Bring back
A form of National Serivice.
Not nessacailry a Armed Forces type of service but for a year from the ages of 17-18 young people, Have to take on some form of community service, be working in Hospitals, street cleaning, helping the eldelry, give the option of doing this for a year or two years in the armed forces (including Merchant navy, Peace corps, UN). This would educate people that the world is a much more varied place than their little provincial town.
University aged Students to be housed in their own accomodation, given a allowance and made to pay their own bills, inc gas, elecitity, food, and other living expenses. But not course fees. All students should be given a basic living allowance, and all universities should proivide the accomodation - enough accomodation for the full 3-4 year course (Therby providing jobs and training for Builders, Sparkys, plumbers ect). The University would have to have the buildings designed and build "In house" So student accomodantion dosen't end up looking like stalist Russia.
Teachers to be given the power to discipline children physicaly if applicable...Without the parents consent. Or a Discipline officer. a Ex Army Sergant, who disiplines children by beasting or physical punshment. freeing up the teachers to Teach.
Random drugs test for people claiming any form of benefit. Fail the drugs test your in trouble just as in the workplace. Cannabis to be looked at, on Perscription for pain relif MS,cancer ect.
A long hard look at how the Polital partys are funded, no backhanders, no peerage for perks. Everthinging must be accountable.
A revamp of the Police force. We have enough Officers, but the problem is they spend too much time on paperwork. So as the police officers are all equipped with Backberries, and other media deivies with the prolifeation of CCTV a "secratry" for say eery 4 or 6 officers, who processes the crimes for them, so when the crim is brought into the station a memory stick can be passed over to the secratry to process them.
Large compaines such who expolit loopholes to avoid paying taxes, the MD's to be held accountable to criminal charges, such as Fraud...Vodafone i'm looking at you. If such a company still expoilts loopholes then baliffs to be sent into the millions of town center shops to sieze assets.
The driving test, teach defensive driving, not how to pass a test.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:25, 6 replies)

"disciplines children by beasting"? O_o
That conjures up some horrific mental images.

I take it you meant beating? :)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:28, closed)

Beasting is an army punishment.
I think because it's pretty beastly.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:30, closed)

"Beasting" is a military term
used when giving out remedial Physical Training to those that need breaking down into component parts so that you can re-assemble them better than they were before.

In any other context, this could be seen as shocking
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:41, closed)

Random drugs tests for benefits claimants.
WHat happens when they inevitably fail? Stop their benefits? Out onto the street, a bigger problem than they were.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:32, closed)

true
Clear up the grey areas in the law on protecting property and reasonable force.
within a few years the drug problem would have been subject to social darwinism.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:35, closed)

There's one sentence in that screed...
... that doesn't have a spelling or grammatical mistake. Can you spot it?
(gordonjcp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 18:58, closed)