Laws which should be changed

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You can have a parking ticket and not even know about it and find your car missing from outside your home one day This absolutely should be illegal. I would like to see bailiff laws changed. Where is the website? Where is the list of all laws still on the statute books? Once both of these are known then we can properly get started.

You have half-read a story in the daily wail and gone along with it's wrong conclusion. Can people who are posting here please state the EXACT law they want cutting, not what they 'think' the law is. English Heritage is one. What have you got against them? What exactly do you propose replacing that with?

In fact you could argue that the BBC is a QUANGO and Network rail is more or less one too and no matter what you think of that body someone has to administer the rail infastructure and its not going to be cheap Whats the point of asking the public what they want repealed when they don't even understand what they're asking to have repealed.

Abolition of the Monarchy. Disestablishment of the Church of England. Prime Minister to become directly elected. Equality for fathers. Legalise, regulate and tax recreational soft drug use and prostitution. Legalise, regulate and prescribe hard drugs for addicts. Anyone standing in any election must either have been born and raised in the constituency they are standing in or they must have lived there for at least the previous four years primary residence only, no buying a cheap second home that you don't live in to get around the rules.

All elections to be held on a fixed term, four year basis. All bonuses and any other financial remuneration to be regarded as pay under this system. All anti-terrorism laws brought in since to be abolished and all other security laws to be reviewed with the intention of ensuring the rights and freedoms of all law abiding citizens in the UK.

Gun laws reviewed to allow Olympic and professional sportsmen and clubs to own and use sporting firearms in an appropriate location. Speed limits reviewed by local Police and transport groups and changed wherever appropriate.

I agree with AlisonM; surely we elected a parliament to make decisions for us. During the campaign we were promised by the ConDems that they had the answers to the country's problems, but since taking power the Chancellor and now the DPM are asking for help and guidance. Of course, all politicans who ask the general public their opinion go on to completely ignore what is said and simply proceed down the path they were on in the first place.

So which is it Nick; a genuine lack of ideas on your part, or a cynical game to play with the public? Either way, I think we should be told. Legalise all recreational drugs canabis, cocaine, heroin, speed, methadone etc. All the manufacture, distribution, education and rehabiliatation would be out to public tender. With the winners awarded the contract for a defined 5yr period.

Export of any of these drugs, except for medical use, would be banned This provision would make it illegal for any unlicensed; person, organisation, to sell only via credit or charge card and finger print , distribute or manufacture any drug.

All licensed manufacturers and agents would be required to make within each drug dose a unique "marker" with full track and trace. In this way drugs would be brought into the tax regime, with defined quality, delivery syringes could be supplied as free issue and strength. All tax revenues to be hypothicated to support; rehabilitation, education, quality control,health care, research and enforcement.

Too lucrative for the lawyer, friends of Camers And Cleggwggy! Councils doing only want they were established for: 1. This is beyond them at the moment, therefore it is unfair to burden them with extra skilled work, when they cannot do the unskilled! I would like to see Nik Clegg and others in government stop taking our vote for them and putting it into the hands of the US. By embroiling us in their war mongering ways. Cut them loose. Laws on squatting, those who squatt in buildings or on unusaed land.

Just think about it, you go out for a few hours on a shop, or go away on a holiday and come back to find squatters in your home as has been highlighted just recently. A law is needed in effect to immediately evict that person or people and to criminalise them as well so as everyone gets the message loud and clear no squatting.. A friend of mine for over two years years has been fighting the planning office to try and get permission to make a pathway at the back of his home on his own land and has been met with refusal and objection all the way.

How often do we hear about the bank holiday raids of complete strangers turning what was once a green field into a building site and then applying for retrospect planning with it being generally granted. The law needs more than looking at in this respect. It needs changing. Council Tax needs a new system of funding. Whilst Central Government is a provider of the bulk too much is left to a small minority of the local populous to contribute to the rest.

It is skewed beyond fairness. What I would suggest as a consideration. That council tax be done away with and a new local VAT be introduced. The local council would set this tax. If it is too high then people will reign in their spending on goods and services and the local area will deteriorate. This will make the council reevaluate the tax to a sensible level and make the council accountable to the public.

Areas of high visitor influx i. Brighton which sees its local services come under strain in the summer would have the visitors contributing to the local tax through their purchases in the town. Brighton could reinvest this additional wealth into the town to make it more attractive to visitors and thereby increase visitor numbers. But more importantly it would be fair, all would pay not just the few who happen to be in private accommodation both owned or rented.

Posts 10 and 20 - well said. The Human Rights Act should not and cannot be abolished but it does need a major overhaul. The rights that normal law abiding citizens have to walk freely and safely in our streets are compromised by misuse of this legislation. One rant from me - Legislation that allows key infrasructure industries such as Utilities to be owned by foreign companies, should be abolished! This is a no brainer. The laws covering the misuse of drugs are the clearest target. By treating drug misuse as opposed to drug dealing as a criminal rather than a health issue we have created what is universally acknowledged to be the biggest cause of crime in the country.

