[Closed] If I could change anything fundamental in British Society

Your the next PM aren't you.

My change would be much more fundamental. I'd do away with Britain.

Just one.

I want to get people to realise that society is a thing. Society needs to work to help everyone get what they need. We need to look after each other instead of competing and fighting. Government therefore needs to support this aim. To be honest, I think most people feel this way (look at opinions on higher taxes for 'fat cats') but somehow since the 80s the public has been conned into voting against their own interests. This is what I would change.

And you could start to change it with something as simple as PR.

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My change would be much more fundamental. I’d do away with Britain.

Like, sink it? The whole island? 😆 A tad harsh!

I’d make it legal to taser your own children*

The cheeky little  blighters.

*not other  peoples. I’m not a monster.

a) comment on my proposals, or

For the love of God, wont you think of all the middle class homeowners who would instantly loose %50 of the value of their homes?

I'd ban ready salted crisps.

It's not that I hate them. It's just it's a core part of British Society and so boring. So much so that a lot of shops will only stock boring crisps because few are adventurous enough to try decent flavours.

I'd add - the state not funding private school places for SEN pupils.

Locally it costs £80,000 + £20,000 transportation to send a pupil to a private school 12 miles away as a day pupil and £250,000 residential. A state school woudl receive approx £20k for a day pupil. Unsurprisingly, the state provision is not as well resourced.

3. Gather all schools in a region under a single board of publically-elected trustees

I'd rather not politicise the running of schools any more than it is.

4. Resources to be allotted to the whole educational region instead of to individual schools

Where are you putting your boundaries? You'll still end up with inequality for communities straddling the boundary...

5. All school estates to be equally provisioned in terms of facilities

Not feasible? An secondary school in a city likely won't have room for 5 (or maybe even 1) football pitches.

It actually makes sense (to me) to concentrate your (very) SEN provision in a few centres of excellence. That way kids with those needs can get the help they deserve, not a half-arsed go from their local school.

As for my ideas to shake things up a bit...

Remove NI + a flat rate of tax on all income/capital gains, no matter how derived.

Base local taxation on income instead of the value of your house 25 years ago

Create a federal UK government (based somewhere in the north), with assemblies/existing arrangements for all the nations.

Everybody gets a taser. One shot a month. Use it wisely

Locally it costs £80,000 + £20,000 transportation to send a pupil to a private school 12 miles away as a day pupil and £250,000 residential.

What schools that? Not seen any annual rates anywhere near that, unless you mean total but then that figures too low.

I agree though- education needs and overhaul.
It's failing kids and knock on effect on our society is evident.
The failure will keep trickling down effecting generations to come.
There is so much missing from the curriculum that could easily be slotted in by replacing the pointless parts.

I think the way a pupil is assess also needs to change. This emphasis on a few crucial exams and limited coursework is no reflection of the real world or somebodies intelligence.

As someone who used to work for a pretty major player in the provision of private schools for ASD / SEBD pupils I couldn't agree more. When I started I was very enthusiastic about the opportunities we were providing for very vulnerable people and don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic people at the front line. However, as I started to ask for more IT provision in the schools I soon came to realise that the bottom line is the prime factor by some way. I now have a completely different view of state funding for private SEN education.

In line with the responses since wwasw's post I should add that I did see the charges for day pupils and residential and they are eye watering. If you go to the school's website and download the Ofsted report it will contain the fees. For day pupils the rate for one school was £45,000 to £85,000 per annum and £50,000 to £90,000 per annum at another.

I'm sure education is the right place to start. Providing it's the right kind of education. I have no kids though. What would STW parents like to see?

Robust behavioural standards, applied nationally (not per school), with consistent reinforcement which holds children and ultimately parents accountable.

My partner is a high school teacher, the levels of daily abuse she puts up with is very troubling to me. It's not tolerated in many other places such as the NHS etc. So why schools?

What schools that? Not seen any annual rates anywhere near that, unless you mean total but then that figures too low.

I think it best not to say but they're genuine figures used in cases at the High Court when parents have appealed the LA school's suitability for their child.

Can I add a 2a please? Remove [u]all[/u] religious education from schools. If the parents want to go down that path they can but there's no place for it within the state education system. Other than that, I'd be voting for you OP.

I suppose the removal of religious education within schools may also remove christmas as an annual source of landfill.

