UK folks, be honest… what’s the one thing you’d completely change about life here if you could, no limits?
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I’ve lived all over the UK, and honestly, sometimes it feels like there’s always something to complain about. Could be the weather, trains, taxes… you name it. I’m curious what everyone thinks—no filters, no politeness required. What’s that one thing about life in the UK that drives you mad, and how would you fix it if you could? Bonus points for funny or out-of-the-box answers. Let’s see who has the best (or worst) ideas!
No_Papaya_5763@reddit
I’d make sure we take care of all our historic buildings. Too many left to decay (at least in the north). You don’t see run day grade 1 listed buildings in Europe.
AandRRecords@reddit
The amount of people that expectantly put feet on seats
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
I'd just put all the prices down.
emil_@reddit
But... but, but think of the shareholders 🥺
guyb5693@reddit
Well it wouldn’t be so much the shareholders- price controls would just put everyone out of business and products would no longer exist also hurting consumers
emil_@reddit
There always has to be one...
aMoose_Bit_My_Sister@reddit
this is the best line i've heard in years.
you should copyright it......or else i'll steal it.
emil_@reddit
You wouldn't download a line!
Sorry to hear about your sister, btw.
aMoose_Bit_My_Sister@reddit
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush.......
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Tots and pears
Eeszeeye@reddit
Torts
8_string_menace@reddit
I think a lot of us do, but not in a way they’d like
emil_@reddit
Not enough, mate... not enough.
Captain_Kruch@reddit
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the shareholders! 😭
just_some_guy65@reddit
Yes, that's how economics works, why didn't I think of that?
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
The question was what would you change of you could no limits not what is feasible or logical.
just_some_guy65@reddit
Why not invent a free energy machine then or teach dogs and cats how to talk?
benh2@reddit
I’d rather food was cheap rather than my dog being able to tell me how expensive it is.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
☝️ This guy gets it 😉
just_some_guy65@reddit
Yes, dumb people can always find other dumb people to agree with them.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
So if you could change anything you'd put prices up? Is that what you are saying?
just_some_guy65@reddit
No, you really are world-class at not getting the point.
Mentioning why an idea doesn't work is not the same thing as advocating for something else. What you suggested cannot possibly work under any circumstances, explaining why is not the same as suggesting something equally stupid.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
It's impossible for prices to go down? Lol whatever. You work in a bank or something?
just_some_guy65@reddit
Again wilfully obtuse, there is all the difference in the world between a sale (for example) and a deflationary spiral which would be the effect of your idea.
Instead of saying stupid things, why not take a basic economics course?
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Viddy this. The price of power drops across the board because it is taken out of private hands whose sole goal is maximising profit at all costs because that is the nature of the capitalistic market we find ourselves in. Imagine power is sold at cost plus a reasonable percentage for costs and improvements etc, no profits, no shareholders no dividends. Lets just say for example the energy cost is halved for everything. What happens to prices? Well obviously nothing in this market because they will just pocket the difference instead of passing on savings. That's mostly what I'd be looking at if this was an actual thing or suggestion and not just a hopeful that'd be nice eh.
It's not all about line go up.
just_some_guy65@reddit
So you are talking about re-nationalising the power companies, how do you fix the price of gas, nuclear etc, how do you for example run a nuclear power station (over its entire lifetime) cheaper? One answer is pay the people working there less, including paying the construction companies that build and decommission them less. You will find that paying less for labour costs is the inevitable result of any such idea if you persist with following through the logical consequences. I am as much against the archetypal "fat cat bosses" as anyone, but as they are so few relative to the workforce, the practical difference axing them makes is negligible. So lower prices = lower pay.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Yeah I guess so. Look, dude asked what would change if you could and I said lower prices. I wasn't expecting a sort of Spanish inquisition on how like I have a manifesto laid out or something.
If we can't have lower prices then higher pay but I'm sure you have a bunch of reasons we can't have that too. I suppose we should just resign ourselves to being rinsed from all sides knowing it can only ever get worse then and the buying power we had yesterday can never be achieved again.
🎵Every party needs a pooper and thats why they invited you, party pooper, party pooper.🎵
just_some_guy65@reddit
The more informed anyone becomes, the more they become aware that simplistic "solutions" do not actually work. It is really the maxim of "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
If we decided that overnight everyone's annual salary is doubled then we would create runaway inflation.
If you actually take the time to understand what money really represents, then this is self-evident. No part of the system can be changed without effects on the rest.
Do I like this? No. Is pretending that it doesn't work like this helpful? No.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Do I still want things to be cheaper? Yes.
I don't care what your economic reasons are that the only viable system is this fucked up we have now that is completely broken. I just want to be able to afford the things I used to be. I don't want a basic terraced house to cost 6 figures plus. I don't want the price of everything to keep going up because the cost of energy keeps going up at the same time as those power companies posting record profits. I don't want cuts to our core vital services to serve the god of outsourcing to private industry (which I'm yet to hear a good explanation of how you can pay someone else less to do a better job and they get to make profit).
It's all bullshit anyway and the money is made out thin air and more debt exists than money. We might as well embrace it and let people have nice things so they are happy, instead it apparently serves to have us all riled up and getting angry at immigrants so we don't have to actually do anything while the rich get richer and the rest of us get fucked.
just_some_guy65@reddit
It's like I am in the movie Idiocracy
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Because I put the limit at conceivable. What's your objection to lower prices anyway?
just_some_guy65@reddit
My objection is that you can't just "lower prices", the societal construct we call money doesn't work like that.
For it not to be a logical impossibility, salaries would have to drop for everyone to match as well as the worth of companies so nothing would be achieved. It would be exactly the same as if we achieved it by losing the last digit on everything that has a monetary value.
This is what I imagined that you didn't understand when I replied originally.
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Here's an completely out there idea for you. Make less profit. I know they aren't going to do that and they aren't putting prices down but a man can dream of being able to afford things again. It wasn't that long ago that was a thing then every single company it seems decided they wanted all of everyones spare money. Wouldn't be so bad if wages increased to match and despite how many times they keep saying they are my bank and the job market is telling me the opposite.
Inflation all the way I guess then. Brilliant.
keizai88@reddit
The prices are just a symptom of the problem.
HonkyBoo@reddit
Salary’s would soon follow!
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
I would also make it so the max salary at any company can be no more than 100x the lowest and at the end of the tax year the company with the highest profit has it seized and all the new parks/schools/hospitals built that year get named after them.
Ok_Letterhead_1008@reddit
100x is absurd, but I totally get why you’d make it that figure because such disparities really do exist.
I’d make it 10x
There is no way that anyone is working 10x harder than person on minimum wage.
SilverellaUK@reddit
I agree. If they are getting any more than that you should be splitting the job between 2 people. Their PA probably does most of the work anyway
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
As a former PA, um / yeah!
CodeToManagement@reddit
Not really about working hard though. It’s skills and experience and working on the right things.
Like if you want a really high performing CEO with experience and qualifications now you can only pay them 250k if you have someone on minimum wage.
Why should people at the top be held back? I’m not saying the government shouldn’t raise minimum wage but I don’t think they should limit it.
Like I went to school with people who messed around all the time. I know people who have stayed at the same job from the point I left school to now which is like 20 years. If some people have no motivation or drive to succeed then why should salaries of people who do be held back?
Also going for some higher level qualifications like an MBA is about a 60k investment plus a year or two. Getting those high level qualifications is not easy and requires a lot of effort.
At the end of the day the fact people don’t want to hear is there’s a limited number of people who can do those senior leadership roles. You can take almost anyone off the streets and teach them to use a till or stack shelves and they can be productive in a day.
ThePeake@reddit
"Only" 250k
CodeToManagement@reddit
Yea in terms of someone who can set strategy to bring in millions to billions in revenue 250k is minimal.
I mean as a manager at my last job I was on about 130K with bonus and pension. My team wage bill was in the 1-2 million range if you count everyone in. Which means my success or failure guides the outcome of 2 million in spend per year
And the products we built would bring in significantly more. And I was like 5 levels below the CEO. So yea 250k in a f500 company is not a massive amount. My boss would have been closer, or certainly his boss would have been on that. But that’s what you get for being responsible for 200+ people.
cybertonto72@reddit
Yea but the point is if the person on top wants a big fat wage + bonus then the guy at the bottom get a nicer pay packet, and a bonus too. The person on top getting the bonus didn't do all of the work themselves.
CodeToManagement@reddit
No but usually the jobs at the bottom pay minimum wage because there is little training or experience required to do them where jobs higher up need that.
Certain jobs do have a limit to how much they are worth paying to do.
As a junior developer I made under 25k. As a manager I made 5x that. I work the same hours. As a junior you could replace me with any graduate fresh from any uni, or anyone a level up. Plus I took time to train etc and my work has to be checked
As a manager I have 15 years experience in the industry plus multiple qualifications and the experience you only get working multiple places and seeing things over time. I’m a lot harder to replace now and the pool of candidates is much smaller. Same thing for staff level engineers etc.
If you had to push all the graduate position wages up then you have to do that for every level all the way up. So in theory it’s great. In reality it just means there would be smaller jumps in salary at mid levels and probably stagnation at the higher ones.
JamOverCream@reddit
While it is a large sum to many of us, it’s nothing compared to the value that talented leaders can create - creating jobs, generating tax revenue, creating profits that shore up the pension funds of millions etc.
teveelion@reddit
Watching the water company CEOs make me believe the inverse can be true too.
JamOverCream@reddit
Indeed it can!
pajamakitten@reddit
Why should people be punished for being content with their current job?
CodeToManagement@reddit
Why are they being punished?
You can’t both have no drive to earn more and complain you’re not earning more. That’s not really how life works.
Ok_Letterhead_1008@reddit
University vice chancellors get paid about 300-400k at Russell group unis. They have tremendous skills, qualifications, experience that all take unbelievable amounts of investment across their bachelor, master, PhD, postdoc before they start getting any type of reasonable pay off. Alongside coordinating research they’re responsible for oversight of the training/education of a huge numbers of people, including teachers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and all these other highly qualified people you’re talking about (business people I guess)
NHS Medical Directors who coordinate entire hospitals can be pushing 200-300k and have years and years of training and skill and need to know the ins and outs of operating huge hospitals.
I could go on but you probably get the point. I don’t think CEOs of huge companies are very often adding that much more value to society, individually, nor in possession of that much more unique skill and experience, than these people. Unless the desire to pursue shareholder profits at any cost is now considered a skill? Yet they can be paid orders of magnitude more.
The problem is we’ve completely lost sight of the difference of what is valuable to society and what makes money because we’ve fully equated these things in our modern economies. One of the best fixes is to realise that everyone can add value if we show them they’re not so disproportionally undervalued compared to someone else.
So I totally stand by 10x and i think your argument is a load of capitalist-simping rubbish, if I’m honest.
lesloid@reddit
Interested to know how you feel about charity CEO pay? I find it strange how most people who argue for high pay for execs in profit making organisations are against charity execs being paid well. I don’t understand the logic - pay millions to people who make rich people richer and peanuts to people who prop up society and fill the gaps in public services? And to those who argue that charities are funded through donations, what do you think the profit margin on goods and services if not a donation to a corporation?
CodeToManagement@reddit
Honestly I’m not against charities paying well. I think if you want to succeed you need to get the best people and that involves money
Obviously they should be able to justify the salary and the person hired should be appropriate for the job. But if paying someone 10 mil a year means they implement things to bring in 100 mil then that’s better than paying someone 1 mil a year and they bring in 20 etc.
If you want to hire someone to work for you then you pay based on the work. It shouldn’t be “oh we are a charity so we pay less” or that person would just go work elsewhere unless they have a real deep connection to the charity
GingerLamb@reddit
The years of training though. Really hard work for such a long time on hardly any money.
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
Fuck that, let's get equal - max salary is 0x (nobody getting paid now)
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
You don't get paid based on how hard work is though do you. 100 times would let the top get 2 and a half mil if the lowest is 25k which while I agree is unreasonable it isn't nearly as egregious as what we have now. If they want more they are going to have to bring everyone else up with them instead of leaving them behind. Seems like a win.
beetrootfarmer@reddit
Yup. Simple thing would make a huge difference to everyone. And if not that, enforce wage increases for lower paid professions including contractors/freelancers.
Personal-Listen-4941@reddit
And you destroyed the economy…
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
It's already fucked mate.
BreadOddity@reddit
Honestly I'd settle for that tbh.
Half the reason the country is a binfire right now is everyone is fucking stressed and broke.
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
All of them? The price of labour too?
confused-oven@reddit
I'd love to see more green areas. More forests. More abandoned areas repurposed back to nature.
HonkyBoo@reddit
Less than 9% of the UK is built upon! Although I’d still love that number to be less.
NuttyNano@reddit
You are forgetting agriculture. Almost every patch of land in the UK is farmed. Same is true for most of western Europe. You can see for yourself on Google maps satellite view, just zoom in anywhere. If it can be farmed (so excluding mountains and Scotland) it is almost certainly being farmed. A few national parks exist, mostly covering mountains cuz you guessed it they can't be farmed.
guyb5693@reddit
What’s the problem with farming land?
NuttyNano@reddit
Chokes out wildlife. The uk and most of western europe basically doesn’t have nature. There are patches of forest here and there but swaths of wild land like you get in America with Appalachia for example is a foreign concept here.
guyb5693@reddit
That’s because people live in Europe at a high population density and people eat food. What are you going to do, eradicate them?
Bailwillharr@reddit
9% is a lot for any country though. Consider that you need about 1.5 acres of farmland per person to keep a country fed. The UK has substantially less which is why we’re massive net importers. People often forget just how important farmland is.
JoeyJoeC@reddit
Wonder how much is publicly accessible.
bahumat42@reddit
Yeah but "not built upon" and "forest" are quite a margin apart.
I'm assuming this figure includes farmland and golf courses as "not built upon".
naturepeaked@reddit
This sort of whinging posted about further up. My ma is just pointing out the majority of the land is in fact green and you’re like, don’t forget golf courses and farmland 🤣 they aren’t exactly factories,housing estates. Look at the uk from space. It’s green!
TrousersCalledDave@reddit
The golf course near me is soon to be nearly 4000 houses, in the green belt.
bahumat42@reddit
At least it will provide some public use then. I would obviously prefer it go to parkland or natural forest/woodland.
But I'll take housing over golf courses every day of the week.
1CharlieMike@reddit
It’s important to remember that golf courses are important recreational sites that keep the health and well-being of many people high.
IMO what we should be doing is encouraging more people to take up golf and use these sites more. It’s a fantastic sport for gentle and bodily accessible excercise.
TrousersCalledDave@reddit
The entire course is surrounded by ancient woodland. That's getting cleared too.
bahumat42@reddit
Well thats sad and I'm sorry to hear that.
TrousersCalledDave@reddit
Indeed, thank you. I guess it just stings all the more that the green belt means literally nothing anymore. From 1 neighbour to 4000 will be quite a shock to the system. From green lands as far as the eye can see to housing estates and roof tops.
itsableeder@reddit
Not to mention the impact all those new houses have on local infrastructure, too. Three big estates have gone up around my house in the ~4 years since we bought it, with more going up, mostly on land that was previously woodland or public green spaces. It's become much harder to get a GP appointment, I physically can't get a dentist (though that was an issue when we moved here already), the roads are in a much worse state due to a massive increase in traffic, and every few weeks we lose water for a day or two because some useless construction company manages to go straight through a pipe somewhere and cause a massive leak.
I obviously understand that we need more housing and that it has to go somewhere, but I wish planning permission was contingent on them also contributing to the infrastructure to support the influx of new residents in some way. The estate that's just gone up directly at the back of our house doesn't even have its own access road that joins to the nearby main road (despite the fact that one was in place and being used while they were actually building the houses - it's since been fenced off and turned into someone's garden). The result is that our previously fairly quiet road now has twice as much traffic going down it every day. You used to see kids playing out on the street in summer, which was something I genuinely thought had died out until I moved here, but now it's not safe for them to do that anymore.
HonkyBoo@reddit
“Built on” can mean different things depending on what’s counted. Developed use, around 9%, covers roads, buildings, airports and quarries.
Densely built-up areas are much smaller at about 0.1%, showing land almost entirely covered by structures.
Green urban land such as parks, sports pitches and golf courses is developed but not really “built on” in the usual sense.
I think golf courses take up about 0.5% of the UKs total land. And I’m okay with that, as they still provide a lovely view!
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
Eh, the "less than 9% is not built on" is something the Adam Smith Institute pushes to make people agree with them.
However that 9% is the Green Belt (protected land), that is 64% agriculture. The reason they say "9% is not built on" is so they can push for the removal of the green belt restrictions - so they can advocate for more housing being built on it (secretly because that would be the most valuable land and thus the most expensive housing)
HonkyBoo@reddit
I don’t know what any of that means I just googled it
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
The "less than 9% of undeveloped land" is mainly important farmland that is protected by the government.
Big corporations want the government to get rid of the laws protecting it, so they can build on the land and sell those houses for even more money, without caring about the impact on farmers or wildlife.
I3enj@reddit
You've got it backwards, hes saying 9% is built on, and the other 91% isnt.
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
Oh my bad, but still there is the opposite claim made by think tanks lol
inevitablelizard@reddit
When building new housing we absolutely should be building density through height, to reduce the sprawl and keep more green space. Shitty car dependent sprawl all over the place pisses me off so much.
IntentionDull6589@reddit
Most of it is land owned by the Gentry
Whisky-Toad@reddit
How much of that isn't in England lol?
takesthebiscuit@reddit
A statistic that most folk in the uk are completely oblivious to!
Salty_Nothing5466@reddit
Check out the Forest of Dean, never knew it existed and loved it so much we moved!
aMoose_Bit_My_Sister@reddit
thanks for that! fascinating read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_Dean
Cheap_Try_5592@reddit
In comparison to the rest of Europe, the uk is staggeringly green. I really miss UK forest lands.
Fun-Shelter-4636@reddit
where do you live? cause scotland has plenty of that lol
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
So does Yorkshire.
Logic-DL@reddit
Stroud too when I've been down there. Plenty of green there despite it's size.
PM_ME_UR_SUMMERDRESS@reddit
I'm South Yorkshire, can we have more?
SilverellaUK@reddit
You can pop over to the Peak District.
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
Hello South Yorkshire. I am West Yorkshire. Originally from South Yorkshire. Sure I’ll just get my bulldozer now 😂
DaHappyCyclops@reddit
Hello West Yorkshire, formally South Yorkshire... I am North Yorkshire.
Be careful bulldozing around our water ways, last bastion of native white tail crayfish! You can have Flamingo Land as a thank-you.
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
Hello North Yorkshire.
I assure you I shall bulldoze near any waterways with the utmost of care. My aim is actually to mainly try to bulldoze run down and abandoned buildings to start with so hopefully the impact shouldn’t be too much for people at first.
Also I haven’t been to Flamingo Land for years!!!
anonymouse39993@reddit
The whole of the uk is full of green areas
Rootes_Radical@reddit
Have you tried leaving town? They’re everywhere
Weak-Pea4819@reddit
Sorry, that’s prime housing estate space
shhadyburner@reddit
the race to the bottom mentalitt
Prestigious-Tree-424@reddit
I would not allow the rubber dinghy people in. They have come from a safe place in France. I would send them to Rwanda.
atom_stacker@reddit
I'd make house ownership truly affordable.
glytxh@reddit
Make NIMBYISM illegal
That whole ‘got mine fuck you’ attitude does so much regressive damage to this country and potential development.
