How to fix the UK

[snapper]

Only person left at the MoD is the Minister methinks.

[gunnut]

Now that is a cunning plan :)

Seriously, what are the major problems that UK faces today?

Too many socialists.

[gunnut]

Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

Would that be before or after tax?

[snapper]

I have an alternative fix: recolonise Africa. Pick a country on the coast; Angola for instance with lots of natural resources and ports for returning said resources home, send off unemployed to become colonial police, pen pushers and the rest, pay them Angolan wages and shares in companies set up, build train lines to DRC to get freight exports from there too, regulate the exchange of mineral resources in your region and use South African and Serbian militias for rebel extermination while training unemployed for assigned tasks - invite MSF and Red Cross Hospitals and non lunatic Christian school missionaries. Teach them English and not this useless Portuguese. All companies founded must be resgistered in UK.

Medium Term Result: Unemployed situation gone, housing waiting lists cut, NHS eased; no drunken layabouts, increase in shipping, increase in tax (as all companies founded must be resgistered in UK), cheap minerals for UK, good for natives (law and order and health and education etc), increase in national revenue over a 20yr period alowing expansion of military and then DRC...

Long Term Result: Countering Chinese influence in Africa and control of African mineral resources. A permanent base; unemployed get experience and settle. UK aims to control African mineral reasources and international shipping. Increase spending on RN etc etc... return of Empire.

I have actualy been looking at this as a feasility project recently based on the primary purchase of Ambriz Port Authority (no longer a going concern) and the re-opening of Ambriz Port (currently closed). If the port can be reopened relatively cheaply it may be viable but the cost of the survey of Ambriz port may be a problem for me as an individual.


Oh when did I become a Senior Contributor and who decided that?

[StevoJH]

Probably don't need to take over as such, but if enough UK companies could invest in a single country they would effectively control the economy anyway.

Lets use Angola again.

UK registered Company is formed. Half a dozen large UK companies as the major sharholder and HM Government as a minor share holder.

This company then goes to the Angolan government and says, ok, we'd like to do this, this, this and this. In return we'd like you to do these things.

If the government says yes. Send off officer candidates to sandhurst, police officer trainee's to british academies, add in a leavening of british officers on exchange.

Laws changed to make the place a bit friendly.

Company start and fund schools in the towns and areas in which they operate....

Slowly develop the country, meanwhile the profits being paid to the shareholder companies back in the UK are being Taxed.

Rinse & Repeat in other countries.

[Parihaka]

How to fix the UK

If you can't arrange a decent dose of the black plague how about shipping your undesirables to Australia?

[dave lukins]

How to fix the UK

If you can't arrange a decent dose of the black plague how about shipping your undesirables to Australia?

Australia wouldn't be big enough

[Officer of Engineers]

How to fix the UK

If you can't arrange a decent dose of the black plague how about shipping your undesirables to Australia?

You really want tankie that close?

[Nightowl]

I have an alternative fix: recolonise Africa.

Ooh! Ooh! Can us Dutchies have South Africa again? Would provide a nice place to restock halfway towards the future New Dutch East Indies.

[Parihaka]

You really want tankie that close?

Eargh, good point :shudders:

[S2]

Nightowl Reply

"Ooh! Ooh! Can us Dutchies have South Africa again?"

If you must ask then, no, you can't. You can have anything, anything at all, which you can take and hold.

I promise.;)

[Mihais]

Just let the old SADF recce have their way and they'll hold whatever they want in Africa

Guys,really are we talking empire building here?That's so 19th century.Its much better than nation building and wiping the native's noses or teaching them to use toilet paper properly(both of which they don't care and don't enjoy learning).
I'm finally starting to see a glimmer of hope in this world.
We must make a Cecil Rhodes fan group,like the one Vlad has.

[S2]

Mihais Reply

"Guys,really are we talking empire building here?..."

Not really. More like taking out the garbage...

[Mihais]

Same thing,Sir.Send the troublemakers at home to make troubles on others.

p.s Ok,time to wake up.No one will give me a battalion from La Coloniale to wander the wilderness,hunt exotic animals and bring light to the those living in darkness.

[Nightowl]

*starts preparations to bring back the VOC*