My partner is a high school teacher, the levels of daily abuse she puts up with is very troubling to me.

Wouldn’t be a problem if she had a taser.

Provide educational region-wide mass transport

One of the things the USA gets right.

Back in the 60s, schools did better at sharing facilities. e.g. there was a south london education board rowing club on the thames where students would row, in place of school based sports.
I'd be surprised if (m)any state schools do rowing now. The point being that one school can;t be expected to pay for a rowing club - but per county it probably is manageable. Pooling resources on a location base makes sense.

Remove charitable status of private schools

Are you aware that this applies to the great many language schools in the country. Here in Brighton they bring in a great deal of overseas income. Not only that having met a great many students studying here they like to spend when they are here. It's also a good source of income for a great many host families and many kids here then get to meet and build relationships with people from all over the world. If they are a charitable trust then all surpluses are reinvested.

While I find the apparent subsidy of private schools highly unpalatable it's important to realise that it might not be as simple and beneficial to remove charitable status as you think.

My change would be much more fundamental. I’d do away with Britain

If only the English had been able to vote on Scottish independence `:-)

I think the issue with charitable status is that a lot of private schools are just run as not for profit businesses. They undertake very little 'charitable' work in their communities and purely use their charitable status to avoid taxation.

If they genuinely were workign to widen education opportunities for all or had clear charitable goals that they were meeting it might be different.

'being a school' is insufficient grounds for being a charity, imo.

I'd be really tempted to ban social media and restrict internet access . I think the detrimental impact of these on society and mental health is quite large these days.

In education:
I'd make pay and funding come from central government to remove the burden from local council finances.
Also publish the truth about behaviour, so it's not anecdotal. Have free morning sessions to try and engage whole families and estranged parents (obvious exceptions apply)
I'd also drag parents in to watch CCTV of their children, we had a feral pack hunt a single child earlier this week. 90% of those kids a nice kids but in a mob they would have seriously damages the lone child.

a lot of shops will only stock boring crisps

Have you bought crisps abroad? God help you if you don't like paprika whatever the **** that is. Britain is the crisp capital of the world and it's important to recognise the role of ready salted as a cornerstone of that.

I think the issue with charitable status is that

People misunderstand what it means, it doesn't mean you are a charity but a not for profit organisation given the same tax rules as a charity. It does need sorting out but it needs to be done in a way not detrimental to those schools like language schools who do bring a benefit to the wider community.

The Charities Act defines a charity as an institution that’s established for a charitable purpose and “provides benefit to the public”. While the remit of the “advancement of education” means private schools fall into this category, you would be forgiven for balking at it. Rather than providing “benefit to the public”, modern private schools too often actively harm it, giving a tiny minority of already advantaged offspring a further leg up at the expense of already disadvantaged children.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/16/private-schools-charitable-status-strip-benefits

Probably says all that I would on this subject.

In line with the responses since wwasw’s post I should add that I did see the charges for day pupils and residential and they are eye watering. If you go to the school’s website and download the Ofsted report it will contain the fees. For day pupils the rate for one school was £45,000 to £85,000 per annum and £50,000 to £90,000 per annum at another.

Quick look at the infamous boarding schools (Harrow, Eton, Rugby, Wellington, Marlborough, Cheltenham, etc.), none of their boarding fees are above £85,000 per annum. That's a far cry from £250,000. Not arguing at all, I just can't find any schools with these fees and curios to see what sort of school it is.

For what it's worth, our local boarding school does a huge amount in the community. They saved a local youth club that was about to shut down. Refurbished it and bought lots of new kit, plus saving some jobs. The local council had given up on it years ago. They also provided resources to a local failing state school that was in urgent need. They didn't print their name across either and both happened behind the scenes. There's also a few other large projects they've been working, including running a couple schools in Africa.

Probably says all that I would on this subject.

I agree totally but if you want to change things it has to be done in away that protects similar institutions that do provide a benefit to the wider community.

A written constitution would be nice.

I'd want it to be possible to pay for private health care and opt out of the NHS. *runs and hides*

After the war, there was a real sense of hope and optimism for many people. Partly that was a reaction to the preceding deprivations, but there was also a collective spirit to improve things for everyone.
I'd like that to come back, as I don't think you can achieve much from an atomised culture of pessimism.

cokie - I made the point these were Special Needs schools - costs are far higher.