WormsEatShit@reddit
I would take a lot of critical infrastructure out of private ownership, water, rail, steel, energy etc and create a wealth for the country and not the few. Basically reverse everything that Thatcher did.
guyb5693@reddit
Why do you think the government owning things would create wealth for the country and not the few?
Bigbigcheese@reddit
I absolutely would not trust the likes of May, Johnson, Truss or Sunak with anything deemed "critical".
Pretty much the only public service that works properly in this country is the provision of food from supermarkets.
the_syco@reddit
I'd say British Steel will get nationalised before 2027, as it's a loss making plant (annual net loss of £233m), so no private company wants it, but I think it's in the UK's security best interests to keep it running.
WormsEatShit@reddit
It’s beyond ridicule if a nation lets its steel infrastructure go under, that said though everything is going downhill that is critical to a nations standing.
the_syco@reddit
Ridiculous, yes. But what could you do with £700,000? In March 2025, that was how much it was losing per day. The railway contract may prop it up. In June 2025
So it may not be losing as much now, but it's unknown how well it'll survive when the contract is up. It pushes its fate down the road for now.
WormsEatShit@reddit
I did my apprenticeship at BSC when I left school in the early 80’s, at 22 years old I was made redundant (I’m still in the steel industry now). The thing was BSC never reinvested, it was ran into the ground and then privatised.
Privatisation was the tolling of the bell because it’s all about maximum profit for minimum spend to keep the shareholders happy and then letting it eventually fall into Jingwe’s hands was not a smart move at all.
Where I work now I look directly at Sheffield Forgemasters, which as you may know is owned by the MOD, around a billion £’s worth of investment pumped into it and the redevelopment is massive and much needed to bring it into the 21st century and beyond. That investment is bringing companies such as Rolls Royce, Babcock and BAE to my area it’s a win for all but at a cost.
Thatcherism has a lot to answer for, and it was advertised at that time aimed at the working person, buy your council house cheap, where’s Sid etc etc, the most of that money is abroad now.
Paulstan67@reddit
The issue is that governments are notoriously bad at running these businesses.
I don't know the real answer, but there needs to be some sort of half way house , with public ownership and private ownership.
ComplexTeaBall@reddit
Exactly
FloydEGag@reddit
Any critical infrastructure or utilities should be nationalised, definitely. Look at the race to the bottom and the prioritising of shareholders we see with the current system
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
This is a very loaded point.
The Adam Smith Institute are actually the ones that make this claim, yet they always leave out the fact that housing development firms are sitting on land that has been approved for building. There are currently over a million approved housing building permits, but the companies do not build because they care more about profit than they do housing.
Think of it this way - while building housing would provide them immediate money, they can sit on the land for 5 more years and still build the houses but get 20x the amount they would've gotten had they built houses after getting permits.
The Adam Smith Institute pushes this "NIMBYism is the issue!" narrative because they have ulterior motives. They openly want the government to remove green belt restrictions - not because it "means more houses" but because it would be the most valuable (and thus most expensive) land.
Bigbigcheese@reddit
You're completely ignoring that fact that large companies have to do significant risk management and given it takes around 5 years to get anything built you can expect them to want to bank at least 10 years worth of work.
You could eliminate half of the empty plots by making planning permission more guaranteed, reducing risk to developers and allowing them to count on their businesses being able to continue into the future.
Tall_Restaurant_1652@reddit
In 2021, there were 1.1 million homes that had granted planning permission but still waiting to be built since 2010.
It doesn't take 11 years to build or do a risk assessment. This is an intentional thing, and it's called Land Banking.
These companies can sit on the land as long as they want. They know that the longer they do, the more people waiting to move in, the more money they can charge when it's built.
As any capitalist would say - Supply and Demand. Except the Demand keeps growing while the supply is artificially made scarcer - not through inability or bureaucracy, but through intentional price manipulation.
goodallw0w@reddit
How disingenuous, loads of sources will tell you the same. You are just looking for a right wing bogeyman to defend your indefensible attitude.
MPforNarnia@reddit
My favourite is speed limits through villages. 20/30 mph in my village, but it's obsurd that other villages have 20/30mph speed limits.
Padlock47@reddit
Also speed limits on country roads.
At most they might put an advisory down, so you’re only recommended to take this turn that you can’t even see before you’re into it at 25mph, you can still go 60 if you want.
So stupid. Rural roads’ speed limits should be classified a lot more based on sharp/blind turns, road texture, if it narrows a lot at a certain point, etc.
Bailwillharr@reddit
I’ll say what every driving instructor and policeman has said a million times in their lives: “It’s a speed limit not a speed target and you should always drive according to the road conditions”
sdurnr@reddit
They wanted to build a bypass on the green belt behind my house, people protested they didn’t build it, well happy
Steverobm@reddit
The opposite of NIMBYism is Yes, In Your Backyard. The people who yell at NIMBYs are usually (not always) the entitled who aren't negatively affected by whatever is being opposed.
arabidopsis@reddit
Land value tax would stop a fair amount of land banking as you could charge land that's only being held for investment and not agriculture
inevitablelizard@reddit
As long as we have a sensible definition of what "NIMBY" is.
Too many people use it as a catch all term for anyone who has ever opposed anything regardless of what the reason was. I've even seen it used against people who don't even oppose something but just want some wildlife mitigation. The term is becoming meaningless.
It's not NIMBYism to want nature sites to be protected, to want existing mature trees retained as much as possible, to want to reduce the area concreted to reduce runoff and to oppose building on floodplains for example.
Padlock47@reddit
I’ve a windmill (that’s what I assume is one of the things this change would address). I absolutely adore it, it’s so cool.
Im probably 500-750m away from it and isn’t an eyesore - even if you thought it was, it’s barely blocking anything so you can just look past or away from it. A farm is probably less ideal, but still.
To be so delicate that you’ll actively try to block a wind turbine just because you don’t like it is so pathetic. How empty, selfish and bored are you to use your limited time complaining about wind turbines?
1CharlieMike@reddit
Yeah, this.
People come up with all kinds of fanciful reasons why affordable housing shouldn’t be built near their house. But the reality is “I don’t want other people having (easier) access to what I’ve got and I don’t want my house price to drop.”
Administrative_City2@reddit
Make all dentist take NHS patients. It’s impossible for some people to get an appointment.
guyb5693@reddit
NHS patients aren’t worth taking. That’s why they don’t get taken
HalikusZion@reddit
Surely its better to just make all dentistry fall under the NHS so theres no cost to anyone...
Scottish-Tap-Water@reddit
But teeth are luxury bones
RunningCrow_@reddit
This is a good one. I'm currently working for NHS 111 and the sheer amount of calls I get for dental issues is insane. People can't even find the space to register with a private dentist in their area, it's crazy.
I had a call recently that will likely stick with me for years. A woman called with a nasty dental infection. Because she couldn't get a dentist appointment, and her normal dentist refused to help, the infection spread. She was out of it, chest pain, confusion. Sent her an emergency ambulance. Her GP and pharmacist weren't even allowed to prescribe anything, only a dentist could prescribe antibiotics.
Administrative_City2@reddit
I’ve had no luck at all getting even an emergency appointment. I had been calling @8am everyday for 2 weeks then just have trying. I’ll have to see a dentist abroad when I next go I think because the UK dentist situation is ridiculous.
Optimal_Smile_8332@reddit
Unfortunately this will never happen for several reasons, mainly government contracts.
Mark my words, in 5-10 years the only way you will be able to get NHS dentistry is if you are on welfare.
JoeyJoeC@reddit
Which is more fairer than the current system of first come first serve.
dannydrama@reddit
It's just as shit for us on welfare lol, my dentist got shitty because the practice messaged me saying I needed one to remain a patient there. Got to the appointment, she realised I didn't need anything done and got right moody, I guess she could have made money in that time... 🤷
We get shat on because we can't pay the extortionate price that others can.
diddy_lemon1@reddit
The issue is funding, not the dentists. We only get a certain amount of funding that only goes so far. When we run out of funding, what do you expect dentists to do? Work for free?
Source : I'm a NHS dentist.
everyoneis_gay@reddit
Did you know the reason dentistry wasn't included in the NHS from the start was because they needed the money for the Korean War? It's insanity, as if your teeth and gums aren't just as much a part of your body and health as any other bit (and a pretty crucial part too)
MesoamericanMorrigan@reddit
And that’s why people are nearly dying of sepsis because it took over a decade to get a fucking extraction (needed surgical extraction)
namur17056@reddit
I’m likely facing that in the future. Several broken teeth (couple are completely covered by my gums) but I can’t afford private and not a single nhs dentist in the area. Waiting for the inevitable sepsis
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
It is subsidised though I thought. So where a check up and clean would take 10 minutes private and cost me £200 it five minutes and 30 on the nhs
Stars_and_Sunsets_@reddit
£30?! I paid £75 last week and that's supposed to be NHS!
Repulsive-Math-4734@reddit
Probably have gum disease then
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
I thought lower band was £30. Then middle band was like £100 and higher like £300
Japhet_Corncrake@reddit
Dentistry was included at the inception of the NHS.
Charges were first introduced in 1951.
everyoneis_gay@reddit
Sure you're right, check when the Korean war started
Japhet_Corncrake@reddit
Ha. So we're both kind of right.
everyoneis_gay@reddit
🫡
Fast_Berry7436@reddit
Attitude to work. We need to be more European and just chill out a bit and go for a nice long meal at lunchtime
RoleAlternative1553@reddit
Middle aged women's haircuts.
Kind-Rice6536@reddit
I wish we cared more about each other - we hate being looked down upon, but love looking down on others.
Resist_Accurate@reddit
For the average temperature to be about 5 degrees higher, permanently.
I actually think it'd make people so much happier. But that would be mean losing a classic British hobby, complaining.
Savings_Brick_4587@reddit
Apparently an English man’s home is his castle, well my castle sucks! It doesn’t have a moat, a draw bridge, a portcullis, parapets, battlements, arrow slots, armoury or even a court yard. What’s worse is my castle is joined to the castle next door . . .
GhandiHadAGrapeHead@reddit
Clean rivers, I just wanna be able to swim and not think about it
slaveoth@reddit
Only one thing, stop and ticket every lane hogger in the UK. From now until I die.
EasilyExiledDinosaur@reddit
Just half the cost of rent. Or even quarter it. Who cares.
Affordable housing would change the uk from hell to a reasonably nice country to live.
keizai88@reddit
A written constitution that guarantees and demands minimum human rights for all. (Housing, clean air, clean water, food, education, higher education/training).
All public service/government and contract jobs require tests, background checks, financial disclosure, oaths etc and
CONSEQUENCES
plantlady1-618@reddit
Universal basic income
Eastern-Move549@reddit
Behed people who use their phone while driving.
AgitatedAd7265@reddit
If politicians can’t give public sectors a pay raise (NHS, teachers, police) then they can’t get a pay raise. And the percentage they do give, is the percentage they get.
And if they sleep while in the house, they have to pay a fine plus no pay that day. I think one politician was caught sleeping like 12 times in a term/year. That’s not work, that’s an afternoon nap
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
National IQ test. Then those with an IQ below 100 have a curfew of 6pm.
-captaindiabetes-@reddit
...why? Why should they be home by 6pm?
Bailwillharr@reddit
That’s half the population, by definition.
sleepyprojectionist@reddit
This sounds like Baby’s First Eugenics Program.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
We're not killing them. They can stay indoors and listen to Coldplay or U2.
Sygga@reddit
The flaw in that plan is, Idiot A will start dating Idiot B, because they can't date anyone else. Curfew at 6pm, means they will quickly start pumping out Idiot kids. Before you know it, there will be a Moron Epidemic
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
There isn’t already?
Mesa_Dad@reddit
Watch "Idocracy" for that type of future...
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
That is a serious issue. Mandatory castration is out of the question although I'm not concerned about the ethics, more the cost. Plus you may get the rare one that betters themself during curfew 🤔
Perhaps all the television stations could broadcast Love Island, Gogglebox, The Kardashians and Coldplay/U2 concerts on a loop after 6pm. That'll keep them distracted.
uncledavis86@reddit
Are you really going to be comfortable with listening to only Coldplay or U2 though?
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Me personally, I'd rather stab my eardrums out than choose to listen to Coldplay and U2 (Except 'Bullet the Blue Sky', that's a good song).
uncledavis86@reddit
I think my intended meaning was that you would be in the affected cohort.
But to get that joke, you have to not be in the affected cohort.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
I was aware, but chose to deflect 😀
Maybe me liking that U2 song automatically puts me in the group...
MesoamericanMorrigan@reddit
Get fucked with the Coldplay slander
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Don't be angry, it's not your fault you like Coldplay. You can have plenty of time to enjoy them after 6pm 😀
MesoamericanMorrigan@reddit
listens to The Scientist in a corner
WesternPhotograph267@reddit
dont insult coldplay or u2 😭
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
6pm curfew for you! 😀
detta_walker@reddit
And play Roblox
dannydrama@reddit
That's like saying "I'm not gonna kill this guy but I'll lock him in a room for a week with nothing but a bottle of water and cyanide". 😂
ComplexTeaBall@reddit
They need TV, music is too complicated
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
They'll be fine. Just add 'Angels' by Robbie Williams to the playlist and it'll keep them happy.
dannydrama@reddit
Absolutely brutal.
mordhoshogh@reddit
Would this constitute state sponsored Coldplay? Not on board with that.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Oh god no! They'll only listen to that one song they did.
sleepyprojectionist@reddit
Oh no, that’s much worse! Although if they like it I suppose it’s a public service.
inevitablelizard@reddit
Keeping them locked inside will surely encourage breeding behaviour, not reduce it?
DaHappyCyclops@reddit
So recently I did an IQ test online. (122 if you're interested)
But I didnt realise that test i did was a paid test and it was a monthly subscription. So yesterday looking through bank statements I realised ive been paying £20 a month for like 4 months for a test I didnt really care that much about. I was just a bit bored and it popped up on my feed.
Some irony in that somewhere.
Morris_Alanisette@reddit
High IQ doesn't mean you have common sense. MENSA is a club for people who should be intelligent enough to know better.
HighlandsBen@reddit
All those IQ points and you didn't get suspicious they wanted your credit card details?
thejuanwelove@reddit
those paid IQ test usually add 60 points to the real score
I know it because I got 60
blurdyblurb@reddit
Hahaha, thanks for the laugh! 😃
Mesa_Dad@reddit
That's 60 more than me...
Kevc1@reddit
Happened to me too after my IQ test, you're not the only one
MamaMiaow@reddit
IQ has little to do with common sense and nothing to do with kindness and basic human decency.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
I fully agree. However, I'm very sorry to announce that I'm adding 'People who take the joke too seriously' to the curfew list. You get to listen to Enya and watch David Attenborough documentaries during curfew time 😛
MamaMiaow@reddit
Sounds like quite a nice evening actually.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
I'd enjoy the Attenborough documentaries but not the Enya.
Morganx27@reddit
I propose a similar thing, but for people who believe IQ to be a valid measure of overall intelligence
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Unless someone invents a blood test, what other solution do we have?
Morganx27@reddit
There's no way to measure overall intelligence, and anyone who tells you there is is trying to sell you something. I'm sorry if this has frustrated your eugenics plan. If it makes you feel any better, you can go on 10 political subreddits and say "IDIOCRACY WAS A DOCUMENTARY" and revel in how clever and special you are.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Did I touch a nerve? You seem agitated...
Never mind, the plan still goes ahead.
Morganx27@reddit
Not so much a nerve, just impatience around idiots
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
An angry, holier than thou attitude too it seems.
See I don't argue with idiots, it's a waste of time.
Railuki@reddit
There have been studies that show that IQ isn’t actually a measure of intelligence, just a measure of how practiced you are at those kinds of test questions.
noir_lord@reddit
I’d buy that or more generally they test for a specific kind of intelligence.
I score well on them but I’m an idiot in many ways, it’s just that my day job is programming which is logic and those tests seem to emphasise that type of logic, throw in that I read a lot and always have done so do well on the word/grammar based questions.
Thing is though, is that measuring intelligence generally or what the test creators thought was a measure of intelligence, who knows.
pnlrogue1@reddit
I took the Mensa IQ test once. It was actually two different tests that focused on different types of IQ and even used different scales (I got a lower number on one of the tests but that test had a smaller scale so my score was proportionately higher!)
MesoamericanMorrigan@reddit
I’ve done 2 in my teens and as an adult and got 135 and 142. That said I’ve always been disproportionately bad at mathematics that doesn’t involve shapes/space/measures (tangible things to me). Both parents have scored really highly as well. I’m nowhere near as sharp as I used to be but unfortunately still overthink in ways that aren’t constructive. Horribly, horribly failed gifted child with myriad mental health problems and raging AuDHD. I’ve seen many people with none of my achievement or qualifications go way further in life.
West_Guarantee284@reddit
I feel like they test logic more than intelligence. There's a lit if what's next in the sequence, which of these flattened out dice is the correct layout when built, etc. I just can't be bothered working half of them out. It's not testing my intelligence but my concentration or determination.
1CharlieMike@reddit
I went to uni for a PhD so I know my intelligence can be reasonably assumed to be above average but I can’t do those stupid logic puzzles that they use for supposedly testing your IQ.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
I mean, there isn't a blood test easily available so it'll have to suffice. Perhaps set up an appeal process for such cases.
Due-Razzmatazz1544@reddit
And voting
stella585@reddit
But then who’ll do all those night-shift security guard jobs?
Devilonmytongue@reddit
That’s a really harmful idea.
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Oh come on! You can listen to Coldplay and watch Love Island. What more do you want? 😛
CometGoat@reddit
100 is mean to be the median, so the threshold would need to be a fair bit lower for it to be enforceable. Or you end up with the brained/brainless civil wars
HatOfFlavour@reddit
How do you enforce this if a thicko sneaks out/has their watch set to the wrong time/can't tell the time?
Like what's the on the spot drunk test equivalent for IQ?
Raspberry_Rippled@reddit
Special officers will play 'Run' by Snow Patrol. If the suspect starts getting emotional they are arrested.
-XeneidoN-@reddit
Ironically, sometimes those with the highest of IQs have bottom of the barrel common sense.
GlennPegden@reddit
They're responsible for being duped into supporting and funding things neither in their own or the countries best interests, Daniel. They are not werewolves.
No_Vegetable2050@reddit
Unless they're an Amazon/Food delivery driver.
I want my shit fast. Fast, and cheap.
GLS1994@reddit
A government which genuinely cares about what people want instead of their own agendas and makes policies and legislation to help people rather than acting against them. Fairer taxation, better access to healthcare, education, affordable rent and supporting people onto the housing ladder and less focus on supporting big businesses who don’t even pay tax and instead of using their positions in politics for their own game actually helping the country.
Sycamore481@reddit
Banning career politicians would be a start.
Want to represent the people of your constituency? Fine. You have to have worked there for say 10 years minimum. And not as a pencil pushing poster child for nepotism neither. A fully contributory member of that community, so that you can accurately represent your constituents.
Government is meant to represent the people, not their own selfish interests. People should not be afraid of their government and what they might do to our detriment.
And with that I’ll get off my soapbox.
As you were.
