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What would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK
(www.theguardian.com)
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I feel like fishing amongst the public for random ideas could be an effecitve strategy. I've run into several people who had quite clever ideas to various problems, but didn't know who to tell them to or didn't want to go to the effort of lobbying their MP