LA's fund SEN schools at twice to three times a standard per pupil rate and the same is true for the private sector.

(so your £80k for a private boarder would multiply up as I said)

What would STW parents like to see?

I saw it and took my two kids to Sweden, and I don't mean on holiday 🙂

I’d do away with Britain.

Won't be long before that happens anyway.

cokie – I made the point these were Special Needs schools – costs are far higher.

LA’s fund SEN schools at twice to three times a standard per pupil rate and the same is true for the private sector.

(so your £80k for a private boarder would multiply up as I said)

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Ah, got you- thanks.
Didn't know what SEN stood for.

On another note, I think we need culture shift to put family and community at the heart of society. I spend a fair bit of time in Switzerland and it just works so well. People don't spend the day with smartphones glued to their hands. Families spend lots of time together. Through taxation your local community gets to visit and decide where it get's spent. People take pride in where they live. Most retail shops shut sundays. They fund out door related activities. It's lovely!
I would have moved there already had it not been for my other half.

The UK seems to be really egocentric and revolving around an instant gratification society. It's amazing how much poverty there is in the UK, considering it's the 5th largest economy. The divide seems to be growing.

The BBC was used after WW11 to spread ideas about modern farming through The Archers so I would use the media to educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities equally. A fair chunk of the education would be produced for new arrivals in Britain, for which I would even commission programme makers from the Middle east and the sub-continent to ensure relevance.

scuttler

Britain is the crisp capital of the world and it’s important to recognise the role of ready salted as a cornerstone of that.

Mr Tayto would like a word.

My own change would be to modernise and overhaul parliament and our voting system. I am forced to tactically vote for labour if I don't want a tory MP. There is precisely zero percent chance anybody else could get in.

6. Provide educational region-wide mass transport, and so eliminate parents taking their children to school

So we can't walk or cycle our children to school any more?? In what weird world is this a good idea???

I'd go further than just removing charitable status from private schools and and instead make it illegal to charge for providing education to under-18s.

6. Provide educational region-wide mass transport, and so eliminate parents taking their children to school

So we can’t walk or cycle our children to school any more?? In what weird world is this a good idea???

I assume the OP meant eliminate the need for parents to take their children to school? You'd still be free to walk/cycle/drive your child to school, but there'd be another (free) option.

Alot of the education stuff seems to be quite English?

I'd change foreigners coming over here and making sweeping assumptions that England represents the whole of the Britain...

All that and you suggest a board if trustees as some kind of solution...

Get rid of those subsidy junky whinging Scots.

Cut them loose into the wide world and the embrace of the EU.

And if we can persuade those pesky northerners to join them, so much the better. Then we could use the existing border wall. Hard border? No problem, here's one we prepared earlier...

That'll teach them to mess with the empire.

England represents the whole of the Britain

By population, it pretty much does. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are just a rounding error.

*runs*

Get rid of those subsidy junky whinging Scots.

Cut them loose into the wide world and the embrace of the EU.

And if we can persuade those pesky northerners to join them, so much the better.

As a pesky northerner, I'm up for that.

I'd make it law that the first drink you buy in a pub has to be a nice pint of bitter, and that you have to drink it before you can order anything else.

It sorts out the 'Carling' pubs and the 'trendy' wine bars at the same time.

Replace corp tax (a tax on profits) with a smaller sales tax (a tax on revenues). Perhaps with a small business exemption. Hello dear multinationals whose profits are made offshore 🙂

Make one house of parliament PR using Webster method (favours smaller parties). Other one could be FPTP as now or perhaps more like the US Senate (X seats per region).

Make carbon credits cost at least as much as it costs to clean up emissions. Extend to other forms of emissions too and make sure domestic fuel is properly included.Also tax aviation fuel, with EU wide agreement so you can't just arrive half full and not refuel.

id ban the use of 'no comment' as allowable 'tactics' in a police interview. if you can't say where you were at a certain time or whether you were with 'machete bob' or not last night, then its automatically an admission of guilt.

oh and id also ban teenagers talking like yardies. shoot em all i say.

I'd ban dog owners, music snobs and 'mild cheddar'.

Get rid of those subsidy junky whinging Scots.

Cut them loose into the wide world and the embrace of the EU.

