[KMA]Avenger wrote:The perfect politician, or in this case, the perfect PM would:
Get rid of the Bank of England and arrest everyone inside for fraud.
Get out of the EU.
Take back our fisheries.
Bring our troops home quicker than ASAP!
Close our boarders and if needs be, put the troops in control until such time as our boarders are Secured by a NEW agency.
Bring back all our industries.
Nationalise all oil fields and kick out the oil company's.
Renationalise water, power and gas grids.
Arrest the "British" monarchy and try them for treason, sedition and usurpers to the thrown
Start trading with our commonwealth partners again (as well as everyone else...which is forbidden by the EU).
That might be your idea of the perfect set of policies but I thought this thread was more about the kind of people we would prefer to become politicians.
As for these policies
Remove bank of England ? Really ? Why ? Surely the banking sector needs more regulation and The Bank of England would be the best placed body to regulate the private banks.
Get out of the EU, 100% behind you on that one
Take back fishing rights, not practical, without agreement would result in fighting at sea, but enforcement of agreements is needed, how often do we here about French fishing our waters.
Bring home troops, truth is troops are demonstrating weapons, weapons we sell and make lots of money from. Bring troops home and becoming isolationist would cost us a lot.
Close borders. Silly, we need more of certain professions right now. Tougher border control and stricter points system to make sure we only allow in the people we want is better.
Bring back industry, easy to say but with working time regs, health & safety, environmental regs and minimum wage our industry cant compete with countries that dont have our high standards on working conditions, only way to do this would be to tax all imports so they cost the same as locally produced products and this would increase the prices of everything we buy. People wont accept it.
Nationalise oil & gas, to late, it's mostly played out, also we already get tax and licence duties from producers.
Nationalise Utilities, in theory I agree essential services should be state owned, but in reality when they were state owned they made huge losses, were horribly inefficient and badly run. Utilities were privatised because of lazy demanding unions dragged them down, if nationalised those Unions would return and screw it up all over again. Better choice would be price fixing of essential services by an independent body.
Monarchy serve a purpose, not as monarchs but as a tourist attraction they generate far more money than they cost, technically their property is there own it cant be taken any more than any other wealthy citizen, but without support death duties would slowly strip them of there holdings. Monarchy also help hold the commonwealth together technically being the head of state for several non UK countries, they are good for international relations ( far more trustworthy and respectable than politicians ), and if done right ( slipped in recent years ) make role models.
Trading more with commonwealth, certainly sounds good in theory but trade happens where money can be made and unless subsidised ( or non commonwealth taxed as above ), it's simply not economically viable.
You mad revolutionary bar steward lol
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