• Free TV licences for welfare pensioners
    Over 2 million pensioners will not receive the new state pension and will have to continue to live on £133 per week - some only receive £115 per week state benefits. For a Government that boasted a basic state pension of £155 per week, conveniently forgot to mention all existing pensioners will not receive this amount. To then expect them to pay the licence fee on top of their daily living costs, when they have little or no money to spare, is a damning indictment of the lack of care this government has for those at the bottom of the welfare heap. As a pensioner myself I know many pensioners who find it hard it is to pay their way, keep warm and eat healthily. You only have to look at the number of deaths of older people in the winter months because they don't have enough money to live on. I want you to sign the petition, so that we can put pressure on the Government to include welfare pensioners of all ages getting a free TV licence.
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    Created by David Southworth
  • Punish Election Campaign Lies
    If a citizen lies to the police it's Perverting the Course of Justice and has serious consequences. If a citizen lies in Court it's Perjury and has serious consequences. But when Politicians tell lies in order to get themselves elected it's just 'Politics'. Politicians must be held accountable for the lies they tell in order to get elected and the only way to do that is to force them to be as good as their words by making the breaking of election campaign promises, such as David Cameron is doing right now with cutting tax credits, akin to a form of Perjury that is punishable by them being removed from office as a minimum.
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    Created by Carl Osborne
  • Oppose the Trade Union Bill
    The proposals in the Bill are designed to negate the ability of trade unions to effectively represent their members and hamper their support for political campaigns which can be used to defend vulnerable groups in our society. The Bill acts in contradiction to individual rights, fairness and social justice and therefore must be opposed.
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    Created by RISE - Scotland's Left Alliance Motherwell & Wishaw Circle
  • Conwy Valley
    David Cameron announced we’ll welcome 20,000 more Syrian refugees. But there’s a catch. This will take 5 years, leaving thousands of refugees in limbo. It’s now up to us to show that in cities, towns and villages all across the country we’re ready to welcome people now. Aylan, the toddler who drowned fleeing Syria, was just three years old. His town was under attack by Isis. His five year old brother and his mum also died trying to reach safety.We don't want Britain to be the kind of country that turns its back as people drown in their desperation to flee places like Syria. So let's stand up for Britain's long tradition of helping refugees fleeing war. Let's show the Prime Minister that we, the people of the UK, are proud to do our part and provide refuge to people in their hour of need. Please sign and share, or start your own petition for your town or city here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/efforts/refugees-welcome
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    Created by Mary Hofman
  • Regularize Streaming Deals pro music artists
    It has never been clear since the dawn of the digital downloads era and we, the artists, often earn a very little income from selling a good amount of our music works which cost us a lot of time, love and money. It is important because the music industry is in crisis because of greedy companies like these (Deezer and others). Whilst I am a full time working musician, working hard and struggling to survive, these people and their employees which little have to do with music, make 20 times our profit just by addressing the products WE create, somewhere. ITunes for instance has a much fairer share of the profits with the artists who sell on it. I am a music producer, band leader of a successful Funk band, having sold 1715 copies of my first album on spotify and having earned 5.4€ from it sounds rather offensive. This is not the way the music business should go as they are killing the arts and the art of recording albums. I shall make my money back from the works I sell, not funding my music through borrowed money. We demand a fairer share of these streamed music deals, because in the past they've promised that they would give us more when they'd have more subscribers. Spotify accounts for 20 million active users and still pays artists around 0.002 pence per stream. This has to come to an end!
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    Created by Matteo Grassi
  • Make the Government Publish a Full Impact Assessment of Tax Credit Cuts
    David Cameron pledged before the election that tax credits were "not going to fall". However, George Osborne's welfare reforms have included tax credit cuts that effectively act as a work penalty; punishing hard-working lower-income families. Both the Treasury select committee and the Work and Pensions select committee have requested a full impact assessment from the Government, yet Cameron and Osborne have attempted to brush the effects of their cuts under the carpet by only setting out the impact on income for families already in receipt of tax credits. We need analysis of the impact on income that the tax credit cuts will have on the population as a whole, not just those already in receipt of tax credits, so that we can see the true, devastating effects of these welfare reforms.
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    Created by Jake Hamilton
  • Labour MPs voting in favour of Fiscal Charter
    In this time of austerity, cuts and financial difficulty for some of the poorest in society, we need a strong opposition to Tory policies. A minority of Labour MPs cannot be allowed to divide the party on such important votes which will affect millions of people.
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    Created by Dale Ricketts
  • END UNRULY BEHAVIOUR DURING PRIME MINISTERS QUESTIONS
    This behaviour is not only disrespectful and disruptive of proceedings (setting the worst example to the country and giving a terrible impression abroad), but it is used to bully and intimidate legitimate questioning of the PM by our elected representatives and shows contempt for the citizens of the country. There can be no justification for it and it must be stopped - the House of Commons is NOT a school debating society.
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    Created by Ben Grillet
  • Stop the RIGHT TO BUY!
    To house those on low, minimum wages. Let us break this English notion of home ownership. Promoting "Thatcher's" edict of house ownership is to saddle poor people with unaffordable morgages to keep them screwed down so as not to cause trouble. Keeping the lower classes in debt stops industrial action and allows the population to be more manageable.
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    Created by Peter Long
  • Publish the sugar report
    Public health experts agree that a high sugar diet is a major cause of obesity, dental caries and other associated problems. High sugar foods are predominantly processed foods, cheap and pushed with advertisements. Education and publicity on their own are not enough to prevail against this. Government prefers that the industry should regulate itself, but no progress is being made that way. This report examined the potential to make progress through pricing and its publication would inform debate over solutions to this great public health issue.
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    Created by David DAWSON
  • Authorities should be held accountable and admit liability
    These survivors were innocent children, traumatised and treated in the most inhumane ways and all had their childhoods stolen. Adulthood's plagued with the consequential psychological damage, and disadvantages in life. Consequentially impacting upon their lack of quality of life. Please sign.
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    Created by paul waine
  • Keep Blackpool clean!
    Blackpool's major asset its tourism. However when the tourists come here they are greeted by rubbish bins that are overfull. Rubbish is strewn over the streets and no one is cleaning it up. The council need to keep on top of this to present a cleaner town for tourists and residents. It is unsightly, unhygienic and puts off residents and tourists alike. The petition is being put up here due to Blackpool council not allowing petitions on their own website.
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    Created by Kat Harris