So you become prime minister.
Discussion
Crafty_ said:
Whilst the current lot have made some efforts to cut out waste from the public sector I still have this feeling that it is still wasteful and not particularly cost efficient.So I'd want to review the operations of each part and establish how exactly they spend their money and how effective they are. The review would have to be totally independent, probably done by experts from the private sector who instead of concentrating on profit, would be instructed to provide recommendations on cost spending etc.
This might not result in spending less on public sector & services, but would be intended to ensure that the money is being used in the most cost effective way possible with regard to quality of service and "customer" satisfaction. If this meant (for example) getting rid of a load of managers in the NHS and using smarter ways to manage/report (automation/technology) thats fine, especially if it meant there was a chunk of money now available to buy more medical staff/better drugs/healthcare equipment that would improve the service to the patients. If this was carried out across all services / sector departments it could be quite significant.
I briefly worked in public sector, most of the management were inept, ineffectual and only there because they couldn't survive in a commercial environment, therefore were intent on empire building to try and make themselves look important. These people would go, they offer nothing to the organisation.
Trying to make them efficient is almost impossible. Anything requiring new technology will be a debacle (any IT project in public sector is late/over budget/delivers no value - marginally worse than private sector) This might not result in spending less on public sector & services, but would be intended to ensure that the money is being used in the most cost effective way possible with regard to quality of service and "customer" satisfaction. If this meant (for example) getting rid of a load of managers in the NHS and using smarter ways to manage/report (automation/technology) thats fine, especially if it meant there was a chunk of money now available to buy more medical staff/better drugs/healthcare equipment that would improve the service to the patients. If this was carried out across all services / sector departments it could be quite significant.
I briefly worked in public sector, most of the management were inept, ineffectual and only there because they couldn't survive in a commercial environment, therefore were intent on empire building to try and make themselves look important. These people would go, they offer nothing to the organisation.
Better follow the Roman way and decimate anyone with the title "manager" in the publivpc sector. Sack one in ten of them, and do,that every year for 5 years.
Free up cash for front line services.
bearman68 said:
Good one this.
5) I love the idea of universities doing drug research in competition with big pharmaceuticals.
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They already do. 5) I love the idea of universities doing drug research in competition with big pharmaceuticals.
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Many pharmaceutical inventions come out of academia, unfortunately, it takes huge financial muscle and experience to develop them and they tend to be licensed to pharmaceutical companies for that reason
(1)...Withdraw from the EUSSR
(2)...Invade France
(3)...Exile the French to Rotherham
(4)...Move England to the south of France
(5)...Round up the following, place in containers, transport to the South Atlantic, leave on a rock...
(2)...Invade France
(3)...Exile the French to Rotherham
(4)...Move England to the south of France
(5)...Round up the following, place in containers, transport to the South Atlantic, leave on a rock...
- Global warmists
- Environmentalists
- Socialists
- Lawyers
- Estate agents
- Traffic wardens
- Pretentious bat and ball. You know, that tennis stuff
- Celebrities
- Experts
- The whole of the BBC
- Midges
- Russell Brand
- Cliff Richard
- Luvvies
- Bicyclists
- Women with tattoos
- Anybody else with tattoos
- Those bloody stupid rabbit things that won't get out of your headlights
- Fizzy wines
- Wasps
- Fog
- Everything else that really annoys me that I can't bring to mind at the moment
If I was Prime Minister I'd:-
- Decrease benefits payments in a sliding scale so that people are always better off working even if it's only a couple of hrs/week. None of this "I have to work 16hrs to keep me benefits innit".
- Have a scrounger catcher (think Chitty Chitty child catcher) on hand outside all Job Centres catching those they deem to be terminally lazy/unemployable and taking them off to work on community service type schemes in order to get their weekly 'pay'.
- Fix that stupid child benefits issue where the one parent earning £60k doesn't receive it but two parents earning £100k total receving it.
- Improve the road network with a series of road bulding and improvement activities. Main points being I would turn the A34/A43 into a motorway from the M3 all the way to the M1 (via Newbury -> Oxford -> Silverstone, I'd widen and increase the standard of the A1M to motorway the whole way from London to Newcastle, and I'd turn the A303 into a motorway too (tunnelling under Stonhenge natch).
- I'd cull a raft of the management types in the NHS and increase the numbers of doctors and nurses with the money I'd saved
- I'd have a proper cull on the Quango's and non-sensical government think tanks and use the money saved to employ more in the armed forces.
- Increase the speed limits on all motorways to 80. Derestrict motorways at night. Remove all 50 limits and return to NSL, Remove all 40 limits and make either 30 or NSL where applicable.
That for a start.
Then when I become president of the world I'll:-
Nuke the middle east.
Nuke North Korea (stealthily so they don't get a chance to retaliate)
Ban coffee, bananas, Miso Soup
Ban TOWIE and any other fake reality nonsense
Ban Diane Abbott
Ban migration unless it's of economic benefit to the country of intended destination
I'm sure there's loads of other stuff I've added to my president of the world manifesto over the years but I've forgotten most of it.
- Decrease benefits payments in a sliding scale so that people are always better off working even if it's only a couple of hrs/week. None of this "I have to work 16hrs to keep me benefits innit".
