Well, why not me? I've always thought that running something the size of the UK must be a massively complicated process, and how difficult it must be. Whenever I've seen problems in the past I have thought to myself "I don't understand, why can't we just...", the fact that nobody in government ever acting in a way I expected just made me think maybe they had considered my ideas but rejected them because it's just much more complicated than that.
What got me started was unemployment. To be quite frank it really annoys me to know that some unemployed people have no intention of getting a job at all. These "intentionally unemployed" not only receive cash benefits but also benefit from services they do not help to pay for such as a police force, health care, fire service; in addition to this they get reduced council tax rates and so on. The way I see it is that we are paying an idle workforce, so why not make them work?
Some time back in 2007 I think it was (I have no recollection of the exact date) I wrote to David Cameron's office and told him how I felt. I gave him my ideas (which I outline here.) I expected the reality was just far more complicated and that my ideas would be dismissed. However, some months later I was watching the news and the headline news story was about David Cameron's proposals for unemployment reform, announcing how the unemployed should have to work for their money. Now I wouldn't be so cynical as to suggest that he took my idea as his own (his office later emailed me to tell me they had been working on it for some time) but even if he didn't copy my idea it suggested something to me, my ideas are not so ridiculous after all.
So this site is a collection of my ideas. If I were in a position to change the way things are there is really one single goal I would like to achieve. Beyond this site contains details on ideas I would like to have a free vote on.