The Necessary Steps to Fix Britain

Published: 27th October 2026

If you’re annoyed with politicians and despair about the country’s condition but don’t know what specifically needs to change then this article will outline the important necessary steps. Use this as a checklist against a particular Member of Parliament or political party to see if they’re genuine about fixing the country. If they fail to provide real solutions to the problems identified below then those politicians are a waste of time and most likely contribute to the country’s problems instead. The following points aren’t based upon ideology, any left or right talking points, or any idealist nonsense; these changes are direct pragmatic solutions that cut to the heart of Britain’s problems.

Changes to the Government

There are major flaws in the government and political system that must be addressed if the country wishes to have any hope of improving. Without these changes the country will continue to suffer indefinitely.

Replace the process of the public voting for politicians with election by sortition. This is easily one of the most significant reasons why politicians always make awful decisions and Britain suffers as a result. Their self-interest to sustain their careers combined with an election system based purely upon popularity means they must appeal to as many voters as possible. Doing so means all political decisions are either a flawed mess of appeasement or forever delayed for someone else to address. Replacing voting with a lottery would drastically improve this situation, while also making political parties, financial backing, personal connections and pre-election bribery mostly irrelevant. Similarly, election by sortition would make it far more difficult for politicians to have long careers, thus their political decisions would be less about self-interest.
Decentralise government power and finances to the county level. The current concentration of all political power in Westminster and Whitehall is disastrous; it’s impossible for a small group of people in London to make good quality decisions for 69.5 million people¹ over an approximate land area of 243,000 km². The majority of political decisions in daily life should be made as locally as possible to the people concerned. This would include public spending and taxation, as local councils currently have to petition central government for funding.
Dissolve all arm’s length bodies (ALB) and move the few genuinely important functions back to their respective government departments. ALBs are public entities that combine the worst aspects of government and bureaucracy: central planning, guaranteed funding, unaccountable staff, processes instead of outcomes, and no overall objectives. They exist simply to continue their existence, wasting money and time.
Introduce full accountability into the government and public sector as a whole; both rewards and punishments. Politicians and civil servants freely wreck this country without any punishments whatsoever, meanwhile anyone that might improve the country isn’t rewarded and is inevitably pushed out for making other people look bad. The entire public sector system is currently devoid of accountability (positive or negative) therefore it’ll forever be rotten and incompetent until it’s fixed.
Define the civil service as people solely enacting the decisions of Parliament, thus they can’t have any influence or personal opinions. The civil service is currently an unelected influential tier of government, this must be stopped and punished. If civil servants can steer or “interpret” government policy then they have the power of politicians without any responsibility, which is a massive hazard. They must simply act as clerks. If a civil servant wishes to influence government policy then he should resign from the civil service and become a political candidate.

Unclogging the Economy

The economy is the country’s engine that drives everything else. If the economy is broken or bunged up then everything else will become worse as a consequence; this is one of the most crucial elements in fixing the country.