- Have a scrounger catcher (think Chitty Chitty child catcher) on hand outside all Job Centres catching those they deem to be terminally lazy/unemployable and taking them off to work on community service type schemes in order to get their weekly 'pay'.
- Fix that stupid child benefits issue where the one parent earning £60k doesn't receive it but two parents earning £100k total receving it.
- Improve the road network with a series of road bulding and improvement activities. Main points being I would turn the A34/A43 into a motorway from the M3 all the way to the M1 (via Newbury -> Oxford -> Silverstone, I'd widen and increase the standard of the A1M to motorway the whole way from London to Newcastle, and I'd turn the A303 into a motorway too (tunnelling under Stonhenge natch).
- I'd cull a raft of the management types in the NHS and increase the numbers of doctors and nurses with the money I'd saved
- I'd have a proper cull on the Quango's and non-sensical government think tanks and use the money saved to employ more in the armed forces.
- Increase the speed limits on all motorways to 80. Derestrict motorways at night. Remove all 50 limits and return to NSL, Remove all 40 limits and make either 30 or NSL where applicable.
That for a start.
Then when I become president of the world I'll:-
Nuke the middle east.
Nuke North Korea (stealthily so they don't get a chance to retaliate)
Ban coffee, bananas, Miso Soup
Ban TOWIE and any other fake reality nonsense
Ban Diane Abbott
Ban migration unless it's of economic benefit to the country of intended destination
I'm sure there's loads of other stuff I've added to my president of the world manifesto over the years but I've forgotten most of it.
Edited by Cyder on Monday 23 March 01:14
In all seriousness:
Up tax on fags. Make the fags £1 each. £20 a packet of 20 is a nice round price I think.
Up the tax on Supermarket alcohol but keep it the same for pubs.
Up the tax on diesel as it's by no means a 'clean' fuel anymore and never has been, despite what the government has tried to tell you.
Change the vehicle taxation criteria. CO2 emissions aren't the be all and end all of emissions.
Change the 'MPG' test for manufacturers to something more realistic. Create a 'working group' of 100 people in various jobs, ages and sexes, doing different types of driving. Get them all the drive the vehicle for 2 weeks then average the figures.
Renationalise Openreach and run it 'not for profit'. The term 'not commercially viable' shall be banned to improve Broadband infrastructure across the UK, not just areas of high population. It's scandalous that what used to be a publically owned service was allowed to be privatised in the first place. History has shown many times that services suffer and profit eventually comes before service.
Increase funding for the NHS via the above 'fag and booze' increases but instigate a 'root and branch' investigation by industry Medical experts, not accountants. For every four staff with the word 'manager' in their title, sack one of them. Individual departments run by the staff that either work there or used to.
Increase funding for the Police but only for Traffic police and 'bobbies on the beat'. ANPR and speed cameras don't catch anything that resembles appalling driving I see daily.
Up tax on fags. Make the fags £1 each. £20 a packet of 20 is a nice round price I think.
Up the tax on Supermarket alcohol but keep it the same for pubs.
Up the tax on diesel as it's by no means a 'clean' fuel anymore and never has been, despite what the government has tried to tell you.
Change the vehicle taxation criteria. CO2 emissions aren't the be all and end all of emissions.
Change the 'MPG' test for manufacturers to something more realistic. Create a 'working group' of 100 people in various jobs, ages and sexes, doing different types of driving. Get them all the drive the vehicle for 2 weeks then average the figures.
Renationalise Openreach and run it 'not for profit'. The term 'not commercially viable' shall be banned to improve Broadband infrastructure across the UK, not just areas of high population. It's scandalous that what used to be a publically owned service was allowed to be privatised in the first place. History has shown many times that services suffer and profit eventually comes before service.
Increase funding for the NHS via the above 'fag and booze' increases but instigate a 'root and branch' investigation by industry Medical experts, not accountants. For every four staff with the word 'manager' in their title, sack one of them. Individual departments run by the staff that either work there or used to.
Increase funding for the Police but only for Traffic police and 'bobbies on the beat'. ANPR and speed cameras don't catch anything that resembles appalling driving I see daily.
mybrainhurts said:
MissChief said:
Up the tax on diesel
Kindly go away...MissChief said:
it's by no means a 'clean' fuel anymore and never has been, despite what the government has tried to tell you.
So what..?MissChief said:
Because the government has been pushing it as being 'better' as it has lower CO2 emissions and they've based the Road Tax on emissions. Diesel has been consistently proved to be more polluting and containing far more carcinogens yet manufacturers and the Government have pushed it as a 'clean' fuel, hence it becoming so popular.
Spark plug manufacturers will certainly like you.Massively increased accountability for both national & local government. Encouragement of the blame culture. If in doubt - public inquiry. The setting-up of various independent authoritative bodies to oversee already existing quangos.
This should of course be twinned with an enormous reduction in national & local bureaucracy, reduced costs to the taxpayer & enhanced productivity & efficiency.
This should of course be twinned with an enormous reduction in national & local bureaucracy, reduced costs to the taxpayer & enhanced productivity & efficiency.
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