1CharlieMike@reddit
This would actually mean we had less women in politics. Women are more likely to move for relationships than men, and therefore be less established in an area.
Bailwillharr@reddit
It won’t really affect women though because once those women have settled down and had a family, they will have been in the area for more than 10 years. It’s not normal for people to constantly drift from place to place their entire lives, unless you’re part of a subculture like the Irish travellers or you’re just extremely cosmopolitan.
1CharlieMike@reddit
You are aware that women work these days while having a family? And actually, having more child-rearing age women in politics would probably be excellent for women, and families, overall.
I think it's also extremely common to move from area to area these days. At 37 I moved to a new area for work and bought a house. I'll definitely move again for work before ten years is up. That's not uncommon, I'd say over half of my friends have done similar. I'm also not particularly cosmopolitan, I live in the countryside in a small farming town.
GLS1994@reddit
Not necessarily. Women are delaying having children to solidify careers and establish themselves career wise and financially before having children. The age that women are having children is reflected in this. With working from home after Covid and increased childcare support and a shift towards male paternity allowance this is no longer the case. Women can now have it all. Granted there are still many obstacles women face getting into politics but as a woman who had a mother who rose through the ranks in Children’s Services to become a Director of Children’s Services in her early 40’s in a male dominated council 20 years ago the path to this is so much easier nowadays. Councils and government now have DEI which they didn’t back then because of “where’s the bloke love” or “get us a cuppa” mentality but women are still the demographic majority in the uk. Having a fairer, more transparent government would only call for a more even parliamentary gender split. Women don’t have to sacrifice family for work, if they did you wouldn’t have 3x13hr shift nurses like myself.
Scottish-Tap-Water@reddit
Marginal cost pricing on the wholesale price of gas.
It's objectively stupid.
BenFranklinsCat@reddit
Bring in Universal Credit and build a shit-ton of council housing. Basically everyone in Britain has a liveable income and a roof over their head, no questions asked, no judgement, no lengthy forms to fill out.
People will still be cunts, and other people will have to live next to them, but I'd hope that, given enough time, people feeling like they live in a nation that respects them would start to respect their neighbourhood a bit more in return.
Meanwhile employers who treat their employees like shit would quickly find nobody wanted to work for them any more. Our arts and cultures could flourish, because living of UC in a council flat so you can paint ugly paintings nobody likes is an available life choice at all times.
Maybe I'm overly optimistic about people at large, but I just think if we take care of people better, the people would make the place better.
SowwieWhopper@reddit
I think Kevin Bridges was on to something when he said make Universal Credit a grand a week. People will be buying plenty of alcohol and cigs, which are both highly taxable goods.
Bailwillharr@reddit
So you’re taking substantial amounts of money out of the tax coffers to get far less of that money back in tax?
amillstone@reddit
If everyone was on 52k a year, prices of goods would increase substantially.
If you mean only those on UC would get the 52k, then no one capable of working would want to work for minimum wage when you could get far more by applying for and getting UC. UC fraud would definitely increase.
SowwieWhopper@reddit
It’s kind of a joke
amillstone@reddit
Oh my bad lol.
BenFranklinsCat@reddit
But you do raise a good point. In my mind, as much as I support the idea of Universal Basic Income, I can't get my head around how it doesn't cause the price of basic necessities to increase.
I trust that it doesn't, because its been extensively trialled and that's never happened, I just don't have enough of a head for economics to grasp why.
But on the other hand, UBI set as the same as minimum wage (or thereabouts) is a dream scenario to me specifically because nobody would work a minimum wage job unless it came with some perks. I'd expect that charities and arts jobs, things people have moral and emotional reasons to invest in, would still pay minimum wage. Maybe even exploitative industries like retail or hospitality would still do it, but they'd have to offer benefits to make it worthwhile. The key thing is your employer can't have you over a life-and-death barrel. They have to at least be kind and make coming into work something better than being unemployed.
For most people that's what work is, even if its low paying, there's something that keeps us doing it beyond money.
The argument against it is that a lot of big companies would just leave and go somewhere they can exploit the workers, but (A) I'm willing to take that risk and (B) I would hope it contributed a little to other countries fighting to not be "the country where people are exploited for labour".
TheHayvek@reddit
I think you mean UBi rather than UC.
UC exists. It's just a benefit.
BenFranklinsCat@reddit
Yeah, I did.
But I also think they should just take the reigns off UC. My wife worked in fraud during her time in the government and she always talks about a report she saw that said they spent far more on processing claims and chasing fraud than they saved over if they just granted every application that came in, just accepted fraud at the basic level and focused their efforts on things like major businesses and millionaires' inheritance taxes and stuff.
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
All jokes aside it needs to be fully funded childcare and after-school care from 6 months old.
Bailwillharr@reddit
Or bring back an economy where most men could actually afford to support a wife and children on a single income. It frustrates me to see couples who both work professional jobs busting their ass and they’re not even well off. They should be.
No_Imagination_sorry@reddit
But…but…your answer didn’t include a cannon…
acnebbygrl@reddit
Why would you even bother gestating and giving birth to a baby, just to give it to a stranger to look after at just 6 months?
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
It helps for the 36 hours or so a week while I'm working.
The other 132 hours of the week are all mine.
acnebbygrl@reddit
Motherhood is a full time job already. If you work 2 full time jobs then you are dividing your energy between 2 jobs, one of which is the most important job in the world and can’t really be half arsed.
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
You mean parenthood*, and it's not a job. If it's a job then who do I contact to get my back payments coz I haven't ever received a payslip. It's a responsibility and those aren't the same thing.
Nobody is dividing energy either. People have grandparents etc look after the kids when they need a break or evening out or holiday or shopping etc...are you half arsing it then?
This is just the usual claptrap we hear from parents who have chronic back-to-work blues and want to justify it by telling everyone else (who's doing just great btw) that it's THEM who are wrong.
acnebbygrl@reddit
No, motherhood, especially the first few years. It’s more than a full time job actually as it’s 24/7 😆 paying strangers to raise your baby is a disservice to their future, but you do you.
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
As I said, it's 6 out of the 24 hours you have in a day, and not even every day.
Your child is capable of being away from mummy, if you can find the capability too.
acnebbygrl@reddit
You can read into attachment theory if you want but sounds like you already made up your mind what you want for your child.
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
Sounds like you've listened to a guy on a podcast tell you what you wanted to hear.
acnebbygrl@reddit
I don’t listen to podcasts but if men are making podcasts about this then good on them! It’s much needed.
Tam936@reddit
Or we just get full pay for the whole of maternity leave - and maternity leave should be 3 years!
disasterly213@reddit
3 years is reaching
Witty_Entry9120@reddit
No.
everyoneis_gay@reddit
100%. This was a central demand of the women's movement in the 60s and 70s, it's incredible anyone claims we've "achieved equal rights" when childcare is more expensive than ever
dannydrama@reddit
The very best part, is hearing a couple of blokes complaining about maternity leave. In the next breath "why should we fund babysitters, don't have kids you can't afford". Luckily I'm not close to these people so I could call him a cunt and be on my way but what the fuck is wrong with people?
feebsiegee@reddit
Fuck that, call him a cunt anyway
IAmNotDrDavis@reddit
Yep. However long maternity leave is (I'd have it last until the kid can go to preschool, but that's pie in the sky), childcare should start immediately after.
No-Shine-3612@reddit
The media, both political sides of the media are dumb as hell and the public are all being played. Everything else can at least be attended to, if the country can just focus on one thing for a minute.
Diligent-Worth-2019@reddit
The single thing for me that I would change is knowing my children are safe no matter what they do and where they go. As in, they won’t be kidnapped, raped, tortured, bullied, harmed. I’d support almost whatever it took to achieve that.
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
A steady 18 degrees all year round with rain during the night would be lovely.
The nhs as it used to be. I’m saying this as an Irish person who once marvelled at it’s greatness but now not so much, least I’m not paying like I would in Ireland though.
Get rid of racism and hatred of minorities
There’s other stuff I could list for sure but also thank you for having me in your country on a whole it’s been a great place to raise my kids and the opportunities here are better for them than they would be at home
mordhoshogh@reddit
If there is one thing I would copy from the Irish system it’s the idea of a flat fee for A&E that gets waived if you’ve been told to go there by a doctor or if you get admitted.
So much resource would be freed up by people not going to A&E for minor things.
evenstevens280@reddit
Yeah but a lot of people wouldn't go to A&E for serious things that they would undoubtedly downplay...
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
It also doesn’t affect waiting times either. For me the nhs and most notably the lack of a&e fees was a definite pro in my decision to move here. I have a child with a rare autoimmune disease and we were spending well over €1000 euro a year on a&e as she needed to be there far more than the average person.
The nhs has many issues compared to when I first used it but Ireland is about the same but you pay for gp visits, a&e, medication and hospital stays which are at least capped at around €700/800. One time both myself and my two children were sick and it was €280 total to see and treat us at the gp. I was earning €400 a week. It’s not medical debt like America but I was spending huge amounts on healthcare. I also had insurance for both of my children but that has caps. Two a&e visits a year. You got €35 refunded for the gp but you pay up front and get it returned at the end of your insurance year. It covered nothing towards prescriptions.
On top of that I’m currently looking at double hip surgery aged 41, I was misdiagnosed in Ireland 12 years ago. I was told I had pelvic girdle pain from pregnancy, it didn’t heal after birth when it should have and still wasn’t looked into, the actual problem was caught here, I have a double hip deformity that developed in adolescence. Now I have been misdiagnosed with a different issue in the uk so things are not perfect here either but they are in my experience much better, it’s just sad as my first encounters with the nhs were absolutely incredible, where now I’d say we are on a par with Ireland in terms of care but at least I’m not paying for it here
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
My mind is boggling. Spent 35 years in the U.S. (and escaped) and an ER visit is thousands and thousands. With 8 hour waits sometimes! I mean, even with “great” health insurance, you can go bankrupt with medical debt.
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
It just shouldn’t be that way at all, America makes me really sad with stories you hear about medical bankruptcy
dannydrama@reddit
Just a taste, a little tiny sip, of the US system. 😂
TabularConferta@reddit
Gonna disagree. If I'm in pain I don't want to think of a fee
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
I actually completely disagree, there were many reasons I chose to move to the uk. But a&e fees were definitely a factor as I have a child with a rare autoimmune disease and paying €120 every time we needed a&e which was frequently was making living pretty hard for us. We had insurance for her but that only covers two a&e visits a year as that’s all most people need. We could be there about once a month. There was never time for a gp visit as her needs are urgent, but even if there was the gp is €60. My daughter wasn’t covered under long term illness either as she was on no medication. She just needed urgent blood tests done at times because she has a clotting disorder. Diagnosed age 5. Any bang to her head or stomach we had to go straight to a&e to make sure she wasn’t bleeding internally. She also would spontaneously bleed, once we hit 45 minutes without it stopping we also had to go to a&e. And what’s more a&e wait times in Ireland are not better in general. We never wait because she’s a medical emergency and we tend to go straight to the top of the queue.
ganjaferret420@reddit
Fuck the royals and houses of parliment out the door with the rothchilds and show them how a country can run everyone living there can be extremely wealthy free and healthy with a well backed and stacked NHS
ya_basic82@reddit
Get rid of racists including people who say “I’m not racist but”
summerpeachxox@reddit
And "where are you from" "Manchester" "yeah but where are you REALLY from" 🙄
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
Yeah, I have an accent so I used to ask people with other weird ones where they were from because I find it interesting. Can’t do that anymore. Micro aggression. I swear - no buts - not a racist!
DennisTheConvict@reddit
Lean in and say "Swindon, but keep it quiet, I've told a lot of people I'm mad for it!"
Then march away like Liam Gallagher in his prime.
disasterly213@reddit
I’m not racist, but other races are simply sub-human compared to us. Wink wink.
Ziphoblat@reddit
Walking down a two person width path two abreast and refusing to move for a single person coming the other way? Fired out of a cannon.
Two adults walking down a three person width path two abreast and refusing to move for a person with a small child? Fired out of a cannon.
Ordering a round of hot drinks for the entire office from the only active till in Greggs when all I want to buy is a sausage roll? Fired out of a cannon.
Littering? Fired out of a cannon.
Not making space for others to disembark public transport or lifts before getting on? Fired out of a cannon.
Not keeping your dog leashed and/or under control in public spaces? Fired out of a cannon.
Not cleaning up after your dog shits? Dog shit fired into your open mouth from cannon.
Not taking responsibility for your “outdoor cat” repeatedly shitting in neighbours’ gardens? Cat shit fired into your open mouth from cannon.
Not cleaning up after your horse shits? Horse fired at you from cannon.
Failing to stop at a zebra crossing? Zebra fired at you from cannon.
Cyclists failing to stop at red lights? Fired out of a cannon.
Cyclists failing to give way to pedestrians? Fired out of a cannon.
Not leaving enough space for pushchairs and wheelchair users when parking? Fired out of a cannon.
Trying to barge down the road in your oversized panzer when there is only space for one car to pass and the parked cars are on your side? White Range Rover Evoque fired at you from cannon.
Refusing to be the one to drive off the edge of country roads to make space for a hatchback to pass when you’re driving a Land Rover? Believe it or not, fired from a cannon.
That aught to make society a much more pleasant place to be.
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
I love this.
Morris_Alanisette@reddit
Hang on, why do you just get the shit fired at you for cats and dogs but the whole horse fired at you for a horse?
WormsEatShit@reddit
I read every one, apart from myself thinking “this person likes cannons”, I got to the end and all I could think of was Baldricks poem, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom… off to see if there’s a clip on YouTube . 👍
R-M-Pitt@reddit
Last one is personal for me. My 370z is scratched up on one side because some middle class twat in an evoque refused to move over even slightly on a narrow road to pass eachother
Hamburger_Prince@reddit
Ziphoblat for PM!
FloydEGag@reddit
Eh, they’re clearly just a mouthpiece for Big Cannon!
paintedpolkadot@reddit
Found the guy with the cannon
Evening-Carrot6262@reddit
This guy clearly owns a cannon shop!
ExoJinx@reddit
BRB gotta go buy a cannon
BigBreach83@reddit
Stopping dead when you get off an escelator
Purp1eMagpie@reddit
Using the word "leashed" in the UK? Fired out of a cannon.
Ziphoblat@reddit
What verb would you prefer? “Leaded”? Tethered?
Purp1eMagpie@reddit
"Not keeping your dog on a lead" would suffice. Thanks for asking
Ziphoblat@reddit
Not recognising the difference between a verb and a noun? Fired out of a cannon.
Purp1eMagpie@reddit
"Keeping" is the verb
Clayton9523@reddit
If you were King or Queen in 1776 I’d like to think I’d be living in an overseas territory / commonwealth. Someone get this man a cannon and permission to fire it!
k7512@reddit
I agree with a lot of this!
cornishwildman76@reddit
Blocking aisle/doorways in shops for a group chat? Fired out of a cannon.
FloydEGag@reddit
This would certainly create more jobs (as cannon firers and cleaner-uppers), as well as resulting in the cannon industry getting the boost it’s sorely needed since the Crimean War
atomic_mermaid@reddit
I feel like we've found Hugh Grant's reddit.
HotelPuzzleheaded654@reddit
Littering, can’t stand it.
fugiami@reddit
People not picking up there dog poo it can cause serious illness in humans and cats
Empty-Selection9369@reddit
I agree and I’m a dog owner! Broken glass in the woods gets me. And gum on the pavement. Grrr
TheDutchess_420@reddit
Unpopular opinion cats should be kept indoors anyway or in your garden ... Cat owners don't pick up their cat 💩 either and they let them foul in children's sandboxes and they cause serious illnesses to children and pregnant women ... Kill birds and other wildlife and are just a menace ... And when they get run over or poisoned the whole world needs to feel sorry for them even though it was their responsibility to keep their per safe
TyphoidMurphy@reddit
Any irresponsible treatment of animal waste. Cat shit is absolutely vile and dangerous to other animals and humans too. Arguably worse because at least the majority of dog shit is witnessed by a human who then has at least the opportunity to clean it up. Anyone with an outdoor cat, which is most cats in the UK, has no idea where half their cats shit ends up.
crystalrock1974@reddit
I have 4 cats that go outdoors and 5 huge cat litter trays and mine all come in to use their trays. Cats have a right to roam.
Scarboroughwarning@reddit
Had many arguments with cat lovers about this.
Ill-Trash-7085@reddit
yeah we had a neighbour whose cat would dump in our garden. I had two toddlers at the time so it was a real minefield. I went round and asked what she could do and she basically closed the door on me, saying it was an outdoor cat and there's nothing she could do. I told her it was her outdoor cat but got nowhere. I ended up spraying bottles of my own urine all over our garden as a deterrent (it worked I think).
UnableSale260@reddit
That would piss me off. There is only one or two cats that roam around our street and tbh they aren't that bad for it. Though, most the houses on our street have some sort of cat deterrent so its only our house they go near.
I don't mind cats but I don't really see the point in an outdoor cat as a pet anyway.
GeneralJeffro@reddit
Maybe we should track all animals and pick up their poo. Fricking cow pats everywhere in the country its disgusting. Farmers need to clear that shit up and dont get me started on badgers
deicist@reddit
Yeah, cows are always going in other people's gardens and shitting aren't they?
fugiami@reddit
That was my point humans have the opportunity to pick up there dog poo but a lot don’t I have artificial grass in my front garden and regularly people allow their dog to do the toilet on it I have a cat as a lot of my neighbours do but you have no control where your outdoor cat does its business if my cat does it in the garden I pick it up and bag it
GeneralJeffro@reddit
I remember in the 80s when dog poo was left and went white. There were still cats and nobody died
Paulstan67@reddit
It didn't turn white, it was white from the start, high calcium/chalk/bones content in the food caused this.
robbertzzz1@reddit
I've seen plenty of turds that I walked by on a daily basis that started out brown and ended up white over the course of a week
tinned_peaches@reddit
Back in the 90’s (👵🏻) there was big Keep Britain Tidy campaign. I think we should bring it back.
Gloomy-World4621@reddit
That takes me back! The dude with arm extended over a bin sign?
Fit-Tax7016@reddit
Honestly I think we need all of those public information ads back...
jmfsn@reddit
That campaign still exists as well as others like "The Great Big Green Week". Likely you can also find a litter picking group around you - ours is amazing, but even just spending 30 minutes in a week litter picking just around your place will make a difference. I do it with the kids.
