Ten ways we could fix broken Britain

With people living longer, the health service under pressure, house prices through the roof and Brexit - could you suggest ways we can fix broken Britain? Ideas encompassing pensions, environment, council tax, education, transport, drugs, betting, military security, housing and gambling.
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IMO, a lot of the problems stem from one item on your list, housing/house prices, the first thing would be to admit there's a problem, something the current PM failed to do as home secretary & then as PM, the UK is an island in the Atlantic with a capitalist economy, if it takes in 300k (net) new people every year then it has to build a new city the size of say Newcastle every year, if it doesn't house price inflation will continue. as an alternative to building a new city remove local government power on planning permission, currently a field that hasn't been built on but is filled with dumped fridges & mattresses counts as green belt & untouchable, anywhere with some grass an area of outstanding beauty, even if nobody has looked at it in years. Take a hammer to planning laws on your own house, you bought it so why should the council have the right to say you can't extend it? With housing affordable to all a lot of the other problems dissolve.
stop the Open Borders policy and start deporting illegals. There is too much pressure on social services, hospitals, social welfare, jobs, housing, traffic, etc. which is bankrupting Britain.
50 years a Victorian.

I don't know if you saw that thread about drug trials? But we're talking the opposite attitude to that. We need undergrounds built in major cities, land reclaimed from the sea, the people on welfare assembling toasters and kettles, the energy network needs overhauling, and sleeping six to a room. The reason I mention the drug trials is that you have to be prepared to die; the prior era of precious will be met by an equal and opposing period of fodder. The ageing population and undoing of the debts will be paid for with many young lives.
Although personally I'm not in favour of constructing lots of home or if it was they'd be a very temporary definition of a home. What happens when the baby boomers do die off? Ghost cities. We need to be planning for the idea that we reduce our population this century, it's a necessary.
Only solution is similar to Japan but the opposite.

In Japan the people are such proper grown ups - disciplined, resourceful, wise and the rest of it - that they don’t exercise their own purchasing power. They’re too humbled and talented. And in Japan this creates a situation where everybody is wealthy but no one spends their money. The Japanese government buys on the behalf of live beneath their means citizens and it’s creating imbalances.

Anyway it’s now official government policy in Japan to tell it’s people to take it easy - do order that desert etc. Stop underliving your life, you’ve suffered enough.

Now we need to take the same drastic revision of what we consider economically worthy, and invert it.
Not fixable , best that can be hoped for is to slow decline .
A good clean and permanent Brexit, would be a good start. Then the implementation of some birth control. How about saying two kids is enough, per couple? I suggest an environmental tax on those having ridiculously large families at the expense of the tax payer. Britain, is a small crowded island, and can't afford to build over it's green belts, and other rural spaces; where will she grow her food? This is not utopia folks, time for some tough love here, for the benefit of all.
clean Brexit not a cat in hells chance blues but whatever the outcome we can then go forward HOPEFULLYgrin
Could be a bump in the road to total victory , the police had been called to Boris's house . The race for the PM's job is his to lose , looks like he's having a good go at just that . Can't be like Trump and not BE like him .
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