• New visa rules urgently required for foreign students studying in the UK
    Extrapolating figures drawn from the Office of National Statistics for 2017, foreign students studying in the UK would have brought in £28B in revenue if, on heavily flawed research, the Prime Minister (whilst Home Secretary) hadn't withdrawn tens of thousands of student visas. Often the brightest and the best apply to study in the UK - their research; remains and belongs to UK Institutions after they return home! This R&D makes the UK one of the most innovative countries in the World! £28B per year and free leading edge research; please review the visa requirements for foreign students studying in the UK. Then there is the human factor - impoverished villages around the Globe sell everything they have just to get one child a UK education, in the hope that on their return, now with much improved job prospects, they can financially support the entire village. It is these students that were hurt most when they were deported, without compensation, merely through a hurried and thoughtless visa change.
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  • Bring Back Vital Support and Assistance Phone Lines For The Vulnerable
    Kent Support and Assistance as it was called (KSAS), a Government Scheme funded £2.8 million pound in its first year and millions since, has just recently had removal the information of its phone service with the web page edited slightly to remove the multi million scheme's name too. You can only find information on the scheme by typing 'help in a crisis' or something similar into the KCC search bar with it's new name 'Home essentials in a Crisis'. The page has its header name changed and their number removed but is other wise the same. This seems to also be the case with other essential council services whereby you have to report/claim for help online not taking into consideration the vulnerable and those without internet access or the know how to use this method, the only choice given. This is something us a non funded organisation fill the faps with as they refer clients to us when turning people down for help was not informed of, nor any other sign posting agency we lisise with. We are already seeing the rise in cases coming to us before this at our Thanet 7 day Food Bank, non funded and run by community, something we have had to take the demand for with errors to this KCC service since it began in Spring 2013 following the abolishment of the DWP's social fund's Crisis Loans and Community Care Grants. As an organisation, we have previously fought to get waiting times down in their first year which was proven to be productive after being asked to meet with the scheme's commissioner when we swapped figures on how many people Kent County Council were helping in Thanet compared to our non funded 7 day food bank. The figures were shocking Our concerns were acted on after myself and vice chairman Robin were asked to meet the commisioner of the scheme and his colleague who travelled to meet us from Maidstone after we voiced our growing concerns through several channels Waiting times were at least 14 days often longer for a decision on helping with emergency food, gas and electric, by which time their situations had largely started to sort themselves but claimants were still receiving food and fuel from KSAS after we had supported them through their hardships within 24 hours which even the clients acknowledged to be a waste of the council money. The commissioner, Hugh Martyn listened to what we provide non funded and he called me the 'Gap Filler', he asked what we see as the need here in Thanet and was quick to act with waiting time reduced to a matter of days rather than weeks within weeks. This was funded £2.8 million pound in the spring of 2013 with further millions in funding year on year following from Central Government to provide a service to the people in need from Maidstone to the whole of Kent. Right now, the people of Kent are being let down hugely yet again. We will be gathering more figures and FOI's into exactly how many services have had their phone contact service removed. **If you would like to get involved or would like to share your story, please send us an email to [email protected] or [email protected] Kerry Keating and Robin Vaughan Lyons
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  • University should be free
    People in lower middle class cant afford can't afford it without taking out loans. When taking out a student loan you only pay it off for 30 years if you are working in the UK so a lot of loans are written of anyway so they should be a reasonable price that most people can afford.
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  • Rights for Children to have a relationship with both parents following divorce/separation
    We want to see positive change for all children to develop and by nurtured by both parents and their respective families after divorce and or separation. Help us challenge for Change.
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    Created by Leannemarie Teague
  • Better NHS services for cornwall
    People are suffering and dying needlessly.
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    Created by Debbie St Leger
  • Stop new Brittania build
    There are many infrastructure projects which would benefit from this spend including hospitals and schools. The Royal Yacht is elitist and the last thing we need to help working classes. The Daily Telegraph reports that ministers sense a growing passion for a new yacht, this would further increase the feelings that ordinary people have that they are being left behind whilst the rich get richer.
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  • Strip Phillip Green of his Knighthood and Assets
    To allow anyone or any corporation to have the power to steal and make its own governance shows weakness and untrustworthiness in the powers that are meant to uphold the moral and financial status of our democracy. Restore some faith and decency in our society by taking a stand against bullying tactics and tax dodging corporations. If a man or woman in the street committed these atrocities, they would be arrested, investigated, stripped of all their worth and jailed. The duality of responsibility is reprehensible and must be addressed! The public must make a stand or we are accepting oppression!
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  • A call for Calvin Harris to buy and restore The Arches, Glasgow
    This is important to fight back in the closure of clubs
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  • Stop the uk government from selling arms to Saudi Arabia
    There's weapons are being used to kill women and children in Yemen, and even to stop food getting into the country causing thousands of children to suffer and die from malnutrition. Also these weapons are being used to arm Isis
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  • STOP BLACKHORSE TOWER DEVELOPMENT
    This application conflicts with the Local Plan. The development of 10 and 7 storey blocks with 328 residential units and a 64 room hotel is too dense for this area. 1. The development is too high - it is out of keeping with the area which comprises quiet residential streets of mainly semi and detached homes. It will impact on the views for many in neighbouring streets 2. There will be a huge increase in the traffic on the Cockosters Road (A111) which is already over capacity and unable to cope with the existing traffic both from the North and South as it is the main link to the M25 motorway. 3. Increase in pollution 4. Noise nuisance 5. Strain on existing community facilities, in particular doctors and dentists 6. Strain on local schools which are all already oversubscribed even before the Bolingbrook development fully opens.
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  • Stop sending drug addicts to prison instead of rehab
    Fourteen prisons in England and Wales, most of which hold short-term inmates, have reconviction rates of more than 70%, Ministry of Justice figures disclosed today reveal.
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  • To create awareness and develop treatment on Temporomandibular (Jaw) Joint disorders
    The symptoms of TMJD include facial pain, reduced mouth opening and headaches which can be very debilitating. TMJD affects approx. 25% of the population. There are very few NHS clinics which provide TMJD treatment in the UK compared to the USA even though there are NICE Guidelines set out for TMJD, most patients who do not know that treatment is available.
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