KeithyT1999@reddit
They’ve never gone away, their campaigns are part of childhood memories from the 1970s and 1980s too. Their current online and TV campaign is focussing on cigarette butts ( the tv ad is on quite often and uses a duck 🦆 “character” guilting humans)
https://www.keepbritaintidy.org
itsableeder@reddit
You've just unlocked a memory of my mum working for Tidy Britain Group in the '90s
neatcleaver@reddit
Absolutely. The lack of respect people have when it comes to this is so infuriating
I went for a walk today through a nearby woodland area, someone had lit a fire and clearly been drinking/partying with all the beer bottles and cans + food packets everywhere. I picked some of it up but couldn't carry more. Might go back tomorrow with a bin bag
It's disgusting how casually some people just gladly throw stuff on the streets
Saw a wonderfully ironic scene the other day, someone had painted a "please do not litter in the park" sign (in the currently hot topic manner) and someone had dumped a bag full of crap in the bushes right next to it
Really shows how much you love the country eh
Positive-Peace-8405@reddit
I absolutely agree! We went to some natural waterfalls not long ago and there was litter everywhere- including used disposable bbqs! Picked up everything we could with the small bag I had on me, then my partner noticed broken glass bottles near the waters edge 😡 he went back and got out everything he could find even going into the water and swimming around Mindless disgusting behaviour, completely ignoring the signs "no alcohol allowed" and "no littering" no excuse as there's plenty of bins nearby
summerpeachxox@reddit
We need more people like you, thank you for cleaning up! Not that you should have to of course
neatcleaver@reddit
Thing is if everyone did that we'd have a much tidier country
If I'm out for a walk and I see something I'll grab it, just one or two things whatever is there. Plenty of bins around and it's no hassle carrying an empty can or a piece of cardboard!
summerpeachxox@reddit
Absolutely agree and I do the same. Of course it would be better if people kept hold of their rubbish until they get to a bin but that's apparently asking too much
wringtonpete@reddit
We have a tiny park near us and people will leave rubbish on the grass next to the bench seat, instead of putting it in the bin 10 feet away.
summerpeachxox@reddit
So infuriating 😭
twod0vs@reddit
I get fustrated about this too, but I think it's because they have 1) learnt that behaviour from their circle, be it friends family etc or 2) lived in a trash area for most their lives, so unconsciously you think it's pretty pointless to upkeep a rundown area, might look weird or whatever idk
neatcleaver@reddit
It's definitely learned. I was always taught to not litter. If you have something to throw away carry it until you find a bin or get home
The most baffling to me is people chucking stuff out of their cars. You can fit a minimum of probably 10-15 full bin bags of rubbish in an average car, what the hell is the point in chucking stuff out the window???
CometGoat@reddit
I genuinely cannot comprehend how people end up with this level of apathy towards their environment. Does it come from a disinterest and lack of curiosity growing up? Does it come from retardation? Does it come from people feeling a sense of injustice with their own life? Like I honestly can’t figure it out
Qwaffee@reddit
God this! It bloody infuriates me. Beautiful countryside ruined by scumbags. I’m part Danish and the contrast is unreal. You just don’t see litter in Denmark at all
AtomicSkylark@reddit
Smashed glass absolutely everywhere. Utter disrespectful behaviour.
BrownestAvenger@reddit
You should see Berlin...
perpetuallytiired@reddit
And fly tipping! We live in a village, and people fly tip in the village woods all the time because there are no cameras. :(
Efficient_Science_47@reddit
Well, there is still a certain paranoia about litter bins..the IRA used to put bombs in them.
But having lived in places where littering is a sport, can't say I really find the UK too dirty anymore.
Scampington22@reddit
Absolutely. I live on a high street and the amount of cigarette butts, sandwich packets and dog poo outside my front door is outrageous.
devensega@reddit
I work in the same building as the guys that go out and issue fines for littering. The amount of abuse they get, from passers by not just the people caught, is high. Sadly a lot of people are just fine with littering.
VegemiteVibes24@reddit
Just like, generally having a bit of pride in where you live. Littering, breaking things, graffiti. It all falls under the same umbrella for me.
HelloObjective@reddit
Yeah and add fly tipping to that, professional littering. 🙄
Cerridwen1981@reddit
Sadly with so many councils going to 3-4 weekly rubbish collection it’s only going to get worse.
I’d make councils responsible for actually using their resources properly. Ours bought a robot mower, yet the grass has been cut 4 times this whole summer!
Also, that major utility companies actually communicate with each other, so the roads aren’t being dug up literally every couple of weeks… BT, Welsh Water, Electric companies, sewage pipes, BT again… I know it’s impossible but my gods it’s frustrating when the traffic lights are gone for less than a week before they’re back!
Blue_wine_sloth@reddit
That was my first thought too. Never seen it as bad in any other countries. And it’s so easy to just not throw your rubbish on the ground.
Middle-Damage-9029@reddit
Overall of the health system - not just hospitals but the entire system. I’d make it health focused, with the aim of preventing chronic (that are preventable) and increasing/maintaining quality of life. Money would be spent on better nutrition in hospital, increasing maternity pay so women can breastfeed without financial pressure, increase in paternity leave. Decent nutrition in schools. As well as good health education.
This would include increasing access to bike, wheelchairs, libraries, museum, efficient and cheap public transport. Wider access to talking therapies. Annual check ups for everyone. More monitoring of illnesses like endometriosis, arthritis, depression. Looking for warning signs of worsening health in order to intervene at earliest possible opportunity.
I have asthma and had gestational diabetes. I received phenomenal care for both conditions. My maternity care otherwise was very poor. I was recently diagnosed with a spinal condition I was probably born with. The pain was always put down as endo/fibroids etc. Almost had a hysterectomy until a surgeon suggested a mri of my spine. This was done privately after being told by my local hospital that they couldn’t help, that my gynae condition was too complex to be treated locally.
orangesapplespears@reddit
Honestly, the trains. They're so shit. Bad timing, bad conditions, bad prices, bad seat availability. Why do they send less carriages with the trains that hit more local spots given they only come once an hour..not like you can get on the next one in a jiffy if you miss the first coz you couldn't fit on....
This latter point doesn't even affect me because all the trains go to my destination but it's just so dumb.
And also people should get fined extra for getting lairy and intimidating and noisy on the train. Large groups of boys or men going WAHHEYYYY OYYYY YYYEEEOOOYYY should have to pay 3x the ticket price.
Cool-Friend2362@reddit
Outrageously bad roads and public transport fares - ambulation
Fuzzy-Gear1965@reddit
The NHS, it's impossible to get decent care in the NHS right now, maybe it's because I'm in the worst health board in Scotland but doctors are completely burnt out, I always seem to get forgotten about too, I was supposed to get a follow up appointment with my gastroenterology consultant after a procedure in February, it's September, we have called several times at this point I don't know if that follow up will happen but I really need it, this isn't the first time this has happened either
Weary_Brain9482@reddit
Graffiti. Pointless non artistic tagging shite
shlebee@reddit
Bring house prices down
Gullible_Passion_331@reddit
Trains - (i.e. prices and punctuality not being good).
Other issues are far too political for this forum so I'll focus on the locomotives.
CooStick@reddit
FPTP
The1983@reddit
Affordable housing.
Snoo91508@reddit
Renters having to pay the landlords council tax.. as an Australian I find it so bizarre
trysca@reddit
Council tax is meant to be for waste collection street sweeping and community facilities- why shouldn't the renter pay for that ?
acnebbygrl@reddit
Because they are already paying rent for a house they don’t own.
West_Guarantee284@reddit
But they are the ones creating the waste to be collected and potentially using all the other local services provided. The landlord might not even live in the same council durastiction.
disasterly213@reddit
That’s some mad spelling bro
West_Guarantee284@reddit
Genuinely had to Google it to remember it was spelt with a J.
Walkerno5@reddit
It would just go straight on top of the rent
retrobbyx@reddit
So insanely weird - Also aussie
B1ggspuds@reddit
Defined seasons A sunny summer A cool dark autumn A snowy cold winter Warm bright spring
Not this vague 4 seasons in one day bullshit
Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit
Better weather. Oh for some sunshine that lasts more than three days.I'd also like a bank Holiday in February as February is crap.
evenstevens280@reddit
Mate we just had 3 months of basically zero rain. Wtf are you talking about
Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit
I know, but this year was unusual. I didn't even get my jumper off last year, and the year before that I think it flooded all summer.
bumblebeesanddaisies@reddit
It was raining here yesterday and the cashier in the shop said something like eurhh this weather eh, so miserable. And I said yeah, probably be boiling hot again next week though! She said, yeah, we've not had a very good consistent summer have we!? I was like what?!?!?
evenstevens280@reddit
If there's one thing about Brits, it's that we're ever fucking pessimistic!
Ill-Trash-7085@reddit
to many of us "better" weather is autumn!
Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit
I know, but I'm basically a salamander....
toodog@reddit
social mobility, for those that want to make their own way, a break from the red tape and taxes till the businesses are earning a decent profit.
tax at every level is killing small businesses, as soon as you make any money it ls taxed away. how can you expand provide jobs and pay some tax its impossible
TheDutchess_420@reddit
Government
jelly10001@reddit
Sorry this isn't a funny one, but better public transport outside London. I can't drive, probably won't ever be able to and I'd like to not be limited on where I can live in future.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
I would add free school buses for everyone, like they have in the US. Cost me £60/month to get my kid to school.
jelly10001@reddit
Oh yes that would be good too.
Joshouken@reddit
Southport and Stockport are renamed because they’re too similar
3pm football blackout removed only for pubs
Avanti starts selling KitKat chunkies in the train shop
blurdyblurb@reddit
Thats the best most workable idea so far...why can't we watch footie on the telly at 3pm on a Saturday? Its not like it's going to affect Premier league clubs ticket sales..would boost pubs takings too! Good idea!
FloydEGag@reddit
Can we get Avanti running properly and not falling over at the slightest excuse as well? Thanks
Railuki@reddit
I LOVE kitkat chunky. The double chocolate ones are my favourite but really hard to find in my area (places only tend to sell regular or peanut butter flavour around here)
spidertattootim@reddit
In the absence of anything to the contrary, I'm going to assume you just mean swapping their names around, so that Stockport is in Merseyside and Southport is south of Manchester.
ZaharaWiggum@reddit
Stockport already is Mersey-side!
spidertattootim@reddit
Excellent work 👏
Joshouken@reddit
That would be very sensible
tobotic@reddit
Throw in Stockton too please.
simmyawardwinner@reddit
less tax - its getting rediculous. its on literally everything. also i would change the fact that the average house price its now 8 times ur salary as opposed to the 90s which was 3 times. u make 8 times more money and live in a property like 1/5th of the size
ellday123@reddit
Raise wages
AppropriateAthlete77@reddit
Just simply be able to legally grow medicinal plants and fungi.
ashikbnur@reddit
Rent is too much!
Melodic_Physics_9954@reddit
The length of time it takes to get a job done on the roads or any public place. This country must be the slowest in the western world to commence the work required after a disaster or a necessity. The police close motorways or roads for hours after accidents , if the gas , water , or electricity require to work on one section of road they dig & re dig the same area instead of working together to coordinate the groundwork. Too many meetings need to be held here before anyone is actually dispatched to carry out the work.
UndiplomaticInk@reddit
Zero tolerance for the low-level anti-social behaviour that has become increasingly normalised these days. I’d also commission a new set of Public Information Films on how to behave in public.
garthy604@reddit
Reintroduce the 60% tax rate. Ban big box stores from town high streets and scrap businesses rates for small independent stores for the first 5 years
Goose-rider3000@reddit
We’ve already got a 60% tax rate between £100k to circa £125k
garthy604@reddit
No it's only 45%
Personally I'd like to see 75% over £10m and 90% over billion, these people don't need that much money.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
Nope. Income between £100k and £125,140 has an effective tax rate of 60%, due to the removal of the personal allowance.
garthy604@reddit
It's potential but not everyone is affected and as always there are work arounds.
But my issue is more with those earning £1m+ the ones telling us all that taxing rich people will destroy the country.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
It affects everyone in that bracket, as with any higher rates.
garthy604@reddit
There are as always exceptions and above and below this niche bracket the rate is 40%
And I have stated the 60% should be for the ultra wealthy not for the dwindling middle.
CornishCougar@reddit
The government. They do not reflect the will of the people nor do they serve for us as they are paid to.
calum326@reddit
Completely replace and modernise the rail and public transport network.
If the UK had rail capabilities like Japan, levelling up the rest of the country would be incredible feasible. Live in Scotland? Two hour commute to London. All good.
People could move out of the big cities and grow the towns that need it and benefit from being closer to nature.
mrfluffypants1504@reddit
Rent. It should be capped for everyone at a reasonable rate.
Maleficent_Gear5321@reddit
Make charities have to actually give to charities, although it's not a UK problem only.
Maleficent_Gear5321@reddit
Dog licence, seriously, there are morons with dogs that can kill you or rip your face off.
Deep_Banana_6521@reddit
cheap booze for all (but not too cheap)
Facelessroids@reddit
I pay way too much tax
GiftOdd3120@reddit
Rent cost.
Chainsawcelt@reddit
90% less people. It would be like New Zealand.
Naive_Reach2007@reddit
Not 1 but 5
1, All MPs only have one job being an MP, also they have to attend HOP and constituency min 87% or fined(bit like they tell parents of school kids, if there education is important, I'd argue running the country is more important) any who change parties or quit party, by election, no payments for ministers who quit or are sacked
2, redo Council tax (no ideas but it's broken) and close all tax loophole systems for any companies doing business in UK
3, start fining all social media companies that have fraudsters on (80 in UK are on meta) they could manage it but choose not to
4, open Community hospitals with free parking small a&e and attach social and mental care wards as well as police station
5, start a trial universal income of £500 per month to start with for ages between 16 and 85 (could be done on a debit card with it only being allowed to be spent locally)
Bourach1976@reddit
Complaining. We live in a country that, on the whole, is a good place to live and we constantly moan about it.
Overgrown_Dwarf@reddit
Banning these kind of questions on UK subreddits 🙂↕️
Extension_Run1020@reddit
When I was young and also in middle age, I had a lot to complain about, life was difficult, full of challenges, but now I'm in my 60s and I really have a lot less to complain about, so much so that all I can grumble about is the weather! I feel that all the hard work is done and I have a lot more time for my hobbies which has improved my sense of well-being. So what would I change? Bringing down the retirement age!
Hazeri@reddit
More, denser housing that's publicly owned
I mean, there's a lot I'd change, but that's probably the least contentious
local_milk_dealer@reddit
Pints at the pub can't cost more than a fiver tops
ChaiGreenTea@reddit
Fireworks should not be sold to the public. Firework displays should only be put on my local councils in dedicated areas away from homes and nature reserves and carried out by professionals
zephyrmox@reddit
20c+ all year.
Jazzlike-Compote4463@reddit
I don't think you'll have to wait too long for this one :/
mortstheonlyboyineed@reddit
There is so much I'd do if I could, but my current bug bare is that nothing is easy anymore. I tried to contact an insurance company earlier. I found and tried 4 numbers for them online. Only one actually had the option I needed. Then they tried to put me through 2 different automated systems before I got to actually speak to a human.
I had to stop working 15 years ago and was given a lifetime award for DLA. Since this was scrapped for PIP, you'd think it would automatically carry over. Nope. I had to reapply, then appeal before it was sorted. It was exhausting. I've got a degenerative condition. I'm not getting better, only worse. So why do I have to fill out forms and reapply for a blue badge every few years? Why am I having to apply for Universal Credit when they are changing the system instead of it just transferring over?
I'm disabled obviously and get confused and overwhelmed and need support to fill these forms out. So yeh. Just wish things were much easier, more sensible, and straightforward in general.
Ploughman_Lunch_stat@reddit
Make booze in pubs the price it was 25 years ago.
spidertattootim@reddit
9 months of sunshine and 3 months of proper winter every year, with snow that sticks around for ages.
Wouldn't be very nice for the elderly I guess, but it would make me very happy.
MarvTheBandit@reddit
You want us to switch places with Canada,
I could get behind that.
Untrustworthy__@reddit
Everyone knocks the cool greyness but I left the country for 15 years and went to a place with extreme winters, extreme summers and far too much sunshine.
Been back 6 years and I love every grey day we get, my absolute favourite type of weather.
SeveralMedia7486@reddit
Yes and -20 everyday
VdubKid_94@reddit
Sounds like Colorado
it_is_good82@reddit
I would be happy with:
March - May/September - November: Mild, lots of sunshine, rain at night.
June - August - Hot, sunny weather.
December - February - Cold, a couple of weeks of snow over xmas.
DrFuzzald@reddit
What about October?
Ranger_1302@reddit
‘September - November’ includes October.
DrFuzzald@reddit
Oh yeah didn't see the November bit, I was half asleep 😂
UmaUmaNeigh@reddit
Can we also make it so winter days are longer? I love winter but moving abroad made me realise I 100% get Seasonal Affective Disorder. At the same time though I love the long summer days, I miss those.
Screaming_lambs@reddit
Maybe I fall under the elderly category with having to use walking aids/falling over (I'm 41)but I agree. The snow is much easier to walk in I think as long as it's not turned to ice. When it's ice that's when I may have mishaps.
WesternPhotograph267@reddit
agreed
Available-Rate-6581@reddit
A good granny-killer winter every year would definitely help the housing market/s sort of.
NaniFarRoad@reddit
I need to get around to see clients, and when it snows I lose money. So I'd only allows snow between Christmas and New Year, when I stay home for 8 days.
MiserableFloor9906@reddit
Almost like Canada
Jolly-Minimum-6641@reddit
Canadian summer - 4m of snow instead of 10.
Skruffbagg@reddit
Snow for ages is lovely in theory, but in reality it’s a massive inconvenience. We’d need the infrastructure to deal with it, which shockingly we don’t have.
I was in Austria for the whole of December and January 9 years ago and the snow there did not feel like the giant pain in the ass it does here.
gregd303@reddit
Be careful what you wish for! I live in a European climate like this now. It's always hot...all the time, like you cannot think straight hot,..then it's winter, and it's freezing cold. Sure snow is fun for a while, and sunny days too, but I miss the moderation of the UK climate.
spidertattootim@reddit
I'm fine with not thinking straight 🤪
jodilye@reddit
I’d even allow every other year, just to keep the winter lovers quiet. Us sun hounds seem to be in the minority for some reason :(
But knowing that I get just as much summer as they get winter every other year would cheer me right up!
Cautious-Blueberry18@reddit
I used to love the summer till I had kids. Now it’s all suncream and I’m sweating like a fish 😂
SaltyName8341@reddit
It's actually warm if snow is insulating the house.
NumeroRyan@reddit
Fuck them old people, they’ve had their time!
AppropriateKnee8638@reddit
Your food... Fix the food and this country will be one of the best
pizzainmyshoe@reddit
Ban pavement parking and make the pavements clean
LuxInteriorLux@reddit
I change Americans fucking our language over
TickTackTonia@reddit
I'd change the benefits system. If you're capable and CAN work, you need to be placed in a job within 3 months of claiming, even if it's voluntary work.
Siliconshaman1337@reddit
Honestly, I'd double the size of Britian, or make another one, as the population density is way too high. Too many people, too small an island, and since you can't ask people to leave without getting into trouble...
Maybe make it three, and keep one in reserve for the wildlife.
GuybrushFunkwood@reddit
Bring back Cadbury’s Fuse bars. They got discontinued in 2006 .. and then the global financial collapse … coincidence? I think not!
cpt_hatstand@reddit
and Cadbury's Secret, Spira and Echo please
SaltyName8341@reddit
Can we have brannigans roast beef and mustard crisps too?
youdontknowmeyouknow@reddit
Lamb & mint too!
StingerAE@reddit
Lamb and mint is the underrhero. As a non mustard eater (i like it fine but it disagrees with me) the beef and mustard crisps get all the glory but the lamb and mint were perfection.
tinned_peaches@reddit
I might be wrong but I think I saw some at B&Ms?
GuybrushFunkwood@reddit
You can and we will!!
pajamakitten@reddit
And Start cereal.
MrsButtercupp@reddit
Boost guarana too!!
FScrotFitzgerald@reddit
I was bitterly disappointed when they stopped making those.
