• G4S and contracts
    Too many areas of service are being or have been run by G4S and rarely has any company had such spectacular failings yet they still win contracts
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    Created by Paul Fisher
  • Boycot Bauer Media Sponsors
    An innocent man should have the right to return to work. Any company acting the way Bauer has done deserves all there sponsors to find there products being boycott by he general public.
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    Created by Eric Wiltsher
  • The BBC belongs to me (and you and all of us)
    Because the legacy and reputation built over the years that make the BBC one of the most credible media organisations on the planet, was done so with public funding. This legacy should therefore not be in the hands of profit driven organisations that would only destroy it after cashing in on our investment.
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    Created by Jacques Griffith
  • Free prescriptions for transplant patients
    Right now, thanks to the selfless sacrifice of others, people all over the world every day at this very second are undergoing an organ transplant to save their lives but this is only part of a life long battle to stay alive. If you are one of those lucky enough to survive the transplant and the recovery period (which includes avoiding a number of complications, battling to prevent rejection, and in some cases hoping the disease doesn't take hold). In order to survive transplant patients have to take a variety of anti-rejection drugs every single day, drugs that they will take until the day they die. Transplant patients have no choice but to take the medication, without it they die. I know this because I am one of those transplant patients. After fighting through a period of ill health I recently felt well enough to get on with my life and I started work. The excitement of a new job was short lived when I found I had to start paying high prescription charges for the very medication I need to prevent my body from rejecting my transplant organ. I do not have a choice over taking this medication, it is literally life or death. I contacted my local MP and sent a letter to the Department for Health. The reply I received was simple: The medical exemption list was put together in 1968 and there are no plans to review this list. To me this is wrong. In 1968 there was no where near the amount of transplants as there are today and by not reviewing the list the Government are saying they do not care that people are forced to pay for life dependent medication. This is not good enough. In 2008 the Government promised to make prescriptions free for all those with long-term conditions in the coming years, however this has been scrapped by the current Government. However with enough signatures we can get the issue back on the agenda and make politicians answer to why they think it fair that transplant patients (who did not ask to be ill) pay prescription charges for life in order to survive.
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    Created by Kelly Knight
  • Reclassify what constitutes an affordable new home.
    The government's promise to provide greater numbers of "affordable housing" sounds good, the problem is that these homes are just not affordable to most people wishing to purchase their first home. Re-defining "affordable housing" to housing that can actually be afforded by families earning the national living wage would mean that these homes that the government has legislated could be bought by families who are currently priced out of ever buying their first home. With the erosion of social housing a growing problem, and for families not fortunate enough to have higher incomes and large deposits, many new and young families in particular are at the mercy of profiteering private landlords. Keeping the current requirements for affordable housing by developers, but making it realistically affordable, might start to address this problem.
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    Created by Dominic Miles-Shenton
  • We demand a referendum on Trident
    Trident has little or no relevance in the 21st-century world - even for those with a belief in the so-called nuclear deterrent. There has not been an informed public debate on Trident for many years and few politicians appear seriously to consider the issue, simply wrapping themselves in the flags of patriotism and strength in support of an absurd, expensive and dangerous programme. Trade unionists, shamefully, are seeing the issue in terms of jobs. Have they not heard of swords into ploughshares? Jeremy Corbyn and other abolitionists are portrayed as crazed and unrealistic, of putting the country in grave danger. Yet there are politicians of all parties who believe we should not renew Trident (Michael Portillo and Lord Owen to name but two, neither in office now of course but with considerable experience of the issue) and many in the military. And the public? If we knew all the facts and could come to an informed judgement it is likely that the vast majority would vote against, preferring to spend the money on health, education, the environment, houses and so forth. We need a debate - now - before Parliament votes this spring.
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    Created by Elizabeth Thomson
  • Save the people of Madaya.
    There are 40,000 people in imminent danger of starvation and death in Madaya. Every day counts and, as each one passes by, more people will die. If your bombing campaign in Syria has any purpose, it must surely be to free the people of that Country from the tyranny of both Daesh and the equally tyrannical Assad regime. Whilst this airborne campaign continues, it is important that the United Kingdom shows compassion for those who are being subjugated by Assad, as well as terrorised by various fundamentalist groups. We cannot stand by and watch tens of thousands of people die through a lack of political will. For much less than the price of one air strike, we could feed these people for weeks. Please, Mr Cameron, act now.
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    Created by Max Jones
  • Abolish Auto Renewing Subscriptions
    Because it is way too easy to end up with a subscription you didn't actually want to renew or that is no longer a good deal. Whether you cancelled it in time or not, the onus is on you to ensure the renewal does not happen and to get proof you cancelled it. Let's stop all auto renewals, if customers want to renew their subscriptions they will get in touch at that point.
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    Created by Francesco Albamonte
  • Syrians are having water for Dinner, what are you having?
    I heard on the news this morning that a person had been reported to have been interviewed on the Radio, that he was having a bowl of water with some spices for dinner. They have no food and have even been eating the grass. It has now however snowed, so the grass is covered over. They are so starved, it was reported that they have even eating their pets.\ Image is copied from BBC Website dated 7th January 16, Story Title: Syrian government 'to let aid into besieged Madaya'
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    Created by Paul Davis
  • Stop Illegal and Dangerous Parking on Western Rd!
    Illegal parking at along this narrow stretch of Western Road causes numerous problems for pedestrians and road users. The restricted visibility on such a busy, fast road makes it very dangerous to cross, with pedestrians having to come right out in to the road before being able to see the oncoming traffic. Cars emerging from side streets do so blind due to illegally parked vehicles, buses and trucks can have trouble passing and congestion is exacerbated. Narrow pavements mean that at times pedestrians are forced off the pavement and in to the road. Furthermore the added noise late in to the night of car horns and drivers shouting to one another constitutes a public nuisance.
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    Created by Amy Kitching
  • Allow Donald Trump to continue to enter the United Kingdom without hindrance.
    In order to safeguard the principle of 'free speech'.
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    Created by Mick McInally
  • Improve Rural Mobile Phone Coverage
    With all the mobile networks claiming 99% population coverage for mobile phone signal why is only 63% of the UK land mass covered by signal. Over 4500 miles of UK roads have no mobile phone coverage at all. This is not only dangerous but it is stifling development in rural areas and holding back local businesses. The government have an arrangement with the 4 main UK networks to spend £5bn by the end of 2017 to improve this but they have already come up against issues themselves with planning permission, un-co-operative landlords, site access and power to the sites. If we can make enough noise to make them realise how important this is to our communities then they will make the necessary changes needed to push through these plans. If we don't? We can see the 2017 deadline come and go and very little will change apart from 4g coverage in cities getting faster and faster.
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    Created by Scott Dennistoun Picture