Remove the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) legal exemption that allows banks to freely create money.³ If banks want to create money, they must apply to the Treasury to create money only for purely productive business loans. Banks chiefly contribute to the extreme property price bubble by endlessly creating money for mortgages. Blocking money creation for unproductive lending will deflate house prices to normal levels over time and steer lending towards productive business where it should be. This action would also significantly hinder the various speculative financial products to which banks create so much money, also known as reckless gambling. Money would be steered towards productive business and it would also mitigate devaluation of pound sterling.
Taper off existing taxes that strangle the country. Every current form of taxation in the UK is harmful and stupid, especially the eye-watering taxes on work, so they should all be removed. 86% of tax receipts for the financial year 2025-26 were from work.⁴ That’s truly idiotic and has to stop; people should be rewarded for working, not punished.
Gradually introduce a land value tax, a deed-driven variable corporation tax and a market share monopoly tax as described on the economics page and in further detail within the tapeinocracy book. Henry George’s land value tax is the fairest, least egregious and most effective form of tax, so it should serve as the primary form of tax revenue. It doesn’t have any negative effects on the economy, work, personal savings, consumption, property, wealth or business investment. The deed-driven variable corporation tax and market share monopoly tax are behavioural taxes that only punish destructive actions and leave productive work untouched.
Taper off unproductive public spending, especially all welfare programmes. Creating money for unproductive or wasteful uses fails to address the true causes of problems and only devalues the currency on which everyone relies. In 2025-26, the government spent 30% of its budget on welfare and 10% on debt interest (welfare for private savers); meanwhile it only spent 1% on housing development, 1% on roads and public transport, 2% on research and development.⁵
The government’s legal ability to create money for public spending must be explicitly restricted to assets and public sector wages. Politicians can’t be trusted with money creation when it’s linked to their popularity. Limiting money creation to the purchase of assets and wages allows services such as healthcare and defence to continue while preventing cash handouts. Over the last century, the government and banks have reduced the value of pound sterling by 98% with nothing constructive to show for it.⁶
Only permit legal immigration to people with high economic value and make it easier for them to enter the country. All current visas for low value legal immigrants must be left to expire without renewal and they must leave the country. All illegal immigrants must be immediately evicted upon interception. The book explains how to achieve this within current legal frameworks and without violence. The country should welcome people from around the world that have a proven record of high economic value, while adamantly rejecting those that are merely a drain on society.
Reduce planning permission rules to only concern genuine structural safety, pollution and sufficient supporting infrastructure (electricity supply, water, sewerage et cetera). Aesthetic choices and minor conservation matters are irrelevant, as are selfish objections by NIMBYs. The UK has a monumental bureaucratic obstacle to building anything due to socialist principles of central planning introduced after the war that persist to this day. Legislation such as the various Town and Country Planning Acts means that all attempts at construction or alterations must pass through government departments and ALBs, needlessly delaying all projects. The only valid objections to construction should be structural safety, pollution and overwhelming existing utilities.
Remove all government paperwork, governance and pointless reporting from businesses and charities except for issues of genuine threats to health or life, such as toxic materials or food safety. Businesses waste far too much time and money on idiotic government bureaucracy that serves no purpose. The only checks should be for any business that involves real threats to health or life.
Begin the immediate construction of numerous nuclear fission reactors around the country paid up front either by the government or private sector; no stupid Contracts For Difference or Regulated Asset Base schemes. Ensure payment and ownership of each power station is entirely private or public, prevent any mixing of money. The UK is one of the most expensive countries in the world for electricity (7th in Europe excluding tax, 4th in Europe including tax)⁷ because existing coal and nuclear power stations were shut down and nothing with a stable supply was built to replace them. The country is currently at the mercy of gas power stations that extort the population with the threat of blackouts whenever wind and solar drops, to which the government kowtows every day. Wind and solar are too temperamental in supply for the national grid thus nuclear is the only choice. Remove the idiotic payment schemes: if the private sector refuses to invest then the government will.
Cease issuance of government bonds and let the existing ones mature. Convert bonds held by foreign governments into permanent savings accounts with the Treasury. Bonds are a historical relic and any nation with control of its currency doesn’t need to borrow. At present, bonds serve as private sector savings and debt interest is de facto welfare for the rich. People with excess money should invest it into productive businesses, not hold it with the government to exploit the government’s inability to go bankrupt. Foreign governments can hold pound sterling as savings with the Treasury; this would strengthen the currency and provide diplomatic leverage in the future as other countries continue to debase their own currencies.
Remove the Bank of England (BOE). The BOE is another historical relic that currently serves no genuine purpose; its lack of accountability combined with the ignorance of its senior staff leads to dubious and harmful activities, often working against the government and the country’s interests. It’s merely a networking club for private bankers and government staff. The belief that the BOE’s interest rates inversely affect the economy has never been proven yet persists as economic doctrine. The Treasury should be the central bank; the sole entity that creates money and its staff should be fully accountable, including criminal liability.

