|
Home Office Prisons need to be run for the rehabilitation of criminals, not for profits, therefore all of the current prisons and internment camps for refugees and asylum seekers should be government run, those currently being run incompetently and expensively by the private sector should be shut down. Less people should be sent to prison and the prisons should be Spartan places promoting comtemplation and offering services such as the eradication of drug addiction. Foreign Policy Export Credit guarantees should be abolished forthwith. It's not the place of the British tax payer to fund arms exports to dodgy third world despotisms, the only real use for export credit gurantees. Health Hospitals should be handed back to consultants, who actually know what they're doing, they shouldn't be in the hands of businessmen. More medical secretaries are needed. We should stop poaching third world nurses, but that means training more ourselves. Cleaning needs to be brought back in-house. Catering is very important, nutritious food is necessary for those recovering from operations and ready meals cooked twice in the factory, driven across the country and then heated up in the hospital kitchen and again on the ward have been scientifically proven to have little nutritional value. Something like 10% of hospital patients are released with malnutrition. People don't realise how important ancillary services are.
I've always been very fond of the system of examinations currently used in music, soon to be abolished of course, and think it should be introduced for all subjects. The current agglomeration of course work and subjectively marked working is pointless and biased. Beyond teaching people not to trust authority, admittedly a valuable lesson, it is worthless. Transport The Minister for Transport is a Scot. The Transport in Scotland is handled by the Scottish Executive, not by HMG or the Ministry. Therefore the Scots get a good transport service while we get lumbered with a system run by a Saxon-hating Scotman. Defence See the book "Lions, Donkeys and dinosaurs". Local Government I'm rather against local government. It's undemocratic, like the European Union, because no-one votes for it. If we must have a respresentative democracy at local level then have the election at the same time as the general election when people will be more likely to vote because they'll be at the polls anyway. They's the idea, though, isn't it. Destroy democracy through apathy. A poor man's fascism. It would be better to have district councils chosen by lot and county councils chosen by district councils. That would be democratic. Normal people, not political cliques, running local areas. They should also abolish all the Primary Care Trusts and Local Education Authority and put their former powers into the hands of the new democratic authorities. Culture Media and Sport Should be abolished, really. But not until it gives the BBC more money (I don't like the regressive licence fee, being poor, perhaps funding through a tax on all the other media outlets in the country would be a good idea, to fund the BBC or at least to lessen the burden of the licence fee). And not until it solves the current Olympic madness (which, as everyone predicted but the government denied, will indeed be paid for through General Taxation, not from the London Council Tax). Tell the massively corrupt Olympians to fuck off back to Greece. Trade and Industry NEed to regulate things properly. DWP Having had much experience, as a dole scrounger, I know how incompetent they are. Once I was left waiting many minutes to sign on while some workers their, female of course, discussed the hats they would be wearing to Ascot. How much are these people paid? Far too much. They're just as much parasites as any dole-scrounger, they just get more money for less work.
|