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    1. Few ideas for you labour…

      – properly tax assets of the ULTRA wealthy.
      – make these giant tech businesses actually pay their fair share of tax.
      – Ban businesses and banks from buying up all the housing.
      – body to limit rent increases / rent prices based on location.
      – limit how many houses one person or business can own.
      – no foreign home ownership.
      – adjust tax bands based on locations in the country, 100k in the Midlands vs London salary is big difference.
      – sort out the water and energy companies making record profits out of us. Public service? Then share holders don’t get GIANT payouts.
      – sort out the food businesses making record profits year on year by rising prices constantly. Theres a clear link of “Food shop making record profits” and “Food prices rising”.
      – Big tax costs for anyone buying up land / derelict homes and just sitting on them for years to let the land go up in value. No. You buy it, you fix it up to be livable.
      – If a job role can be done remotely, some form of flexibility legislation for working remotely. I remember during Covid, the worry of some comments of “Well the offices need to be filled so bring people back to work”. No? Convert offices to homes if they aren’t used. In other countries you have high rises that have flats on some floors, hotel on another floor, offices on another, shops on another floor and so on. Its like a mini street in a single building. Cool concept for unused spaces.
      – 4 day work week being the norm, and school days staying 5

      This is all way deeper than a few boats. The country needs a hard reset on a LOT of things.

      Edit –
      I’ll update this with the below I’ve replied to someone directly relating to the issues re boats,

      – make actual legal routes.
      – anyone coming over on a boat or illegal methods is instant ban, no settling allowed.
      – anyone who comes over here is taken outside the country to be processed in centers we set up externally /I don’t care if it’s a tent city, if its good enough for our armed forces it’s good enough as a temp home during processing).
      – point based system that changes yearly based on the needs of the country.
      – 0 benifits for anyone coming here (excluding / limited with those seeking actual refugee status)
      – better requirements for businesses to hire people, it’s too easy for someone wotu no status to get a job with delivery companies on a moped for example.
      – crazy big fines for not doing a proper check on the person you’re hiring if it’s found they are not allowed to be working.
      – commit a severe crime, instant deport.
      – lesser crime, 2 points you’re out

    2. Odd_Raspberry_8158 on

      That would require everyone connected to power to be removed and replaced with normal people who represent their constituency. the social fabric is so eroded by corrupt politicians backed up by a client media that people have no hope …. which is dangerous

      don’t like boats coming over, tar and feather politicians who make it possible – those boats will stop pretty quick

    3. Jealous-Hedgehog-734 on

      Well after the 1st of September it’ll be Autumn and too late for “summer riots.” Just need to confuse people for a few more weeks.

    4. Desperate_Caramel_10 on

      The social fabric is threadbare. What is society even offering people at this point? Go out and work for 40 hours a week so you can make your landlord rich and be left with £100 a week to yourself? To top it off you get to hear some 108 year old try to gaslight you that thing were tough in his day too as he collects his 17,408th monthly pension. Give people a society worth taking part in and people will take part in it.

    5. wkavinsky on

      What social fabric?

      You and your conservative buddies have done everything you can over the last 20 years to break it down into small groups of isolated people rather than a cohesive country.

    6. TheFergPunk on

      It really feels like people are trying to will riots into existence.

    7. CarlLlamaface on

      Cool, so we’re going to:

      -Start taxing ultra-high incomes at 90%+
      -Ensure that international corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta(Facebook) and co. pay their fair share in taxes or else prevent them operating on our soil and extracting wealth and resources from the country
      -Build more and affordable homes, lower the cost of housing to ensure that minimum wage is enough to secure a mortgage on entry-level properties, while stopping investors and landlords hoarding all the homes to rent at exorbitant rates
      -Improve youth services
      -Stop all gifts from private individuals to MPs and cap their salary to no more than 2x the national median, it shouldn’t be a job that attracts grifters on the take who want to roleplay as lords and ladies of the realm
      -Re-nationalise vital public infrastructure like our waterways and rail networks
      -Stamp out the price gouging by supermarkets
      -Stop the national broadcaster from giving disproportionate airtime to far-right lunatics with no good answers to their fearmongering talking points

      ?

