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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ? 
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere ! "
I'll say it before it gets said...
Stay in the EU  |
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By *ammskiMan
over a year ago
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere !
I'll say it before it gets said...
Stay in the EU "
Get out of the EU |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere !
I'll say it before it gets said...
Stay in the EU "
Now that is Crazy !!!
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By *ammskiMan
over a year ago
lytham st.annes |
"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere !
I'll say it before it gets said...
Stay in the EU "
Get out of the EU |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"UBI Universal basic income. 
What's that then ?"
The idea is that a monthly income should be paid, unconditionally, to either every resident citizen or legal resident, perhaps with legal migrants required to wait before qualifying. At the moment, Finland’s pilot is receiving global attention. It is not a true basic income experiment, which is not to imply it will have no value. Instead, 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 have started to receive €560 (£475) as a tax-free monthly unconditional benefit, paid for two years. It will not be reduced if they earn income, and they will not be obliged to search for jobs. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres."
That might be a bit to Senseible |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"UBI Universal basic income.
What's that then ?The idea is that a monthly income should be paid, unconditionally, to either every resident citizen or legal resident, perhaps with legal migrants required to wait before qualifying. At the moment, Finland’s pilot is receiving global attention. It is not a true basic income experiment, which is not to imply it will have no value. Instead, 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 have started to receive €560 (£475) as a tax-free monthly unconditional benefit, paid for two years. It will not be reduced if they earn income, and they will not be obliged to search for jobs."
That Qualifys
That is Crazy |
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres.
That might be a bit to Senseible "
I agree with almost all of this but I don't think its a problem with engineering knowledge. It's a political issue. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Completely scrap the military and then bring in a 2 year national service for every man under 50 who will be expected to defend.... You want a country to say is yours, then expect to defend it with your life!.
Inheritance tax to 95% for everyone... You wanna help your kids, do it while your alive.
Decriminalise all drugs, make them available legally by the state, heroin is actually very very very cheap to make, were just putting billions of profit into cunts hands with the current system.
Ban all cars from city centres and rebuild proper infrastructure inside with trams, buses, bikes free of charge.
Mandate that for every house built there must be a % of free land also, parks, open spaces, nature reserves and allotments inside housing developments.
Return eduction to actually being about education and not about certificates and grades.
Return free university places for the brightest 20% and scrap the rest, we don't need four million sports phycologists or media studies get them into tech colleges learning real skills |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres.
That might be a bit to Senseible
I agree with almost all of this but I don't think its a problem with engineering knowledge. It's a political issue."
True, though it never hurts to get those who made a pretty good hash of it first time round to give a master class so to speak. Nothing wrong with ensuring big infrastructure projects are executed with as much knowledge as possible. |
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres.
That might be a bit to Senseible
I agree with almost all of this but I don't think its a problem with engineering knowledge. It's a political issue."
And a funding issue, would cost billions. |
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres."
One way to ease congestion on roads and motorways around the Midlands area would be to nationalise the M6 toll road. The infrastructure is already there in place it's a quick fix all it needs is government to nationalise it.
The M6 toll road is a bit of a white elephant, it is underused and no where near capacity that the builders and investors in the project hoped it would generate. People just don't want to pay the toll fee (understandable as motorists are already hit hard with road tax and VAT on fuel) and so the old M6 and the M5 is still terribly congested around Birmingham. The M6 toll has been a failure. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Get whoever designed the bullet train networks in japan and singapore to this country to teach british engineers and infastructure planners how to create an effective national network.
Keep them nationalised to keep the cost free/low.
That it is just as effective to go scotland to london by train rather plane. Cross country travel would be easier aswell.
Oh and they are faster so put more carridges on the line and have a higher turn around, hopefully it wpuld encourage use of public transport and cut back on horrendous tailback on motorways and in city centres.
One way to ease congestion on roads and motorways around the Midlands area would be to nationalise the M6 toll road. The infrastructure is already there in place it's a quick fix all it needs is government to nationalise it.
The M6 toll road is a bit of a white elephant, it is underused and no where near capacity that the builders and investors in the project hoped it would generate. People just don't want to pay the toll fee (understandable as motorists are already hit hard with road tax and VAT on fuel) and so the old M6 and the M5 is still terribly congested around Birmingham. The M6 toll has been a failure. "
Sounds good, but I'm really concerned with what I see up at my end. Regulars who often commute from Leeds to Manchester, Warrington, Hull, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, everyday, just to get to work by train cause cars and insurance are just as bad.
But way to solve that is to improve rail infrastructure. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The bullet trains and Frances tgv is old hat.
Maglef is already being rolled out across Japan, were talking 500mph trains that are nearly impossible to derail.
