Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our suggestion for fixing England 's economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: 1) They MUST retire. Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed 2) They MUST buy a new British car. Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed 4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university - Crime rate fixed 5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ...... And there's your money back in duty/tax etc 6) Instead of stuffing around with the carbon emissions trading scheme that makes us pay for the major polluters, tell the greedy bleep bleep to reduce their pollution emissions by 75% within 5 years or we shut them down. It can't get any easier than that!
Nice. Point 5 also excellent idea. If you spend that much on ***s and booze, you will not live that long thus saving money on any future pension and use of resources such as NHS etc. Some expense incurred treating lung cancer etc but, given the tax revenue, probably works out quite well for the Government. Where do I sign up?! Which British car would folks buy? Mclaren for me but then not much change for the rest of my duties under the scheme.
That would only cost 10 Trillion Pounds as an initial outlay. With sound economic plans like that, you should join the Labour Party
Take it whoever thought of this has no idea about economics. Giving 1 million to all the over 50's would massively devalue the £ and create a huge chasm between the now wealthy 50+ and the far less well off working class youth. Lowering the price of petrol would be one of the best ways to help boost the economy, as ALL produce is tied into it and people would have more spare cash, but it's an easy source of income for the government.
So true Frankie - just look at the government´s double-whammy when taxing fuel http://www.petrolprices.com/the-price-of-fuel.html
That is utter tosh that has been a viral email for years. Better to ban the term "whiplash injury" and all such BS insurance claims. These apparently add £90 on average to every UK car insurance policy. Thereby saving a lot of people at least £120 a year from gross earned income. Indeed, ditching contingent fee earning basis (generally crooked personal) injury lawyers from acting on spurious claims would make our country a whole lot better, and less like the US. Also, whilst at it, bung in some legislation barring people from gaining legal aid for immigration appeals when the claimant is a convicted felon. In such circumstances perhaps Mr Qatada might be residing in a cell in Jordan where he rightfully belongs. I'm off my soap box now, thanks, most cathartic.
Probably, went off at a tangent, sorry and all. Having said that the thread is about the economy and the country pisses away many millions on vile people who do not deserve the vast legal or benefit or health service support that our wonderful, caring and generous society so readily and easily makes available.
Order, Order ......... Would the Honourable member for New Zealand please give yourself some 'rep' for saving the British economy. While your at it, please dispense of the blithering fool, currently impersonating our PM and do likewise. Your sincerely, Little Johnny Babyboomer / Taxpayer
and don't get him started on the AID money we give to countries with nuclear weapons and space programs
Put everything in Graphene ... its the most important thing in the world currently ... Fold away computers for a start : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21028056
This plan would never work, the figures do not stack up and the problem still isn't fixed. The UK is a single sector economy and that needs to change but to do that we need to devalue the pound sterling to make manufacturing and services exportable. But to devalue the pound sterling would lead to massive exit of companies in the finance sector that we do not currently own, leaving us with a decade or more with a massively diminished GDP. The only way to fix the economy is to hope all that oil in the Falklands is really there, and then we can safely devalue the pound sterling and build up two additional sectors to power our economy. With the oil money we can offset the losses of billions from foreign banks that will jump ship, whilst keeping a proportion of that financial sector because we now effectively own three of the big four banks who in turn own many of the big insurance companies. Just giving cash to people will not do the work needed, we have to undo the damage that Margaret Thatcher wreaked on the global economy when her and Reagan deregulated the banks in the 1980's.
I notice there is a lot of ideas on how to fix our Economy from people who no longer reside here! What are you worried about?
10 millions British cars? What car companies are British? Aston Martin, McLaren, Morgan and TVR, theres no way they can cope with that amount of orders. Mini and RR are BMW Bentley is VW Vauxhall is GM MG is Chinese Jaguar and Land Rover are Tata
My friend of a friend, who is married to my sister's neighbour, who know's her uncles' niece, that married a friend of their family, who fell pregnant to the local butcher, that knows of old Jack, the breadmaker, that use to live next door to the choirmaster, because all four sons play football, that gave Jane the message from the policeman, that often speaks to his father, that made enquires about which daughter, lived in that said county ................. you know the one? Yep ................. we are family !