SingingWanderer1195@reddit
Change this to Echo bars and you got a deal
Jlaw118@reddit
I was just about to say that as well, Echos were the absolute best
Lexiepie@reddit
Bring back the old cadburys pre sell out recipe. It’s awful now and tastes of wax
Godemiche_Official@reddit
DRIVING - In the USA they have right turn on red.... it is a genius invention and should be introduced here but would obviously be left turn on red unless the sign otherwise states
herwiththepurplehair@reddit
The weather. I honestly think if it was just nicer weather all year round we would be a much happier race. Instead of being perched on this little island on the arse end of Europe where it’s mostly cold and dreary except for three weeks in summer where if you venture outside you’ll be instantly barbecued.
dewy89@reddit
Everyone complains about everything. Even when there’s good things happening. Example: my town has been neglected and underfunded for years, and recently there’s been money put into the area from both public investment and private businesses popping up. It’s all positive change - better appearance of the town, more interesting cafes, shops, public realm improvements etc. but all you see online when there’s a news article about it is complainers and moaners. “We don’t need more cafes” “it’s a waste of money, that could have been used for insert hypothetical thing here”, “it’s going to be too noisy” etc etc. I’m sick of it! NIMBYism needs to stop.
Dipso88@reddit
The weather.
Darthblaker7474@reddit
Metric for everything, apart from Alcohol and Milk.
I’m sick and tired of having to figure out fuel economy in MPG (which is different if you’re the other side of the pond) yet we buy our fuel in litres.
Hopeful_Food5299@reddit
I’d abolish capitalism, or failing that destroy the aristocracy, or failing even that, eliminate competitiveness, from which all stupidities arose.
BiDumbAndGlum@reddit
No limits.. I'd make MPs have to live in the roughest parts of the places they represent.. on minimum wage.. then I'd get film crews to follow a couple to record how they adjust and live.. get ant and maybe Dec to present and we have the latest hit show I'm an MP get me out of here
FamousWerewolf@reddit
I mean if I could completely change absolutely everything, I'd probably be looking at serious political issues like reforming our voting system or giving a proper left-wing party an actual chance at power... but I'm guessing you're more looking for less hot-button issues.
In terms of day-to-day life I think one of the biggest problems in the UK is public transport. Buses are broadly ok but our train system is ludicrous compared to other similar countries in Europe. Awful service and just unbelievably expensive for what it is. It's so desperately in need of a huge overhaul of both the infrastructure and the companies themselves and I always think tourists must be absolutely shocked at how poor it is when they come here.
WiseOwloftheWoodland@reddit
The trend of seeing education or being educated as somehow inferior. We are offered a really good quality education for free in this country and yet somehow a huge amount of the population fails to value and make the most of this, from glorifying the uneducated to taking up arms against schools, universities and educators. I just don't understand it.
Positive-Resource821@reddit
Fewer signs telling you what not to do.. can people just relax a bit?
i_burnt@reddit
I’d make my parents very wealthy.
PsychedelicPistachio@reddit
Single family homes can only be bought by single families
b33nox@reddit
Make it easier for people over the age of 18 to get braces 😔
Edible-flowers@reddit
I would wish for our current government to grow balls & wear big girl pants. Close loopholes that allow corporations & businesses to get away with not paying taxes.
Build more affordable homes with small plots of land for gardening, etc. Introduce 2nd (or more) home ownership taxes. Ensure holiday letting companies are paying the correct tax.
Sort out the NHS. Increase prescription fees based on individuals' income.
Improve public transport, reduce the costs. Charge more parking fees & plough this back into public owned buses, trains & ferries.
Penalise water companies who routinely pollute our water courses & seas with sewerage.
Invest in education at every age, i.e., 0 to 25 years & beyond.
Make elderly care affordable.
Free_Ad7415@reddit
If the weather were better (less rain, warmer) then I feel my life would be pretty much perfect.
My second thing would be drastically changing transport, banning cars as much as practically possible.
Weather would actually help more sustainable transport naturally anyway, cycling or walking in the freezing rain sucks!
Flabby-Nonsense@reddit
Don’t mind weather, just want it to remain light for longer during winter. Sunrise at 5am and sunset at 9:30pm every day please.
Seanacles@reddit
3 day weekend
onlyoneofmetoday@reddit
That people hate so many others, if they don't fit in someone's person box of what they believe is right then they hate. I would want to change that and get people to be more open-minded and accepting of others.
MDFHASDIED@reddit
Get rid of all the rude bois/roadmen whatever they're called these days. Knife crime would go down 90% overnight.
ya_basic82@reddit
I’m from an area up north with very high knife crime and less than average black males. It’s not roadmen. They just get the bad press.
disasterly213@reddit
Rude boi / roadman has nothing to do with skin colour
sideone@reddit
If its above zero degrees centigrade, balaclavas are not permitted to be worn. If you're wearing one, you're up to no good and will be arrested.
bobbyhill227@reddit
The void would be filled by another sub culture, more money on youth clubs etc would probably help cut it
DaHappyCyclops@reddit
Remove poverty, institutional racism, broken homes and poor education.
Or just decriminalised and regulate the illegal drug industry.
Both have the same effect of removing gangs and gang culture as a enviable lifestyle for youths who fall through the cracks of society. And one is much easier than the other, and also generates huge revenue pools for the government to maybe start buying back some of the assets its sold off to its backers over the last 40 years.
maigsezis@reddit
Having lived here for 15 years I would love to see an improvement in the kind of personal responsibility towards one's surroundings and society. It is clearly urban areas where littering is at its worst - and thinking 'someone else gets paid to clean up, let them' just doesn't fly in my opinion. If there was less littering, less cleaning hours would be required, freeing up budgets for other things and raising community morale. British cities are pretty grey already.
I am also noticing a similar reliance on governance when tragedies happen. Say, there is a violent offender. After the event there is an enquiry and their family can be heard saying: 'The social services didn't stop them' (or something along those lines). The result is some kind of tightening of processes. Shouldn't the family own the responsibility first and foremost and seek help if they cannot handle the situation, rather than blame the services that are available, which I believe do their best - social work is the hardest kind of work. I have also heard a similar opinion from an acquaintance, who's friends mother was in a bad way - she was complaining about the lack of support, but didn't appear to be getting her mother off the street herself.
There is never going to be enough funds to deal with everyone's issues professionally. I have never received benefits (not qualified, even during hard times) and am currently expecting our first child, so maybe my opinion will change, however the amount of benefits being paid out is astounding. I was raised to count my pennies and deal with stuff so perhaps I am not empathetic enough?
Jim8419@reddit
Make older drivers re sit theory exams and driving awareness course limit what size engine a first time driver can have
Thinking10Thinking@reddit
The weather
145inC@reddit
I'd end the outdated UK, and ask the people to come up with something new, that also involves Ireland, isn't run from London, or even England - scarp the Butcher's Apron, the lot. And if the people didn't want a new union, or federation, then just 4 independent countries.
End the Westminster scam for good!
Lebowski85@reddit
Cheaper public transport. That would help social mobility, reduce the need for cars and put £621 back in my pocket a month which I can put back into the economy.
ClockAccomplished381@reddit
Much harsher enforcement/punishment for crimes like vandalism, I get really wound up when I see mindless vandalism like kids play parks smashed up with glass all over the equipment, or random cars being keyed.
It's one of those crimes that just annoys me as it makes life worse for others without really benefiting the perpetrator other than a few seconds of 'fun'. Like, I can actually understand getting robbed or burgled, they are taking items to make money from jt. But damaging my property doesn't get them any money, preventing children from playing and/or risking them getting injured doesn't get them any money why do it?
atomic_mermaid@reddit
I was actually thinking the other day I think our working/trading hours need to evolve. If a modern society was making all the rules brand new I don't think we'd stick to the ones we have.
I was thinking how in spain the structure of their day seems much more tolerable; later starts, siesta time, everyone's out in the more manageable evening. Especially with climate change altering our weather here that's gonna become more what we need.
Then here in winter for example, working hours take out all the daylight hours. You get up and go home in the dark, and sit inside for the middle part. I think we need to have a winter siesta type gap so people can make use of some daylight in the middle. Go for a walk, or a run, or even just sit outside with a brew and get some vitamin D.
I think if we were building our structures from scratch today we wouldn't work all hours, and we wouldn't do 9-5.
Arch-Com_Songster@reddit
How does that work if you have an outdoors job that requires daylight to do it?
atomic_mermaid@reddit
I think in the same way jobs that don't quite fit the mould now do it, they just work what hours they need.
Arch-Com_Songster@reddit
I think a lot of people, defo not me, enjoy an early start and an early finish. I prefer to start late and work later. I definitely wouldn’t enjoy a forced two or three hour break mid shift I’d rather get it out of the way in one block. Horses for courses I suppose. I guess employers should be in more flexible. They need cover from 8am/8pm then let people select their own shifts to fill the times don’t force people to work early or late if they prefer to do something else.
sideone@reddit
7am to 3.30pm was the best working day I've ever had.
ImTalkingGibberish@reddit
Limit how much one person can earn. Anything over 1mil is insane, for example. And then perhaps they’ll start sharing with their employees instead of a shareholders board that does absolutely fuckall apart from funding.
sideone@reddit
They'd probably just do an equivalent job in a different country, and stop paying tax in the UK.
etang77@reddit
Absoultely zero chance of knife crime style random death and petty theft.
Barziboy@reddit
Right to Roam and wild camp. Make litterers have a finger magically bitten off by a badger within 24 hours of littering.
The_Jyps@reddit
The chavs riding around on bikes dressed in black and everyone associated with them. Absolute pond scum that they are.
gherks69@reddit
If a business is making profits (looking at you Tesco), then none of its staff should need to be on Universal Credit.
I’d make it illegal for mid and large businesses to have a profit and have staff on this benefit. Would make staff be employed properly by them, improve the employees wellbeing with proper hours & contracts and reduce the state benefits bill
Avionykx@reddit
As someone who has been self employed most of their life, in various guises, I think making it much easier to build a business would benefit the country hugely.
I've seen friends with really good small businesses just have their growth limited so much by red tape, taxes, lack of incentives and various other barriers that they give up and go back to the grind.
This would be so much more of an enterprising, thriving and innovative country if we could just support creativity and business building.
Even just taking into account how many more interesting and rewarding employment opportunities they'd provide.
thebaker66@reddit
Probably just the weather, better seasons, more Sun and less rain in the summer and a bit more Snow in the winter (getting years without even a touch of snow where I am)
Oh and I'd erdadicate all Large house spiders.
jonviper123@reddit
Id go after the politicians and the billionaires who do all kinds of dodgy billshit to hide money and not pay taxes.
ThrowawayYAYAY2002@reddit
Immigration.
mrsmithr@reddit
I'd change the fact you can't have a proper chinwag anymore without someone behaving as though you've kicked their dog and nicked their last teabag. Once upon a time you could argue over a pint, call each other a plonker, and carry on as mates. Now the slightest disagreement and you're treated like you've declared war on Britain itself. Bring back the days of cheerful bickering! it's the closest thing we had to a national pastime.
SirJedKingsdown@reddit
I'd find some way to separate shareholding and voting rights. If your main income is passive, your political input is unwelcome. Only workers should get a say in the direction of the country.
Look at the world, look at everything that's shit, you'll find shareholders at the bottom of it.
ukdev1@reddit
Red tape & recourse legal system for large building projects.
We need houses and infrastructure. It should not takes decades and billions to just break ground on projects.
dynamico_@reddit
The oligarchy
bons_burgers_252@reddit
Take all the people (so many people) and drown them all in the North Sea.
The whole country, nay, the world, is populated by foolish, selfish twats only slightly removed from fucking chimps swinging around in trees or, swinging chimps fucking around in trees.
We have a thin veneer of sophistication with our iPhones and our Gucci fucking sunglasses but spend 20 minutes driving anywhere and you’ll see the monkeys fucking each other over and risking lives to get one car length ahead or to get to Starbucks 3 seconds sooner.
Jesus. When did I become so cynical? Oh yeah, I remember, it was after 50 years of being constantly and consistently hurt, let down and fucked over by thousands of terrible people.
All my love.
Diomidies@reddit
I fell you.
I've been driving for 17 years and the standards in the last 5 (probably more) years have dropped considerably. Rarely do you see courtesy from another driver, more often it's a "Fuck you, I'm more important" attitude.
Maybe it's a post-covid thing but the younger generation (I'm 35 😅) are increasingly less and less well mannered.
The country is slowly going to shit and not many seem to care.
bumblebeesanddaisies@reddit
Make council houses not a lifetime deal! Yes, you might need a 3 bed house when you have young kids. Now your youngest kid is 35 and they all left home over a decade ago you don't still need to have a 3 bed house which is now unavailable to a young family who are stuffed in a 1 bed flat! If you wouldn't be eligible for it now you shouldn't still be able to stay in it. Make it reviewable every 5 years and act accordingly. So many people on waiting lists who are more in need than the people still living in their lifetime guarantee homes.
Normal-Ad2587@reddit
Whatever needs to happen to make the NHS a well functioning system with valued staff and patients needs to happen.
Either put things in place to reduce the amount of patients or put things in place to increase the staff and infrastructure, one of the two.
Modernization of infrastructure, better pay, free parking, doctor who comes round to actually see my nan face to face like they did 30 years ago, a way of reducing all the undesirables who loiter in A&E night after night, local doctors and dentists you can actually get an appointment for.
Mostly boils down (in my humble opinion) shite contracts, too many chiefs limiting the amount of indians, an aging population and ever increasing population of people with mental health, weight and drug issues and a rapidly increasing population of people who haven't paid into the pot.
Madsaxmcginn@reddit
I don't understand how this isn't a top comment to be fair. The country runs on the NHS, everyone relies on it, if it crumbles, everyone, especially those in lower economic states will suffer immensley.
I would add improved preventive healthcare initiatives (though I think we are doing okish there) and plant as many trees as we can in every bit of free space - get saplings to anyone with a garden, rewild any unused ground, give farmers incentives to plant them around the borders of their used fields, teach kids how to garden.
Diomidies@reddit
Potholes!
Careful_Ad5394@reddit
How prices down, wages up. Aka affordability. Whatever helps that. Looks like the illusion is evaporating across the western world.
expostulation@reddit
Clean up the place, make the place look less depressing and drab.
KamauPotter@reddit
I would abolish the class system (starting with the monarchy) and remake the UK into a meritocracy. Unfortunately, if your face or accent doesn't fit, if your parents lack 'connections', then doors stay shut, and opportunities go denied or unrealised. This happens to an extent in many countries, but the UK class system elevates these considerations to the extreme.
windmillguy123@reddit
Remove the ability for 'private' anything.
No private education or healthcare or dentists.
Force the wealthy to mingle with the poorer classes and suddenly they'll care. They did this in Finland and wealth inequality massively reduced over the following generations.
Ben-D-Beast@reddit
Remove the cynicism/self loathing. Yes we have problems, yes there are things we can do better but we are still one of the best countries in the world with a lot to be proud of. Allowing patriotism to be monopolised by the far right in the public consciousness has done more damage to our society and politics than anything else. If people were more willing to look for solutions to problems instead of blaming immigrants, the government, the EU etc the country would be in a much better position.
Mesa_Dad@reddit
I can't see that working... /s
BrewDogDrinker@reddit
👏👏👏👏👏
DrFuzzald@reddit
I would give you an award but I haven't the money on here
That_Organization901@reddit
Make walking, cycling, and public transport so much more enjoyable and convenient so cars become something you occasionally hire when absolutely necessary.
Return all those driveways to lawns and trees, convert garages into whatever you want to use them for, see more people walking around city centres so they feel safer and are invested in, parks not parking, and more access to areas cut off by a lack of public transportation.
theocrats@reddit
One of the worst things to happen over the last 20-30 years is the ubiquitous removal of front gardens.
My parents' street had beautiful front gardens. Trees and bushes with lots of pretty flowers. Full of life, bees and birds, hedgehogs, and butterflies. Green.
Now it's grey, barren concrete. Dead and littered with cars.
pingusaysnoot@reddit
Apparently, the house we live in used to have a long front drive back in the 70s/80s - maybe even 90s. But the council claimed everyone's front gardens on this row so they could widen the road outside and make it 6 lanes. Now there's only space for a car.
theocrats@reddit
One more lane always fixes traffic!
pingusaysnoot@reddit
If only that was ever true!
They're now widening the existing bypass to allow for more traffic flow 🥲
theocrats@reddit
If only there was a way to move lots of people quickly without taking up vast space...oh well more tarmac it is
cornishwildman76@reddit
which also cause huge amounts of run off, flooding drains, washing crap into local waterways.
theocrats@reddit
Also increasing the urban heat island effect. With the destruction of habitat
MelodicAd2213@reddit
But isn’t much of this because kids are staying home longer? While they remain/return home more parking will be needed. I certainly see this where I live.
evenstevens280@reddit
No. It's because cars have become "necessary" due to a deadly combination of unreliable/non-widespread/expensive public transport, poor cycle infrastructure, and a general sense of self entitlement
Fadesintodust@reddit
Oh man I just got back from a holiday in Italy and they had nailed the whole everyone cycle’s everywhere thing down to a t… whole families on bikes… separate paths and cyclist priority… it was glorious. Health is wealth!
evenstevens280@reddit
"But how will I do a weekly shop?!?!m!!n"
---x__x---@reddit
Sounds like a catch 22.
It is other people that make public transport so utterly miserable.
RohanDavidson@reddit
If your speakers need a trolley to transport them, and you take them to a park on a quiet Sunday and share your garbage, expletive-ridden crap music with the entire neighbourhood, you should be tied to those same speakers and tossed in a canal.
papillon-and-on@reddit
Ban the leasehold nonsense. When I buy a house, I want to own the house. I don't want to pay some rent-seeker money just to change my own windows.
Excellent-Day7461@reddit
The entire class system. All the land owned by families that came here in 1066 returned to the people, all stately homes built on theft, slavery and exploitation to be repurposed for the benefit of society. The royal family dethroned or whatever and moved to a council estate in Slough. People with double barrel surnames and questionable genetic health to be forcibly married to people from Liverpool to improve genetic diversity.
Particular-Opinion44@reddit
I would delete all corrupt politicians that aren't working towards the interests of ALL people in the country. Everything they spend/do is open to all the public and heavy fines/jail time are in place for any rule breaking. Being an MP becomes a service not a lark
This then leads into the removal of privatised services/utilities. Removal of tax breaks for the 1% and sending certain people to the Hague.
Legitimate-Ad7273@reddit
I'd change the attitude towards alcohol.
Marble-Boy@reddit
I would stop people using Americanisms for things. I've just read a comment where someone called the dole "welfare". I'm sick of hearing kids say "mom", and "sidewalk", and "lawyer".
Stop it.
Sharks_and_Bones@reddit
Make house prices affordable.
Get rid of all the litter.
Nationwide walking and cycle infrastructure similar to Denmark/the Netherlands.
rubber_galaxy@reddit
Obvious AI questions on the Internet to be made illegal
DiscombobulatedMix20@reddit
Driving test bookings?
It is an absolute pain to find a driving test now.
I really wish that the system was tightly regulated to allow everyone to get driving tests fairly and quickly because if someone is test ready but cannot get their licence for the next few months due to backlogs, it is an absolute shame.
feebsiegee@reddit
Yeah I don't understand how it's managed to get this bad! You need to have passed your theory before booking your practical, and you need to enter your provisional number. It should be so much easier. I passed my test last year, my first test was booked 6 months in advance as that was the soonest I could get. I failed that one, and managed to get another for 2 months later.