These changes remove the numerous barriers that needlessly punish business, enabling working people to maintain the money they earn and for businesses to be far more efficient. Similarly, forcing the government and banks to behave far more responsibly will limit their devaluation of the currency that we all use. Removing welfare will sound harsh, but as this website and Tapeinocracy: Building a Better Society explains in great detail, welfare via coercive redistribution is a broken system that only negatively impacts the country. Ending government bond issuance also forces private savers to invest their excess money into more productive means and removes the welfare scheme for the rich.

Improving Societal Behaviours

It’s not only the government and politics that must be addressed. There are numerous issues within society that need to be dealt with in order to facilitate improvements. One of the major problems is the erosion of personal responsibility whereby an individual expects other people to perform tasks that he should partake himself. This goes hand-in-hand with passing the buck that’s all too prevalent in the public sector and wider society. The presence of identity politics also leads to a significant degradation to the quality of people in organisations and unequal treatment by the justice system.

Parents must have automatic legal liability for their children until those children reach the age of eighteen. If anyone under eighteen commits a crime then the child and its parents are all held liable. Parents are responsible for raising their children, yet it seems a large number of parents forget that basic premise and need to be reminded.
Bring an end to parasitic actions. There are numerous forms of parasitic behaviours in Britain, whereby people passively absorb the resources of others without contributing anything in return. These chiefly exist in three forms: welfare recipients, rent-seeking landlords and external shareholders. The removal of welfare resolves the first, a shift away from mortgages and the introduction of the land value tax resolves the second, while the deed-driven variable corporation tax resolves the third.
Ban identity politics and perpetual grievance narratives from public life. All public and private organisations must remove ideology regarding representation quotas, diversity, equity, race, religion, gender and sexuality because they have nothing to do with skill or suitability for a role. People’s obsession with irrelevant arbitrary characteristics and the utterly bizarre game of oppression Top Trumps must stop. Identity politics and its various ills such as intersectionality do nothing except harm society by holding back talented people and promoting unsuitable people. It’s also one of the main reasons why the public sector actively supports the Muslim rape gangs around the country,⁸ as deranged ideologues believe a dark-skinned Muslim scores higher than a light-skinned girl, ergo the rapist is magically considered to be more oppressed than the victim and his actions are excused. People focus on the arbitrary categories of the person rather than the actual crimes committed. Identity politics is a cancer that must be removed.
Authoritarian collectivism and religion are so destructive to humanity that both must be banned from public life. Religious practice must be restricted to adults, while child indoctrination must be classed as a form of abuse with full criminal liability. Religion is easily the greatest retardant of human progress and the true antithesis of civilisation, especially the three Abrahamic religions that promote violence and stupidity. Authoritarian collectivism is also one of the most harmful concepts humanity has practiced and is chiefly responsible for Britain’s stagnation. These backward beliefs need to be removed from public life at the very least.
Encourage a civic ideal to first do well for oneself in order to create a stable and comfortable life, then second to turn one’s attention and resources to helping others. It’s important to state that helping others must always be voluntary and never coerced. This principle provides people with a simple ambition and sense of constructive purpose in life. It’s grounded in reality and encourages altruistic behaviour.

These changes remove dangerous ideologies from public life, make parents more proactive with raising their children, suppresses voluntary stupidity and promotes altruism.

Guiding the Country Forwards

The general malaise and rudderless drifting that permeated since 1945 stems from the population’s loss of defined purpose; a natural consequence of any society that adopts socialist principles of punishing anyone that advances in life and rewards those that stand idly. While it might have appeared as compassionate, the simple fact is the country needs to look forwards by supporting innovative and productive people, not to look backwards via the repeated coercive bailout of those falling behind. It’s a mindset of stagnation and resentment rather than progress and optimism. This was exacerbated in recent decades by identity politics that promoted perpetual bitterness and misery while offering nothing constructive. The population needs an encouraging purpose to rally behind, for willing people to step out of the quagmire and for the destructive ideologues to be discarded.