That's my biggest gripe with hs2, if we're gonna do it, do it big |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The bullet trains and Frances tgv is old hat.
Maglef is already being rolled out across Japan, were talking 500mph trains that are nearly impossible to derail.
That's my biggest gripe with hs2, if we're gonna do it, do it big"
Thanks you just found what I was looking for. I was literally sat here going what's that thing that's faster than bullet trains...
But yes, maglef would be perfect. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Slow Burner this thread
But I see it's catching on
All Carparks to be free and traffic and council wardens to be a singed street cleaning duties
Wheel Clampers to be Clamped in Chains
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Make all wages equal, from the P.M. to cleaners. All workers receive exactly the same yearly salary and no expense accounts.
Now that is quite a thought!"
All wages being equal is something I actually disagree with - lovely idea, but lets face it, offering better wages for certain job which require more seniority, experience or certain skills and talents gives people a desire to better themselves.
That said, certain wages need to be brought up to match cost of living, and others should be brought down - quite frankly NHS nurses and those who are the boots on the ground for our public services should get more pay than a hedge fun manager tbh.
AS for stuff like PM and MP wages.
How about someone works out a formula so they get paid the national average wage and then get hit by a penalty of a certain percent depending on the numbers of people that are over 18 who are not in education, training, or in full time contracted work across the country? |
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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago
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"UBI Universal basic income.
What's that then ?The idea is that a monthly income should be paid, unconditionally, to either every resident citizen or legal resident, perhaps with legal migrants required to wait before qualifying. At the moment, Finland’s pilot is receiving global attention. It is not a true basic income experiment, which is not to imply it will have no value. Instead, 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 have started to receive €560 (£475) as a tax-free monthly unconditional benefit, paid for two years. It will not be reduced if they earn income, and they will not be obliged to search for jobs."
Why are they doing it with only unemployed people if its an experiment in Universal Basic Income? And what is the experiment trying to find out? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"UBI Universal basic income.
What's that then ?The idea is that a monthly income should be paid, unconditionally, to either every resident citizen or legal resident, perhaps with legal migrants required to wait before qualifying. At the moment, Finland’s pilot is receiving global attention. It is not a true basic income experiment, which is not to imply it will have no value. Instead, 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 have started to receive €560 (£475) as a tax-free monthly unconditional benefit, paid for two years. It will not be reduced if they earn income, and they will not be obliged to search for jobs.
Why are they doing it with only unemployed people if its an experiment in Universal Basic Income? And what is the experiment trying to find out?"
If you're interested 20 mins on google will answer your questions. |
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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago
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"UBI Universal basic income.
What's that then ?The idea is that a monthly income should be paid, unconditionally, to either every resident citizen or legal resident, perhaps with legal migrants required to wait before qualifying. At the moment, Finland’s pilot is receiving global attention. It is not a true basic income experiment, which is not to imply it will have no value. Instead, 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 have started to receive €560 (£475) as a tax-free monthly unconditional benefit, paid for two years. It will not be reduced if they earn income, and they will not be obliged to search for jobs.
Why are they doing it with only unemployed people if its an experiment in Universal Basic Income? And what is the experiment trying to find out?If you're interested 20 mins on google will answer your questions. "
From what I've read this replaces existing benefits, and is only being experimented on the unemployed.
I'm not sure what the Finnish hope to gain from the experiment; it's also on a very small sample of people. It sounds like people are not getting any more, nor any less, than they get at the moment on unemployment benefit - so where is the incentive to get back into work?
If this was expanded to everyone, unemployed or employed, then I would imagine the tax implications would be enormous.
Having said that, I can see that we (as a society) need to do something with the more automation that is coming our way over the next couple of generations - which would effectively mean paying people to be unemployed, but would also mean that we would have to tax companies for becoming more productive? Kind of a Catch 22 situation.
The other way, of course, would be to reduce the working week to, say 24 hours, and have a maximum working week of say 30 hours - whilst being paid the same as a 40 hour week. Thus allowing more people more leisure time, but requiring more people to be employed to do the traditional 40 - 48 hour week. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere ! "
can we first have regular on time buses and trains before they become free, or is that an impossible wish in the UK |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere !
can we first have regular on time buses and trains before they become free, or is that an impossible wish in the UK"
It's Impossible !!! But a Nice idea |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What crazy ideas can you think of to help this country , that sound impossible but may just work ?
Il Start lol
Free Train And Bus Travel for All , unlimited anywhere !
can we first have regular on time buses and trains before they become free, or is that an impossible wish in the UK
It's Impossible !!! But a Nice idea "
a nice wish & dream too, but perhaps a fantasy too far |
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