Your top priorities for the new coalition

[Osem]

Aside from dealing with the severe financial problems we face, this'd be one of mine:

New government's Great Repeal Bill can help repair Labour's damage to our liberties

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ph...our-liberties/

I'd agree with that. Labour's authoritarianism was my single biggest objection to their remaining in power. When it (momentarily) looked like we might get some sort of Lib-Lab stitch-up it really depressed me to think that we may not see the back of ID cards, excessive detention without charge, abuse of the DNA database, suppression of the right to protest and all the rest of it.

Second on my list is energy policy - there's a real opportunity here to make great big green strides forward. I would like to see them legislate to change the terms on which the national grid charges for connection and carriage of power from remote areas. As things stand, you can get a subsidy if you connect a wind turbine to the Grid in central London (where there is next to no wind) but it costs a fortune to do the same thing in the Highlands (where there is tonnes of it). This is one of the many niggles the SNP likes to agitate about and I'm all for something that would simultaneously promote green energy and shut Alex Salmond up.

[Angua]

Agree re- civil liberties

£10,000 tax threshold.

Would prefer a decent look at PR in all it's guises.

Local council funding - based on local income tax rather than house size.

Stop messing with the schools. See what works and encourage more of the same rather than assuming as a politician you know the answers and then deliberately setting the questions to suit.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Chris

I'd agree with that. Labour's authoritarianism was my single biggest objection to their remaining in power. When it (momentarily) looked like we might get some sort of Lib-Lab stitch-up it really depressed me to think that we may not see the back of ID cards, excessive detention without charge, abuse of the DNA database, suppression of the right to protest and all the rest of it.

Second on my list is energy policy - there's a real opportunity here to make great big green strides forward. I would like to see them legislate to change the terms on which the national grid charges for connection and carriage of power from remote areas. As things stand, you can get a subsidy if you connect a wind turbine to the Grid in central London (where there is next to no wind) but it costs a fortune to do the same thing in the Highlands (where there is tonnes of it). This is one of the many niggles the SNP likes to agitate about and I'm all for something that would simultaneously promote green energy and shut Alex Salmond up.

Maybe Salmond could be connected - directly - to the National Grid??.....

Energy policy is hugely important - we face a serious shortfall in energy generation and the clock is ticking. If we are going to further embrace nuclear we need to get on with the process but I'd like to see other methods exploited too.

[Osem]

Still waiting for Damien to turn up demanding that £10k personal allowance he's so keen on...

[Ignitionnet]

Roll back the authoritarianism, get control of the public purse, get some sense of individual responsibility back into people through withdrawal of big brother's support, incentivise work (10k Income Tax allowance is good for this!), disincentivise leeching from the state.

[Ramrod]

Get us out of the EU.........

Move the British Isles somewhere warmer....

[Peter_]

I would like to see the long term employed and here I mean the ones who have never had a job or have no intention of getting a job, have all cash benefits removed which would be replaced by a voucher/card system that lets them only buy food and essentials.

Plus all their clothing issued from a central store that does not include the colour black.

No unemployed person should be issued with a passport as they would have no need to be issued one.

Maybe measures like this would actually make these people take a job.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Masque

I would like to see the long term employed and here I mean the ones who have never had a job or have no intention of getting a job, have all cash benefits removed which would be replaced by a voucher/card system that lets them only buy food and essentials.

Plus all their clothing issued from a central store that does not include the colour black.

Something like this?



What do you think your plans would do for crime rates?

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by danielf

What do you think your plans would do for crime rates?

What would you rather have the present system were all the *******s go cradle to grave without ever working paid for by our taxes, my grandparents and great grand parents would have been ashamed to claim from the state, but nowadays these *******s believe it is their right.

Given the choice would you let your taxes pay for these lazy *******s.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Masque

What would you rather have the present system were all the *******s go cradle to grave without ever working paid for by our taxes.
Given the choice would you let your taxes pay for these lazy *******s.

Yes...

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by danielf

Yes...

So you would happily pay for *******s cradle to the grave, I think that you have you priorities wrong as they should receive nothing, I work for my money so should they.

[dilli-theclaw]

HHHmmm - I'd like more money / training in my job centre so they'd be able / willing to help me more.

But I guess that's a whole other story.

Not that I class myself as a ******* or lazy for claiming benefits.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Thomas T

HHHmmm - I'd like more money / training in my job centre so they'd be able / willing to help me more.

But I guess that's a whole other story.

Not that I class myself as a ******* or lazy for claiming benefits.

I rather doubt that you fit the criteria above to say the least as you would like to work just as I do.