1. Reduce the capital spend on new plant by running existing items of plant for 3 shifts a day – More jobs, less capital. . This includes everything from bulldozers, to mail sorting equipment, to hospital equipment such as x-ray and ultra sound scanners.
2. Apply VAT to processed food or more specifically non-whole foods or which contain non-whole ingredients, including salt without its minerals, sugar with out its supportive nutrients and flour that has been stripped of its health providing nutrients. Doing this, will have the effect of reducing the cost and incidence of treating disease, policing, absenteeism, schooling and prisons. It will also be a huge boost to local production of whole food such as fruit and vegetables. It is easily administered and enforced.
3. Reduce the cost of health by making it compulsory for taxpayer supported parents to attend nutrition and life skills classes – shades of the hugely effective policy carried out during WWII.
4. Give 10 month notice that their will be no more automatic rights to benefits for parents of new born children – Abortion, adoption and family support are alternatives to using contraceptives. Paying for single mothers who have little parenting skills or work experience, who are breeding a new generation of similar type children, who are likely to populate council houses if female and prisons if male, will kill this country as sure as God made little green apples. A massive sociological mistake.
5. Balancing rights with responsibility, ask all people on full time benefits to submit DNA samples or biological identification (same as for passports). No compliance, no benefits. If it is good enough for working immigrants like myself, it is good enough for them. If they have nothing to hide they will not mind. This will enable computer checking for double dipping. And reduce the cost of policing and prisons. In the USA 85% of crime is carried out by people on benefits and raised by solo parents. Do your Math as they say over there.
6. It is completely unacceptable that Public Servants, who enjoy a much higher level of job security and offer a much lower level of true to life business experience, are paid higher than the private sector workers. Start with a 15% drop in remuneration and then freeze pay rates until they become appropriated to the private sector. A real chance for the public sector to regain public acceptability, by having a higher level of transparency. It is not good enough to say that that all jobs are advertised for all. What is the churn rate of private and public sector workers entering the public service. Public servants should be seen to be public, not closed shop.
7. If the number of public servants has to be reduced, then this is a golden opportunity to improve efficiency by off loading the least productive ones. In order to avoid sacking productive people, they need to be accurately identified. There is no group of people more likely to be able to assist with this selection, than those who work under them. An confidential efficiency survey asking all public servants/workers to make suggestions as to where waste can be avoided and at the same time rating their bosses as being good at their job, would be both be democratic and team building. This is not a new process. It is being done regularly overseas.
8. Having recently travelled by car from Scotland to the South West, it is apparent that vast areas of this country would be much better growing trees (global warming) as it was many years ago when humans cut and burnt them. There is an army of unemployed people who should be put to work establishing the nurseries of new tree stock, and then planting out the least productive areas of the UK. During the off season they can prune the young trees to ensure added value when mature. A military type of environment could be established in camps (a sort of green army training) to give many of these people a taste of discipline, a purpose to life and meals like that they have probably not experienced for some time, if ever.
Health is a major cost to the economy, both in a positive and negative way. It effects productivity, absenteeism and the actual cost of treating disease and caring for malformed or incapacitated people. Up until now, the tax payer has continued to pour vast sums into the reactionary, bottom of the cliff cess pit of disease, diagnosis, drugs and surgery. The ineffectiveness of this ‘’fire brigade’’ approach is well demonstrated by how little progress is ever made, even when massive increases of expenditure are applied.
9. In order to reduce the cost of health, prisons and policing, instigate a ban on the manufacture and importation of hydronated oils (transfats). These modified oils, widely used by the multi national fast food industry, already face bans in California, New York State and I think the city of Philadelphia, locations in the country where this food disaster was invented. The reason why they have been banned is readily researched.
10. Instigate some core research into lifestyle choices and unusual exposures of those people who have died earlier than normally expected. Why this has not been done or the results made public, one can only guess. Once any trends are identified, make the information public, so that people become empowered to make their own choices. If it is good enough for multi national pharmaceutical companies to advertise research on toxic disease remedies before being released for use in humans, then it is fine to release indicator stats on life style choices and indeed professions. This gives power to the people who are paying.
11. Instigate core research into comparative benefits of various supplements. This would have to be carried out by none medical staff, to avoid contamination by professionals /people who are currently rely on disease treatment to make a living. Blood tests are now well able to provide indicators of immune well being (haemoglobin, CD4 immune strength, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc etc.) and would be more than adequate to provide ‘’proof of purpose’’ for further research, as well as indicators for the poor tax payers.
12. Discourage or Stop public Servants from employing consultants to tell them what to do. Some day soon the taxpayer is going to realise how wrong it is to pay top salaries to Government officials who then employ the private sector firms, to tell them how to do the job, they are paid to do. They will begin to suspect incompetence. If the civil servant cannot do the job, resign.
13. Reduce the cost of the war against terrorism, by changing the way that the war is being fought. Bombers, rockets, tanks will never win against people who can live in a different cave every night. The only people benefiting from this ineffective high tech war are the top executives of BEA and Boeing etc. Unless the army are instructed to live with the citizens and families of Afghanistan, in their villages, share their concerns and provide stability, then outcome will be the same as it was in Vietnam. The soldiers will then gain the support of the people, who will work with them. Security will be increased and with that the establishment of services and trade. Otherwise it will be Vietnam all over again. Like the streets of Britain, the Bobbies are only effective when on the beat, talking to parents and the youth of today. This is where the problems begin and where they must be stopped.
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