If you were in charge, what would be the three things you would do?

I agree about faith schools though C of E schools have always been fine. I suppose they'd have to go on the bonfire to make it 'fair' to the extremists.

Soooo, legislation as follows:-

-ban FGM for either gender
-no headscarves or other repressive religious garb
-no acceptance of any religion or culture based on misogyny
-ban solar panel fields which are desecrating the countryside's beauty - wind turbines to follow but not so ugle/urgent
-ban dog mess
-have a general law which meant no lawmaker could enact any sort of national or local legislation which persecutes the public going about their business. (This would make illegal the pursuit of drivers for fines and stop local councils prosecuting old ladies for having a binlid not quite shut.)
-force the BBC to be balanced. The 'Guardian' can carry on as we are not all forced to pay for it

I always thought it would give great pleasure to enact the following:-

-every working person to have their birthday as an extra holiday day
-get rid of the Autumn clock change so we can have an extra hour of light in the evening

Legg55 I can understand why you want to remove management consultants from the NHS but I'm not so sure. Admittedly it was 10 years ago but I met one of these MCs and he had recently done consultancy in an operating theatre. One of his suggestions was that they count all the instruments, dressings etc before an operation and again afterwards to ensure nothing was left inside the patient. I would have thought that was common sense but not in this health authority apparently. In his case it must have been worth his fee.

sorry, bad grammar there, but ykwim I hope

Anyone caught fly-tipping should be made to clear it all up, then taken to the dump and thrown in with their own rubbish.

Put up income tax to pay for social care including convalescent homes after hospital stays and ensure a smooth transition from hospital to convalescence to care at home if needed

Child murderers/rapists should be given life sentences - and life should mean just that, for the rest of their life.

And I agree with the OP

Marpau-- re nose bleeds, my DH was admitted to hospital with a nose bleed which wouldn't stop and was kept in for two days. His blood pressure hit the floor from losing so much blood, so it's not always a trivial thing.

Marpau nosebleeds can be dangerous, if after required First Aid (lean over a bowl, pinch bridge of the nose, if after 20 mins nosebleed hasn't stopped go to Hospital, I have low platelet level & uncontrolled bleeding is dangerous.)

I would get rid of Management Consultants in NHS, recruit Nurses to train & qualify "on the job" instead of having Degree trained Nurses. What was wrong with SRN/SEN System?

Make all Haulage Companies use correct SatNavs not the ones meant for cars/vans.

Life to mean life not a release in 10 years time

I could go on but I agree with some of the other suggestions

Definitely need to start a new political party, Gransnetters for all!!!

Introduce a national basic non profit making funeral. If anyone wants to embellish this in any way feel free to do so totally at their own expense.

I'd concentrate on social care, ensuring that everyone (who has a genuine need!) has access to help, support and company, which would hopefully reduce people ending up in A & E, and so on.
Punishment fitting the crime too, with harsher sentences for drink driving, murder, rape.
Stricter control around drink, and drink related anti social behaviour, with a more relaxed law regarding cannabis use.
More help for the mental health issues, which would hopefully reduce some of the above anti social issues.

Every rapist, paedo and murderer etc locked up til they die

Stop paying pop stars and footballers etc obscene amounts of money

Put all politicians on minimum wage as they just want to do the job for the love and good of the country

sorry GillT57 that comment should have gone under mine lol! I am not computer minded!

Number 2 includes pay rises for nurses too!

Ooooohhh where to start!
1. Bring back policeman on the beat with pay rises
2. Bring back matrons on the wards with it how it was in the 50's with nurses at a desk in the ward (not stood chatting at a "station" outside the ward) limited visiting and quiet wards
3. Life to mean life for murder and serious crimes

Wish I could have more than 3!

No right to buy your Council house/social landlord house until every single person is adequately housed. Automatic sacking of any politician who tells lies. Passing a law that makes it illegal to privatise the NHS , railways and public utilities.

GillT57 Total agreement on faith schools. (And I am a very dedicated Christian)

2] Ban advertising of betting on TV or anywhere. OH! why not? Let's ban betting shops and all that Casino rubbish altogether!

3a] Ban people setting up as "Therapists" with those invented qualifications from amateur organisations and especially ban them from putting dangerously misleading videos (especially about mental illnesses) online, e.g. on You Tube.

3b] People who are cruel to animals or children should be publicly shamed, put in a shop window kind of jail with a big notice giving their name and crime so all can see how evil they are.

I wouldn't ban faith schools, but would insist that the aims and ethos of all religions be taught alongside. It would show that many religions have the same beliefs.

Punishment to fit the crime - littering = litter picking, vandalism = repairing the damage and paying for the materials, tagging = cleaning graffiti

Concentration on victims of crime rather than the rights of the criminal.

About the point of not taking things to a local Tip unless it has been rejected first by a charity shop, I think some people offload to charity shops, when they should have taken their rubbish to the tip in the first place. Apart from that, I agree with most posts on here.

Legalise cannabis for medicinal and recreational use.

Teach a second language from grade 1 (i.e. age 5) through total immersion method ( being bi-lingual is good for the brain, and pre-puberty kids learn another language naturally)

Teach philosophy in schools, also from age 5 (there are simple age-appropriate lessons) This would help with imagination, which needs to be developed in all humans.

marpau oh I do agree with "Employ more triage staff at A&E with the power to send people away if they have complaints which can be dealt with elsewhere." Maybe all those staff nurses who work in clinics taking patients from the waiting area to see the consultant and then waiting around for the next one to go in. Never understood why that couldn't be done by basic admin. Not, of course any clinics where dressing etc need to be done.

Make grumppa P.M.

I would like to abolish war, disease and povetty worldwide, but if I couldn't manage all that I'd replace FPTP by PR for all elections, send all children to integrated schools and cancel brexit.

GillT57
I agree with you on banning of religious schools and that religion should not have a part in any school
There should be code of conduct what one wears to school as there is far too much' you and us' in the world.

Make power generation from renewable resources compulsory.

Stop CEOs of big businesses getting huge and undeserved bonuses

Prosecute and retrieve the money from those businessmen who have milked their organisations and left their workers with no pensions.

Transportation to Van Dieman's Land or Botany Bay of all those people who would use their power to ban something or someone.

That's enough from me.

Limit unemployment benefit to 6 months. Then maybe at 50% for a further 6 months. Then stop.
Reduce all first degree courses to 2 years. Students should study for at least46 weeks a year and it would make university education more affordable.
Use prisoners for litter clearance along roadsides and in the countryside like other countries do.