Shock and awe! My first hundred days as PM.

What would I do if I were Starmer? A newly elected PM with a massive majority (or even a decent, smaller one). Well, I'm a socialist, so I would have a very different approach, I would be looking after the interests of the people not the profits of billionaires and corporations. I would be working to undo the damage caused by forty odd years of neoliberalism, and the wholesale sell-off of the UK.

I would begin my term with a political form of shock and awe, making significant changes as rapidly as possible to make my opponent's jaws drop, and giving them no time to recover before they were hit again. 

In the USA, they say the first 100 days of a presidency are crucial. I'd be trying to make many of these changes in that time period, if not, they would be announced and the work commenced.

Here we are:

• Introduce PR STV for all local elections and moots (by moots I mean an assembly of local people who can question elected representatives and are empowered to make decisions) in the first two weeks.
• Nationalise rail, post, and water and steel as quickly as possible
• Fund NHS properly and repeal Tory NHS legislation
• Reverse Tory cuts in the Justice Dept and get our justice system working again
• Scrap the two child benefit cap
• Restore the winter fuel allowance
• Scrap freeports and SEZs
• Join the customs union (EU)
• Budget - tax the rich, lower taxes on small businesses, end subsidies to fossil fuel companies, and energy bills being linked to the price of gas (there would be more here, but these are priorities)
• Scrap the right to buy and buy to let
• Implement a rent freeze and end section 21 evictions
• Purchase all the UK's empty houses and turn them into council houses. Restore the council house system. All new builds would have to have solar panels and be well insulated.
• Scrap all Blair's fake regulators - Ofcom, Ofgem etc, and replace with real regulators with teeth
• Build a green economy and boost renewables
• Implement Levison two
• Break the billionaire monopoly of media ownership - they would have to be resident in the UK and pay tax here. No one person (company) woud be allowed to own more than one media outlet.
• Make clear my intention to abolish the House of Lords and introduce PR for GEs ( no rush for that if I have 5 years) 
• End arms sale to Israel and press for peace in Palestine and Ukraine
• Enhance powers for Scotland, Wales and NI set up a constitutional UK council including the devolved governments.
• Tax the King (for starters)
• Restore legal routes for asylum seekers
• Reform the prison system
• Support trans rights
• Repeal repressive protest legislation

Of course, you may not agree with all of these changes. There are many more I would like to make. For example, I would like the UK to have a written constitution and a bill of rights. I would also like for citizen assemblies to be involved in decision-making at a national level. They would be consulted - at the very least.

I want the democratisation of the UK and to give the people real power. Of course, I have no illusions. I know that, even with a large majority, there would be powerful forces trying to undermine many if not all of these changes. The markets might try to do a Truss on me, cause a run on the pound, for instance. That's why I'd have a plan to deal with those contingencies and I would be working with advisors, like Stephanie Kelton, who understand how government spending works, and how to deal with markets. I wouldn't just blindly jump into all this. All moves would be carefully considered and planned beforehand (before I even got into office). 

In case you are wondering, here is Kelton's book which explains how government spending really works. It's a must-read.