It keeps getting blamed on covid, but that was 5 years ago - there's no way the backlog is that massive. I've seen posts on Facebook of people having to stop their driving lessons until they can get a test booked. People are delaying starting driving lessons. Some people have just totally binned learning off, because it's that hard to get a test.
I have a friend who is a driving instructor, and her students obviously complain to her about it, but it's just as frustrating for the instructors. They WANT you to pass your test. They're emotionally invested in you, they've put hours of their lives teaching you, and they don't even get the satisfaction of you passing either. And if you do end up failing, that's even more heartbreaking because you probably won't get another chance until may next year at this rate.
smiley6125@reddit
If continued testing was implemented where you had to resit every 10 years it would get fixed sharpish. The problem is it doesn’t affect middle ages politicians or most of the voting electorate. It’s a classic “I’m alright Jack” or even a lot of people unaware that it is even happening.
SASColfer@reddit
I'd roughly halve the population. I mean like if it hadn't already gone up. Don't care that much who makes up the population but just more space.
_a_m_s_m@reddit
Land value taximplemented over 15/20 years in place of the taxes we have today.
Planning & leasehold reform, to get the full effect of an LVT.
Massive regional devolution deals (similar to federal German states).
Then start investing heavily into rail-based infrastructure with a rail + property approach (this is how trains are funded in Japan & Hong Kong, it even turns a profit for the Neolibs out there.). Not just intercity trains but also trams for smaller cities & regional railways. The property part is important as it could help to deliver loads of new housing, especially social, that have strong transport links & access to good job opportunities.
Like with Houten in the Netherlands.
Also like in the Netherlands, I’d try my very hardest to introduce some type of national intergrated fare card (like the Oyster card).
Another key point will be to build the institutional knowledge on how to build infrastructure for cheap, e.g. keep a steady stream of project flowing.
Also like in the Netherlands, I’d look to build more bike lanes, as these can easily increase the catchment area for shops, train stations & services by 2-5x, so anywhere from 4x to 25x the no. Of people.
LocalZealousideal723@reddit
Covert Interference from foreign powers. Signs of it are rife...weirdly edited news articles, dubious reddit posts woth negative outlooks on the UK, very oddly specific BBC news coverage. We're getting messed about very nastily by at least one, if not more than one foreign agency with deep penetration and huge funding. Careful what you believe guys! We were brought up to be candid and straightforward but these guys won't play by our rules.
Unlikely_Project7443@reddit
Get folk to stop blaming the poorest people in society for their shit lives and take some personal responsibility.
BestEmu2171@reddit
Invest in education, pay teachers more. We’re no longer a nation that needs the population to be dumb (so they’ll be cannon-fodder or low-skilled workers). The economy needs innovators and problem-solvers - preferably of diverse cultures, to bring broader perspectives to new solutions.
WanderWithMe@reddit
I'd stop politics from being so divisive. It's slowly tearing the country apart.
OwnArcher7843@reddit
The wages we allow politicians to pay themselves, the second homes they get etc.. I would make it law that they can only be paid the "living wage" they set for everyone else.
Practical-March-6989@reddit
NHS dentist. Fix the potholes. Remove the gradual creeping in of right wing, racist attitudes.
Practical-March-6989@reddit
Oh and redevelop buildings rather build new ones. The amount of empty houses is insane. New business parks build whilst others sit nearly derelict. It makes no sense
oldirtypoptart@reddit
I'd bring in the death penalty for financial crimes and hang all bankers and most of the parliament.
ak14g15@reddit
The unconscious bias
Solsbeary@reddit
I would properly invest in education. This would have positive effects for generations.
presterjohn7171@reddit
Bias and and not disputing lies in our news media. Anything more than a mild bias should be illegal
AE_Phoenix@reddit
Online safety act
Guru108108108@reddit
UK = The Can’t do attitude Other countries = The Can do attitude Emigrate ✅
New-Bee8999@reddit
Consideration and courtesy, because it underpins everything. From the low level stuff like littering, or parking selfishly, to the bigger stuff like short term focus on the next quarter's profits at the expense of long term stability.
Thinking about the whole; if I do this is it going to adversely affect others? Small scale stuff matters, because it's the social glue that keeps things functioning and stops society from falling apart.
It's easy to look at how things are right now and think it's all going to shit. But every so often there's a reminder that many people are pretty decent. I forgot to close the fuel cap on my car at the petrol station - the guy at the next pump closed it for me so I didn't have to get back out of the car. Lady at Tesco yesterday dropped a fiver out of her purse when she was looking for change and didn't notice. The lass at the next till noticed, and bobbed down to grab it and give it back to her.
It's things like this I try and remember, when worrying that we're all doomed!
ekobeko@reddit
Controversial, but ban parking on the road. It’s a holdover from horses and carriages, where you unlikely to leave a giant rusty white panel horse on the road for days outside someone’s house for weeks at a time.
But seriously it’s just messy, causes accidents and encourages people to have more vehicles.
Token_Dead_Person@reddit
Properly fund libraries and re-open, not just for book lending but as a safe space for people and as centres for education with classes and classrooms, providing free and short courses that aren't already the remit of colleges. Basic IT, first aid, short humanities courses etc.
Also, start a massive campaign to educate people about processed food and ban advertising of products full of unnecessary sugar and chemicals
SeveralMedia7486@reddit
Less crackheads
ams3000@reddit
House prices are way too high and salaries are way too low.
corsair965@reddit
I’d make it a requirement that wannabe politicians have to publicly share every meme they’ve sent or received and share the contents of all the WhatsApp groups they’re in.
corsair965@reddit
Require majority share ownership of the press by UK based companies.
Nationalise the oil and gas industry for a sovereign wealth fund.
Make loopholes to push through massive infrastructure programs like high speed rail.
More Blackadder.
ConsequenceApart4391@reddit
Something about Sunday trading laws. When it’s your only day off and everything shuts at 4pm it can be fun. I get the point of why it was initially added but we’re not as much of a religious dominated country anymore so the idea of Sunday trading laws is now just shops open @10 and close @4.
Intrepid_Unit_386@reddit
A government that actually looks after people
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
The obese must stay at home. As a fatty, it would give me an incentive to lose weight. I’d be at home for a few months, then 💥 I’m allowed out in public again.
peanutbutteroverload@reddit
If there weren't so many scummy Brits and the country felt safe.
Chavvy roadmen culture is the thing I hate the most when I come back to the UK to see family..also pub football "lads" grim...bit of culture beyond footy, pub, bird wouldn't go amiss.
If we're talking about actual change, wages and full nationalisation and good implementation of trains, water companies etc.....like loads of other countries have done and the UK just finds excuse after excuse.
lozz79@reddit
Fewer cunts. Unfortunately it seems to be going the other way.
Deinonychus-sapiens@reddit
Stop changing time zones, stay with BST
Dapperscavenger@reddit
Make it illegal to own empty property. No one living in it? You get fined, money paid to local council. Fine is equivalent to one months mortgage of the property at current value. Fine increases by 25% with each year. If property still empty after 5 years, ownership reverts to local council.
DaHappyCyclops@reddit
I have one that is pretty fucking controversial.
One child policy, for at least 2 generations.
China implementing this has had the biggest effect on global economy since the Roman empire, and heavilly aided them in becoming an incredible manufacturing superpower. The infrastructure theyve put in place in such a short time is nothing short of amazing. (Though it may become an issue soon as a whole generation of childless workers enter retirement)
And this isnt like "we'll kill your second born daughter" - its a if you want to have a second daughter you better be rich enough to afford that luxury, because your're getting taxed TO FUCK and back until shes 16.
Education improves, immigration slows, more people with more time work harder and enjoy more consumerism with less dependants to rely on, boosting the economy. And the big one, saving us a lot of money in welfare that can be directed elsewhere, such as national pension and the NHS (who will also have less to do)
As we move increasingly into a world where less and less young people are settling down and having children anyway, it seems the perfect time to implement it. It will never happen tho, the people with the power to do this benefit too greatly from the general rat run.
Ill-Trash-7085@reddit
but we (and many other countries) are already sliding into population decline. So we'd need more immigration.
Cheap-Rate-8996@reddit
It's controversial because it's shooting yourself in the foot.
The one child policy was a very, very bad thing for China. It was implemented in the 70s based on a misunderstanding at the time of how population growth worked. They thought it would increase exponentially, when we've learned since then that, at a certain point of economic development, it naturally begins to level off.
China's rapid economic growth was because of Deng Xiaoping's market reforms, not the one child policy. What the one child party did was artificially kneecap China's population growth too early in its industrial development, and the result is that they will never actually reach their full economic potential or upstage the US as they may have hoped. Without writing a short thesis, the TL;DR on this is that they have induced on themselves the same crisis Japan and South Korea are also facing, but at least 50 years earlier than it would have happened otherwise.
To be fair, you do acknowledge the problems this is causing them now, but I think you're dramatically understating it. A top-heavy population pyramid is socially and economically catastrophic.
Also, the UK's birth rate is already below replacement level. It's currently at 1.6, replacement level is 2.1. We actually really need people to have more kids at the moment, not less.
You literally could not be more wrong about it leading to less immigration. When your country's birth rate is below replacement level, you desperately need immigration just to prevent your social care system from imploding. It's actually difficult to overstate how off the mark you are here.
Ecstatic_Lion4224@reddit
House and rent prices. Housing is a necessity and shouldn't be viewed as a way to build up wealth. It's there for living in. If people have that kind of security then even their concerns about cost increases on everything else starts to fall away.
You can still have all your other silly symbol of wealth toys. This would make the most difference to the lives of the most people.
b135702@reddit
Honestly the weather. As a severe seasonal depression sufferer, I think my life would be at least 50% better if the weather wasn't as cold and grey and humid and rainy.
TheHayvek@reddit
It's not cold here. It is grey though. Those two things are sort of related.
b135702@reddit
I find winter to be very cold.
SaltyName8341@reddit
Unfortunately we'd have to drag the whole isles south, it's a big ask
trysca@reddit
Try living in Scandinavia or the Med for a while and you'll be thankful for our lovely climate.
Arkonias@reddit
Gigabit internet to every house. Living in a tourist hotspot with shitty internet fucking sucks.
Clear-Security-Risk@reddit
I'd put in a glass and plastic bottle deposit, because the littering of these things drives me crazy.
When I walk around the park in the AM with the dog, I fill up a shopping bag of bottles and fish & chip wrappers. Fucking animals.
My dad in Canada buys a bottle of scotch for himself every month from the money he gets collecting discarded bottles, 10c for glass and plastic containers in British Columbia.
Winter_Difference_85@reddit
Deport all racists (including people who start sentences with “I’m not racist, but…”)
quite_acceptable_man@reddit
Housing. Sure it's nice to think that the house you bought 20 years ago has trebled in value, but who does that actually help? It doesnt help you, because if you need it to live in, it makes no difference whether it's worth £10 or £10,000,000.
That value only comes in to play if you come to sell it. But then of course you need another house to live in. That, and every other house will have also trebled in value.
So who actually benefits? Mortgage lenders, property developers/speculators and estate agents. That's who.
Direct_Blood_385@reddit
Toss the chav accent and the chavs
NuisancePenguin44@reddit
4 day work week
Tyruto@reddit
Single salary minimum wage working 4 days a week to be able to provide for a family of 4. To be able to afford a takeaway once a week, a two week holiday abroad once a year, family days out, and all basic needs provided for (food,clothes housing etc).
1CharlieMike@reddit
Yes.
At the moment a single person with no dependents can barely afford to live on their own on an almost average salary, let alone minimum wage. It shouldn’t be this way.
_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit
I’m 28 and still living with parents because I can’t afford a place. I’m asexual too so I’ll prob never be able to move out.
ConsciousTraffic4988@reddit
It you can’t afford to live on £38,500 a year as single person then your doing something wrong.
golf_is_quite_hard@reddit
So on that salary, presumably I can buy an average house, pay it off in an average amount of time, do average grocery shopping, own an average car?
Emergency-Shower-366@reddit
People need to stop focusing on this median average salary.
Most people are on minimum wage. (12.21 an hour)
The cheapest 1 bed flats in my area are wanting a minimum of £925 a month in rent.
Every estate agent round me says you have to earn 30x the monthly amount to qualify.
925x30=27,750 which is more than what minimum wage will get you.
Either rents are too high or minimum wage is too low to live on. You can’t have it both ways.
1CharlieMike@reddit
In 2023 the median salary for men was £31100 and for women it was £25500.
And of course, if you’re under 30 you’re likely to earn substantially less.
The mean average salary of all age groups doesn’t tell the full story.
ConsciousTraffic4988@reddit
You never specified an age group. If you meant young single people then you should’ve said. For the average single person they’d be earning 38,500 which as long as your not in london (which 58 millions people aren’t) is perfectly fine to live on.
1CharlieMike@reddit
But young people don’t deserve a salary they can live on alone?
Single life should be reserved for only those over 40?
Dangerousfish@reddit
I'd bring back tizer ice.
That's all.
_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit
the way disabled people are treated. I’ve used so many accessible toilets that were just not suitable.
BigBreach83@reddit
Tax religions. In the past when they had to be somewhat self sufficient and community hubs it made sense. Now it's a call up the chain and a bank transfer for maintenance.
arabidopsis@reddit
If you do that you'll need to tax charities too
BigBreach83@reddit
They are taxed. Not for donations but for property and investments
ComplexTeaBall@reddit
🏆
Smithstar89@reddit
Make Freddos 15p, the same price as old with inflation.
Salty_Contribution83@reddit
For Radio 1 to focus onl new music, Radio 2 to play old music and both to ignore the late 90s forever
MoanChumpsky@reddit
Repatriate the USA and save the world. Ban Fascism. Fire squad the press. Make policing a mandatory two year conscription for all members of society. Only let the over 65s join the army.
arabidopsis@reddit
More enforcement of getting middle lane hoggers to move over or retake test.
GTFO OUT OF MIDDLE LANE DORIS
Sudden_Direction_383@reddit
Renationalise water.
whatnowhun@reddit
Unoccupy Ireland and set the 6 counties free 🇮🇪
But while we are occupied, I would love it if the NHS was treated right and funding was increased so it could actually work properly.
_DoubleBubbler_@reddit
Make Wham Bars Great Again!
Arch-Com_Songster@reddit
Make dentists rich again.... Hmm. Need to think this one through.
_DoubleBubbler_@reddit
Haha, good point. So…
Make Wham Bars Great Again (in moderation and within a balanced diet)!
It’s not quite so catchy now though. 😉
Mister_V3@reddit
Introduce the Dutch infrastructure policy Which priorities walking, cycling and public transport instead of cars.
Str8WhiteMinority@reddit
Wilful ignorance
Ok-Credit-8251@reddit
You could all start by having humanist funerals instead of all the palaver of wanting people crying at your graveside. Get buried naturally in a forest and return to the earth.
Shanstergoodheart@reddit
I mean obviously better living standards and resources for everybody. The noble answer would be better access for mental health care particularly for children. Children can be years on the CYPS waiting list and psychiatric hospitals are unwilling to take children even if they're chasing their siblings around with a knife and then Mum gets blamed for not wanting to take them home etc. Also, bugbear, parents are increasingly told that they can't physically restrain their children but have no other options or resources to stop them if they become violent. Therefore stuck in a Catch 22 situation of "harming" one child or "not protecting" the other.
The petty answer would be that each town is only allowed one .... Road. So no more Reddit Road, Reddit Street, Reddit Avenue, Reddit Crescent etc. There would be one Reddit Street and the others could be renamed. I don't think that many people retain the type of road that it is, they only retain the front bit, especially if they are all close together.
Legitimate_Drama_796@reddit
Get people spending again (where the money actually circulates in our own economy, not goes out of it).
Not going to go into detail of this, just big corporations need to either give back to our economy (there are a few that aren’t bad), or royally fuck off with a pack of Pork Pies as that’s all they have given the UK really.
3cc3ntr1c1ty@reddit
Make housing development easier and homes cheaper. Housing drains everyones cash.
ItsYaGurlUwU@reddit
Completely purge all the rabid bigotry that's plaguing this country; the racism, the homophobia, the transphobia
I'm sick and tired of it and it's 2025, we're supposed to evolve as humans, not regress. There's absolutely no place for it anymore, enough is more than enough.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
Isn’t this already happening?
Gullible-Box7637@reddit
Abolish the green belts, the issue with them is that housing prices are skyrocketing, and having a policy designed to limit urban development in the 1800s is outdated and doesnt fit with modern needs
Cassidy-Conway@reddit
End discrimination of transgender people (which would include being able to get healthcare without having to wait several years for it.)
D0wnb0at@reddit
No limits? Very selfish of me but, ban alcohol.
I’m sure this will get downvoted to oblivion as alcohol is so engrained in our society, but as an alcoholic (recovering) it’s MAD how it’s pushed on us as a society, it kills more people than heroin. Alcohol (and benzos) are the only drugs that can kill you if you stop taking them when you have a high tolerance. It’s so celebrated in this country and it’s literally everywhere. Bowling alleys, petrol stations, cinemas etc. can’t avoid it. I used to be addicted to Ketamine a decade ago, that was easy to quit, cut ties with dealers and change my friend circle. I wouldn’t have a clue where to buy some these days. Alcohol however… sold 24/7 and if you have a car you are never more than 10 mins away from somewhere to buy it, and even if you don’t drive you can Uber eats alcohol to your door.
I know it will never be banned and I don’t agree with banning it either, but if it was banned, it would make my life much easier not having the temptation everywhere I look.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
Would just make it a hugely profitable industry for criminal gangs. See US prohibition.
Ok-Credit-8251@reddit
I always thought that not dropping litter was one of the teachings of childhood.Whenever my children dropped anything from a very early age they were made to pick it up and take it home to put in the bin and it was a very strict rule I stuck to. I never had much money so I'd take the kids to places where you could have a picnic. You would never have known we'd been there.Picnic basket and a couple of carrier bags to put our litter in to take home and dispose of.Nothing hard about that. Apparently though it's beyond a lot of people's comprehension.
TabularConferta@reddit
Houses and gardens would be bigger on the inside and adjustable via dial.
Go inside your tiny garden, boom! It's the size of an estate. The housing market is now based on location and the facade of your place, a 5th floor flat can now look as grand as a 15 bedroom manor with grounds, when you go through the door.
MixGroundbreaking622@reddit
Ban horses on all roads. Ban cyclists on 40+ roads. Cheaper train tickets. More train lines. Learn how to build stuff again. In the victorian era we built amazing infrastructure all over the place that has lasted a century. These days it takes two decades to fill the paperwork out.
rogermuffin69@reddit
Transparent solar panels everywhere, every house, office, vehicle, so energy becomes free.
Production gets cheaper ,
prices come down
Then we have money ro save and spend
Agent---4--7@reddit
Kick all the racists out. Stop all corruption from top to bottom so everyone pays their fair share in taxes etc. I'd make a max limit a person can earn and then the rest goes towards public services and the person receives a lifetime award and something named after them. But I'd settle for removing all the racism.
No-Television-4682@reddit
treat spirituality like they do mental health. that is real evolution. let everyone be the power they were ment to be instead of controlling, containing and transfering energy.. let it all flow.
