down with terraces, more of this sort of thing!

“Needs more horsepower” would be the relevant idiom?

Have Commons bill committees elected by secret ballot in the same way as select committees.

Have all mayors elected by AV. Have all councils (in England and Wales) elected by STV. Have the House of Commons elected by STV with above the line party voting and large-n constituencies (6+).

Empower councils to raise income taxes (strictly by increments on the same schedule as mentioned upthread).

Take responsibility for social care away from local authorities and merge it with the NHS. Then devolve responsibility and tax-raising powers for the NHS to devolved administrations and English mayors/regional authorities.

Immediately commence construction on 10 copies of Hinkley Point C. Order 100 Rolls Royce SMRs.

Abolish stamp duty land tax and replace with a universal land value tax. Abolish stamp duty on shares, taxes on dividends, taxes on capital gains, national insurance contributions, and replace with an income tax on the same schedule as mentioned upthread.

Replace this monstrosity with a series of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, and 50% tax rates.

Make town and country planning geographical and zonal, rather than discretionary and case-by-case.

Institute a carbon price tax at a level set by a committee of economists and climate scientists, *and* implement a carbon tariff on carbon-intensive products.

Universalise VAT.

Legalise the consumption and regulate and tax the sale of all currently illegal recreational drugs.

Empower councils to raise a housing services tax at a fixed percentage of the existing value of houses, with rated values updated every year.

Take all the renewable energy subsidy payments out of electricity bills and have them paid for out of general taxation.