Useful observations: What to change in Britain to improve the economy

There's no way to sugar coat it so here goes:

We need to spend less money on consumer goods not made in this country which provide 5 seconds of entertainment

We need to train more engineers, computer programmers, electronics experts, builders, plumbers and scientific personnel. Kits should exist to teach kids how to program, build and create electronics from a young age - making it a game! Remember games like sim city, it taught you about taxes, reliance on only one type of industry, failure, success, people's needs and desires...

We need our broadcasters to set our children an example by helping them achieve their aims within the context of what our society needs. Basically, stop pointless celebrity programming and start showing science, hard work and praise from your society as important parts of our culture. In India for instance, the parents complained to the national stations when they scheduled cartoons during exam revision periods. What is good for salesmen is rarely good for our society

Create amazing prizes for those that do well in all our schools. Nationally celebrate these people in newspapers and kids shows.

Develop our tourism and historical cultural hertiage and broadcast it around the world with our leading arts programmes. Whether that's Downton Abbey or Who Wants to be a millionaire. We need to monitise our ideas quickly and efficiently - Britain has always been good at marketing.

Give children a place inside and outside school where they learn and develop new ideas through gaming. Games help teach you about the importance of perseverance; hand eye coordination; educational games enhance your vocabulary; action games improve team work and communication for a common goal. I don't mean games where you just shoot people but remember even these can teach you about planning, team work, co-ordination to achieve one goal and the pleasure of success.

Invest in Thorium power research and tidal power instead of wind and solar. Not only are wind and solar power remarkably unreliable for peak time electricity, they also have terrible efficiency rates and all of the production has already begun overseas. Thorium, is like nuclear power but cannot be weaponised and is much safer for the envronment. 15g of Thorium in a car can power it for its entire lifetime! It is Earthquake safe! We need to be first with this!

Create invention labs at universities and towns across the country where anyone can register and design an invention prototype within a computer simulation. When 3D printers become widespread people can even create real versions of their prototypes.

Move to open source programming environments for the government. Push as many problems as we can on to an internet problem solving forum with cash rewards. Anyone who solves the problem will be rewarded with kudos from the country and a payout to enable them to make a living. e.g develop a robust automatic payment system for councils to collect council tax, develop a model of congestion on the tubes and likely solutions. We pay consultants millions to "think" about these ideas but they never solve them - its not in their interest.They just churn the same stuff out over and over again - only people witn commitment and focus can solve these problems and to many consultants ist just another project.

Link pensions and retirement age to the average life expectancy as measured by the 15 largest towns in the UK. Ask pensioners to teach in school part time about "life lessons", from what they learn, to what they felt you should avoid as a young man or woman. We learn through stories!

Publish government expenditure through centralised book keeping (automated). Count each council as a subsidiary and model their performance via automated utlities. They should all be inputing their standard accounts into one on-line system or uploading a standard template. After all, cash flow is money in and money out. It should be fairly obvious to spot outliers in many different categories.

Develop larger supercomputers and quantum computers to crunch through protein shapes looking for cures to cancer and aid. We are the leaders in chip design. We need to expand on this hard.

The largest three broadcasters should provide free advertising in equal proportion for each of five largest parties in return for their broadcast licence. Also, the state should set a budget for the 5 largest parties by popular vote for an election and it should go up with inflation. Other parties will need to use innovate social media and popular policies to get into the top 5.

Identify all vested interests when a politican makes a law or proposes one. If subsequently, their interests were not aligned to the government policy they should go to jail

Force opposition parties to only argue a policy if they have another one which has been costed and explored in the same way (a tough ask!)

A Tobin Tax should be implemented to prevent high volume high frequency computer trading creating volatility in our markets and prices.

99.9% of the world are consumers only 0.1% are creators - Britain needs to be in the latter category. As an example, everyone uses the Ipad/Iphone to consume information but only a few people at Apple helped create it.

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