OneSufficientFace@reddit
The unnecessary price hikes for absolutely no fucking reason. My shopping costs literally twice as much as it did literally 3 years ago. Mental
chef_26@reddit
The tax system. Remove Income Tax, Council Tax, VAT etc. National Insurance would remain at 10% of everything above minimum wage.
Stamp Duty Land Tax would be replaced with Stamp Duty Asset Value Tax and be set at a level that covered everything we need as % of the asset, common assumptions have this at 3.5%
The taxable value would be set at point of recent sale and adjusted by CPI Inflation annually to calculate what was owed.
It would be collected at source, pooled centrally and redistributed locally based on population density per council.
You want a workable wealth tax? This is it.
Goose-rider3000@reddit
Make 40 mins-1hr of exercise a day, part of the school curriculum. Anyone who is not into team sports could have a gym session or yoga, or whatever. I would also organise schools in a certain catchment area into leagues for competitive sports, with county, regional, National finals. Hype these leagues up on local media, and within the schools to get genuine support for the local teams.
arran0394@reddit
I want Mr. Nimbus to rule our seas, not the Royal Navy.
Scampington22@reddit
The public transport system. I both live and work within a five minute walk of a train station and yet it is impossible for me to catch a train to work due to times. Even if I could, it would take me three hours and cost over £60 a day, as opposed to one hour and £12 a day in the car 🤦🏼♀️
MadCaddy85@reddit
Reintroduce freedom of speech
burtvader@reddit
No social media
VeryThicknLong@reddit
All the people conflating refugees with illegal immigrants. They’re stupid. And probably half fucking German themselves or whatever. I’d fix it by neutering them.
sgarter@reddit
The government. The rules they are putting in place about the internet etc is just the tip of the iceberg
Odd_Temperature8067@reddit
Tax. Fucking Tax
Ill-Channel-7871@reddit
The miserable weather
Inarticulatescot@reddit
The Tories and their decades of poisonous politics.
No-Reason-8205@reddit
Make childcare for under 5s free.
Becka_buni@reddit
private healthcare!!! Like the Netherlands £100 a month, companies pay it and have a full privatisation system, if your unemployed govt pays for you. Because MH services in this country suck! 2.5 years I’ve waited for therapy!
TheDanjinSpear@reddit
We have Private Healthcare...if you want it pay for it.
Becka_buni@reddit
In the Netherlands the whole system is private, you get better and faster treatment.
TheDanjinSpear@reddit
Move to the Netherlands or go private. Going private you get faster treatment. We have that option available.
Confident_Contract53@reddit
What's MH
Becka_buni@reddit
Mental health!
Confident_Contract53@reddit
Oh fairs
Sycamore481@reddit
My sympathies fellow MH internet stranger. I find myself cynical enough at times to think the stupidly long wait times are a method of state sanctioned Darwinism. Deliberate underfunding yo engender a ‘make them wait long enough so that they solve the problem for us’ type attitude.
Sending hugs
Toffeemade@reddit
Dismantle inherited privilege starting with the Monarchy and working down. So much talent and ability is squandered in Britain because of our fatal addiction to deference and preferment.
CanWeNapPlease@reddit
Make it illegal to build garages that aren't wide enough to comfortably fit most cars. A lot of people would still be lazy and not park their cars in, but anything to reduce cars parked on the road would be a win.
New builds are STILL building garage sizes that would only fit a small hatchback like a flat 500 or an aygo.
theroadgoeseveronon@reddit
I'd like it if we taxed the super rich to reverse the wealth transfer that has been happening to 95% of us whilst a few people take all the wealth, and reverse the privatisation and enshitification of everything.
BlondBitch91@reddit
Put prices back to 1990 levels. Housing prices back to 1960 levels.
ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit
The way political events since approximately 23rd June 2016 (to pick a random date) have emboldened idiots to the point that vandalism of public roads is now heroic.
Nervous-Twist7557@reddit
The way the NHS is currently.
Ragtime-Rochelle@reddit
How the people are so aggressive to each other yet so docile towards the government.
minkyroo@reddit
The whole Etonian establishment thing. Wankers, the lot of them.
Active_General3090@reddit
The only thing I’d change is the people, culture and societal structure…but nothing too big…
tryingtoappearnormal@reddit
Id fix the Cost of living! Its crazy to me that anyone working a 40 hour week should need to rely on government help to get by.
kwakimaki@reddit
Antisocial behaviour.
Littering, petty crime, vandalism, theft, shoplifting, smoking anything in public, not using headphones, eating on public transport, no concept of hygiene etc.
CavCave@reddit
I dunno, world peace?
pumpkincarverman@reddit
Everything is done by the book. People get offended for everything. A lot of things aren’t allowed or restricted. It’s becoming a police state and there’s too many middle managers in the nhs doing absolutely nothing when they can be fired and more nurses hired.
Tracie10000@reddit
Increase the legal age for alcohol. 18 is too young.
arnipa2@reddit
ban the political right, if youre on the right on the political spectrum you get your own medicine, deported to a random country in the world, good luck :)
GarbageInteresting86@reddit
Clean water, nationalised energy production, nationalised railways, Time Machine to go back and cancel ‘right to buy’.
leodoesgaming@reddit
no more poverty. does that count as one thing?
NewSomeone17@reddit
Air conditioning
Longjumping_Sand_211@reddit
The weather
IAmNotDrDavis@reddit
Mandate that supermarkets, GP surgeries, and hospitals are open and running 24/7. Operating theatres running 24/7 with surgeons on shifts. This would probably require a bit of relegislation but would improve so many lives.
Bazsticks@reddit
Make weed legal you can walk anywhere within 5 minutes there's somewhere you can purchase alcohol but for some unfathomable reason weed is apparently worse or the very least decriminalise it and let cafe's serve it .
TheToyGirl@reddit
Rent .
BlueMilkshake33@reddit
the NHS. no not privatise - get rid of the bloated admin system and use the surplus to massively increase availability of scans and expensive drugs so our health outcomes could be on par with Western Europe
Swatch843@reddit
Fucking flytipping! It's rife all over the uk
Ok-Chest-7932@reddit
Right now what I want is to normalise air conditioning.
Divide_Rule@reddit
Stop the shitty wind and rain for 5 months a year
Probablyatrollmaybe@reddit
I would stop the rise of the far right. No dave from south Birmingham who’s been riled up about boats and kids not you, you’re just the customer. I mean the organisations that are fuelling hundreds if not thousands of disinformation fake accounts and stuff to cause division.
Who the fuck is more scared of diversity than they are of losing their human rights and the fash getting power.
Grotbagsthewonderful@reddit
I'd have a Genie levitate the entire UK (mainland, surrounding islands, N Ireland, the lot) to either somewhere in the Caribbean sea or the North Pacific, the Genie can work out the geological logistics.
Electrical-Sand-5613@reddit
Everyone gets free good quality housing, no renting or mortgage required to live. I would probably have a system where you get an equal or greater number of bedrooms than people in the family too.
guidospeedmeister@reddit
The unjustifiably high cost of living.
xx_TCren@reddit
Just nuke the whole of England
RaetheScot@reddit
More free time for everyone. I feel like we work way too much and our parents have worked way too much for so many generations where everyone's just so tired and it's all coming to a head. No one really seems happy. Every day feels exactly the same but it feels like we get less and less free time every year.
--already--taken--@reddit
yeah just like socialism please
Leather-Paper6804@reddit
24hr Public Transport. I hate that trains and buses shut down at midnight pretty much.
Sensitive_Beyond3388@reddit
Get rid of all the racists
TheRealMadPete@reddit
I'd legalise recreational cannabis use. Taxing that would fill a £20 billion hole in the government's finances in no time
HeyItsKriss@reddit
Sanitary pads should be free. Some families can barely buy food let alone take care of what is a normal and natural bodily function. It's inhuman.
Eastern_Bit_9279@reddit
Cheaper housing and i wouldn't of left
Significant-Math6799@reddit
I'd get the ....planks who are drawing on a cross on the road crossings, AKA Hitler/far right and send them to a designated third country until they can be trusted to be accepting of others and not judgemental based on someone's skin colour.
I'm white/Caucasian/blonde/British, family stretches back here for generations, whatever, I see these red crosses on any white area everywhere and I honestly squirm. I'm in London, I don't understand it; I wouldn't be able to tell you the origin of pretty much anyone I see or talk to unless they've told me they're going home during their holiday to say hi to their mum. I don't think I'm alone in that. I don't care where someone is from, I care who they are as a person, what they contribute to society and how open they are to hearing and reflecting from others and learning themselves and then passing that mind on to others, then I see these crosses as indicative of the small and angry mind behind them. I'd rather the country didn't continue to house them thanks.
I get the point of illegal immigration, and I have zero time for people who think they can jump the queue or lie to get a foot in the door. But I also know that as Britain we don't have a "safe" and legal immigration route, so unless people come here "illegally" they can't come at all. I know that this also means we get some scammers, so do better at weeding out the scammers rather than tarring every single foreign looking person as a target for hatred!
Doctordelayus@reddit
Gaming Protection:
Establish a “Player’s Bill of Rights.” If a game is legal in the UK, then no payment provider, publisher, or outside moral crusader gets to decide otherwise.
Loot box regulations tightened (to protect kids from gambling mechanics), but adults can play what they damn well want.
Protects modding communities, fan servers, and preservation of older titles. Game companies can’t just “vault” or nuke your purchase because it’s inconvenient for them.
Payment Provider Neutrality:
Passes law banning financial services (banks, PayPal, Visa, etc.) from blacklisting lawful products/services. They can only refuse if it’s actually illegal in the UK (not just frowned upon by a moral campaign in another country).
Creates an independent UK Digital Commerce Watchdog to oversee this.
Anti-Collective Moral Policing:
No international pressure groups (like Collective Shout or US lobby orgs) get to dictate what the British public can buy, play, or watch.
the_executive_branch@reddit
The class system, generational wealth, land ownership and the monarchy (they’re all interconnected so I’m claiming it as one thing)
Estebesol@reddit
Better funded public services all round.
TheRimz@reddit
Lowering the cost of living and going to a 4 day working week like some other countries
Weaubleau@reddit
It would be nice to not get arrested for an unapproved tweet.
anti-sugar_dependant@reddit
Free public transport. Somewhere in Europe or Scandinavia just made all their public transport free and I think it's a brilliant idea. I'm disabled by an energy limiting disability which means public transport isn't very accessible to me because it uses so much more energy than driving, partly because of all the walking required and partly because it just takes so much longer, but I think free public transport would really benefit most people, and the environment.
First-Mistake9144@reddit
Rent prices (or bills in general) and/or stopping the rich people buying all the properties to rent out so that new buyers actually have a chance.
It’s extremely disheartening knowing that my generation (I’m not even that young anymore) basically cannot ever own house unless they have a good career or get significant inheritance.
My (like many others) rent is so high and it feels like a piece of my soul leaves me every time I hand over that huge monthly check, knowing it’s going straight to my landlord to pay the mortgage and own the property.
I’ve been here years now and paid of a significant chunk of this place for them.
Logic-DL@reddit
English cunts taking Scottish/Irish pound notes.
That's it. Rest can stay, just take my fucking money you wankers.
Air_Fryer_666@reddit
Screw a United Kingdom! Let’s go back to Saxon boarders and have it out ‘Old School’ style, each Kingdom for itself! For Mercia!!!!!!
OhCleo@reddit
Complete NHS overhaul. Adequately funded, full restructure.
Ok-Web1805@reddit
The voting system, so we could vote for what we want rather than vote against what we hate.
1-Xander-1@reddit
nationalisation efforts across the board. nationalise public services. nationalise essential industries. nationalise some of the assets and land held by the aristocracy and shareholders.
ichirin-no-hana@reddit
Driving tests/lessons
It's just insane, all of it
decisiontoohard@reddit
Max income, min (universal) income. Like, fr, what if the maximum you could earn in a year was 3 million pounds? Do you think you'd suffer? Do you think you'd stop working because your earning potential was so low? Do you think you'd stop working because you had just enough money for a frugal life and that's all you wanted? Come now. Let's be real. Let's just do it.
HomelanderApologist@reddit
weather and architecture/general planning
Tokyo81@reddit
I’d put loads more funding into the NHS, but back all the bits sold off to companies that eat up money and give poor results, pay nurses better, especially all those on the Covid frontline with nothing but clapping in way of recognition. Get rid of the law that says you’ll only serve half your sentence for a crime, go after rich tax evaders and not the disabled, elderly or those in poverty. Test less in schools to get rid of teaching to the test and all the endless paperwork that needs to be done to ‘evidence’ that you’re doing your job (that actually stops you teaching and exploring ideas), make all ofsted visits unannounced spot checks so there’s no mad scramble to produce all this meaningless paperwork and create a false picture of the school and just get a more realistic picture of what is actually going on day to day. Reintroduce university grants for bright but poor students. Lots of stuff like that. To fund it I’d raise income tax on the richest and heavily tax any second or third homes, especially buy to let places. Id tax supermarket food wastage (they should all be donating things before they go bad and have to be binned). I’d fund research and try to develop a solid economic future by creating expertise in our young people. I’d also introduce forest school at every grade from reception to year 11 to try and get people outside and more interested in nature. I’d make everyone over 65/70 take an abbreviated driving test every few years and they’d automatically have their license put on hold temporarily if their doctor or optician flagged a condition indicating they might be a danger until they’d proven themselves safe drivers. I’d work with the bbc to use their existing infrastructure to provide online learning courses that you could get a level 1 or 2 (level 2 is GCSE equivalent) qualification in subjects needed in the workplace to try and encourage people to get a bit of extra training and increase the value of the workforce and fill skills gaps.
DelayBasic6443@reddit
Get people to stop being so pitiful about living in the uk. Yes we have problems but on a global scale there's few countries I think beat the uk for living.
Also STOP DUMPING SEWAGE IN LAKE DISTRICT LAKES
DennisTheConvict@reddit
Manchester United would be great again.
The world was always a happier place when Manchester United were great.
Make Manchester United Great Again!
MMUAGA!
Qwaffee@reddit
Way way more council homes. Limit private landlords to one house. People need a secure home to thrive
yuccababy3000@reddit
Prices down, weed decriminalisation, less Racism
rolotonight@reddit
Scruffy cunts growing in numbers.
cesena_@reddit
I’d love to see more diverse housing. I totally understand identical new builds are cheap and we need more homes etc., but man so much of our housing is insanely dull and characterless!
welsh_dragon_roar@reddit
Complete ban on street drinking.
Laser9308@reddit
A lot of people wouldn't like it but...put a massively high tax on petrol and diesel up so driving become more of a luxury commodity. Only emergency vehicles, public services like buses/taxis and delivery companies get a discount on their fuel (to keep the economy going and fail safes for people available that need help).
Both commodities would still be available (not an outright ban) but people would now have to really think if they needed to use their transport. Would you take your car now for a 5 minute drive down to shops if was going to cost you £60, when you could just walk for it free? Or it was cheaper to get the bus?
Use the tax money to improve infrastructure around public transport so people can still get about comfortably, reclaim some of the car parks for natural development or to build new offices to facilitate those who commute long distances for work.
I don't know, something like that. It's become too convenient to drive. Too much traffic. Too many people parking badly as nowhere to park there cars. Too much destroying countryside and parks to widen roads for infrastructure that will soon be redundant as more and more people take to the roads.
constipated_coconut@reddit
The politics..
Leather-Molasses1597@reddit
Mandatory driving tests every 10 years until you're 60, then you should get them every 5 years until you're 70, when it goes to 2 years. To maintain reasonable driving standards, which will keep our pensioners and other people safe as the roads get busier and more unforgiving.
With that, there should be loads more driving test assessors and tests available. I think it's something that would create lots of work for people; work that can not be done by AI.
Bright-Assist5451@reddit
About 20/30 million less people
lemonhaj@reddit
Make it cheaper to buy land if I can prove that I intended to use it to own sheep and not develop housing
Difficult_Narwhal_72@reddit
• Taxes.
• Making people work for their benefits. Cleaning the streets/litter picking, etc (obviously if they're able to)
• Allowing so many migrants into the country who'll contribute nothing.
• The government (instantly)
There's probably more than that but thatll do f9r now.
EitherChannel4874@reddit
Politicians get paid the same as the lowest paid people in their constituency.
LowerObject2985@reddit
Stop the government from using Orwell as an instruction manual and take it as the dire warning it was meant to be.
Stop being the totalitarian government.
Crypto_lift_bro@reddit
Leftism and unelected officials
WelshBen@reddit
The explicit xenophobia
-XeneidoN-@reddit
4 day work week, wider roads on new estates as granted you can't do much about existing, much larger housing as standard with at LEAST a double garage that can fit more than a fiat 500 in, 5% VAT on products, wages that actually match inflation, roads without potholes and derestricted speed limits on motorways, and an Icelandic style immigration system... just to name a few.
Scarboroughwarning@reddit
How does the Icelandic system work?
-XeneidoN-@reddit
Google is your friend.
GotAnyNirnroot@reddit
The fact that 2 people travelling will be cheaper by car, than 95% of train journeys.
The system has failed, and needs to be renationalised.
Lucy_Little_Spoon@reddit
Change all the roads to be more bike friendly, and any drivers that complain lose their license.
Dramatic-Growth1335@reddit
I'd get rid of wasps and VAT on selling hot food and drinks
Joshawott27@reddit
Make it so private citizens cannot own more than two residential addresses. Only councils, housing associations and similar can own more, for the purpose of social housing.
Random_Guy_47@reddit
Every company must pay more than the real living wage for every role. The real living wage will be recalculated monthly and wage rises to keep above the real living wage must be given immediately.
No more paying people poverty wages. No more wage rises once a year while prices go up every week.
Erivandi@reddit
I just don't think we should have royalty in this day and age.
BeckySThump@reddit
Ban American style trucks, SUVs and other massive cars unless you have a legitimate business/locational need for them. We don't have long, wide, straight roads to fit them and most people don't need the damn things.
Emergency_Mistake_44@reddit
Without saying something obvious like national peace, living wage for all or no homelessness - accessible to watch football on Saturdays!
It's mad to me that practically every other country can watch our league's live on a Saturday and we can't. Legally.
Scarboroughwarning@reddit
I'd change unemployment benefit, so that people worked. For me, the loss of routine was mentally taxing, when unemployed. Litter picking, and making the place nicer.
Same for community service (though I think they do this already).
Top-Childhood5030@reddit
North sea oil should have been a wealth fund much like the Norwegians did. It would have given us so much wealth as a nation to make the green transition amongst other things.
CuriousSummer793@reddit
The weather. I’d make it something like this:
March-May = spring. 15-20C, sunny, plenty of rain over night for the plants.
June-September = summer. 20-30C, sunny, minimal rain.
October-November = autumn. 15-20C, sunny, plenty of rain over night (basically the same as spring). Clocks don’t turn back at the end of October, BST lasts all year round.
December-February = winter. 10-15C with occasional colder days with snow. Stays light until at least 6pm every day and gets light again by 7am so we don’t have to commute to work in darkness.
meggylomaniac-93@reddit
Cap the amount of profit companies can make. Anything above the threshold gets either reinvested into the company or gets used as tax to fund things like the NHS, rail travel, road infrastructure. No more hundred thousand pound + bonuses. Cap the amount of money your spouse/children can inherit after your death. Again, anything above the threshold goes to fund public services. No more insane generational wealth for the .5%, better services for everyone.
stonesco@reddit
Encourage greater investment from UK Government and businesses within the UK.
