Your crazy radical policies

[Patrick Thistle]

Here's mine. Nationalise all housing. You get allocated a certain amount of square footage. No more families with six kids crammed in a 3-bed terrace or wealthy millionaires floating around in their sixteen-bath mansions. No mortgages to pay. We can all spend our hard earned on things that we like, like chips.

Yeah, totally unworkable. What would your crazy radical policies be?

[E10 Rifle]

Your crazy radical policies

That one, plus the complete abolition of all fee-paying education.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

Your crazy radical policies

I don't do crazy (no, seriosuly) but I wouldn't disagree with higher government intervention in housing.

[3 Colours Red]

Your crazy radical policies

Money is a human construct that has caused a lot more bad than good - get rid of it and go back to bartering, I say.

[WOM]

Your crazy radical policies

No smoking, no drinking and no driving until the age of 25.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Your crazy radical policies

E10 Rifle wrote: That one, plus the complete abolition of all fee-paying education.

Zealotry like yours would have meant I had to slum it at the much more academic (and later, mixed) grammar school in my town.

Say what you like about league tables, they'd have stopped my Mum spending all her earnings on my school fees.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Your crazy radical policies

Bank of England brought back under political control, with advice of bank published.

That's radical, old John Major policy.

The pedestrianization of Norwich City Centre should also be an aspiration.

[WOM]

Your crazy radical policies

E10 Rifle wrote: That one, plus the complete abolition of all fee-paying education.

By attaching even a nominal fee to things, people tend to value them exponentially more. It's why water is metered when it's near-enough-free to provide. So I'd fully support nominal fee higher education.

[E10 Rifle]

Your crazy radical policies

WOM's no-drinking-under-25 policy needs calling out. I mean, why not just go and join the Taliban?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Your crazy radical policies

"No more families with six kids"

I'd start there.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Your crazy radical policies

E10 Rifle wrote: WOM's no-drinking-under-25 policy needs calling out. I mean, why not just go and join the Taliban?

Tower Hamlets has already banned drinking. I can confirm that because I'm in a pub as I post this.

[WOM]

Your crazy radical policies

E10 Rifle wrote: WOM's no-drinking-under-25 policy needs calling out. I mean, why not just go and join the Taliban?

Well, if you think that's best...

[DCI Harry Batt]

Your crazy radical policies

I don't have any, sorry.

[laverte]

Your crazy radical policies

Housing inequality isn't so much about space as location, surely. I'd happily give up a few square feet to get away from my night-owl neighbours and their immense stereo system. And a sea view rather than looking onto a petrol station.

My radical policy would be to make private car ownership really difficult away from rural areas. Residential roads closed (for driving and parking) for long periods each day. Road taxes. A driveway charge. That sort of thing.

[Lucy Waterman]

Your crazy radical policies

Arts spending, including public service broadcasting.

[Borracho]

Your crazy radical policies

The outlawing of all private healthcare.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Your crazy radical policies

Ok ok. A complete ban on the paving / tarmacing / whatvering over of front gardens to provide driveways or off-road parking. Like 100%, no exceptions.

AND the reinstatement of those gardens which have previously been lost in this way.

[WOM]

Your crazy radical policies

Green Calx wrote: The outlawing of all private healthcare.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Your crazy radical policies

All those shops built in front of the nice houses in Hackney Road knocked down.

[WOM]

Your crazy radical policies

Narrowing of all suburban streets to one lane in one direction, with mandatory cycle/foot path alongside.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Your crazy radical policies

Green Calx wrote: The outlawing of all private healthcare.

Wouldn't loads of senior doctors clear off to America?

[ursus arctos]

Your crazy radical policies

Political control of the BoE would require the UK to withdraw from the EU.

It's also absolutely barking, given recent UK governments.

I'd like to ban private motor vehicles on the island of Manhattan, but would settle for a massive congestion charge (say USD 25 an entry).

I'd also impose VAT over here (which seems meh to all of you but is absolutely incendiary here).

[ooh aah]

Your crazy radical policies

Replace the House of Lords with Parliamentary service - 1000 people randomly selected from the public, a la Jury service, to sit in the House of Lords and pass or reject legislation from the Commons.

[ursus arctos]

Your crazy radical policies

Why 1000?

That would require new facilities.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Your crazy radical policies

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

The outlawing of all private healthcare.

Wouldn't loads of senior doctors clear off to America?

Fuck 'em.