If you were asked to become prime minister
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The actual first thing I would do would be to close all the immigration detention centres and give all the detainees full UK citizenship and a very sincere apology.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Worked out real well for Greece, that one.
SpineyNorman
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one which has nuclear weapons
SpineyNorman
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Think you could build very good standard housing for a lot less than 100k unless you're wanting to build them all in that london, which would be an act of desperate folly IMO
8ball
Decolonise colons!
New haircut options?
SpineyNorman
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Serious answer: Colombia.
I'd have to secure military assistance from someone or other before I began my programme though:
Execute the entire military leadership - every last one complicit in some of the most disgusting abuses of human rights
lock up all politicians implicated in the paraplitical scandal
Execute all proven paramilitaries.
Genuine land reform - end land speculation and break up the big estates, giving it to peasant families
nationalise all US owned businesses, including oil extraction, mining, etc. and use the surplus to develop industry/create jobs and build homes for the urban poor.
legalise the coca trade so it can be regulated to ensure the money doesn't go to fund more paramilitary groups.
Try not to get shot.
I'd have to secure military assistance from someone or other before I began my programme though:
Execute the entire military leadership - every last one complicit in some of the most disgusting abuses of human rights
lock up all politicians implicated in the paraplitical scandal
Execute all proven paramilitaries.
Genuine land reform - end land speculation and break up the big estates, giving it to peasant families
nationalise all US owned businesses, including oil extraction, mining, etc. and use the surplus to develop industry/create jobs and build homes for the urban poor.
legalise the coca trade so it can be regulated to ensure the money doesn't go to fund more paramilitary groups.
Try not to get shot.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
I'm introducing 2 more. And one of them has a side parting.
"If you were asked to become prime minister"
I see that no one has suggested they would decline the invitation. Also, no one has said they would first try and get consensus from at least some part of the population for their dictatorial programs of sweeping social change.
I see that no one has suggested they would decline the invitation. Also, no one has said they would first try and get consensus from at least some part of the population for their dictatorial programs of sweeping social change.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i wouldn't have to get consensus from the rest of the population as there'd be no population left."If you were asked to become prime minister"
I see that no one has suggested they would decline the invitation. Also, no one has said they would first try and get consensus from at least some part of the population for their dictatorial programs of sweeping social change.
SpineyNorman
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"If you were asked to become prime minister"
I see that no one has suggested they would decline the invitation. Also, no one has said they would first try and get consensus from at least some part of the population for their dictatorial programs of sweeping social change.
What the fuck would we want to do that for?
seventh bullet
sovietwave
one which has nuclear weapons
It doesn't end there, comrade. All species make history, but the party leads. And any Gensek of our party must be up to the task of leading the United Front, one capable of fighting for galactic liberation (as if to James Horner's title music for Battle Beyond the Stars).
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
First thing id do is make the state broadcaster have a BB type reality show that was on all the time , except with a house full of anarchists. Thatd put the arguments against state control of everything to bed once and for all .
Then Id get on my merry way with all the authoritarian stuff I want to do.
Then Id get on my merry way with all the authoritarian stuff I want to do.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
too bloody right. and all the other cricket. get rid of football and these overpaid fuckbiscuits, rampant capitalism and regionalist nonsense. and replace it with county cricket.
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
The UK
#1 Tell the USA when to shove its trade deals
#2 Tell the USA we wont support its global imperialism
#3 Tell the corporations they have no rights
#4 Introduce a plan to recover all the taxes evaded by corporations and rich
#5 Work out solid plans to permanantly deal with tax havens
#6 Tell banks they are not to big to fail,If they get into trouble tough you are not gonna be bailed out
#7 Goodbye payday loan cos and similar
#8 Goodbye Trident replacement
#9 Imvest in education,housing,health,transport [non-car airline]renewable energy and possibly fusion
#10 Serious reform of the EU
#11 Renationalisation of all sold of state owned property with no compensation to the fatcats
#12 End the PFI scams that where inflicted on health and education
#1 Tell the USA when to shove its trade deals
#2 Tell the USA we wont support its global imperialism
#3 Tell the corporations they have no rights
#4 Introduce a plan to recover all the taxes evaded by corporations and rich
#5 Work out solid plans to permanantly deal with tax havens
#6 Tell banks they are not to big to fail,If they get into trouble tough you are not gonna be bailed out
#7 Goodbye payday loan cos and similar
#8 Goodbye Trident replacement
#9 Imvest in education,housing,health,transport [non-car airline]renewable energy and possibly fusion
#10 Serious reform of the EU
#11 Renationalisation of all sold of state owned property with no compensation to the fatcats
#12 End the PFI scams that where inflicted on health and education
hipipol
Peckham Wry
perhaps it might have been better had theyu not lied to fit the criteria, with the coninvance of Goldman Sachs
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
ban country????????????? you fashist!
