Nurseries - how do we pay the people who look after our kids £10 per hour, but the nursery £1200+ a month. They should get PE far far away from owning nurseries. AND childcare in general needs to be subsidised if they want more people in work.
House buying process - how is it easier to pull out of a house sale, than from buying a TV. And why isn't it more of it online? Also stamp duty.
Recruitment - no candidate wants to use a recruitment consultant and no firm wants to pay one. Perhaps for a very senior exec level there is some value but otherwise no.
24/7 News - complete ban on all 24/7 news channels. News gets published at 6am, 12pm and 6pm and that's it, I'm sure everybody can wait 6 hours for the next news bulletin. Daily mail banned from reporting in its articles, the house price, school, or salary of anybody in the article and using any photos they have found online of the person from social media accounts.
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Disagree with pretty much all of the above.
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ROF - the link to next page should be on top AND on bottom
First past the post
Global differences in sizing - let's just have one system
Driving on the left - I mean, seriously?
Pineapple - ANANAS
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Maybe I'm just in a mellow mood, but I agree with all suggestions so far*.
* - Showing at the time I started posting.
(Important caveat just in case some of the more attention-seeky RoFers get in there while I'm typing.)
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I agree with all of londonhead's points
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VAT - regressive tax, get rid. Increase rate on high income, tax wealth and close corporate loopholes
Pineapple > ananas FFS
+1 for house buying
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To be fair, staff ratios at nurseries are 1 to 3 for under 2s and 1 to 4 for under 3s. If staff members are getting paid £11/hr then based on an 8-6 working day 5 days a week plus pension/NI/PAYE etc its going to cost about costs £2,500 per month per staff member. In fact, many staff members are getting paid more than this (£13 or £14 per hour is normal for qualified and experienced nursery staff according to the nanny agency I used). Given other overheads that nurseries have it's not surprising they're pricey.
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I like the ban on 24 hour news. But would go further... I like the thoughts of the founding team at the BBC. They originally wanted the news to never be accompanied by picture or footage. They felt that picture and footage create bias within reporting.
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Whitehall. Get Disco Dom involved.
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Snickers should be re-re-named Marathon.
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Mine should be second, after Tricky's first point.
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No one has touched on the abortion that is the House of Lords - I'm quite happy for it to revert back to the pre- NuLabour hereditary system. It's what Walter Bagehot would have wanted,
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House buying process - how is it easier to pull out of a house sale, than from buying a TV.
Would you want to introduce a pre-contract contract? The Scottish system?
If you're the seller an estate agent worth his salt should weed out buyers who are time-wasters. If you're the buyer then there is more risk of being shafted/gazumped. We could re-introduce the Home Information Pack to shift the balance in favour of the buyer but that wasn't popular. Estate Agents were all up for it until everyone realised that is added an extra hurdle at the outset of each transaction. They didn't really help the buyer who had to pay for his own searches anyway and just added extra cost to the seller. Maybe it could be tweaked but it's not going to happen.
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Why do we have clerics in the house of Lords. Is it just us and Iran who does this sort of thing?
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lol we do it with a bit of class though Lords Spiritual and Temporal
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Hereditary monarchy
Unelected 2nd chamber
First past the post
Brexit
Estate agent commission being a %age of sale
Social care
The existence of the Daily Mail
Cannibis legislation
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I suppose the bishops are there to put a stop to harmful things like Part 2 of the Family Law Act 1996.
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The offside rule
The numbers of estate agents/fast food outlets allowed on one high street
Reform of education syllabus to include basic economics, life skills (cooking,cleaning etc), and more advice on sex/childbirth (esp highlighting realities of waiting too long before trying for a baby)
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Football. Stop heading the ball it gives you brain damage. A tricky one though. If you allow shoulders it might hit your head anyway but I think it can be refined.
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