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Over-75s shouldnt have to sit in A&E for 9 hours because they cant get a GP appointment
My neighbour Frank is 81. Last month he had chest pains at 8am. He rang his GP at 8:00 on the dot, 8:01, 8:02, 8:03. By 8:20 he got through and was told there were no appointments left. The receptionist, who was very sorry, suggested he go
Kids need digital literacy not just bans
I propose we introduce compulsory digital literacy classes in schools to teach children how to navigate social media safely and critically. This is needed because simply restricting access to social media won't address the underlying issues
Abolish SATs. They measure nothing that matters and damage the children taking them.
I have watched ten year olds cry in the toilets before a SATs paper. I have watched bright, curious kids start to hate school in year six because for months everything they do is either "practice" or "performance". I have watched schools r
End Greedy Landlordism Now
I'm so fed up with seeing families in Hebden Bridge struggling to find a decent place to live, all because some wealthy investor is more interested in making a quick buck than in providing a home for people who need it. I've seen it firstha
Simplify Research Funding, Not a Free-for-All
I understand the frustration with the current research funding system, it's a bureaucratic nightmare that can stifle innovation and waste valuable time. However, I'm not convinced that simply handing over a large sum of money to top univers
Why are we still pretending sanctions actually work? Time for a different tack.
When did we decide that crippling a nation's economy with sanctions was somehow a more effective tool than, say, talking to them? It feels like we’ve been doing this for decades with predictably dismal results, only now with added complexit
Less Red Tape, Better Diplomats
Appointing ambassadors and senior diplomatic staff is currently bogged down in layers of bureaucracy and political patronage. We need to streamline this process, not add more committees. The focus should be on meritocracy and efficiency, no
Enough is enough – our own citizens deserve priority!
It beggars belief that we continue to pour vast sums into international aid and the upkeep of systems that seem to benefit everyone but the people of this country. I see it all the time with the youngsters I used to teach; a generation let
Stop outsourcing critical public services to Capita, Serco and friends. They keep failing. We keep paying.
A non-exhaustive list of things Capita has been paid large sums of public money to mess up: Army recruitment. The contract was so badly managed that recruitment fell by 30% in the first year. They kept the contract. Teachers pensions. The
Enough with the hand-wringing, just lock 'em up for violent crime.
Why do we keep shuffling petty criminals around instead of dealing with the real problem? All this talk of rehabilitation for people who've smashed someone's face in or burgled old ladies is a waste of time and money. They need to know ther
Enough is Enough! Stop Builders Rushing Houses On Our Green Belt
We need to freeze all new housing developments on designated green belt land immediately. This isn't about stopping people from getting homes, it's about protecting the areas we have left before they're all gone. Developers are just land-ba
Should we really be telling developing countries how to run their economies?
What's the point of giving aid if we attach so many strings that it ends up being more about us than them? We often hand over money with all these conditions about market liberalisation, austerity, and so on, supposedly to make them more 's
Scrap the planning permission nightmare
I'm proposing that we drastically simplify the planning permission process to get more houses built quickly. This is needed because the current system is a mess, it's slow, and it's a major barrier to getting new homes built, which is why w
Give Small Pubs a Break
I was talking to my regulars the other day and one of them mentioned how his mate's pub in Sutton Coldfield is struggling to stay afloat due to high business rates. It's a shame because that pub has been a staple of the community for years,
Stop wasting money on foreign wars, fund Britain instead
This junior doctor bloke has got a point about where the money goes, but he's looking at it all wrong. It’s not about selling weapons, it’s about the government pouring billions into pointless conflicts and foreign aid that never seems to h
A five-year ban on former ministers lobbying their own department, with real enforcement
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) is a fig leaf. It has no statutory powers. It can be ignored, and regularly is. When a former minister takes a lobbying role that touches their old brief, the committee issues a polite
Defence spending needs a reboot
I think we should introduce a zero-based budgeting approach to defence spending, where every line item has to be justified from scratch each year. This is needed because it's clear that our current approach to defence spending is inefficien
UK must prioritize national security loans
I'm getting a bit tired of these loan schemes that seem to benefit everyone but our own country, to be honest. We've got our own issues to deal with, what with the state of our economy and the pressure on our public services. It's all well
Green Homes, Brighter Futures: Tackling the Root Causes of Inequality
The idea of investing in our neighbourhoods is spot on, but I think we need to be smarter about where that investment goes. Focusing solely on green energy infrastructure, while good, misses a crucial piece of the puzzle for people in commu
Enough is Enough: Let's End the Bureaucratic Nightmare of Universal Credit
I was talking to my neighbour, Dave, the other day. He's a good chap, worked in construction his whole life, but he had a bad fall last year and can't do his old job anymore. He’s been trying to get Universal Credit sorted for months. The a
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