here's one for you sir!
here's one for you sir!
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Like in Ireland? Spain? Etc? The truth is that exempting Greece, those countries that were the most fiscally 'responsible' got punished the most by the recession. Those that ran surpluses or low deficits in the run-up to 2008 ended up more fucked than everyone. And now they are in a situation where they desperately need to devalue, and they are effectively stuck in a gold-standard type situation from which they will not recover until that fixed exchange rate is broken.
The Euro is killing off entire economies and it is only a matter of time before countries must leave it, just as in the depression era it was necessary for countries to abandon the gold-standard before they could recover. Until that happens, it is ordinary people that will suffer from unemployment, ill-health, poverty, mental illness, crime and a resurgent far-right. All for a mistaken belief that austerity is somehow a moral, beneficial or worthwhile policy.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
My manifesto/dictatorial wishlist for the United Kingdom:
1) Ban zero-hours contracts completely.
2) Part-time and temporary workers to get all the benefits, rights and protections of full-time and permanent workers, including paid holidays.
3) Institute a social housing program in which unoccupied dwellings are seized, renovated and rented out at low rates, with people on the housing registers having priority.
4) Mothers to have the choice of free/heavily subsidised childcare while they work, or a salary equivalent to full-time work until their youngest child turns 13.
5) G4S, Capita, Serco, ATOS, and similar parasites to have all their UK operations and assets seized and either auctioned or brought under public control.
6) A wide-ranging de-privatisation program covering the NHS, education (including universities), public transport, utilities, and telecommunications, with the long-term goal of bringing said industries under increasing rank-and-file worker control.
7) A National Universal Basic Income to go on top of any pre-existing benefits and welfare schemes.
8) All Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, with the exception of the British Antarctic Territory, to be fully integrated into the mainland as the United Kingdom Outer Territories, sharing a legal & political status with England & Wales.
9) More powers for the Welsh Assembly.
10) Regional assemblies for England including London.
11) Abolish the position of Mayor of London.
12) An energy policy for the long term, including support for a budding native energy industry comprising both renewables and nuclear fission.
12b) Increased support for research into renewable energy (at home), nuclear fusion and thorium reactors (internationally).
12c) Ban fracking completely.
13) Reduction of police powers including the curtailment of stop & search.
14) More support for the Army Cadet Force, youth centres, and other extracurricular activities for young people.
15) Voting age to be lowered to 16, to be accompanied by political awareness programs in schools for the newly-enfranchised.
16) An entire series of industrial re-orientation projects for the whole United Kingdom, away from services and finance and towards advanced research, high-tech manufacturing, and ambitious engineering.
17) More support for cultural and artistic activities across the board.
18) The establishment of a British Space Program with the objective of developing our own capacities in space, including heavy-lift launch vehicles, manned spaceflight, orbital infrastructure (including research into asteroid mining) and the permanent and significant presence of personnel in Earth orbit and/or on other Solar system bodies such as the Moon or Mars. Commonwealth countries would be invited to participate and cooperation with the European Space Agency would be considered.
19) Abolish Trident or any replacement and instead develop a nuclear deterrent entirely under British control.
20) Withdrawal from NATO.
21) Withdrawal of any British forces currently occupying non-UK territory unless expressly asked not to by popularly-mandated authorities in the territory concerned.
22) Closure of all asylum/immigration detention centres and the offer of residence in the UK to their former inmates.