Successive governments have known this for years but have been frightened to act because they fear the media backlash. What they should do is: 1. Decriminalise the personal use but not supply of all drugs; 2.

Allow pharmacists to sell drugs to adults when packaged at known dosages with information on the risks, where to get help etc. Tax the sales and use the money to finance awareness campaigns and clinics where people can get help to kick their habit. Dramatically increase sentences for illegal supply. If you want to reduce crime, take the supply of drugs out of the hands of criminals.

Legalise, regulate and tax instead. Our country could be transformed. But will they do it? They're all too frightened of the Daily Mail. That is to protect and serve their members. At the moment there are shortages of doctors, dentist etc and because of they control the numbers to train and as a result they are over paid. It should be up to Goverment how many people train in these areas not these Trade Unions.

I would also like garages to be licensed as some, I feel, do not do the work that is needed or charge for things which cannot be done on that model. I don't mind paying what is due but I do want to be safe and not break down.

I recently did Jury Service, what and eye opener. I would like a review as to why Judges and Barristers are paid so much. Also I would like them to be brought up to speed and kept aware of the technology that is widely in use eg Facebook. At am on 01 Jul , Delroy wrote: No. Do you even know what a Quango does? I'll give you a clue, they pretty much all have different functions, some are probably a bit superfluous, whilst others are vital.

Or are you arguing that because juries are able to find so many defendants 'not guilty' that it is indeed, as Labour seemed to believe, a right of the Government to make it easier for the CPS to secure prosecution by lowering the standard of evidence required and shifting the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defence? Perhaps you would prefer that all children aged 10 serve a mandatory six month prison sentence just to get it out of the way??

All laws tying this country to 'Europe' If we want to have trade and cultural agreements that's fair enough although it would be better dealing with Scandinavian countries. They seem to be the most honest in Europe and they believe in looking after their own people. Something British politicians forgot about a long time ago, assuming they ever had that intention. I've spent a little time on this website It's just a glorified HYS run by government and most likely funded by us and so far there are no coherent ideas being put forward and any justifications being made are weak.

If I were to propose anything, it'd be that this loosely "elected" government govern and stop making the public do their jobs. I would also like to see a considerable curbing of police powers under Terrorism laws , which they have blatantly abused. No more Control Orders ; blanket stop and search or detention without charges being brought.

Also scrap legislation that allows police to retain the DNA of innocent people. I'd like to change the law so that everyone knows exactly where they stand when it comes to 'adulthood'. At the moment it's legal to have sex and children from the age of 16 but illegal to marry without parental consent. Absurdly it's illegal for a 16 year old to view a pornographic video when they're legally allowed to perform the acts in them!

You can join the army age 16 but cannot vote for or against the politicians who may very well send you to war I know under 18s don't serve on the front lines. Buying a lottery ticket is fine at 16, but placing a bet in a betting shop or playing a slot machine is for over 18s only!

Driving is legal from the age of 17, yet anyone who commits a motoring offence at age 17 is tried as a juvenile. It's a crazy situation. At am on 01 Jul , David Dewick wrote: Allow singing in pubs. It would be interesting to get statistics on how many persons are penalized by the justice system for 'procedural' crimes? I wish to see the RIP Act repealed. I have already posted this on the government website, which is easily found by following the link provided with the news story.

Firstly, repeal the Human Rights Act as it currently stands. It is used more by opportunists as a stick with which to beat others than it is a genuine tool of protecting rights for the majority. If no constraints are put on claiming individual rights you end up with a war of all against all.

Second, if the European Convention on Human Rights cannot be repealed it must be made subject to our own Supreme Court as the highest interpreting authority. Third, the Civil Contingencies Act would embarrass leaders of totalitarian regmes.

It has no place in our democracy and must go. Fourth, laws that conceal the workings of government from the public must be removed. Working in a jobcentre I hear horror stories every day about how employers have taken staff for a ride.

But you can't take them to an employment tribunal if you've worked there less than a year [ I think that's the time limit. I stand to be corrected but I know there is one]. I would like to see that lowered. Also the opposite of repeal the metric ones. Let's remove the laws that require imperial measurements. Time to progress in that respect. They, the Government, will pick the laws they want to change from all the ideas submitted, and then say we listened to the public and acted.

I'd like to see the law quashed where you can be tried for defending your own property. I burgular should lose all his rights when entering someone elses property. At am on 01 Jul , everybear wrote: "It is not a law I would like to change but I would like unions that represent professionals eg the Law Society and the GMC have a role more like the Teaching Unions The main reason For change is Common Sense If any person or persons who have disregard for Uk and persons are a threat to normal hard working folks of the UK PLC and deemed terrorist who seems like they can stay in UK.