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The local elections are coming up soon and the Last Laugh Looney Party is going to put up a candid in every local area. With just one idea to prove how effective they can be ! “ The Pot Hole Policy”.

Sounds daft ? It is. But it just might work.

If elected the LLLP will propose that the first thing all Local Authority staff do is fill in all the potholes in their town or county area. All the admin staff, all the regulators, all the social workers, all those working from home, everybody except the bin men— who do a good job already.

This exercise will help them understand what the electorate really needs them to concentrate on in their local area rather than pontificating about national issues which they can’t control. They will need to do a good job, otherwise they will be back out again later in the year.

This is just the start of the LLLP bid to change the way Local Authorities work in future. More ideas will follow ……..

How many more glaciers need to melt before it becomes obvious to everyone that climate change is happening. Reaching nett zero carbon emissions by 2050 is the agreed target by most Nations. How to get there is not at all clear.

So in the Timeout two years the LLLP will halt production of electric vehicles until they can travel at least 500 miles with the heater, the headlights and the radio on. We will also drill for all the oil in the North Sea so we don’t have to import it from Saudi Arabia. The ‘ Just stop oil ‘ protesters will be glued to the central reservation of the M25 to remind us of how important it is to tackle climate change by 2050.

British politicians, all keen to jump on the bandwagon, rushed to be seen to be leading the World, by closing our last coal mines; switching to heat pumps that don’t heat; stop drilling new oil wells; building new nuclear power stations at a snail’s pace and telling people to buy expensive new electric cars before there is the infrastructure to power them. This is in spite of the fact that Britain only accounts for 4% of global emissions.

With a bit of luck if temperatures really have risen by 2050, we can all turn our central heating off and save a fortune by not installing new, expensive, useless heat pumps.

Finally, we can erect poly tunnels all over southern England and grow our own vegetables rather than importing them from around the world.

In the meantime, just in case the climate change scientists have got it all wrong, stock up on hot water bottles and candles !

• We only have two years to reset everything on a better path.
• We can’t throw money at everything. New money must come from existing budgets or from charging for services upfront.
• Civil servants need to be civil and positive or jump off the bus. Less civil servants would be a good thing. There will be no golden handshakes, but statuary redundancy is always available.
• Action needs to show results in 2025 or 2026. There is no time for delay.
• Budgets will be frozen for the duration of the Timeout.
• Any savings on Government spending must be given back to the taxpayers. That will enable them to see if progress is being made.

THERE ARE NO OTHER RULES. JUST DO IT !!!!!!

The two main parties are still spouting the same old gobbledygook and the budget just tinkered at the edges of the inequalities in our society. So with the General Election looming, probably in the autumn, the Last Laugh Looney Party has decided to stop and have a rethink.

The world and our country are beset with problems which won’t go away without bold action, but, our current politicians lack the courage to grasp the necessary action. Meanwhile Putin, China and Iran are testing the response of the West, while the USA prevaricates. It is strongly reminiscent of the situation before the outbreak of World War Two.

So the Last Laugh Looney Party will campaign for a “ TIME OUT” — a two year period when we put ourselves on a war time footing, where normal parliamentary rules will be suspended and the LLLP will be allowed to just use common sense to sort things out 🤡. So the TIMEOUT PARTY will stand in every seat at the General Election.

What follows in the next dozen or so posts is the TIMEOUT manifesto, which has been crafted with the help of the LLLP.

Firstly let’s start with our understanding of the current situation :-

THE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS.

• NHS waiting lists
• Climate change
• Useless Prison Systom
• Boat people
• Idle youth & WFH
• Record Crime !evels
• Drugs & pills
• Electric Cars
• Poor Education Standards
• Inadequate Defence
• Ukraine
• Gaza

UNDERLYING UNHELPFUL DRIVERS

• Politicians
• Lawyers
• BBC & News Media
• Social Media
• The Pace of Technology
• The Wealth Gap

This is quite a shopping list with no simple solutions or easy answers. That is why we need the “ people’s common sense “. It’s a plan for a

SUPER-CHARGED GREATER GREAT BRITAIN.

After two years each Nation can vote on if they want to stay in the new state.