Promote the advancement of humanity through science, engineering and technology as a general guiding purpose for the population. Using this in combination with a national promotion of altruism will facilitate a common purpose that people can choose to rally behind and move forwards together.
Direct a significant proportion of any public spending towards productive infrastructure upgrades alongside research and innovations in science, engineering and technology. These are the best tools to advance the country and function in tandem with building a strong economy. These important elements are ignored by politicians because they’re long-term investments, whereas politicians thirst for instant wins at long-term costs. In more practical terms: any proposal for public spending must generate a greater outcome than its cost.
Allow children to focus on what they’re best at doing with individualised education. Secondary schools can choose to focus on particular subjects and dedicate their resources accordingly. Children are the future by definition. The absurd belief in making children identical is extremely destructive to any society and stunts their natural curiosity, arguably one of the most damaging acts possible. Some might be academic, some might be practical; education must be shaped to each person to motivate and channel their strengths. The current assembly line process of making generic clones and viewing exams as the most important criteria must stop.
Remove socialist price controls⁹ and government targets from universities, return them to operating as independent academic institutions for niche subjects. The political decision that half of the population should go to university¹⁰ and the implementation of price controls was unfathomably idiotic, leading to a complete devaluation of university degrees, reckless student debt and the priority of foreign students as the only method for universities to generate more money.
Support apprenticeships and learning useful skills. Encourage private investment into continuous training and equipment upgrades. The country must reorient towards useful productive skills, not pointless managers. The removal of work-based taxes and endless paperwork means that employers would no longer be punished for taking on staff and training them. The deed-driven variable corporation tax would reward companies that invest in their staff and punish companies that only extract profits for shareholders.

These changes would steer public spending and young people in a far more positive and constructive direction.

Addressing Predictable Objections

Some of the obvious objections and their answers will be listed here.

