If he wants to be remembered as a great Prime Minister, all he has to do is the following:
2. Replace entire tax, welfare and pensions system with a single-rate income/corporation tax, a single-rate land value tax and a citizen's income/pension, sufficient to cover an absolute bare minimum of national and local spending. And maybe 'sin taxes' for things with external costs, like fossil fuels, gambling, drinking etc.
3. Introduce health and education vouchers. End bans on fox hunting and smoking in pubs.
4. Get police officers back on the beat instead of form-filling, ensure longer prison sentences for violent criminals and make most drugs legally available, suitably regulated and taxed. Ditto prostitution.
5. Take the UK out of the EU and the United Nations, introduce full devolution for all four parts of the UK, and further devolution of all but a few residual central powers to local councils, including powers to have an extra local income tax or land value tax, subject to local voter approval.
6. Introduce proportional representation at all elections.
7. Ask the Crown Prosecution Service to look very closely at certain larger donations to the Labour Party. Declare the Labour Party morally, intellectually and financially bankrupt and disband it
8. Dissolve Parliament, resign as PM.
9. Come out as gay and apologise profusely for disservices to homosexuality to braver men such as Peter Tatchell, Alan Duncan, Brian Paddick - heck, even to Peter Mandelson.
10. [Amended]. My original suggestion "commit suicide" has stirred up most controversy, so I am hereby amending it to "waives typical ex-PM goodies (pension, knighthood etc), goes into self-imposed exile, and is never heard of again".
7 comments:
Mark,
I see how education vouchers would work - a proven requirement for a set number of years which allows planning. However I don't see how health vouchers could work. Would I save them until I contracted an illlness and cash them in then? What happens when I run out?
GS, I am adapting the model of many European countries.
If you get sick, the NHS has to pay the cost of your basic care. You can either use the NHS and have done with it, or ask for the NHS to pay the amount that your basic treatment will cost to any other provider, and if it's more expensive then you have to pay the difference yourself.
I agree with you on numbers 1-8
9 and 10 are a little beyond the pale but then again you can't always have what you want.
I see from Stat porn that you are going to be around for a little while longer so, I would be happy to start a New Political Party avec toi and lets go for me for Priminister cos I can't lie convincingly and you as the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ah, new political parties ... I've thrown in my hand with UKIP for the foreseeable.
I am taking issue with point 10, I would prefer to have a trial for treason and then if guilty hang him, along with a few co-conspirators....and of course the reintroduction of capital punishment would have the added effect of pissing off the entire guardian reading world.
Really, Mark, I must upbraid you on #10. No need for that sort of glorying in violence. It would be quite enough if he were to hang Blair.
Sorry No 10 is a bit too harsh. Why not deprive him of his pension instead? t'would hit a man known for prudence and parsinomy far harder to work so hard and end up with so little like so many of his victims over the last 10 years.
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