good for environment, force them to use public transportation more money for state, reduce amount of oil consumption most importantly).

now if I was norway…
continue staying out of the EU
reform public sector
give gov’t subsidies to manufacturing industries
drop JSF, go for Gripen.
convince Denmark and Sweden to leave the EU and join Norway into making a new Scandinavian union :diablo: build up military strength and annex Murmansk 😉

Never really gave a lot of thought to abortion. Stem cell research and cloning research is something I could support though. As for gays, they’d certainly be covered under my equal rights movement. As part of that I’d also not listen to a single minority rights group. If they all can’t get on the same page and push for equal rights for all instead of special rights for certain groups then they aren’t worth my time or my taxpayer’s money, in my opinion. I really do adamantly believe in equality for all, if you haven’t figured that out by now.

I’m going to approach this as what I’d like to accomplish were I given a free hand to run the USA.

Get out of the United Nations.
Get out of NATO.
Get out of the Middle East.
Reverse our policy regarding Israel-no more handouts or blanket support.
Open diplomatic relations with Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.
Federally fund research into extracting oil from shale.
Place all the army guys I got out of Iraq and the Middle East along the Mexican border, along with landmines and electric fences.
Make it illegal for illegal immigrants to get schooling, health benefits, driver’s licenses, and anything else a taxpaying citizen pays for.
Abolish the PC movement.
Pass an Equal Rights ammendment to the Constitution.
Get rid of Affirmative Action and any racial quota systems. If you aren’t the most qualified, you won’t get the job or school spot.
Classify gangs as organized crime and make them a federal problem.
Eliminate relations with Central and South American nations which export illegal drugs to the US.

what about gays, abortion and stem cells? btw I like your foreign policiees 😀 dunno if I would go as far as putting land mines on the border though.. wouldn’t bear traps be a much more humane 😉

I’m going to approach this as what I’d like to accomplish were I given a free hand to run the USA.

Get out of the United Nations.
Get out of NATO.
Get out of the Middle East.
Reverse our policy regarding Israel-no more handouts or blanket support.
Open diplomatic relations with Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.
Federally fund research into extracting oil from shale.
Place all the army guys I got out of Iraq and the Middle East along the Mexican border, along with landmines and electric fences.
Make it illegal for illegal immigrants to get schooling, health benefits, driver’s licenses, and anything else a taxpaying citizen pays for.
Abolish the PC movement.
Pass an Equal Rights ammendment to the Constitution.
Get rid of Affirmative Action and any racial quota systems. If you aren’t the most qualified, you won’t get the job or school spot.
Classify gangs as organized crime and make them a federal problem.
Eliminate relations with Central and South American nations which export illegal drugs to the US.

Maybe the chap who told me was mistaken. That said, I’ve done comission jobs for companies which also have had a high staff turnover. Running parralell to financial gain as a basic incentive is the working environment.

I think most jobcentres must be crummy, stressful places to work in….

They have targets, yes.

But not commission.

The staff turnover wouldn’t be as high if they did. 😀

I got this info from someone who used to work in a Jobcentre….I’m pretty sure they get quota’s to attain though.

I’d legalize marijuana and the rest….well i’d be too stoned to care so i’ll just let u guys take care of that… 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Staff get paid commission if they find you a job.

I can promise you 100% that Jobcentre staff are NOT paid commission for placing people in work.

Where did you get this myth from? 🙂

Comet.

Isn’t it one of the main tenets of Christianity that you turn the other cheek?

Your posts suggest that you would not accept that tenet therefore rejecting Christ, which means it really doesn’t matter what Christmas is called as in your world it doesn’t exist.

Regards,

kev35

Put all those who invent all this PC crap up against a wall and let a firing squad loose on them.

🙂 PC should stand for Polite and Considerate only. I’m sick of all these opinionated bureaucrats who think they can dictate what you can say and do.

DEMOCRACY

Democracy doesn’t appear to be working at the moment, you vote for a political party who’s policies are hardly any different to the oppositions and you still get no guarantee that they will achieve any of them. Unelected officials in the courts and EU also hinder or stop many policies too.

In my opinion the big issues need to be decided by referendums, not left to the opinions of a minority who have sought out positions of power to force those opinions on the majority.

Politicians must be expected to achieve what they claimed they would do when elected. If they don’t they must state the reason why they didn’t and, depending on the circumstances, not be allowed to stand for re-election.

[QUOTE]EMPLOYMENT

Rather than having a Jobcentre that only gives you benefits if you can’t get work, I’d rather have a Jobcentre that is run as an employment agency and gets you work.

I’m currently unemployed and have found the Jobcentre to be a total waste of space, they only appear interested in if you are entitled to benefits rather than getting you back to work so you don’t need them!

The thing is Steve, is that jobcentres ARE run as an employmnt agency, albeit a crappy one. Staff get paid commission if they find you a job. Thus they are willing to place you into dead end unsuitable positions. I guess staff also have quota’s too.

If I ran Britain, I’d make the teaching of basic economics compulsary in school, perhaps along with basic nutrition and other life skills such as simple plumbing, how to fit a fuse, and so on.

Well how would you go about getting your own country. Well i don’t want one but if I did i Would become state govener for an American state, make sure I am very much liked and then declare our independance, i’d like california but I would settle for Florida.

Ohh, If i ran Britain I would modify the evil plot in Jonny English, just turn the Isle of Wight into a giant prizon with killer sharks in the sea. Those who don’t want to move will get their way, they’ll be nicked