• Block Investigatory Powers Bill
    In short, privacy. As we have seen in the past, there is no such thing as privacy when hackers have become very skilled at accessing whatever they want or desire. End to end encryption adds a very large barrier to this snooping, and adding a backdoor for governments also adds a back door for hackers. The government should have no right in accessing anyone's encrypted communications. Not everyone is a terrorist and the people have the right to a level of privacy.
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    Created by Simon Zielonka
  • Uber: Pay your tax
    Uber has an estimated value of 33 billion in four years trading. In setting up in the uk it has appointed a friend of David Cameron as its head . At the same time it has registered its uk tax office in Amsterdam. According to an investigative tv programme (which I will not name incase its shut down) four existing London hackney cab drivers paid £23,500 in tax last year. Uber with its many drivers in London and other major Uk cities paid in total £2000 less. The Uk tax revenues will yet again be diminished even more as this corporation expands further. Where will these lost revenues for the NHS education and defence be replaced from. Who are the beneficiaries of this lost UK tax revenue.
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    Created by chris loughlin
  • Mark Kermode for presenter of BBC Film 2015(etc)Series
    Mark Kermode is a lover of film. His knowledge is encyclopaedic without holding personal agenda, he is not biased towards one genre against another and he has a great public rapport and sense of humour which comes across easily. He is able to communicate his enthusiasm for cinema to his audience. His views are informed and fun. He would be a great boost for the programme, the film industry and lovers of film both old and young.
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    Created by Gordon Stark
  • The Friends of Clayton Square, St Johns, Wakefield
    The NHS Clayton Hospital site is already owned by the public so the first civic response should be to re-purpose the site for continued public use. It is official policy of The Department of Health that, where surplus NHS land is being considered for disposal, NHS Trusts should "provide the public with the opportunity to consider for themselves whether estate is being best used". The site was originally an 18th century garden built on for a 19th/20th-century hospital. None of the jumble of hospital buildings are listed for preservation and their complete demolition would considerably enhance the conservation area. It is a large central site and any in-filling with contemporary buildings would be extremely detrimental to the character of the whole conservation area. The site would be relatively inexpensive to landscape into a park/garden. The site retains many large trees within an existing stone boundary wall and ornate entrance ways. A park/garden would provide a much-needed open green leisure space within the city centre for all city centre users. The park/garden could provide many other amenities such as a terrace cafe, childrens play areas, dog walking area, etc. The site would create a spectacular public open space for the city which could be used for civic gatherings and events.
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    Created by Jed Gallagher
  • Think tanks, Foundations, Institues, disclousure of sponserships
    When on the news the broadcaster says something like ' The latest research by the Foundation for Better Health and Future shows that there is no relationship between fracking and high levels of toxic material found nearby water drinking wells.' this sounds very impressive. We can all rest assured now. Fracking very safe. But if we knew that the Foundation for Better Health and Future is sponsored by the fracking industry - we may think twice about these results before we take them as true. This will make us more aware of the forces that are playing with us and try to influence public policies.
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    Created by daniel rosenberg
  • What the Frack! Regular referendums. Let the UK public vote for their future.
    Members of the public find it difficult to support a political party 100%. Our system is out of date, our MPs out of touch, the public go unheard. We agree with points made by the Lib Dems, the Conservatives, Labour, the Green Party, the SNP etc and sometimes we disagree with them all. Either way we can't communicate with the government effectively. The system needs to work for us all but instead it's dusty, nobody really understands it or cares to sort it out with any long term vision. We need to start again. Simplify. Direct questions, direct answers. If regular referendums were to take place, the public are truly part of the process, allowing us to demonstrate what we care about, that we're united and want to invest in the future of this land and it's people. Less moaning and more doing, having a proactive and fair say, feeling satisfied that the decisions are being made and supported by the majority of the UK. Let the UK public vote for their future. This Kingdom can then begin to feel proud and respected, and most importantly, united.