23) All newspapers to print any apologies on the front page.
24) Strict limits on the size of donations to political parties from individuals and organisations.
25) Look into ways of stamping out the influence of think-tanks.
Those are the ones I could think of from the top of my head, but it's far from exhaustive.
1) Ban zero-hours contracts completely.
2) Part-time and temporary workers to get all the benefits, rights and protections of full-time and permanent workers, including paid holidays.
3) Institute a social housing program in which unoccupied dwellings are seized, renovated and rented out at low rates, with people on the housing registers having priority.
4) Mothers to have the choice of free/heavily subsidised childcare while they work, or a salary equivalent to full-time work until their youngest child turns 13.
5) G4S, Capita, Serco, ATOS, and similar parasites to have all their UK operations and assets seized and either auctioned or brought under public control.
6) A wide-ranging de-privatisation program covering the NHS, education (including universities), public transport, utilities, and telecommunications, with the long-term goal of bringing said industries under increasing rank-and-file worker control.
7) A National Universal Basic Income to go on top of any pre-existing benefits and welfare schemes.
8) All Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, with the exception of the British Antarctic Territory, to be fully integrated into the mainland as the United Kingdom Outer Territories, sharing a legal & political status with England & Wales.
9) More powers for the Welsh Assembly.
10) Regional assemblies for England including London.
11) Abolish the position of Mayor of London.
12) An energy policy for the long term, including support for a budding native energy industry comprising both renewables and nuclear fission.
12b) Increased support for research into renewable energy (at home), nuclear fusion and thorium reactors (internationally).
12c) Ban fracking completely.
13) Reduction of police powers including the curtailment of stop & search.
14) More support for the Army Cadet Force, youth centres, and other extracurricular activities for young people.
15) Voting age to be lowered to 16, to be accompanied by political awareness programs in schools for the newly-enfranchised.
16) An entire series of industrial re-orientation projects for the whole United Kingdom, away from services and finance and towards advanced research, high-tech manufacturing, and ambitious engineering.
17) More support for cultural and artistic activities across the board.
18) The establishment of a British Space Program with the objective of developing our own capacities in space, including heavy-lift launch vehicles, manned spaceflight, orbital infrastructure (including research into asteroid mining) and the permanent and significant presence of personnel in Earth orbit and/or on other Solar system bodies such as the Moon or Mars. Commonwealth countries would be invited to participate and cooperation with the European Space Agency would be considered.
19) Abolish Trident or any replacement and instead develop a nuclear deterrent entirely under British control.
20) Withdrawal from NATO.
21) Withdrawal of any British forces currently occupying non-UK territory unless expressly asked not to by popularly-mandated authorities in the territory concerned.
22) Closure of all asylum/immigration detention centres and the offer of residence in the UK to their former inmates.
23) All newspapers to print any apologies on the front page.
24) Strict limits on the size of donations to political parties from individuals and organisations.
25) Look into ways of stamping out the influence of think-tanks.
Those are the ones I could think of from the top of my head, but it's far from exhaustive.
It's Texas that's not a country but the lone star or rather braincell state, banning it might be very slightly harsh, give it back to its rightful owners, Mexico, instead.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Ireland and Spain, fueled by the artifically low interest rates triggered by their joing the Euro went mad - I cant see how you can use the term "fiscally 'responsible' "
Agree with your descrition of the current situation BUT you seem to ignore what was there before the Euro - massive devaluations do not come cost free - small countries would suffer massive value swings in their currency, pricing out the export markets during an upswing in value then causing local farmers to go bus when the value dropped cos imported food was so much cheaper
hipipol
Peckham Wry
You must mean its last colonial opressor surely?
"Did you know the name "Texas" comes from a Caddoan Indian word? It is a Spanish corruption of the Caddo word Taysha, which means "friend." The Caddo were not the only native people of this region, however. "
http://www.native-languages.org/texas.htm
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
I assume that since you are talking about 'artificially low' interest rates that you are coming from an Austrian School position?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The EU is actually one of the few bodies who could (and have) just decided to make someone PM of a country.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You probably could if it ever joins the eu.I can has Liechtenstein?
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