Our coucil should spend tax payers money in the right way and with the right companies. This is only a matter of political will, Barcelona City Council has pioneered with an initiative which makes sure tax payers money is responsably used. http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/alcaldessa/en/blog/responsible-and-fair-procurement Tax havens breed corruption, terrorism and poverty. We shouldn't allow anonimous companies or money from those sources to be publicaly supported in any way. Let's make it happen, petition to Lewes Town Council to do their bit.

I was refused to be sold 2 mens wedding rings as they only sold his and hers wedding band set i aventually got what I wanted put had to fight and I don't want another couple to have to go through the same as we did.

Only a tiny percent of the billions of plastic cups thrown away are currently recycled. The waste is phenomenal and the destructive impact on the environment is appalling. What point have we got to in society where plastic is created, formed into a spoon, wrapped in more plastic and shipped, only to be used for a few seconds before being thrown away, never to be reused and to exist on the planet for the foreseeable future? Plastic cups and cutlery clog up our oceans injuring and killing all that live in there. In response to this France has just passed another ground breaking law. The law, which will come into effect in 2020, will ensure that all disposable plates, cups, knives and forks will have to be made of biologically-sourced materials and can be composted. And this is just the latest part of France’s transition into a greener country. Earlier this year, supermarkets and stores in France were told they could no longer hand out plastic bags. We in the UK should be following suit. The large packaging companies and their industry groups will be lobbying against any such suggestion. But our government needs to override such protectionism for the greater good of us all. Recyclable is not good enough - we have all seen how difficult it is to actually find places in the real world to recycle these types of apparently "recyclable" plastics. The law must be to ensure these single use products are compostable. Ensuring all disposable cutlery and crockery is fully compostable will cut both the energy used in plastic production and the waste and pollution caused by its disposal. We ask the Secretary of State to follow France's lead and ensure that by 2020 all disposable plates, cups, knives, forks and spoons are made of biologically sourced materials and can be composted.

It's been bubbling in the background for years and having just watched a Panorama episode on iPlayer, I'm feeling quite angry/disappointed in the "establishment" which puts big business / profits ahead of the people. We won against salt, we'll win against sugar, I switched suppliers thanks to 38 degrees ... the list goes on !! I'm now talking about how highly addictive and family-destroying machines allow vulnerable people to spend hundreds or thousands of points in a few minutes ... money that haven't got! Surely this should be better controlled?? Eg far lowed maximum caps, make it harder to borrow money from these places just to lose at gambling, etc etc. "Lots has been done" and "We are doing a lot" - just pointless words while peoples live are ruined. I was almost hooked when I was younger, because my friends were gamblers in their teens. That was then and I now have teenage children of my own and it is SO EASY to get trapped. I'm hope I'm not alone in this - it just seems so selfish of these businesses.

Because the companies should be responsible for the environment. Many people blindly eat these products without realising what damage they are doing. We need to see what we are eating out of, and eat products with recyclable packaging, to make sure that we are aware of our environmental footprint and don't have a costly add up to landfill in 1 or 10 or 70+ years time, when it is too late. We need the big companies who make food products, to make sure that there are environmentally friendly ways of disposing of the products, because soo much is thrown out.

Every evening I watch my local Co-op staff dispose of perfectly good food, rather than reduce any of it for a quick sale. I feel strongly that this Co-op policy is an obscene waste of perfectly good food, when there are people in the UK going hungry every night. They spout about their 'ethical' business and strong 'social responsibility' - not very evident in this policy is it? Starbucks have bowed to pressure in the US and are now being petitioned in the UK. About time our home grown businesses stepped up to the plate, don't you think?

The corporate world needs to be told that they profit from us plenty without needing to steal from us. As well as this petition, I suggest everybody goes into an apple shop and talk with the helpful sales staff about their products. Then ask them about the unpaid taxes and inform them you won't be buying anymore until THEIR company does the right thing. Each worker is a shareholder after all, so they have power and they are all profiting from the dodgy dealings.

It is healthier, avoids wasting the desert, and gives people the healthy option some expect with a meal deal, a main and two sides, denied by the current system, which gives you an incompete main course and a desert you don't want/ shouldn't eat instead. Another of our 5 a day, less waste, healthier customers, better value at no cost except reprogramming a computer (sides are already labelled). So a better offer all round. Why wouldn't you? Cheap does not have to be unhealthy by design, there is a better alternative.

In September 2015, Justice Minister Andrew Selous, dropped promises made in the Conservative manifesto to crack down on corporate crimes, because he said there was “little evidence of corporate economic wrongdoing going unpunished”. This decision flew in the face of statements by the Law Commission that existing laws were “inappropriate and inadequate” and was criticized by Corruption Watch. London has been labeled by Transparency International as the world’s “number-one home for the fruits of corruption”, and since the Panama papers’ leak in April 2016, has been exposed as being at the epicenter of an intricate web of tax havens, as well as being the world’s centre for money laundering. After the 2008 crash, the financial commentator, Joris Luyendijk, said ‘the fact that nobody went to jail after such a breakdown means that there is something wrong with the rules themselves.’ NOTHING HAS CHANGED!

The increased public awareness as a result of this amendment would put pressure on international corporations to adhere to country tax regulations, and expose criminal financial action.

The train company is not being discouraged from providing a poor and costly service, as passengers like myself, are too exhausted to go through the laborious procedure of trying to get compensation, after a long tiring journey. Virgin hold onto this money, are not incentivised to invest and improve the service, which leads to continued misery for passengers.

The English language belongs to everyone, to use or adapt as they please. To allow one company or individual effectively to own a single word, so that others are prevented from using it, is completely contrary to our democratic tradition.