And if we can persuade those pesky northerners to join them, so much the better. Then we could use the existing border wall. Hard border? No problem, here’s one we prepared earlier…

That’ll teach them to mess with the empire.

#haterz

If I could change one thing it would be the attitude to litter. Far too many people happy just to chuck stuff away rather than walk a few yards to a bin. Smokers are certainly the worst but so many other selfish people out there too.

Remove all religious education from schools.

As an atheist I vehemently disgree with this.

1) Religion is a massive component in current affairs. Do you want your kids hearing Daily Mail style rumours about Islam being a violent religion? Or do you want them properly educated about Islam? You won't understand what you see on the news about the Middle East unless you understand at least a bit about Islam. Fear comes from ignorance, hate comes from fear.

2) Likewise, religion and human history are totally intertwined, and very little of history makes much sense if you don't understand the religious aspect.

I would:

* Legalise smack
* Make booze and cigerrettes tax free
* Triple the size of the Royal Navy
* Conscript all Brexit voters of fighting age
* Start a war with France
* Annex Brittany and make Britain Great Again.

Alot of the education

Teh ironing!

 id ban the use of ‘no comment’ as allowable ‘tactics’ in a police interview. if you can’t say where you were at a certain time or whether you were with ‘machete bob’ or not last night, then its automatically an admission of guilt.

No comment is the only form of defence you have these days when under questioning, tell them **** all is the best option.

Independant body to measure media accuracy that has to be displayed at all times for telly news and on the front cover of every newspaper

Like the traffic light system on food labelling

I would revise the Tax and NI contribution systems.

Its an outdated model unfit for a *cough* modern society.

I’d then apply a higher rate Tax to those who want, and subsequently have, kids. This would fund an education system for them. And reduce the population at the same time.

Those that don’t have kids, don’t pay.

May keep a few more dicks in pants I reckon, and reduce the planets burdon of mass human population explosion.

As an atheist I vehemently disgree with this.
1) Religion is a massive component in current affairs. Do you want your kids hearing Daily Mail style rumours about Islam being a violent religion? Or do you want them properly educated about Islam? You won’t understand what you see on the news about the Middle East unless you understand at least a bit about Islam. Fear comes from ignorance, hate comes from fear.
2) Likewise, religion and human history are totally intertwined, and very little of history makes much sense if you don’t understand the religious aspect.

I would roll RE together with history and call it "Social Studies" like they do in North America. I would say teach ABOUT religion; just don't teach religion... if that makes any sense.

But instead of calling it "Social Studies" can we call it "Human Stupidity Studies"?

I’d then apply a higher rate Tax to those who want, and subsequently have, kids. This would fund an education system for them. And reduce the population at the same time.

Those that don’t have kids, don’t pay.

And remove the state pension from anyone who doesn't have children

What about two rates of tax, one - you get to retire. The lower rate, you get dragged out onto the street in the middle of the night and gassed in a van before you get to retire.

Pensioners are work shy benefits claimants.

I would say teach ABOUT religion; just don’t teach religion

I think that's pretty much how it goes, isn't it? When I did RE many years ago it wasn't anything like a sermon.

I’d then apply a higher rate Tax to those who want, and subsequently have, kids. This would fund an education system for them.

Terrible idea and not fair. If you don't have kids you still drive on the roads and use the hospitals etc funded by taxing the economic activities of other people's kids.

What about two rates of tax, one – you get to retire. The lower rate, you get dragged out onto the street in the middle of the night and gassed in a van before you get to retire.

Pensioners are work shy benefits claimants.

Well the way this government is ruining this country there will be no retirement.

I'd make everyone get in a time machine, go to the Western Front and get shot at, then return to 2019. People would have a changed attitude towards themselves (ego-ism) and other (community).

I would roll RE together with history and call it “Social Studies” like they do in North America.

Since the thread has diverged into British Education specifically, I'd massively ramp up History and make it compulsory all the way to GCSE, instead of that bollocks Geography. And I'd make sure that kids were taught the background to the major nations, empires and religions throughout history.

I'd also introduce Philosophy, Politics and Economics and make that compulsory. It doesn't have to be high brow stuff, but most people are utterly unaware of the basics of economics and yet are expected to vote. It's shameful. Just imagine how much harder politicians would have to work if the public could call them out on bullshit. Pretty sure we wouldn't have had Brexit, since most people would have an understanding of what a trade deal is.

