12 issues - and the counter arguments versus such - on a no. of popular debates in the UK political sphere

Issues (I) that are in the public domain and challenges (C) against the arguments.

I1) It seems a fair few people are angry about immigration.

C1) Politicians need to have an honest debate about what level of immigration meets our needs and is manageable culturally.  Given our ageing less babies population if we don't allow immigrants in we won't have the tax revenue nor the carers to support out ageing population.

I2) Because the grey vote is more active in voting no political party appears to want to challenge the triple lock on state pensions.

C2) But surely it would be fair to undo the triple lock and just link state pension increases to wage increases?

I3) There maybe seems to also be a problem with how people on a variety of benefits can receive more £'s p.a. than those working a 40 hour week on the minimum wage.

C3) Surely the combo of benefits people can get needs to be pegged to a level materially less (say 20%) than what 40 hours on minimum wage pays?

I4) The fiction of private sector always been better than public sector continues.

C4) Even after many railways are back in public ownership, the privatised probation service had to be re-nationalised, and the privatised water companies services are literally, shit.

I5) The largely right wing UK newspapers have been in attack mode on the Labour Government since it got elected last summer, indeed the ability of the Conservative party under "I never make mistakes" Kemi to reveal regular "gotcha" stuff might owe more to the right wing newspapers than the Conservatives forensic investigation skills.

C5) 18 years of Conservative government topped at the end with "make your mates rich" COVID deals and Boris bullshit & illegality is the benchmark we actually need to judge any government against.  Any bets as to whether the Mail, Express, Sun or Telegraph will ever do that baseline comparison?

I6)  Whenever tax the ultra rich is suggested we get articles saying they'll all just leave - but  tracking down facts as to whether they actually would leave seems difficult.  The "they'll leave" articles seem to rely on surveys from companies who serve the ultra rich.

C6) Some of the ultra rich are entrepreneurs who create wealth and jobs and for that we ought to be thankful & try & encourage them to stay, but most ultra rich  are people with assets which they earn income from which is taxed at a lower rate than the income tax most folk have to pay.

I7)  Some 50% now go onto further education after 18 and they've been conned into believing they'll get salaries in the top 10% range, a mathematical impossibility.  Now-a-days students don't really have a student loan they have an extra tax rate on their earnings. (The interest rate on the "loan" is way above market rates, the body that administers it is a financially unregulated body, so the "loan" quickly balloons to a "will never be repaid" amount which eventually will be written down 30/40 years from now). Its a classic pushing the issue into the long grass move so political parties don't need to deal with the issue today.

C7)  Yet still most popular media talks about student loans as if they are something that will be paid back.

I8) The House of Lords keeps getting bigger as the party in power creates Lords as rewards for its mates.

C9) Peg the no. of Lords to be the same as the no. of MPs.

I9) Scottish politics continues to focus on independence even though the referendum was understood at the time to be a once in a lifetime deal.

C9) If Scotland wants independence then let them have it, as long as the rest of us don't have to pay them any subsidy and they can't use the £ as currency.  If they complain about others nicking their oil maybe they need reminding that the Union happened because the rest of us bailed them out from bankruptcy in the 1690's

I10) The English do wonder why, as the main income contributor to the UK finances, they don't have their own Government independent from Westminster.

C10)  I haven't found any serious arguments against such bar "its all to difficult" - but apparently it wasn't for Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

I11) We as taxpayers are paying benefits to people in work because private companies don't pay them a living wage/use zero hour contracts.  We are literally subsidising private companies profits.

C11) Big employers like Tesco need to take less profit and pay their workers a proper wage.

I12) Many MPs seem to enjoy hospitality from private companies and juicy posts with such when they retire from being an MP

C12) Anything over £50 value in hospitality from others should be something MPs are required to not accept.  Also MPs - and civil servants - should, if they take employment based on their previous contacts as an MP or civil servant - if an independent body so judges - pay 75% tax on such earnings - as they're earning such income because of what tax payers paid them to do in previous government paid roles.  It probably won't reduce the no. of MPs/ex civil servants getting employment based on their previous tax payer paid role, but at least we'll get a bit more back into the nations' coffers.