      Sounds like the MPs are going to be busy lol

    8. Competitive_Golf8206 on

      Mad how riots are the voice of the unheard until it’s right of centre doing it. Then it’s handwringing and those heckin thugerinos up to no good 

    9. Trundlenator on

      I’m sure putting more focus on being nicer to migrants than citizens will really help bring down anti immigration sentiment.

      We’re already past the tipping point on immigration, now it’s just a poisoned chalice for this and future governments

    10. ‘Starmer fears that social media and school absence…’ Oh good god, it’s the school absences that are destroying the countrty! Not the fact everyone has voted against mass immigration for years and it’s never taken seriously.

    11. VamosFicar on

      Too late for a repair of the social fabric. It needs to be thrown out and a a better fit made for a new outfit.

    12. Yakona0409 on

      It’s been broken in part by rampant individualism and the erosion of public and community services brought on by the tories and then supported and continued by the red tories. If they want some calmness they could at least act like the party they say they are and get the ball rolling but no the neoliberal gutting must continue

    13. During Covid we built temporary hospitals in days that were never used, but building temporary accomodation at a minimal level seems beyond the wit of our politicians.

      The Human Rights Act is actually good legislation and based on ECHR. But when the British public see European countries like France accomodate migrants in tented camps it grates and confuses them. How come the French can do it and we can’t?

      Like removing winter fuel allowances from wealthy pensioners, or PiP from people who get hundreds a week for counselling it takes political balls.

      Labour are not chipped for this. It just isn’t in their psyche.

      No matter how angry the British public get, Labour’s internal activists will steer policy.

    14. MajorTricky5416 on

      What social fabric? There is barely anything that holds the UK together anymore. Cramming people of various ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds into a landscape and call it multi-cultural and diverse hasn’t worked in history, and as we starting to see its not working now. Instead of a greater British identity all you have is ethnic and religious tribes congregating whilst holding a UK passport and calling themselves British. Add to that an effectively bankrupt state apparatus, overtaxing the working population for ever worsening healthcare and public outcomes and riots are the least of the problems, let alone mass civil unrest.

    15. kahnindustries on

      Where is this social fabric right now? is it in the room with us?

    16. Bl00dEagles on

      Bit late for trying to repair social fabric now. You’re the ones that have destroyed it with your nonsense.

    17. What social fabric is even left?

      * Healthcare is a revolving door of scandals due to waste, poor pay, and poor management.
      * We pay for NHS dental care that most people can’t access.
      * Pension age keeps going up, many expect to die on the job.
      * Social cohesion is getting worse due to uncontrolled immigration from countries with conflicting values, and no emphasis on integration.
      * While crime isn’t getting worse, new, more disturbing types of crime have accompanied this uncontrolled immigration.
      * Police quick to dismiss many crimes as unimportant, civil issues or slow to attend due to understaffing.
      * Businesses prioritise shareholder returns over all else, the drive for ever-increasing growth has lead to consumers receiving less, at greater cost in almost every aspect of life.
      * Skyrocketing house prices have priced an entire generation out of homeownership.
      * Increased renting has emboldened landlords, low quality properties, lack of maintenance and ever-increasing rents are a common occurrence.
      * Public transport continues to get more expensive, bus routes are closing due to profitability, trains are prohibitively expensive and frequently tardy.
      * Entertainment has become safe, stagnant and stale.
      * Pollution continues to be propagated predominantly by large businesses, global warming continues unfettered.
      * Increased numbers of parents who do not know how to raise children, leading to increases in anti-social behaviour amongst kids, and poor engagement with schools.

      I could keep going..

    18. ThatGuyMaulicious on

      Maybe deal with all the illegal and immigration in general…

    19. BellendicusMax on

      The far right have been pushing for violence since the last race riots – the narrative is constant on reform groups.