This kind of knowledge needs to be public domain general knowledge, not seen as some rarified business done in closed rooms.

I'd round up all the racists and ship them off to Australia or somewhere.

Can I add a 2a please? Remove all religious education from schools.

Disagree.

I think teaching religion as fact should be removed, as should focusing on one particular sect are the expense of all others. However, I think there's merit in teaching RE from an academical perspective, in the same way that there's merit in learning about Greek mythology or the Crimean War. Eg, "most Christians believe this, however Islam states that..."

If I could change one thing it would be the attitude to litter. Far too many people happy just to chuck stuff away rather than walk a few yards to a bin.

+1, though I'd start with actually putting some bloody bins about the place.

This,

I want to get people to realise that society is a thing. Society needs to work to help everyone get what they need. We need to look after each other instead of competing and fighting.

Will have to be done first before this,

1. Remove charitable status of private schools
2. Eliminate faith-based schools
3. Gather all schools in a region under a single board of publically-elected trustees
4. Resources to be allotted to the whole educational region instead of to individual schools
5. All school estates to be equally provisioned in terms of facilities
6. Provide educational region-wide mass transport, and so eliminate parents taking their children to school

Can be done.

The population of this country has become increasingly selfish, you can see that in the behaviour of citizens every single day.

Also, I'd prevent politicians using the term "taxpayer" and get then to use the term "citizen".

I think teaching religion as fact should be removed, as should focusing on one particular sect are the expense of all others.

Did anyone get this? In a non CoE school?

If we had proper walking and cycling infrastructure, coupled with getting rid of private schools that skew the transporting of children inefficiently etc then there wouldn't be as much of a great need for school specific buses; a properly provided public transport system should be able to handle that demand.

it all comes down to taxation reform and political reform. We need to all pay taxes efficiently and properly invest in schools hospitals, public transport, council services so that we aren't reliant on sporadic charitable goodwill.

Cokie's example of a boarding school providing a youth club; no criticism to the school for stepping up but it's an indicator that the councils aren't being given resources to do the job properly and efficiently.

and FPTP can get in the sea

I’d then apply a higher rate Tax to those who want, and subsequently have, kids. This would fund an education system for them. And reduce the population at the same time.

We parents already do pay higher taxes than childless people..kids are not cheap, you're paying for things all the time, supporting businesses which in turn pay taxes, paying VAT, buying expensive cars that are way too big than they need to be and paying all that tax on the additional fuel for driving a larger and less economical car around, creating huge demand for products and services in our economy....we're already baying a significant amount of additional tax. Not to mention all those lovely tax revenues the children bring in once they're educated leave school and go on to get a job.

The population of this country has become increasingly selfish, you can see that in the behaviour of citizens every single day

and your evidence for this? More and more money is given to charities each year by individuals so we're getting more philanthropic for example...not the be all and end all but just one indicator that as we as a nation and as individuals get richer we're giving more and more away.

I would bring in a socialist state (not Labours attempt at half arsed socialism) and run properly (so don't give me examples of country which was socialist and failed).

After a few years the majority of people would be happier, society would be a big part of it and people may actually give a shit about each other. Of course the super rich would try and ruin it so they would have to be 'dealt with'

I’d round up all the racists and ship them off to Australia or somewhere.

In fact thinking about it, I'd extend this to:

Racists,
Junkies who beat up old ladies to steal twenty quid for their next fix,
People who wear football shirts outside of a football ground despite not having kicked a ball in 20 years,
People who think it's cool to get two dozen mates, go to a quiet picturesque Eastern European city, get riotously drunk on €1/pints of Stella and smash up the place,
PEOPLE who type using RANDOM capital letters in order to make a POINT,
Folk who close a statement with "End of."
People who throw bags of McD's wrappers out of car windows,
People who believe everything they read in the Daily Express,
People who think that if it's written in a meme it must be true,
People who go to ASDA in their pyjamas,
People who cannot hold a conversation with someone two feet away without bellowing at the top of their voice,
People who wait until the first song comes on at a gig before elbowing their way in front of you despite you having been stood there for half an hour,
People who razz up and down the streets 2-up on ratbikes with no licence plates, helmets, insurance or licence,
Fly tippers,
Homeopaths,
Travellers who rock up at a place, annihilate it and then sod off leaving all their shite behind (not all travellers, just the ones who do this and give the rest a bad name),
Anyone who uses the phrase "political correctness gone mad,"
David Cameron,

... and any other antisocial douchenozzles that don't immediately fall into any of the above categories but have zero respect for anyone but themselves.