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    Created by Tezia Perret
  • Autism Awareness
    I have High Functioning Autism and this is a recognised as a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and the Equality Act 2010. However many employers fail to recognise this as well as a lot of retail outlets and public places. People with Autism get anxious in unfamiliar situations and can become very agitated as well, just like myself. They also have no sense of danger and this is very common in children. People with Autism also have difficulty with social and communication skills. This campaign is to make people more aware of the needs of people with Autism and to campaign for more help for disabled people. Autism is a disability but it is an invisible one. Just because it can't be seen doesn't mean that it is not there.
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    Created by David Wood
  • Defibrillators in all schools
    They can be bought for £1,100 including training 8 members of staff. I have helped to raise funds for local schools to install one but surely the councils should have a duty of care. This is life saving equipment
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    Created by sharon kemp
  • Tell energy suppliers we won't buy fracked gas
    Fracking is opposed by so many people across the country and yet the government won't listen to our protests. Theyre not listening to demonstrations and theyre not listening to local councils. But there is one thing they listen to: money. If we tell energy suppliers we won't buy from them if they deal in fracked shale gas, then they won't buy it. If no one buys it, it won't be financially viable and then maybe the government will finally understand that we the people can't be ignored on this issue! We need to act fast, before fracking starts in the UK.
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    Created by Philippa Clarkson
  • Inquiry Needed! Was Tony Blair complicit in the torture of Shaker Aamer in 2002?
    Several UK national and international newspapers have reported allegations by the Guantanamo Bay prison survivor that the UK Prime Minister at the time - Tony Blair - personally accompanied UK secret service officials on a visit to Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, during which Aamer claims that these officials were present at his interrogation and torture. Shaker Aamer was afterwards held at Guantanamo Bay detention center until 2015, despite the USA authorities deciding in 2007 not to press charges against him. If Tony Blair was aware that anyone was being, or was likely to be, tortured at Bagram during his visit, and failed to act against this, he committed Grave Breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions. Such breaches constitute a War Crime in international law, and would legally render Blair a War Criminal, subject to obligatory arrest and trial wherever he goes. In times of peace as well as war it is crucially important that issues related to torture should not be ignored or left ambiguous, however powerful or influential the alleged perpetrators may be. Peoples' perception of the behaviour of war-endorsing governments during this period is already tarnished around the world. The failure to properly address such issues promotes further conflict, and to ignore them, while the alleged perpetrators freely travel the globe, mocks the very values to which all nations and states claim to aspire.
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    Created by Dinah Dayus
  • SCRAP THE TENDERING PROCESS FOR CALEDONIAN MACBRAYNE
    Caledonian MacBrayne are a public Company providing Life Line Services to the Scottish Islands, from the West Coast of Scotland, Which are being forced, year after year to use resources fighting off predatory, for profit companies, in this case Serco, who are already a loss maker, and far inferior to the Excellence of Caledonian MacBrayne. This is, of course, politically motivated, by an SNP Administration, following Tory Policies, and IMF directives. It is unfair and degrading to the workforce, at Gourock, and Throughout The Scottish Mainland, and Island Ports .
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    Created by Kenneth whyte
  • Ultra Rare Disease Must Be Included In The European Rare Disease Plan
    The Ultra Rare Disease Foundation wants the Northern Ireland Health Minister to reassess the Rare Disease Plan and Include children and adults who have Ultra Rare Diseases and ring fence their health care for life and also ring fence the cost of their drugs, orphan drugs are very expensive and research in Northern Ireland is very limited, we want the Northern Ireland Assembly to announce that the Belfast City Hospital becomes a Centre of excellence in the fight against Ultra Rare Diseases and Rare Diseases The Northern Ireland Plan does not include counselling services for siblings of patients with ultra rare diseases as young siblings have to deal with problems they may meet in schools from other children who don't understand what a ultra rare disease is, the plan also needs to ring fence care for a child who has a ultra rare disease as this takes 24 hour round the clock care for children and that care is down to the parents, we want it ring fenced for their health care which should be for the life of the child or adult. The plan also needs to ring fence children who have no diagnosis for sometimes up to eight years. We want their families to have the same support as a child with an Ultra Rare Disease .
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