Britain is in a bad way. We were in a bad way before the recession hit. We'll still be in bad way when it's all over. A new government must take immediate action. Here's an Agenda for the First Twenty Minutes. Job #1: Banking Reform. Our banking system is open to extreme abuse and doesn't do what we need it to do. We need to separate everyday, simple, secure "utility banking" from investment fund "casino banking", then add a vital Third Element which will create jobs now, and set Britain's industry on a secure, longterm, productive basis. Job #2: Identify Core Cities with their economically dependent regions. Establish a Regional Development Bank for each Region to finance new business, existing business expansion, and local infrastructure. Establish Regional Housing Corporations with access to unused agricultural and grey land to build cost-effective, modular designed quality housing for at-cost rental and rent-to-own accommodation, to provide starter housing and to "anchor" house prices. Job #3: Focus on preserving our Green and Pleasant Land: compacting existing communities, minimizing sprawl, incorporating city park areas and youth play areas, increasing and improving access to areas of outstanding natural beauty, development of a comprehensive national transport system integrating Inter-city National, with individual Regional Transport Systems. Job #4: Separate Education, Healthcare and Pensions from government management and accounting, each into its own separate compartment, each to be studied individually with a view to maximizing service quality at minimum cost. What remains, the essentials of governance, must be submitted to immediate scrutiny and analysis by independent accountants, first to place government accounts on a clear footing similar in standard to business accounting, second to identify programmes and grants for elimination, and third to identify all possible cost savings in what remains. Begin immediate unconditional withdrawal of all British troops from Afghanistan before we lose any more lives and waste any more money. Halt all defence expenditure pending immediate review and downsizing.

UNEMPLOYMENT - RECESSION - BUDGET DEFICITS WE DON'T NEED THIS With Regional Development Banking based on our Core Cities, we can expand NOW without deficit financing AND put our existing and new industries on a sounder, more competitive footing. There's nothing challenging, nothing that hasn't been done before, tried, tested and working. The tools are all there. We only need determination and focus at the top, backed by dedicated specialist teams who know their jobs. The rest will happen. In Britain??? Yes, indeed. In fact if not Britain, where else? Britain has the size and the temperament for it to happen, and the influence to spread its message. Britain has the finest political pedigree in the world, bar none. Britain invented the essential tools of modern government: constitution, parliamentary democracy, an independent judiciary, all based on the foundation of English Common Law with its sense of fair play and natural justice. AND we led the world in exploration, industry and invention. We need to revisit our heritage with the respect it deserves, then take up once again the political high ground we once held for so long. We did it once, we can do it again.

Debts and Deficits Reducing the annual deficit simply reduces the increase in the accumulated debt. We need to do much better than that. Do government debts matter? Ultimately... yes. Britain and the World Britain ruled the world for 250 years. Now we need to disengage, neither rule, nor be ruled. Food for thought: How much Government. Right, Left, and Centre, Liberty and Law Books in Adobe Acrobat format. Click to download. Britain Can Conquer Unemployment NOW Lloyd George's Solution, 1929 A plan to conquer unemployment in 1929, worked out in full detail, with no addition to the national debt. The Economics of Prosperity Unlocking City Growth The Core Cities Report Fast Forward Britain's High Speed Rail proposal.