Sorting out the country one step at a time The idea of this is to come up with some ideas that will help creat a better society yet not cost a fortune. We can all come up with great ideas that cost money, that always in demand resource. The challenge is to find ideas that are both good and yet cheap so that they have a much greater chance of actually happening. Tagging anyone who fancys having a go as well.

• Keep all non violent minor offenders out of prison

Sending people to prision is very expensive and very ineffective. We should only send people to prison if they are a danger to the rest of us. If not we need to find different forms of punishment such as house arrest.

• Ban the sale of non energy efficient goods

They damage the environment and we have better technology available today so kick them to the kerb. Energy efficient goods also benefit the consumer as they have lower overall lifetime costs.

• Mothballing trident

We're not going to need a ballistic missile in the very near future so why at this very second have we got a hugely expensive sub patroling some bit of the ocean ready to annihilate whatever country the PM chooses. I don't say scrap it but certainly we should mothball it given the amount or lack thereof of threat that we face.

• Ban public sector management consultants

People only hire consultants because they haven't got the balls to fire people without a consultant saying that they have to do it. Quite why we are lining the pockets of private firms for this service I don't know. Public sector organisations could have there own consultants at half the cost.

• Tax breaks for the membership fees of community run sports club

We need more people to do sport and we need to increase the amount of social capital so why not make it free to join volunteer run sports clubs.

• Workfare

Instead of leaving people to watch day time TV, get depressed and not address their barriers to employment we need to have job clubs that people can attend in order to claim benefit. These would have access to computers so people could make applications. Also people could volunteer for various charites as well. This should all be focused on improving self esteem and developing skills which is going to help people get into work

• Scrap the CAP

Protectionist, damaging to the developing world and massively expensive. This should be unilateral nott having to wait for the other countries to lower there farm tariffs.

• Setting an end date for the production of petrol cars

Let the market know your plans. Give them enough time to change say 10 years. We got to the moon in that time, it's perfectly possible to develop non petrol cars in the same time scale.Bob your uncle a massive cut on CO2 emissions. Will need to be done on at least a europe wide basis.

• Banning political bill board advertising

It's expensive and a waste of time. Let's just get over it as the funds required to support it are more than can be legitimately raised by the parties

• Secondary mandate for the House of Lords

Nicked off Billy Bragg elect the house of lords on the vote in the general election but do it proportionatly so that no party has overall control. Democracy without have to deliver more leaflets perfect.

• End charitable status for private schools and put VAT on their fees

Private schools create social divison and worsen inequality and I think that they don't satify the public benefit test to which charities should be subject. By putting VAT on schools fee we can rasie some money to fund more reading recovery one on one tuition in state schools.

• Create a sole public sector job website as long as it cost less than the £800m pounds spent on public sector recruitment advertising the taxpayer is quids in.

As there would be so many jobs on it, it would be a massive draw to people so the public sector will still get the staff it needs yet at a much lower cost.  ¶ 7:12 pm