If you were King/President/Prime Minister, what would be the first 3 things you do?

[Duke Malcolm]

I was just wondering what the first three things you would do if you were the leader of your home country (or any other countries of which you are a citizen or subject), and you don't have to worry about parliaments and such things.

For me :

1. Increase the size of the Armed Forces
2. Re-nationalise the Royal Mail
3. Re-build the Empire

The fact that it was mainly Labour governments that did the opposite of the above three is merely co-incidental, I think...

[English assassin]

1 Build a large amount of reasonably high density housing in the south east of England and sell it on the open market to bring prices back down. Abolish VAT on development of brownfield sites and ban any new building on greenfield sites

2 make child care fully tax deductable, including a full tax credit if one parent stays at home while the other works but ONLY if the parents are married or in a registered civil partnership.

3 pass a Secular Act, disestablishing the Church of England, prohibiting the teaching of religion in publically funded schools, repealling the offences of incitement to religious hatred and criminal blasphemy, repealing the prohibition against discrimination on religious grounds etc.

[Beirut]

Beirut The Terrible - King of Canada

1 - Fully nationalize the health care system at every level and in every conceivable way. Including dentists, prescriptions, glasses, everything.

2 - Form and command command the King's Own Death Squad. Criminals who always get away with it would get away with it no more.

3 - Institute a national program of government supplied concubines from both domestic and foreign sources. Keep the menfolk happy I say.

[King Henry V]

I as King would:

1.Call up for national service avery one who knows how to use a longbow, a billhook, a sword or ride a horse.
2. Assert my claim on France.
3. Invade France.

Do not tell me that I hate France, because I love it. I love it so much I want to have every village in it.........

On a more serious note:
1. Make myself the supreme ruler.
2. Organise a new economic plan. This includes of raising millions of punds in bonds as capital. Then this money would be invested in various sectors of the market. The people with the bonds would be given interest on the money lent and any money made would serve to nationalise things such as the railways. These would be run by a Swiss. The money would also be used to improve health care, education, police force, armed forces and so on. The rest would be used to buy more shares/companies. Since the money is invested in various sectors, the likelyhood of a loss is reduced.
3. Return to the grammar school/secondary modern system, where the secondary moderns focus on manual skills such as carpentry.

Of course, there's much more to do such as reinstating the death penalty for murderers, serial killers,traitors to the state and people who like Fiat cars. Corporal punishment should also come into force for yobbism and so on. Rapists and paedophiles should be castrated.

[Byzantine Prince]

So many things come to mind, I better not even start. If this was what are 100 things you would do I would have a field day.

[Don Corleone]

3 - Institute a national program of government supplied concubines from both domestic and foreign sources.

All hail King Beirut the Enlightened.

[Ronin]

3 - Institute a national program of government supplied concubines from both domestic and foreign sources. Keep the menfolk happy I say.

my allegiance is yours my lord...

[Lazul]

1. nationalize infrastructure.

2. reform the Swedish armed forces to be more modern and to a professional army. No more draft but keep the army small and elite.

3. increase the support to students to incurage young unemployed to study if no job is available.¨


could go on for ever.

[doc_bean]

1. Cut unemployment benefits in half, use the money to help fund new upstart companies and to reduce labour costs.

2. Stricter control on doctors, hospitals and pharmacies so that public healthcare can stay affordable.

3. Built a kick arse police force, armed with the latest FN Herstal rifles (got to support local economy), redraw the legal system so it includes more juries and less appeals, built more prisons, keep the criminals locked away longer. Forced labour in prison, like a sweat shop, so they don't compete with the people in the normal economy.

[Nelson]

I would remove the designated hitter from major league baseball.

I would approve 5 year eligibility for collegiate football players in the NCAA.

Then I would balance the national budget.