Did anyone get this? In a non CoE school?

I went to a non-denominational state high school. I don't recall RE ever explicitly being taught either as fact or allegory (though it was quite a few years ago now!), but it was basically bible studies. I don't remember any other faith being so much as mentioned outside of generic Christianity.

and if we are talking about changes to the education curriculum, we need to put the arts back on the agenda, it's something that the UK excels at (go on goole and look at the export value !) but the current lack of investment (taxes again!) means we are eroding what skills talent we have and the next generations won't have it

Allow kids to decide if they want to do music or art or drama or whatever but something needs to be on there

and your evidence for this? More and more money is given to charities each year by individuals so we’re getting more philanthropic for example

We have left the 19th century have we?

Did anyone get this? In a non CoE school?

Yes - Christian prayers and religious songs every day at my council estate state primary in the 80s.

Nowadays, whilst it is supposed to be a legal requirement to have a daily act of collective worship that is broadly Christian in nature in every state school, what actually happens depends upon the individual teachers and headteachers in the school. My kids' primary regularly had assemblies led by the local vicar.

Teaching about religion should absolutely continue in schools, but teaching of one above others should not and there should be no worship. There shouldn't be any church schools either.

(Context: I'm an atheist but my wife is a chaplain in a CofE primary school and has permission off of the Bishop to preach in our local CofE church. I'm not one of those Dawkins atheists.)

If we're talking education,

I'd like to see some sort of life skills on the curriculum. (Caveat, how much of this is already taught I don't know.)

How to manage and budget money; how to manage debt (and recognise good vs bad debt); how to cook (like, knife skills rather than making chocolate rice krispies); critical thinking (because gods know there's a dearth of that at the moment); DIY and home repair ('material studies' or whatever it's called this week might teach you how to make a screwdriver but not how to use one or hang wallpaper); basic car maintenance like changing a tyre; how to use the Internet for things other than racist memes and porn (surprising for the Internet generation maybe, but it never occurred to my apprentices that they could use Google as a way of finding solutions to technical problems); etc etc, basically the things you need in the real world once you leave school.

IMHO there's way more value in this than in learning about arable farming in India or what Lot did to his wife.

@Cougar +1

I'd also like to see:-

Free public transport and childcare, this would remove barriers to employment allowing more people to work if they wish to.

Housing first scheme, this would provide security allowing people to focus on their issues without fear of losing their home if they mess up.

Universal income, reducing administration the costs of social security and recognises that productivity isn't just measured financially.

Legalise recreational drugs, this would reduce the prison population by about half and save a fortune. This would be spent on rehabilitation services.

Income cap, like in Japan where managers can't earn more than 26% more than their staff. (figure may be wrong)

4 day week, it's been proven to increase productivity and decrease sick leave. It also allows for a better work/life balance.

No head of state or PM, the government would follow the consensus of the majority unless it infringed upon human rights, like the death penalty would.

Basically the state would be to provide services and you'd be free to do as you please as long as it's not detrimental to other people.

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I would bring in a socialist state

For this to happen you either need a military coup or for people to vote for it consistently. And for that to happen, you need my first point to happen. And I firmly believe that if you taught philosophy most people, being generally decent, would come around to that viewpoint.

I think most Tories are created by parents or other adults teaching kids either directly or by example how they deserve something and others don't. Because they were 'successful through their own hard work etc' so others have to the same and stuff them if they don't. But in the modern age we simply don't have to fight each other like this. Your fellow human is not your enemy or your rival. There IS enough to go round.

The irony is that most people are taught this in a personal setting, they just don't apply it to a societal one. Because we're taught that outside of.our friends and family everyone else is out to disposess you.

This is what the Philosophy is for in the compulsory PPE lessons. I'm telling you, PPE education is the simplest easiest change we can make for the biggest effect.

Flogging post on the trading floors / bank HQ’s for those that destroy people’s pensions and savings through corruption/greed/incompetence.

Secret service to pursue “boiler room” scammers and others of similar ilk with extreme prejudice.

Littering to become a capital offence.

The Head of State to be on a pike at the city gates...