• Let people vote in the EU referendum from the age of 16
    I'm glad to hear that you want more young people involved in the democratic process.  Young people can and do stand up to speak against global poverty, to ensure politicians tackle disease in africa and in emphasising the importance mental health.  We don't just have to listen, we can join their calls and make them count.   We need to talk about whose voice may count  There is a debate to be had and earlier this year, the Prime Minister himself told the Commons that he was happy to have a vote on whether 16-year olds can vote.  Sometimes it feels like MP's don't want young people to have their say as they had in Scotland during the referendum last year.   I want to make sure that someone who turned 16 and voted on whether Scotland should remain part of the UK will also be able to vote on whether the UK should remain in the European Union.   This referendum can be a once in a generation vote for all of us. All of us who wish to leave the European Union and all of us who wish to remain.   Regardless of where you may stand on Europe, those who stand to gain or lose by the decision the country makes in 2017 are not just parents in Portsmouth South but their children.   Their voice in this referendum should count as equally as yours and your own children.   A question on Europe matters to us, all of us  These aren't voices just about working or studying in Ireland, France or other EU member states.  It's not just about losing opportunities created here as a result of European funding for projects.  It's about if kids learning to code in schools today can work in online companies that have the potential to grow across Europe.  It's also about if, from 2020, they can grow up in the UK buying goods from the United States, Asia or the rest of Europe without paying customs or tariffs.  It's about those children who may not have turned 18 by 2017 answering to their own children in 2057 about what voice they had to ensure the UK led it's European neighbours to tackle energy security, climate change and free trade.   All of us should be included in this referendum   To me, it isn't fair to exclude 1,700 voices in your constituency over 16 but not old enough to vote in an EU referendum by 2017.   Young people who can give their own future to fight for their country but not vote to have their say on the country's future. Would you want 1,700 people in 40 years to feel they couldn't have a say?  Many people want a say about whether to remain in the European Union just because they didn't have one when the UK voted 40 years ago.  How would you feel not to have voted in 1975?  Its your turn to speak up  That's why it matters now to stand up in the Commons against people who say teenagers aren't interested in politics nor the European Union so they don't need to vote in 2017.  To stand up in the same Commons Chambers where the UK Youth Parliament met last November.   Maybe it's their problem if those critics can't get young people involved in the democratic process.  Maybe it's a problem if some schools are not as effective as others in instilling a sense of citizenship but that's something we can solve by improving schools.   Yet it's definitely our problem if the critics on changing the voting age undermine the principle of not taking big decisions away from the people most affected by them.
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    Created by Sameen Farouk
  • Vote For Cuts, Get The Cuts
    We the undersigned demand that in the interests of fairness, equality and social justice that the loyal Conservative boroughs, who voted for austerity and cuts to services on 7th May 2015 should have the honour of bearing the brunt of the £12bn worth proposed for the next five years. In the 2010-15 parliamentary term the inner cities and Labour voting areas suffered much more severe cuts than wealthier Conservative and Liberal Democrat constituencies, especially those with ministerial MPs. We further demand that the disparities of the previous term (2010-15) be overturned in this process over the next five years. There is a proposal for devolution of fiscal powers to the regions of England, but if the cuts continue at the same level as the previous five years, inner city areas may fall into irreversible economic decline, with no help on offer from central government. These areas have also given their fair share to the Treasury over the past five years, and this needs levelling up. Whilst this all appears disgracefully partisan and could be construed as an effort to garner votes, it would nonetheless undoubtedly have had an effect on the outcome of the election. So those who voted with clear understanding of the overall economic plan for the next five years, should now proudly accept their responsibility to shoulder their fair share of austerity cuts for the good of the nation, as they have displayed clear and open support for the proposed cuts to public services through a democratic process. Cutting services to a greater extent in Labour voting areas overlooks another glaring fact. Many people in those areas voted Conservative in both 2010 and 15. If these decisions are partisan and punitive as they appear to be, the many voters who remained loyal to the now incumbent government throughout are suffering cuts to their local services regardless. Fairness, justice and democracy are supposedly British values, and whether or not the disparities in the allocation of austerity measures have been deliberately implemented as an attack on Labour voters in England, this approach is quite simply unfair and undemocratic. By 2020 the Conservative long term economic plan will be complete and the UK will have made a complete recovery and will have "put a bit aside for a rainy day". It would be a shame for all of their most loyal supporters if they hadn't been given the opportunity to fully be a part of that economic recovery. So it's time to roll up your sleeves and do your bit for a brighter future for Britain. Those of us in the inner cities have done our bit, but we're with you all the way. We're all in this big society together! Right? Graphic of local government budget cuts 11/12 (Looks uncannily like the election outcome in 2015) http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/14/local-council-cuts-data http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/30/local-government-cuts-poorest-areas *(Footnote for potential signers: Signing the petition does not necessarily mean that you agree with, or believe in the proposed austerity measures. The campaign is more an attempt to undermine the basic austerity premise that the country is skint, and that we all need to do our bit to help. This is a challenge to the government and their supporters to justify themselves, and bring this question of fairness into the public domain, and hopefully go some way to unravelling the austerity myth for all to see clearly.)