Start by a total change of the tax system. Get rid of things like Stamp duty on stocks and shares to encourage greater foreign investment.
See UK businesses like ARM, which have decided to put its primary stock listing in the US instead of the UK on the LSE. Wise and Astrazenca, are looking at something similar to ARM, in the near future.
coffeewalnut08@reddit
Normalise public transport to greatly reduce the number of cars on the roads
Much_Leader3369@reddit
Reduce taxes/cost of running a pub. I think they are vital parts of community, especially in small towns and villages and it's mad that they are being left to go bust.
gvntlr@reddit
Benefits should cover the necessary things with vouchers. If you want sky TV, alcohol or smokes. Then that should be cash.
CosmicJam13@reddit
Legalise all drugs
Own-Variation-5858@reddit
If the economy was better the UK could be the best country to live in i reckon
lsb1027@reddit
Double salaries (while keeping costs the same) that way people can afford food, rent, enjoy live a little (travel, hobbies) and save for the future
MeetingGunner7330@reddit
Make housing affordable for all
Dull_Banana5349@reddit
Every CEO, Politician, basically any of the wealthy people who have control over so many lives have to spend a month doing the job of their lowest paid worker. They also have to live in a similar environment and on the equivalent wage.
andrewscool101@reddit
I would change the personal allowance for tax to be set exactly at what someone working full time at the national living wage would earn. People shouldn't be taxed on the money they earn to survive.
k7512@reddit
0% tax for people on minimum wage
SilverellaUK@reddit
Your first point. I'm convinced that if the tax threshold was above minimum wage, it would actually save the government more in reduced admin costs than they make in taxes from minimum wage earners.
k7512@reddit
Yep and why should people on a barely living wage be taxed anyway? Tax the millionaires and billionaires instead what do they need all that money for? A multi-millionaire has enough money for multiple generations of their family to live comfortably.
nerd-a-lert@reddit
Tax reform (incentivise people to work and earn more). Lower energy prices - because it will knock on the price of everything. Plus I can’t face another winter of £30 a day to stay barely comfortable.
Krixusssss@reddit
I would extend daylight hours all year round. I love it when it's still light outside at 9pm - makes days feel longer and more valuable.
saxbophone@reddit
The witchunt against trans people is stopped in its tracks. All religion also ceases to exist.
seven-cents@reddit
I'd make hedgerows and copses a law on all farmland, and add connected nature paths across/below motorways to allow for animal migration.
The UK has become an ecological desert.
PsychologySpecific16@reddit
I'd have incredibly informed politicians who didn't lie or mislead (Hello the Treasury and your Defence "increases")
Everything else would get better from there.
Alternatively I'd have a US style speech amendment
Legalise drugs (finances a lot of crime)
I'd also reintroduce the death penalty for people who walk in the middle of the road in the supermarket. If I could have just one. That would be it.
Locktopii@reddit
Rejoin the EU, get rid of the royal family, tax wealth heavily - anything over a certain amount you have a year to spend it (within the UK) or lose it
Rowing_Boatman@reddit
Preferrential voting. Would solve a lot of issues.
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Workers in assorted branches of government being forced to fill in their own forms. Marked by someone outside the organisation.
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Fix Companies House FFS. Too easy to defraud/phoenix/etc
irishgollum@reddit
Don't see dandelions as much nowadays. Bring back the dandelions!!!
cornishwildman76@reddit
Grass lawns are lifeless and require huge amounts of water. Utter waste of time, Have a lawn made up of clover and dandelions. Still soft underfoot and beneficial for the soil and pollinating insects.
rayminm@reddit
Come to my garden, I've got loads of em
FloydEGag@reddit
I don’t know how this would be accomplished but I’d make it so no one was a self-centred, entitled, lacking-in-awareness cunt. Everyone would be much more thoughtful and chilled
BrewDogDrinker@reddit
Stop making London the centre of everything.
Build a new national stadium in Birmingham, like they should have done with the new Wembley.
Cobbdouglas55@reddit
Have proper blinders in each home / hotel
cornishwildman76@reddit
Renationalise public services and rejoin the EU.
ldn6@reddit
Build trams everywhere.
FloydEGag@reddit
I actually love this because I’m now picturing trams literally everywhere. Up the Cairngorms. In the Valleys. All over the south coast. In every village, town and city in the land - trams for all and all for trams!!!
No_Watercress8348@reddit
Bring back flake snow, the twirl knock off doesn’t taste nearly as good.
InnerFaithlessness93@reddit
Public bins should be plentiful. Like every 50-100 meters. I can not stand littering of any kind and will carry my rubbish or dog shit miles if I have to. But, there are people who don't care about the impact of littering but would likely or be more inclined to use a bin if one was provided in the vicinity. There is a massive lack of bins in my area, and the ones that are available dont get emptied enough, so people end up leaving their rubbish near a bin. There are even fewer bins in popular dog walking spots, and surely that is where they are needed the most? I don't condone people leaving their rubbish or dog shit places, but I do understand why people who dont care about the environment or scenery do leave it.
TripleDistance@reddit
Entitlement and taxes
Erheniel@reddit
Get rid or replace CrossCountry trains.
HotBlueberry91@reddit
This will probably he heavily downvoted but I wish we could get rid of football.
I live in Glasgow and old firm days are honestly hell. People drunk at 10am, the littering and destruction after a match, fighting in the street with each other over nothing but what team the other supports.
I know someone who refused to buy a green dinosaur t-shirt his son wanted purely because it was green and he was a rangers supporter. I've also seen people leaving the dance floor when simply the best came on (opposing teams song) even though in that moment it had nothing to do with football and was just a song.
Plus the worst one, domestic violence increases significantly during football season. I don't judge people for having interests and hobbies but I feel sorry for people who make football their whole personality and who's entire lives revolve around 11 men kicking a ball and it genuinely ruins their day/week/month when their team looses then they take it out on everyone else.
letslaughatthis@reddit
I’d make being kind a law.
audigex@reddit
People actually understanding politics and economics and taking a real honest interest in it
A LOT of problems in the UK would be solved if people were economically and politically literate
chloelikeschilli@reddit
Our awful radio stations
Arch-Com_Songster@reddit
Limit social media access to 1 hr per week per person.
mjs5000@reddit
People’s ambivalence towards inequality. Watching the poor siding with the billionaire elite and falling for the right-wing media’s distraction tactics is relentlessly depressing.
bobbyhill227@reddit
I think it was Brian Clough who said the world would be a better place if Rupert Murdoch didn’t exist, I’d go with that
Railuki@reddit
Legalise brothels with requirements for regular STD testing at an interval experts suggest. Require those brothels have security. This is better protection for women, can theoretically regulate easier against sex trafficking and becomes taxable giving more money for things like the NHS.
Same with weed. Legalise it recreationally, tax it.
Health care workers need more protections too. Support workers, carers etc - these jobs are high risk (transmitted diseases, getting insulted by family/ patients, lots of blame the lowest person in the chain of command, overworked, underpaid, often having to work short even if legally there is supposed to be a second person there, putting the carer/ patient at risk. There is a reason there is a high turnover around, I actually think the job takes far too much abuse from inside and outside the medical system).
Dentists getting fairly paid for NHS dental work so that they can actually afford to take on NHS patients.
This is just from the top of my head.
SilverellaUK@reddit
I would provide accommodation for MPs so that they can't claim for a second home. Westminster should only have English representatives with all the home nations having the same purview. Any decisions for the whole of the UK could be taken in video calls. Voting would also be compulsory. It is in Australia.
To_a_Mouse@reddit
I'd instill in everyone from politicians to kids a love of education.
Things have been spiralling for a while and if we were all just that little bit better informed I reckon we could reverse the downward trend.
WatchManWolf2112@reddit
Cost of living - ridiculously expensive here now.
TheClnl@reddit
I'd make it so poppadoms and pickles are an accompaniment to a main course rather than an appetiser.
Don't get me wrong, they're great as they are but they're so much better when you add whatever variety of curry you're having.
StoatofDisarray@reddit
Anyone owning more than two homes in a country with a housing shortage. And if you own a home, you have to live in it.
Honest-Librarian7647@reddit
I'd reinvent toilet paper and make it free to all Brits so that with every wipe we could time travel to a great moment of British empire
greenfence12@reddit
Make the standard working week 4 days / no more than 30 hours. We'd all be so much happier with a 3 day weekend...one day for getting your admin done, two days for enjoying yourself
urghasif@reddit
people going to shops / on the school run in pyjamas. get dressed !!!!!!!!!!
AngelDelight74@reddit
20 degrees sun all year around
CowRepresentative210@reddit
Reduction in house prices, I think this is the root of a lot of the cost of living problems. So much so that any working person can afford a property and a decent standard of living. Wealth tax for very wealthy (not more rich salaried people). Make trains a quarter of the price, all buses free and good service across the country. Get rid of tuition fees for students. Slow down the progress of AI. Rejoin the EU. Sort out the wait times for driving tests. Somehow make the NHS actually work.
JP-Guardian@reddit
Bring back proper snow, like in the olden days
VelikimagCro@reddit
More sunny hot summer days
OsotoViking@reddit
Rejoin the EU.
TheRealNoumenon@reddit
Regrow the trees. It's a desert. And no one seems to care cause it's all they've ever known.
Jolly-Minimum-6641@reddit
Move from single-payer healthcare to universal healthcare, i.e. your NICs and taxes should allow you access to the private system without having to pay much (if anything) extra. It would spread the load more evenly away from the NHS. The vast majority of people in this country are paying for healthcare and barely getting it
Get rid of all these silly leg-up home buying schemes. Pull the rug, watch as most people now can't afford to buy a house and prices fall
appletinicyclone@reddit
Honestly the weather
Being able to titrate the weather to be optimum each season would probably encourage people to go out more
TheSecretIsMarmite@reddit
Public toilets that are not just readily available but nice. I went to NZ last year and there were so many nice public toilets everywhere. Parks, high streets, parking areas, mini shopping malls in small towns, the works. For a country of around 5 million people plus tourists they absolutely nailed it.
Phil1889Blades@reddit
Dump the moaners in the sea. Or make it illegal to post lies on social media.
DistributionRemote65@reddit
Ban men from going outside
EmberizaHortulana@reddit
Bring back Mars Planets
LILXAE12@reddit
Scrapping council tax, allow young people and first time buyers to get onto the property ladder by giving discounts and making moving out and renting easier. Make trains 70% cheaper. Making life easier for those living below the poverty line by giving out UBI and making school lunches and breakfasts free for all school age children. Also limit the amount of private schools and make universities easily accessible
Prestigious-Box-8360@reddit
I’d move the income tax brackets to make sense with inflation, them bringing in higher tier for anyone not earning 6 figures is daft. What’s worse is, people earning £2500 a month are told people earning £3500 are rich when the people earning £100k a month are avoiding the lot
Suspicious_Banana255@reddit
I would stop all the new houses being built on every scrap of greenery in our towns and fields out of town.
martzgregpaul@reddit
Deport all the politicians, journalists and influencers to Rwanda
Specifically_Cat@reddit
And my neighbour, while you’re at it
tutti_frrutti@reddit
Why Rwanda
martzgregpaul@reddit
Weve paid for a load of accomodation. Might as well use it.
ZaharaWiggum@reddit
They have a facility.
FoodByCourts@reddit
Probably get rid of the racism.
Budget_Dot694@reddit
Our attitude. Yes the UK has its problems, as do many other countries. The UK still seems to think we have it the worst.
local_meme_dealer45@reddit
Have a full time worker be able to afford a house and family again.
lesloid@reddit
We would be part of the EU with the freedom to live and work in 27 other countries.
Enigma1984@reddit
We just let things degrade. We build nice places and then let weeds grow through the pavements and leave graffiti on the walls and don't fix broken fences or potholes or cut the grass.
So, money no object. I'd train up teams of guys to out every day to a different area and fix all that stuff. Imagine if just like 20 guys turned up in your street in a lorry with pressure washers and lawnmowers and tarmac and new kerbstones and replacement bins and bits of fence and made the place look decent again, and then 6 months later they did it again. If I ran a council that had infinite money that's the first thing I would do.
tobotic@reddit
End capitalism.
Sycamore481@reddit
And replace it with what? Society needs structure of some kind in order to function. I’m genuinely intrigued as to what set up you think would work better.
tinned_peaches@reddit
Better care homes for the elderly that don’t cost nearly a grand a week to stay in. It’s insane how much elderly care costs compared to the wages of the actual carers.
Additional-End-7688@reddit
The rise of the far right
Skruffbagg@reddit
The weather.
I live in Scotland and it’s fucking freezing in the winter months (Dec, Jan) so my heating bills cost a fortune because my house is full electric.
Summer isn’t the best most years. You get the odd week or 2 of proper sun & heat which makes life far more enjoyable for all, especially the kids. You can go out and do things that don’t cost much money, just being outside us great. Most of the time it’s dull or pissing it down, which means softplays, indoor aquariums, fun fairs, etc. all of which cost a bloody fortune.
Give me balearic weather all year round and I’d be a far happier person.
Fadesintodust@reddit
If I can have one thing it would be to ban astroturf unless it’s for sporting use.
Next would be more trams, more bicycles, a second/third car tax, ban leasehold in its current form, make flats and apartments more desirable to live in in the city, and provide incentives to not tarmac an entire driveway.
Bring in online voting… somehow.
Neat_Issue8569@reddit
Anyone who throws glass bottles on the pavement would automatically have each shard wedged 8 inches into their rectum. It'd save a lot of animal paws from being lacerated and would keep a lot of mobility scooter and bicycle tyres from getting punctured.
Nuclear_Armadildo@reddit
Less bipolar weather making it easier to plan outdoor activities and social gatherings etc
Olliecat10@reddit
This end of town actually had buses that ran more regularly. Not every two hours and shutting down at 6 p.m. I can’t drive (I’m epileptic), so it’s either sprint home like it’s the Bus Olympics… or take a scenic “marathon” walk I never trained for…
Narrow_Ad1119@reddit
Things would be cheaper to the point I could afford a crack habit if I wanted one.
vusiradebe85@reddit
Fewer old fridges, beds and old flatpacks littering front gardens and foot paths. Going to be my Christmas wish this year.
mh1ultramarine@reddit
I will delete the gig economy. All uber eats drivers are now unable to share accounts, must be paid min wage+insurance+phone allowance+ milage fees.
I've may of accidentally solved the immigration crisis too
Gluecagone@reddit
The NHS not being a monopoly employer.
WhyToHide@reddit
I'd change how councils manage their finances - where to spend or cut, better procurement, and overall more public involvement in decision making.
I see so many ridiculous decisions where could have been directed elsewhere, which make me think councils are either highly incompetent or simply corrupt.
BloodWillThicken@reddit
Get rid of anti education and anti aspirational attitude in the white working class. Everyone tries to be the best they can be and celebrates everyone else’s achievements
OptionalQuality789@reddit
High speed fancy ass trains like they have in Japan and China.
No doubt about it.
Asylum_Brews@reddit
If I could take away something or change something not just about the UK, but humanity as a whole, I'd remove greed.
Once you've got enough that you don't need to worry about your finances, how much more money do you actually need? Sure people who are good at their jobs should be suitably remunerated, but once you've bought your mansion and your second Lamborghini, what else would you do with the money? I'd sure as shit run out of things to do before the money ran out.
Tricepesaurus@reddit
Move out the UK. It’s a shit hole
JagoHazzard@reddit
You can just straight-up do that. Nobody’s stopping you.
yorks99no@reddit
Litter
InternationalRide5@reddit
Standardise the recycling bin colours, and what they take, nationwide.
JackDrawsStuff@reddit
Everyone except me is Baywatch era Pamela Anderson.
dazzlerle@reddit
Then you'd have absolutely zero percent chance of getting a shag. No hope whatsoever.
neatcleaver@reddit
The monkey paw curls
Everyone in the UK now lives on the beaches of California
Except you
JackDrawsStuff@reddit
Bliss.
Upset-Elderberry3723@reddit
So you're going to be wearing very baggy trousers forever?
emil_@reddit
Don't think there'd be much trouser wearing in Jacky boy's utopia 😆
Ligeiapoe@reddit
Jack without draws more like!
emil_@reddit
(☞゚ヮ゚)☞
MeatGayzer69@reddit
This is something I would support.
Salty_Nothing5466@reddit
Sounds boring AF but potholes. Instead of paying ridiculous sums for council contractors who just pour tarmac into a hole with no sealing for it to open up again 8 weeks later just do a proper job first time round and save money in the long term. The “buy cheap buy twice” of services like this as well as attitude in general of so many people now being happy with a “not bad” rather than striving for good or even better, great is so disappointing.
Specific-Sundae2530@reddit
Cheaper train travel, and level out the prices so it's cheaper to travel south.
astromech_dj@reddit
Abolish public schools (other than those for learning disabilities etc) and automatically pay the fee as tax for the duration of their child’s state education.
reallygreatnoodles@reddit
Sunday trading hours. The one day of the week that isn't taken up by my 9-5 or trying to have any kind of social life, I have to scramble to do any life admin in a tiny time slot that (shockingly) everybody else is trying to utilise at the same time as well.
CuriousThylacine@reddit
Eh, I'd just leave well enough alone and not meddle. Meddling always has unforseen consequences.
Not_Alpha_Centaurian@reddit
If I only get to change one thing... I'd make it easier to leave. Give me three or four things and we can start talking.
Exxtraa@reddit
I’d make ofgem actually do their job and stop energy companies raising their prices every winter.
East-Ninja-7730@reddit
Better weather. But not too hot as I am a brit and can’t handle the heat unless i’m on my hols and lounging next to the pool lol. But a dry winter would be amazing, with temperatures above minus, lol And a nice long summer would be amazing. At a steady 28/29 C lol. I Don’t ask for much!
sillydog80@reddit
More and cheaper public transport.
dw_80@reddit
Weather. Absolutely the weather. Summer is fine but I hate the cold, damp and dark winters.
lyndseymariepearson@reddit
I would like nicer and warmer lakes for swimming in
InnocentaMN@reddit
Free to access Queen karaoke nights
dejalochaval@reddit
The train fares for the TFL.
Sea-Hour-6063@reddit
Make people take a test to get a vote
Talon-2267@reddit
There’s not corruption per se but there’s a lot of regulator capture and a lack of competition.(eg TicketMaster, Google/Android,landlords & management companies) Also the government is timid and unwilling to do the big infrastructure projects we need.
AzzTheMan@reddit
No social media access. I understand why it can be great and all, but I see my kids (and me too) waste so much time on it. Remember when we had to find other things to kill time? Or go out and interact with people to find things out?
I don't want to be a boring old git, just see people genuinely communicate again
LUNATIC_LEMMING@reddit
rename scunthorpe to solve the scunthope issue once and for all
stwathorpe
zcjp@reddit
I'd make it spring all year round.
Dramatic_Prior_9298@reddit
Other people.
NiceCaterpillar8745@reddit
Probably have more things to do in small towns.
velos85@reddit
Can I say modernisation to cover a lot of areas? The country is quite literally falling apart at the seams, something BIG needs to happen
Fun_Cheesecake_7684@reddit
Like what?
spinningdice@reddit
Get rid of all the wankers.
Hello_Panda99@reddit
More sunshine!
MrOtto47@reddit
my existence in it.
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