    20. Every time schools are out we see a spike in protests. Mark my words we will see a melting pot of

      1. Pro Palestine
      2. Anti “illegal” migration
      3. Just Stop Oil

      If you were a country trying to ruin western society you would do the following

      1. Terrorist attack
      2. More Sexual assaults
      3. More Migrations
      4. Fund more Protests

      – – –

      Think of this, are we. 1) Ruining our own country by hating each other 2) Are others trying to ruin our country

    21. Regular-Abies-453 on

      This is all such bollocks. Summer riots only happen because there is no football on to give the brain dead other counties/cities to fight. The issue is we have too many cunts in this country who spend more time snorting coke than offering any value to society

    22. Olster20 on

      Focusing on the wrong thing.

      What is the obsession with doing anything but get a grip on immigration?

      I get it. Labour’s view is if society is breaking because of push back on immigration, rather than fix immigration, Labour pontificates with meaningless waffle about social fabric. It’s like a deliberate way to avoid managing immigration properly.

      Tories no better. The lot of them need locking up.

    23. Feutus_On_The_Couch on

      Seeing Corbyn booting Keir in the nuts every time he tells a porkie pie would bring me goodwill. 

    24. ImperitorEst on

      “just repair it” is the nation state version of “just don’t be sad” for mental health

    25. all_about_that_ace on

      You can’t. The government doesn’t have the resources or the wit to solve such a deeply structural issue. It would probably require massive spending or deeply unpopular policies of one flavour or another to even make a dent in the problem.

    26. Duckliffe on

      We need voting reform (I would prefer some form of PR, but even AV would be better) and land value tax

    27. Nima-night on

      The ministers are the problem especially the reform ones as last years riots were sponsored by Nigel Farage and his American friends

    28. Labour wants to repair the social fabric but at the same time pushing the same policies that have broken it in the first place! Labour have spent years purging the left from their party and now we have a party of Tories in red suits pushing the same agenda that we have suffered from for the last 15 years. The quality of politicians in this country is utterly abysmal, out of 650 MP’s I think I’d only vote for less than 10 of them if given a choice.

    29. Let’s not forget the massive role the media have to play in this and their lies, hyperbole and sensationalising of stories. Sure, the ministers have a role, but I believe the media have a much greater role and should be reigned in

    30. Or he could slap down those who’s are inciting them. I’ll mention no names, but he did it last year too.

    31. SeveralAnteater292 on

      It’s like having a nice British Cheddar, mixing 20 other types of other cheese cultures into it and then complaining it’s not Cheddar anymore. You end up with some mutant amalgamation that tastes like shit. The bacteria cultures required to make the Cheddar needs to thrive. Introduce competing bacteria cultures and you’ve got a war at a bacterial level.

    32. Josef_DeLaurel on

      He’s thinking the social fabric can be repaired within 6 weeks? The fuck is he smoking? It will take multiple decades of good governance and policy to just repair the damage already done and that’s assuming we just retain the exact population dynamics we currently have, if you throw a few million more immigrants into the mix, well… the social fabric is pretty much permanently destroyed, no fixing whatsoever. The question is, will Brits remain as apathetic as the currently are or will they wake up and take a leaf out of the French playbook, barricades and blood…

    33. airwalkerdnbmusic on

      Tax big business and billionaires properly. Stop allowing venture capitalist firms to stripmine national infrastructure. Root out and destroy foreign influence and meddling in the commons and lords.

      Start there and maybe it wont burn down violently. Maybe.

    34. BuenoSatoshi on

      The state cannot repair social fabric, only individual human beings can do that in their interactions with others.

      What the state *can* do is put an end to the problems fraying that social fabric, in particular, mass legal and illegal immigration.

      Then maybe the people of these isles would have a chance to mend it.

    35. Timely-Sea5743 on

      Problem is the government care more for migrants than citizens

    36. Howamimeanttodothat on

      Who’d have thought flooding the country with millions of people from far away lands, many with backwards cultural practices and views all to suppress wages and ‘grow’ the economy, and massively underfunding public services wouldn’t affect the ‘social fabric’.

      Give people a country that works for them, not against.

    37. 2024-YR4 on

      Social contract is dead, no repairing that now.

      Best way forward would be some sort of constitution of rights like the US has. And an overhaul of the political system (maybe not like the US has)

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