100 Days Lefty Nonsense Challenge
Progress Magazine want to know what policies or initiatives we would like to see the next Labour PM introducing in their first 100 days in office.
There's some classic lefty nonsense on there already, but I wonder just how much bollocks they’ll allow.
My challenge to YOU is to get the most ridiculous, satirical idea possible approved by the website. It'll have to be something nonsensical, but still vaguely plausible as a genuine Labour policy.
I’ve already submitted these for approval. What can you get away with?
Post your suggestions in the comments.
[[[Update! All of mine have been approved so far. I'm going to have to be more outlandish. ;-) ]]]
[1] Compulsory use of organic, locally grown potatoes in all school chips.
[2] A ban on visible symbols of social inequality all areas with above average levels of social deprivation and poverty. I’m thinking no iPods or Prada handbags – that sort of thing.
[3] State provided out-of-school care for all under 18s. Social inequalities are cemented from early childhood when middle class parents choose elitist activities such as pony riding, piano lessons, and homework tutors, for their children that the majority can’t afford. All out-of-school activities should be funded and regulated by the Local Authority and those that are not accessible to all should be closed down.
[4] Armed forces recruitment should allow for conscientious objection and all recruits should have the right to chose which conflicts they want to fight in. This would improve morale as regiments for each conflict would only be made up of the really keen soldiers.
[5] Moratorium on the use of the phrase ‘US English’ in software products. We should be distancing ourselves from this American cultural imperialism.
Superb! I love it.
Thanks
F
Before people fly anywhere, calculate their carbon emissions. Have a record kept on their passport, and if they exceed an allowed total, they can't undertake their journey. We have the technology to do this
Nice one! very Miliband-esque.
Keep 'em coming.
they seem not to have added my entirely reasonable suggestion to their list - curses
Timothy Forrester is going to take some beating. See: http://progressonline.org.uk/100/comment.asp?c=63
I've done my bit to make the world a better place:
(1) extension of set-aside principle to cut over-development: grants for people who knock down part of their home;
(2) extension of social housing principle to overcome social exclusion: just as property developers are required to make space available for social housing units, car manufacturers should sell off cheap bikes for every car sold, fashion houses donate stuff to Oxfam etc
(3) reward rehabilitation and cut prison overcrowding by giving prisoners lottery numbers for each act of good behaviour, and holding a lottery draw to let out someone early
It's a hard life being so moral and caring, isn't it?
i left ban all pivate schools. they love that stuff
Fantastic stuff guys, thanks for all the contributions so far.
William, those had me laughing like a loon! - especially number 1.
jh,
I believe Ken Livingstone really does want all private schools closed.
Guys, be careful what you wish for here!
Wow - they even let in the one about letting the Tories back in because they know what's best - the looniest comment on there so far.
This is great!
The best bit is that with all these crackpot ideas being published, other blogs can point to these entries as a perfect examples of that woolly pinko slack thinking that this governemnt indulges in !
Its just this sort of crackpot scheme that are rife throughout this government.
Take it from me, its having a terrible effect on our image abroad, and stuffing up those really decent arms deals this country should be securing. We need to chase these deals with other countries taking us seriously. If we don't secure them, somebody else will !!
Cheers to all
Henry
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