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    Created by Richard O'Brien
  • Boycott Russia 2018
    Because FIFA under Sepp Blatter has been unethical, corrupt and evidence points to the 2018 and 2022 world cup bids as being decided by the buying of votes.Quatar would not have been voted for based on logic and evidence as it is too hot to host a world cup
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    Created by Damien Conrad
  • Remove monarch as head of state and head of church (CoE)
    The majority of the seats in Parliament are currently held by upper-middle class white males who attended public school and therefore do not represent the average Briton. David Cameron is related to the Queen (fifth cousin once removed). Thus, both the head of state and the head of government have only a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, i.e. the maintenance of the richest 1 - 5% in positions of power in the United Kingdom. The citizenry of the UK deserve representation in government. The Queen needs to be removed as head of state and, ideally, to be replaced by a president, elected by and for the people of the United Kingdom.
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    Created by Josh Bealey
  • We Want Political Education
    This is important as without political education or information then some young people do not believe that voting or which political party in government affects them. Politics has changed over the past decades, more people are interested in activism politics and not traditional politics. Without political information being given to young people early then they can have this knowledge for the rest of their lives. In the past, politics was past down from generation to generation, but now this isn't happening then the education needs to step in with advice. Education would be on how government works, voting systems, role of MPs etc, in order to keep the ability for teaching to be unbiased then it will not include information on ideology and political parties. Without political information then who knows what might happen in the future, will voter turnout drop like it did from 1997 to 2001? Sign this important petition to get the secretary of state for education to listen!
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    Created by Sam Johnson
  • Replace the Human Rights Act with a UK bill of rights.
    The EU Human Rights which the British government helped create has become a joke and we have lost control of the UK's criminal system, unable to deport people who actively want to harm British citizens back to their home countries. We need a bill of rights that protects the British people from harm.
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    Created by Andrew Rice
  • Cumbria to secede from England, and the name changed back to Cumberland.
    For far too long now England, in fact the whole UK, has been London and those other little places round the edges. The north never gets a fair deal, especially Cumbria, so it's time we went at it alone. The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, NI, and Cumberland.....has a nice ring to it.
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    Created by Tony Hooper
  • FIRE Iain Duncan smith
    Iain duncan smith is being investigated by the EU Because poor and disabled people and people with mental illness have died or took there own life's because of the new reform's and in that case every death should be properly investigated ...2 million more jobs that shouldn't be the price of a life ...iain Duncan smith has made peoples lives so miserable that they felt they couldn't take it any longer ..all in the name of David Cameron and can say our long term economic plan is working ...(more like a long economic failure)....you cant put numbers or a price on someone's life
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    Created by rohit raj
  • No More UK Parliament
    Nobody set out to create Parliament. It developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King and his government. It didn't develop continuously over time neither, but went through short stages of rapid growth. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1801 by the merger of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland under the Acts of Union. The principle of responsibility to the lower House did not come about until the 19th century. Members of the House of Commons were elected in an out dated electoral system, under which constituencies of vastly different sizes existed. Which is still used today. Parliament is one of the oldest continuous representative assemblies in the world. It is a story that involves battle, war, invasion, several dethronings. We can't keep living in fear of death, famine and despair. Parliament claim cuts are needed to bring this economy back to some stability. Look around you. What positivity can you see that doesn't get overweighed by negativity? Many people in the UK are suffering from depression and other mental health issues. Poverty is rapidly increasing, drug abuse and crime rates are high. We are affected as a consensus. No more shall we have to suffer. There can be an alternative to Parliament. Stand Up. Be heard.
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    Created by daniel wilkes
  • Additional Member System
    The current electoral system though producing clear results, does not fully reflect the will of the British people in their electing of members of parliament. The Additional Member System retains the link between Members of Parliament and their constituencies, and also in most cases produces clear majorities; yet having a proportion element allows the people of the United Kingdom to better elect members according to their considered will and purpose.
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    Created by Daniel Rees
  • Derek Thomas please pledge to vote to keep the Hunting Act 2004 in place.
    I would Like the voices of the people of the St Ives constituency to be heard by our new MP on this important moral issue.
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    Created by tim mayo
  • ROOM ROOM
    Some letting agents in London are greedy and deceitful, falsely advertising 'rooms' to rent that do not meet a governmental living standard that was outlined in 2014. Whilst it is the prerogative of landlords and agencies to dictate their prices, they are forcing up the rental market to beyond what is fair and reasonable to tenants by falsely advertising the space available, and lowering living standards, whilst pushing prices up. This has to stop. People who prioritise living in a place they care about, are being marginalised into moving away or settling for poor living standards. This situation is the beginning of another greedy gentrification boom in housing, perpetuated by the same people who caused our 2008 financial crash. There is a Government standard. It should be met by these companies. Lewisham council, and all London councils must impose these standards more strictly.
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    Created by Samuel Wyer