Right...
Here's a refined argument from a couple of previous ones:

1. 'Small is beautiful'. Abandon the relentless pursuit of growth in favour of a sustainable society, refuse to increase any budgets, insist they figure out how to do things better with the same money. In future years, we'll actually cut all budgets and thus eventually reduce the budget deficit. The easiest way to reduce cost is to stop making errors so that they need to be fixed, stop costly reorganisations and upgrades.

2. Replace alcohol with cannabis. You will be allowed to brew your own alcohol at home for your own consumption, i.e. beer, cider etc. as long as you don't become a dealer, selling it to kids outside schools. Pubs will become coffee shops which can only stay open until 11.00pm, at which time everyone will wander off home to bed, stopping only for a tasty kebab and not puking and fighting all over our town centres to be cleared up by the police/ambulance/hospital/street cleaners.

3. Christmas. Christmas / New Year will last for two weeks, from December 20th to January 2nd. It will be illegal for shops to display Christmas goods before the beginning of December. It will be illegal for anyone to put up Christmas decorations before December 20th - houses, town centres, shops etc. This will also help with point 1. - sustainability, as people will spend much less on rubbishy tat, so they will not be skint all January/February and they'll also enjoy Christmas more.

4. Compensation culture. Get rid of all No-win-no-fee lawyers and all the rest of the poor-me-I-tripped-over-my-own-child-so-someone-else-has-to-pay-me-something shit. Just teach everyone to MAN THE FUCK UP and get on with their lives. Did you know there are more claims for 'whiplash' in the UK than the rest of Europe put together?? And we're better drivers than most as well. We're all paying for this, make it end.

5. Immigration / Emigration. For anyone that says: 'These [insert race here] come over here, taking our jobs...' make them work alongside one of these enterprising immigrants picking spuds or manning a care centre for the elderly. If they can't hack it for whatever reason, then they should be forcefully emigrated to Poland/Somalia/Iraq or wherever to replace the useful immigrant they're moaning about.

6. Internet/mobiles. You lot won't like this, but every Wednesday, the internet and mobile phone networks will be shut down for a rest - all day. You will still be able to phone people on land lines etc. but it will give everyone a breathing space in the middle of the week to catch up with stuff without being interrupted every other minute by emails, texts and calls to your mobile.

7. Politicians. I heard something the other day. The country in Europe with the best level of growth over the past year has been Belgium....they haven't had a government for a year now. Now, while I don't believe in growth, it's obvious that things get done perfectly well without politicians. Just leave it to the civil servants - they are the experts. Bring in annual bonuses for the civil service, much like many private companies - and link it to personal performance, efficiency savings and customer satisfaction scores. If you don't provide a better service than last year, at lower cost, then no bonus. Bonus to be capped, so those at the very top can't get silly amounts.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 9:43, 6 replies)

Part's of this actually sound quite sensible.
(skgorsky, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 9:49, closed)

I agree with points
1, 3, 4 & 7.
For point 5 you should just get a "If you don't like it, leave." bumper sticker.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 28 Sep 2011, 10:26, closed)

6 sounds fine to me...
...Wednesdays are always a slow day on B3ta.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:16, closed)

Re 6, I must be a bit odd
as my phone came with an off button.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 21:22, closed)

You posted this on a Wednesday
ARF!
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 16:46, closed)

Yep
Vote for me and you'll never have to put up with this kind of rubbish again....


...on Wednesdays.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 16:54, closed)