[Al Khalifah]

1. Hire private companies to run failed NHS Hospitals on contracts with limitted but effective government regulation on standards, rather than targets. Such hospitals would be run like a business, but would recieve their funding from the government. Introduce a very small tax on very fatty foods.
2. Bring European Intercity high speed lines to Britain, to go from Folkestone to London and from there to Birmingham, Edinborough and Manchester. Start a process of adding additional lanes to the channel tunnel. The channel tunnel will also be fined for illegal immigrants entering the country through it, as will any freight ferry companies. Immigrants illegally entering the UK by passing from EU nations and nations where they are in no danger of oppression will have their assylum claims extremely discriminated against unless there are special circumstances.
3. Create 12 seperate UK states, capable of raising local incoming taxes to pay for the majority of local services (which would replace council tax) and electing regional assemblies that can decide on local issues. The national government would control income tax and national insurance and would have say over national issues. Allow regional or national referenda if a certain quota of the population petition for one. Renegotiate EU contributions (downawards) to increase the amount of money available for development of poorer regions in the UK and increasing aid to Africa.

[Steppe Merc]

King Steppe Merc of Happy Land (which includes the current holdings of the United States of America)

1. Legalise marijuana, LSD, and shrooms, legalise prostitution and gambling, and make the drinking age and legal to have sex age (whatever that is called...) 17
2. Outlaw the death penalty
3. Cut military spending drastically, give the excess money to improve the poor, education and our economy
4. Invest into nuclear, solar and wind energy. Give tax breaks to companies that create hybrid car, solar powered houses, and other enviromentally friendly things. Outlaw further oil drilling in places like Alaska and Antartica. Tax heavily all SUV maker and Hummer sellers.
5. De centralize and create general confusion in the current music business that promotes only pop and rap, and other crap. Allow all bands that are good (read: that I like ) to continue as they have always done in addition to helping them, as well as creating my own record company to help return good (read: music that I like) to the world. I would sign new bands that I like, as well as any already existant bands that wanted out of the bad music companies. I would give the artists complete control, and they wouldn't have to worry about making popular music, only good music.
6. Become a vassal to King Beruit, in return for his protection and friendship, I would send a set amount of attractive, willing women to King Beruit that he has chosen per year.

[ah_dut]

1) spend gazillions of dollars/pounds/yen/flying monkeys on alternate power generation tech
2) Force Beirut to become my minister for women
3) liberalize the place up i.e. legalizing soft drugs, prostitution etc and also, good music

[Steppe Merc]

I've just thought of another thing: send some very good pot to PJ and especially Kaiser so they can chill, and forget about their world domination for a bit.

[GoreBag]

I've just thought of another thing: send some very good pot to PJ and especially Kaiser so they can chill, and forget about their world domination for a bit.

I move for pot to be exchanged with salvia divinorum. It shouldn't be hard for the Christian zealots to have a religious revelation with some 40x extract oil.

As dictator of Canada, I would

1) Re-legalize the duel and construct a model of its procedures in order to keep it safe on off the streets.
2) Legalize polygamy, gay marriage and other personal freedoms as well nuking Catholic education.
3) Remove Canada's anti-hate speech laws.

[ichi]

1) Establish a sane energy/transportation policy, focused on safely developing nuclear/fission and weaning Americans from cars, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reducing our impacts on the environment, and improving safety.

2) Open up all the cool secret FBI and military secrets files to find out who killed JFK, what's being kept at Area 51, the truth about global warming and WMD in Iraq, etc.

3) Invade Canada

ichi

[Samurai Waki]

Since I live in Grand Cayman, not much I could militarily, or diplomatically.

1. Nationalize all Hotels/Resorts/Tourism Ventures
2. Kick all the snobby British/Fat Overly Rich Americans Off
3. Live like a Rockstar Baby

[KukriKhan]

Fun game.

The Benevolent Dictatorship of Kukristan, formerly known as the USA, sets out the following policies:


1. Domestic: On attaining adulthood, each citizen gets: 1 acre, 1 2-bedroom house (with utilities), 1 "green" vehicle, and 1 minimum-wage job working for me. Use those things, or sell them/shun them...your decision. I get 10% of whatever you produce yearly, and 5 years of personal service doing whatever I deem best (you pick which 5 years between age 20 & 50). To encourage teamwork, you may pick 1 person in your lifetime (a 'mate') to whom you can transfer your wealth after you have died. Only 1...choose wisely. When they die, all the wealth you and he/she accumulated reverts to me, for redistribution to new citizens. No mate? All ur base r belong to me. Education & medical = free.

