The following list was emailed to me by someone called Keith Gilmour.
I thought I'd post it here, though I must stress I do not agree with everything in Keith's list as, quite frankly, some of it comes across as being more than a little bit authoritarian.
In saying that, there are certainly some proposals that are worth debating and this list may serve as a starting point as to how we can get our country back on track. Your thoughts please.
65 Ways to Fix Broken Britain
By Keith Gilmour
Recruit (and reward) whistleblowers to expose waste and inefficiency in public services
Curtail the out-of-control 'I trip, therefore I sue' compensation culture
Ditto the offence industry
Encourage everyone to spring clean their possessions and give to charity shops anything they don't want or need
Do more government advertising on the cheap via competitions (as when members of the public submitted to the BBC homemade 'London 2012' Olympics logos far superior to the one that cost us £400,000)
Cut the bureaucratic overkill that puts many people off volunteering
Scrap extraneous new database schemes
Scrap quangos that duplicate – or invent – unnecessary work
Scrap mindlessly excessive health and safety bureaucracies
Educate the badly-behaved teen and preteen minority separately (and more appropriately), thereby making it far easier to improve standards in our deterrent-free schools
Stop giving aid money to corrupt, despotic regimes and give it, instead, directly to the charities that work in countries currently suffering under such regimes
Encourage overseas aid agencies and charities to distribute charity pledge dog tags and wristbands reminding recipients of some very basic facts – e.g. 'Condoms Prevent AIDS; Raping Virgins Doesn't'
Wherever possible, send troops to oust brutal despots
Ditto parts of the world where species are being poached to the verge of extinction
Start charging obese adults for all healthcare (other than gastric bands)
End the wasteful and counterproductive War on Drugs that forces addicts into open-ended crime sprees, makes the drugs more dangerous (and easier for under-eighteens to access) and which funds other organised crime
Reduce teenage pregnancies by not rewarding them with state handouts
Scrap anti-euthanasia laws that keep terminally ill people, who no longer wish to live, alive and in pain against their wills
Save money on surveillance programs by deporting extremists who insist they hate us and despise our values
Avoid wasting money on monitoring and supervision programs (whilst reducing their chances of ever re-offending to zero) by never releasing from prison people who've raped toddlers
Create a gang members register similar to the sex offenders register
Ditto a heroin-users register
Encourage prisoners guilty of particularly sickening crimes to commit suicide, or else create for them much simpler and cheaper accommodation (that doesn't cost us £30,000 a year per inmate)
Allow homeowners to use 'any means necessary' to defend their families, their property and their possessions
Protect prostitutes from robbery and violence – and others from being trafficked and enslaved – by regulating this aspect of the sex industry
Provide supervised accommodation for the mentally ill and homeless
Tax junk food manufacturers to help cover the costs of obesity
Tax chewing gum manufacturers to cover the costs of removing it from pavements
Either stop importing foreigners to do 'the jobs we don't want to do' or stop paying benefit addicts to do nothing
Offer experimental drugs to any seriously ill person willing to risk trying them, thereby speeding up the development of new treatments
Make it easier for infertile women (or those who'd simply prefer to skip nine months of pregnancy) to adopt orphans from overseas
Change the organ donation system from 'opt in' to 'opt out'
Set traps to catch thugs targeting fire crews with projectiles
Ban burkas and niqabs from British streets
Build more nuclear power stations
Reverse the closure of care homes, post offices and pubs
Create more allotments to allow people without gardens to grow their own food
Encourage micro-generation of electricity by increasing grants to homeowners
Compel takeaways to put health information/warnings on their food cartons
Provide more public drinking fountains to discourage the purchase of bottled water
Make it cheaper and easier for would-be entrepreneurs to start up new businesses
Head off an obesity epidemic by offering young people free, healthy school meals and subsidised gym memberships
Build massive, underground water tanks near areas prone to flooding
Name, shame and penalise 'jobsworth' and 'not my job' types depressingly prevalent in the public sector
Increase street lighting and police patrols in problem neighbourhoods
Stop relying on unpaid volunteers to set up and staff youth clubs and cafes intended to prevent young people in problem areas from drifting into crime
Stop paying incapacity benefit to people who aren't actually incapacitated
Put school pupils found to be well-nigh devoid of empathy on 'watch lists' before they leave
Offer to hide tiny cameras in the homes of women fearing domestic violence
Automatically reject Islamist asylum seekers
Publicly praise philanthropists as examples to follow or better
Extend parenting classes to anyone who can be encouraged to participate
Take back the millions of pounds madly dished out to prisoners who had to empty their own bedpans every morning – and don't give them any more
Recruit teams of 'fixers' to seek out and repair potholes in roads across Britain (instead of waiting for motorists, belatedly, to report them)
Ditto litter and graffiti – and road signs obscured by bushes or grime
Commission colourful and inspirational murals for big, blank walls
Send teams of advisers door-to-door to help homeowners make their properties more energy efficient
Identify and eradicate unnecessary paperwork currently hampering teachers, nurses and police officers
Refurbish derelict buildings (or demolish them and return the land to nature)
Save money on art for government offices and embassies by instead requesting donations from secondary school art departments
Increase screening programs for earlier detection of serious diseases
Use non-violent prisoners as unpaid labour on a massive scale
Reduce the number of management consultants in the public sector
Insist the Common Agricultural Policy be scrapped
Sell advertising space on money
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in order to discourage illegal immigration.first raid all large building sites in evry large city and check all workers id's.fine the main contractors £10,000 per illegal.next raid all cafes coffee bars pubs etc and do the same thing.All illegals caught to be arrested and fast tracked for deportation.next check the credentials and back ground of all government and local government employees including contractors and sub contractors ,if large numbers of illegals turn up prosecute the cheif execs and remove their pension rights.Next railways,post office etc.the idea being to work through all of our work places,punish those who profit from employing illegal immigrants to discourage the practice.if nobody will employ them they will not come.simple
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