• Student Loans
    Well I think nowadays students are targeted to pay in the system from an early age. I think that Education should be free or the loans should at least be halved than what is expecting of them today. I am really concern as I see I have my daughter who started this year and in 3/4 years time she will end up with a debt of £36000 + interests. In contract in France University fees are free what don't we follow their example. There isn't a single night when I go to bed and not thinking of my daughter. People might say it is ok but before their children end up paying only half of fee that is required for a year study. I am trouble by it as I am working mother who know the difficulties of life and how hard to have to work in order to have a good lie. I am stressed and so is my daughter. If she has decided to find a job after Six Form then she would have end up in a low paying job and struggle like her mum. I think the rich should be the one penalised and not the lower class.
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    Created by Myriam Anderson
  • Preserve bus services in Lancashire
    Your proposal is a 'Cost Cutting Exercise' which will, in fact, increase costs to the people of Lancashire. This is a false premise. It is more efficient, economic and environmentally friendly for Lancashire County Council to deliver this service direct to the people. If this proposal is enacted then increased costs and inconvenience will be born by the poor, disabled, young and elderly people + families with no motor car.. This proposal will lead to an 'Increase in cost to society'. IN REAL TERMS, THIS IS NOT A SAVING FOR THE COMMUNITY. Consider the following: - We are no longer a 9 to 5 - 5 day week society. - We are now moving towards a 24/7 culture which will demand a better bus service. - Problems - caused by loss of Evening, Sunday and Bank Holiday Services:- - How do workers (particularly low-paid) get to and from work? - Loss of custom to all businesses. - How do people in need, reach - Hospitals, Doctors, Rest Homes, Nursing Homes, shops, supermarkets, Banks etc. - How do people access Entertainment and Social Activities, Theatre, Cinema, Restaurants, Leisure Centres, Societies, Evening Classes & Public Houses/Clubs (Cutting out the risk of drink driving). - Health & Environment. - Buses are more environmentally friendly - The greater use of motor cars will increase pollution and congestion/parking etc. - A walk to the bus stop promotes healthy exercise.
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    Created by Graham Dixon Picture
  • Education Beyond Borders
    Although we have seen an unprecedented number of refugees partaking in the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and consequently Europe over this past year, this is not a new phenomenon and it certainly won't be going away anytime soon. We need to show consistent solidarity with those who are displaced and it should start here.
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    Created by Amira Rady
  • Open up empty buildings in Bury
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
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    Created by diane milne
  • The Daily Mail - refugees are not rats!
    As the refugee crisis worsens worldwide, it is increasingly important not to dehumanise the people fleeing from the kind of atrocities we in the West fear the most. With this is mind, the Daily Mail's cartoon showing droves of terrorists and rats rushing over the European border is not only callous and completely inappropriate, it risks further inciting an extremely volatile situation. The cartoon directly echoes cartoons published by the Nazis regarding Jews fleeing Germany in 1939, and fuels the fires of Islamophobia that will turn more and more previously unaffiliated people to IS. It is vital not to have the Paris attack and the European response to the refugee crisis feed into the narrative IS is trying to create. There is no global war against Muslims but IS would certainly like there to be, as they believe they would be turned to as the last resort. Every closed door to human suffering, every shut border and every attack on an innocent refugee or Muslim someone in the West makes will only increase their support. This is why the Daily Mail's cartoon is so dangerous. It dehumanises people which leads to the above events. It binds refugees, Muslims and terrorists together with absolutely no human component, no empathy for the people escaping situations we can only hope never to experience. The same people attacking Paris are the people the refugees are trying to escape from. Not all refugees are terrorists Not all Muslims are terrorists. IS does not represent Islam. All refugees are people, not rats. Nazi cartoon source: https://s.bsd.net/38degrees/main/page/-/CBY/1939-newspaper.jpg
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    Created by Seb Higginson
  • Open up empty buildings to the homeless this Winter in Bury St.Edmunds
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
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    Created by Joanne Cordock
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    Created by Andy Payne
  • Save Our Services - Herefordshire
    So many services are under threat and not always from an inability to fund, but more often from an ideological battle where money is wasted on vanity projects the public never asked for. From Libraries, Museums, to Respite Services ... there is a tendency for people to feel their single issue is more important than another, but all have their own importance, so this is a petition to include some issues not already covered by individual campaigns against a common threat to our daily lives.
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    Created by John Perkins
  • North Somerset
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
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    Created by Grace Collins
  • STUDENT RAILCARDS
    A STUDENT RAILCARD COSTS £30, BUT DOES NOT COVER TRAVEL AT PEAK TIMES. THIS MEANS THAT, WHEN LECTURES START AT 9AM, THE CARD CANNOT BE USED, AS IT ISN'T VALID BEFORE 10AM.
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    Created by IAN MALCOLM
  • damaging, racist and hateful drawing in the daily mail
    This image instigates racial hatred and violence! I find this image unacceptable, offensive and an act of racism from the Daily Mail which will only create further divide and hate among people. After the shocking events of the weekend, surely now more than ever, we need to come together instead of creating a larger divide through hateful propagander!
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    Created by sarah wade
  • Don't close down Bromley Adult Education- Widmore centre
    Because our people will be left with not place to go, may be to doctor to take pills for depression . There are many many people who go to do courses to this centre so they're not at home alone and sad, as well for our people who did not do well at school but want to do well in life doing others jobs. For that reason they go to the centre to learn new ways to get new jobs. Adults deserve some place to go to keep the brain working " Learn for life".
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    Created by Katy Allen