2. Foreign: Don Corlene's policy in toto.

3. Politics: I am the final decider. Once a year, when you settle up your 10% production tax, you must journey to a location of my choice to vote (via an .Org poll) on matters I set before you.

[Papewaio]

President Papewaio.

1st thing: Demand a recount. It should put the opposition on the backfoot.

2nd thing: Make Wasabi my intern.

3rd thing: Hire the Org Moderators and Patrons to actually run the country while I chase the intern around my office.

[ShadesWolf]

SHADEWOLF

Ok what would I do.

1 - Increase the armed services.
More soldiers, planes and especially more ships. Once again Britain would rule the waves.

2- Invade France
I would leave the EU and declare war on France. Gascony would once again belong to the British

3- Execute the Labour government and anybody that voted for BLiar. More power would be returned to the monarchy. And a true two party system would be reintroduced Tory/Libs.

MRS SHADESWOLF

coming later,

If you all thought I was right wing you have seen nothing yet

[AggonyKing]

President:

1. 50% tax increase for the rich, and 40% tax decrease for the poor
2. ABolish any type of monopoly
3. Get some beauty sleep. Come on we all need one

[zelda12]

If I was Prime Minister I would:

1) Abolish the Monarchy, give each royal £20 and tell them to get off Government property.

2) Abolish a flat council tax and have a graded one dependant on income. With Pensioners being excluded.

3) Reform the EU and its constitution without France. Once the member states have been persuaded Declare War on France. Then they'll be forced to use our Anglo Saxon Economic methods that obviously don't work. I mean its not like we have very little Unemployment and France has a huge amount, is it?

4) Take the BNP and give them all life sentences, with no parol hearings and forced labour.

[JAG]

2) Abolish a flat council tax and have a graded one dependant on income. With Pensioners being excluded.

Council tax is far fairer, why should a pensioner living in a huge house be exempt from taxation for local services? Why should someone having been left a huge house yet on a small sum of money not get taxed on the huge assets they own?

3) Reform the EU and its constitution without France. Once the member states have been persuaded Declare War on France. Then they'll be forced to use our Anglo Saxon Economic methods that obviously don't work. I mean its not like we have very little Unemployment and France has a huge amount, is it?

The French way has a lot going for it, I thought you were for workers rights and decent wages?

[zelda12]

I do, but workers rights are all very well as long as the workers have a stable economy and jobs. People prefer work to handouts, job security needs to be secured certainly but not at the expense of the job itself. Just one of the many concessions Socialists need to learn if they are to survive as a major political power.In part its the French hater in me, mainly because I've got exams coming up and things are really annoying me. And fair wages should be guaranteed as well but thats something we do anyway. Its the whole ethic of the French system that frankly smacks of the 1950's. Its outdated in todays economic climate. The French like the dinosaurs seem determined not to change.

Oh and as to council tax I was refering to income based. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

[Kagemusha]

If a would be a Dictator of my country i would introduce "citicenship salary".(forgive me my bad english).
I would abolish wellfare,pensions and child support,housing support and all the other support systems in my country,I would maintain only puplic Schools and puplic healthcare.So heres my idea:I would pay every citicen the same amount what is the minimum unemployment support from cradle to crave.Meaningles if you would either work or not you would get the "citicenship salary".That would allow the normal working people more buyingpower and would increase the manifacturing rates because people would have more money to spend.Secondly it would allmost end the unimployment as we know it,because if you wouldnt have a job you could either study or you could do a parttime work and you could still survive because you would allways have the citicenship salary to back you up.It would also create new jobs because there are many jobs that are not so profitable that novadays an imployer cant even hire person to do that.So jobs for my people and cheap labour to my industry and Byrocrats to profitable work.Wat do you gyues think about that?