Whilst it’s great to live in such a beautiful part of the region, rural areas get a rough deal when it comes to services. I want to see the Doctors Surgery in Luddenden maintained to ensure those who depend on these services can continue to live in our area.

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24 builders who fought for better, safer working conditions by coordinating successful strike action were later convicted on trumped up charges of violent picketing and intimidating workers. There is strong evidence of interference from the government of the time. The truth needs to be told on behalf of the men wrongly convicted who are still living including Ricky Tomlinson. The government needs to stop hiding behind national security as a reason for withholding these papers. What possible issues of national security could there be from an event that occurred over 40 years ago. We all need to help them fight for justice.

The west is trying to impose democracy on the world. Democracy is reputed to involve free speech and open debate. Donald Trump is being condemned by David Cameron. As a democrat David Cameron should welcome debate, and Donald Trump. Unless .....

Bees are dying. This is having great affect on our environment if action is not taken quickly the damage won't be repairable. Bees provide us with food in the form of honey, pollination and they also produce many other natural products which we benefit from.

The current monetary system, now world-wide, grew from history, the interactions of people, companies and nation states. It contains an unsustainable effect, a flaw, as money needed for circulation is created as debt to be repaid with interest. Thus there is a charge against future production, requiring continued increase in production, and somewhere bankruptcy and/or exploitation occurs, such the cycles of boom and bust and rampant inequality that have been shown to be ever more severe. This system is not only unsustainable, it is destructive. Monetary system reform seeks specifically to consider the way that money is created, who creates it and how it gets into the economy. There are viable alternative systems* that would democratise money and enable a more optimally functioning economy, responsive to productivity and need. Economists, and banks, including the Bank of England, recognize that “money” is not a thing in itself, it is a symbol of an agreed value for goods, services, work performed, things needed or wanted. Most economic theories are about “what money does”, how it can be used and transferred, how quickly does it circulate, what kinds of uses and modes of transfer will produce what results for investment and returns in the future, and for which sectors of society. Economists, knowing that money is a symbol, seldom address “What money is?” nor “Where does it come from?” nor “How is it created?” These unaddressed questions lie within a social and economic history that have produced the Monetary System, within which economics is applied. As these decisions are at present taken by banks, it is the banking corporations that direct significant distributional socioeconomic effects, mortgage lending being favoured over small business loans being one of the most obvious. We might say: we can’t eat bricks, but a bank loan does not make judgments of social value. It is therefore right and just that banks should be subject to democratic scrutiny, just as any corporation is subject. Banks are private and unelected corporate entities, offering to society a money management service. When this service is seen as different from “money creation”, perception of the system as a whole can change. Banks are corporations who have been given this privilege, and part of the privilege is that over time the repayment of interest brings money out of the productive economy and into the wealth of the bank. It also ensures that debt is always greater than the money supply, and further, that debt will increase faster than the money supply. The economy in each nation state, and indeed the world economy, affecting the lives of everyone on it and even the nature of the planet itself, can run on a reformed system. For all our goods and services, we could create a “Monetary System” that is sustainable and fit for purpose, first within our own nation, then by interactive co-operation we would affect others. “Once a nation parts with control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation’s laws, Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” – William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, August 2, 1935 (quote courtesy of Canadian Monetary Reform News) This petition asks that an enquiry into the monetary system and alternatives to it be set up, in order to create an Equitable Monetary System in which money creation is democratised. A ‘wealth’ of further information from: • http://positivemoney.org/ • http://www.neweconomics.org • http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q101.pdf

James Clerk Maxwell stands beside Einstein and Newton in the trinity of physicists who explained how the universe works. The other two are global superstars, but Maxwell is barely known in his own country, Scotland. To celebrate a great man and encourage future generations to take risks and think big, Maxwell should be the face on the next RBS banknote. The greatest Scotsman to ever live deserves to be a household name.

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

At this time in particular people like Trump causing divisions fear and hatred within communities are doing exactly what terrorists would want.

If there are not enough replies the government will think no one cares and we will be the losers.

Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are paying a disproportionate amount of tax, which is manifestly unfair. In addition, the Austerity measures and severe cuts to public services would be unnecessary, if this revenue were collected.

As a Christian myself, although I have served in HM Forces, I do not believe that we should exacerbate a situation which even Mr Blair has grudgingly admitted, has been caused by the previous wrong decision to go to war in Iraq. We as a supposedly civilised nation should get back to our Christian and Diplomatic roots and strive for peace.