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Firstly I know it doesn't exist but let's just imagine that in some crazy mixed up world it does and you've been put in charge (no, you can't spend it all opening a chain of D&D workshops and forcing everyone to play for at least 3 hours a day ) what would your priorities be?

In the Brexit topic I said this was my plan.
I'd spend it mainly on infrastructure projects in the UK.
The North desperately needs better train and tram services and we also need more east to west routes. I'd fund HS3 and crossrail 2 and start a competition for cities to set-up new tram routes. I'd also fund an extension to the Glasgow underground and a refurbishment of the most rundown London Underground stations.
I'd keep some money back (about 10% or £35m a week) to fund more public sports venues like Swimming pools with gym + sports hall and buy new school sports equipment.
I'd spend 5% or £17 on the NHS but the vast majority would be on things like solar panels and power banks so the NHS could save money in the future.
I'd lastly keep 5% or £17m (on top of what we're already paying to use them) a week to pay for the rather expensive UK tanker transports to get them back into full public ownership.

I feel this would create many new jobs while encouraging a healthy lifestyle and eventually when the tankers are paid for save a rather large chunk of change in interest and ongoing payments.

I'd skim off £340m a week. The rest can go on schools or something I dunno

Outbid sky for the next premiership tv rights and then not allow anyone to watch them.

Rocksleddy wrote:I'd skim off £340m a week. The rest can go on schools or something I dunno

Id skim off 340m for one week, then strawberry float off and live in pure comfort until I die a couple of months later from partying too hard in a non-extradition country.

I'd use it to buy all the models in the world and then not let Rocksteady strawberry float them.

I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Peter Crisp wrote:Firstly I know it doesn't exist but let's just imagine that in some crazy mixed up world it does and you've been put in charge (no, you can't spend it all opening a chain of D&D workshops and forcing everyone to play for at least 3 hours a day ) what would your priorities be?

In the Brexit topic I said this was my plan.
I'd spend it mainly on infrastructure projects in the UK.
The North desperately needs better train and tram services and we also need more east to west routes. I'd fund HS3 and crossrail 2 and start a competition for cities to set-up new tram routes. I'd also fund an extension to the Glasgow underground and a refurbishment of the most rundown London Underground stations.
I'd keep some money back (about 10% or £35m a week) to fund more public sports venues like Swimming pools with gym + sports hall and buy new school sports equipment.
I'd spend 5% or £17 on the NHS but the vast majority would be on things like solar panels and power banks so the NHS could save money in the future.
I'd lastly keep 5% or £17m (on top of what we're already paying to use them) a week to pay for the rather expensive UK tanker transports to get them back into full public ownership.

I feel this would create many new jobs while encouraging a healthy lifestyle and eventually when the tankers are paid for save a rather large chunk of change in interest and ongoing payments.

I think we should have a poll on whether this is value for money

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

Honestly your hands are going to be kind of tied. A lot of the money will have to continue being spent in the way it currently is via the EU and what is left will be mostly eaten up by funding the development of all the new systems and officials needed for the increased bureaucracy when we exit the single market. It will take at least a decade to get most of the infrastructure up and running in a sufficient way.

Qikz wrote:

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

With the right management and product, it would sell.

Death's Head wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

With the right management and product, it would sell.

I mean, it's not that we can't build cars. We have a huge factory in Washington, Tyne and Wear that proves we're perfectly capable of successfully building cars. If we could follow the management example set by Nissan, we could easily do it ourselves.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Death's Head wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

With the right management and product, it would sell.

I mean, it's not that we can't build cars. We have a huge factory in Washington, Tyne and Wear that proves we're perfectly capable of successfully building cars. If we could follow the management example set by Nissan, we could easily do it ourselves.

Just need to decide on the market. Probably good overseas opportunities with the Chinese seeing British engineering as prestige, even if it is only a bog standard car. Let's do this thing!

Death's Head wrote:

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Death's Head wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

With the right management and product, it would sell.

I mean, it's not that we can't build cars. We have a huge factory in Washington, Tyne and Wear that proves we're perfectly capable of successfully building cars. If we could follow the management example set by Nissan, we could easily do it ourselves.

Just need to decide on the market. Probably good overseas opportunities with the Chinese seeing British engineering as prestige, even if it is only a bog standard car. Let's do this thing!

The Chinese own most of our old marques though, so we'd need to either buy one back or make a new one.

EDIT: You're definitely onto something with them seeing British engineering as prestige, though. China is the country that built cars based around the Austin Maestro for years.

Qikz wrote:

Death's Head wrote:I'd buy or start a British car manufacturer.

Let's be honest, who the heck would even want a British car anymore.

Quite a lot of people when you consider the bumper sales of Jaguar/ Land Rover recently.
Also some of the most productive car manufacturing facilities in the world are in the UK with Nisan's Sunderland facility being a particular highlight.

Then you have all the hyper luxury cars like McLaren and soon once again TVR in Wales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Mo ... cturing_UK
Nissan Motors UK is one of the most productive car plants in Europe, producing more cars per worker than any other factory.

The companies themselves may be foreign owned but they come to the UK for our automotive design and engineering skills.

Meep wrote:Honestly your hands are going to be kind of tied. A lot of the money will have to continue being spent in the way it currently is via the EU and what is left will be mostly eaten up by funding the development of all the new systems and officials needed for the increased bureaucracy when we exit the single market. It will take at least a decade to get most of the infrastructure up and running in a sufficient way.

I'd just get Karlprof to do it all .
He can set up and run a forum, running a country can't be that much harder.

Historians will look back at that post as the beginning of the UK's darkest era.

Karl wrote:Historians will look back at that post as the beginning of the UK's darkest era.

You can't do a worse job than Trump and some people think he's amazing.
I have faith in your ability to set up and run everything.

Live long Administrator Karl!!!!!!!

TIL that Peter Crisp has me on Ignore.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:TIL that Peter Crisp has me on Ignore.

Eh? I don't have you on ignore, why would I?

I'd compulsory purchase every house in Milton Keynes and turn it into a nature reserve.