Why shouldn’t people vote for politicians? The current system is broken because the sheer variety of voters means the winning political decision is always the most broad and compromised. This is why socialists won’t raise taxes and conservatives won’t remove welfare, even though both groups should perform those actions if truly enacting their respective ideologies. If one wishes to retain a system of public voting then the pool of voters must be drastically decreased in order to reduce bad political decisions. If so, then by which metric are voters allowed and how would it be defined? Any chosen category opens up a whole new can of worms.
What if the country were to use a different voting model? Switching to a model such as a single transferable vote (STV) would be much better than the current broken model of first preference plurality (FPP, also known as first past the post.) However, even with a superior voting model to provide more accurate representation in Parliament, it still utterly fails to resolve the fundamental flaw of political decisions made solely upon popularity.
If mortgages become harder to obtain, how can I afford to buy a house? The reason why house prices skyrocketed since the late 1990s is precisely because banks carelessly created money for mortgages with little to no deposit required, further exacerbated by government subsidies. If mortgages are restricted by requiring existing money and the government stops subsidising mortgages then house prices will drop after a period of time to more sensible levels, thus they become far more affordable. This is a classic example of impatient people wanting something in the present moment rather than waiting for something better in the future.
I bought an expensive house with a massive mortgage. Lowering house prices to normal levels could put me in negative equity. House prices are knowingly overinflated and you agreed to a risky financial loan with a low deposit, a high total repayment and a 30-year plan with interest rates that can change at any moment. That’s an incredibly stupid decision; this is entirely the consequence of your folly and house prices shouldn’t stay overinflated just to cushion your mistake.
I disagree with lowering taxes because rich people should pay their fair share and X public service needs more funding. Taxation is extortion so it’s inherently immoral and should be as minimal as possible. As for paying a “fair share”, that’s not how the system functions as taxation doesn’t fund public spending in any country that freely issues its own currency, as happens in Britain. Taxation becomes a system of countering inflation or punishing behaviours, so heavily taxing income or wealth is purely ideological spite. Similarly, who defines “fair share”? People that describe the fair share of taxation are typically bitter ideologues that believe in coercive redistribution. It doesn’t work, it only ever leads to stagnation because it pulls everyone down to the lowest level and punishes anyone that progresses. It’s equally valid to say people that receive free money from the government ought to pay their fair share in return.
How will poor or elderly people survive without welfare? How will productive or young people survive when they’re taxed to the hilt to counteract all of that money creation? The concept of the welfare state has existed now in Britain for almost a century and all that’s happened over that period is people demand more welfare. Cash handouts fail to address the underlying problems. If people are poor then the cause must be resolved on an individual basis. As for elderly people, the true answer is that nothing at present can prevent the degenerative effects of ageing and nobody else has the honesty to admit this. Instead, developed nations around the world bury their heads in the sand and coerce the rest of society to pay for a monumental one-way transfer of resources to people that offer nothing in return. The proposed fixes in this article would lead to very little tax and a focus on productive work through science and engineering, so those people will have the money to take care of themselves in retirement. Those that don’t prepare through the fifty or so years of adulthood will face the consequences. A stable currency would also mean that personal savings retain their value rather than the continuous devaluation that requires intervention.
I object to the construction or use of nuclear power to generate electricity. That’s fine, but you must propose a better alternative. Nuclear power is the only form that ticks every box of scalability, stable supply, zero carbon emissions and cheap electricity generation. If you believe that only renewables should power the national grid then you have to accept one of the following: random blackouts from intermittent supply, greatly reduced supply further crippling industry, or build a gargantuan array of batteries that places the country at China’s mercy due to its overwhelming dominance of the lithium-ion battery supply chain.¹¹ The truth is that nuclear power is currently the only available option to lower the cost of living by escaping the blackmail from gas providers and to enable the productive re-industrialisation of Britain. This country can be entirely energy self-sufficient and it’s a disgrace that it’s not.
I don’t believe in personal responsibility, it’s always someone else’s fault. If you wish to forever remain as a child or constantly make excuses for other people by portraying them as powerless entities or permanent victims then that’s your prerogative; however that’s incredibly infantile and the rest of society shouldn’t be forced to pay for it. Perhaps you’d rather live in Neverland with Peter Pan.
I’m religious and want my children to be religious, I find your comments about religion to be offensive. Your backwards religion is offensive, delusional and morally repugnant. Indoctrinating your child to believe that Hell is his destination if he disobeys your imaginary friend is child abuse. Mutilating your newborn son’s penis to appease your imaginary friend is child abuse. Forcing your child to marry a middle-aged man to emulate your barbaric warlord prophet is child abuse. Religion has no place in a civilised society.

Final Comments

These changes would drastically improve Britain and all of them can be implemented within several years. If politicians refuse to enact these changes to fix the country then they’re needlessly perpetuating the country’s decay and misery. Unfortunately, it seems politicians don’t have the integrity and honesty required to make these changes, therefore they bear the blame for causing Britain's predicaments. Tapeinocracy proposes logic, pragmatism and morality to solve a country’s problems, which requires honest examination and feedback of various systems. It’s grounded in reality and recognises that an uncomfortable truth is always better than a reassuring lie.

References

Office for National Statistics (2026) Population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2025.
ONS Geography (2026) Standard Area Measurements for the Countries (December 2024) in the UK
Financial Conduct Authority (2026) CASS 7 Client Money Rules.
HM Revenue and Customs (2026) HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK
HM Treasury (2026) Public Spending Statistics release: July 2026.
Bank of England (2026) Inflation Calculator.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2026) International Domestic Energy Prices.
Home Office (2025) National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. (Specifically chapter 6 on denial.)
HM Stationery Office (2026) Higher Education and Research Act 2017, Schedule 2: The Fee Limit.
BBC (1999) Tony Blair's speech in full. 1999 Labour Party conference.
Greitemeier T., Kampker A., Tübke J., Lux S. (2025) China's hold on the lithium-ion battery supply chain: Prospects for competitive growth and sovereign control. Journal of Power Sources Advances, Volume 32, 2025, 100173, ISSN 2666-2485.

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