• The Refugees.
    What sort of Nation are we and our government. WHERE IS THE LOVE AND COMPASSION GONE. Please sign.
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    Created by Russell Cornish
  • Saving Refugees in the Med
    The people wouldn't take such risks if it didn't offer them better hope than they had at home. They will still come regardless and boats will still capsize and children will still drown if we do nothing to help reduce the amount. This is a human tragedy and we must increase what we are doing to help the victims.
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    Created by Michael Birchmore
  • Stop premium charges on benefit helplines
    People who are struggling to survive, should not be charged for calling numbers to arrange benefits.
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    Created by Ryan Castledine
  • Provide more support for refugees
    I believe this country should be showing more compassion to refugees who are seeking safety. We need to consider helping these people feel safe and allow those in danger a safe haven in this country. We need to help reduce the number of people drowning because of the desperate situation they are in and take the lead from other european countries who are trying to help these people.
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    Created by Paul Leeming
  • Show humanity and give asylum to refugees
    The world is facing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. We need to plan and take humane measures both short and long term to do what is right
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    Created by Janice Illingworth
  • Save our local surgery - Balham
    The surgery currently serves over 4000 patients in our local area. The one GP we have left at the surgery is struggling to attract younger doctors to work at the practice, mainly because the premises needs modernising and developing. This will require an investment of funds from NHS England or from a benevolent property developer. Our GP is reluctant to move but feels she has no choice. If there is no money to develop the premises, the proposal is to merge with a 7000 patient surgery on the other side of town. I feel there is so much to lose if this move should take place, especially the loss of community, which I think will never recover once it has been lost
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    Created by Des Figueiredo
  • Ban buy-to-let landlords refusing DSS payments from the homeless.
    There is an epidemic of homelessness in the United Kingdom. It is illegal under The Equality Act 2010. for a business to discriminate against individuals based on their sex, sexual orientation, physical/mental disability or race, and YET... Homeless individuals are more likely to be: - Male - Suffering from mental illness - Suffering from physical disability - From the LGBT community - From black and minority ethnic backgrounds By refusing DSS (housing benefit) as a method of paying rent, letting agents and buy-to-let landlords are indirectly discriminating against sections of society which would be protected under law, because they are homeless. Please sign and share
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    Created by Nick Hanson
  • Scrap the £5 deposit from the Oyster card and let poor people back on the bus.
    It is important because London's buses no longer accept cash. For many people on low income having £5 locked away in a card is simply not an option. This makes it impossible for many of the people we share the city with to use public transport. This creates a class of people who are entirely unable to use the bus even when the do have the £2 fare for their journey. The scheme seems to serve no purpose beyond providing TFL with a large amount of their service users capital in the bank. A cynic might argue that it's a social engineering device designed to keep the poorest in our society out of sight and out of mind from the everyday population, however even it is simply an oversight brought in by a committee who earn enough money to never have experienced this problem, it is a system that is not fit for purpose. To argue that the deposit is a deposit on the card is simply nonsense. When the deposit is refunded, the card becomes a useless piece of plastic waste that cannot even be reinstated by repaying the £5 interest levy. There is no good reason whatsoever that an oyster card should not be available at any time of the day free of charge to anyone who wishes to pay the correct fair for their journey. As an occasional rough sleeper and a person unable to claim job seeker benefits due to having no permanent address, I have on numerous occasions found myself having to cash out my card and then pay a premium on the bus simply in order to get myself to the occasional work I am able to find, and then even should I make enough tips to afford the bus, and even if I finish work during the hours where it's actually possible to purchase an oyster card, I still need to find an additional £5 over and above the fare just to get home. This compounds poverty in numerous ways. Not only am I then forced to pay a higher fee on the train but frequently find myself unable to travel at all if my journey requires a bus. I am then forced to reflect on the long occasionally dangerous walk home, as I burn off far more of my hard earned calories than I need whilst empty buses simply pass me by, that London values my time as little as my safety and basic humanity. A perfect illustration of how this serves as a very real and easily resolvable example of how poverty creates more poverty can be shown by the following story. "Having cashed out my oyster card to afford the train into town to look for work, I had essentially nothing left at the end of the day. I invested my last 1.30 on a pen. I used the pen to make street art. Enough people wanted to patronise me that I made 11.10 and something to eat. I was now delighted to find that after my days work i had enough money to restock a new pen for the following days work, put a five pound deposit on an oyster card, use the remaining money to pay my fare and have enough change to drink some water on the way home. Except i couldn't, because there was no where in the city i could purchase an oyster card. Instead i was forced to wear out my shoes and burn all the calories i had earned wandering the streets to keep warm for the next three hours before eventually being let into the station. At this point i found there where still no facilities to purchase an oyster card, leaving me the option to spend 6.90 on a one way ticket, leaving me a valid oyster card with 4.80 credit down short of what i would have made, or spending another hour of my life waiting for the rush hour when the price of a single oyster trip would leave me exactly as poor as the the one way ticket, but with my money trapped in a transit system i no longer felt confidence in. Neither of these options felt like the best way for me to increase the odds that i could afford a regular monthly ticket in the future so i just walked onto the train through the unstaffed barriers." TFL is there to serve all of our fellow citizens and visitors, and it is disgrace that people on the breadline are disadvantaged and dehumanised by the necessity of keeping capital that they do not posses inside TFL's bank account simply in order to gain access to the public transportation system.
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    Created by Andy MacKay
  • Cameron must accept more asylum seekers
    Britain has paid a part in destabilizing all of these areas. We have a moral imperative to take in refugees from conflict in these regions, albeit at a cost to ourselves and at the Conservative Party's cost to their political popularity. Refusing sanctuary to these asylum seekers enables and legitimizes human trafficking. Britain's current stance of taking so few refugees is a shameful disgrace. Children continue to suffocate and drown while Britain complacently and self-centredly looks the other way.
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    Created by Tessa Roynon
  • Parliament: create a system for UK public to house Syrian Refugees
    The people fleeing Syria need shelter and refuge. The victims in Syria are dying from war, not starvation. This is not a migration issue. It is a humanitarian issue and with 6.5 million Syrian's displaced, asylum is the key.
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    Created by Sara Harvey
  • Stop the proposed mobile phone mast being built on the corner of Roe Lane + Seabridge Lane
    An application has been made by CTIL and Vodafone for a proposed 15 meter high mobile phone mast/beacon to be build on the corner of Roe Lane and Seabridge Lane. My objections are regarding the safety concerns and the positioning of this beacon. Concerns still remain about the safety of these structures. Regardless of various research reports, their is an acknowledgement that these masts do emit radiation. Ultimately this is something that concerns me as the mast is only a few meters away from Seabridge primary school. I’m also concerned for the families that live close to the proposed site. The area around the planned mast site includes the Seabridge Estate, Seabridge Lane and Roe Lane. You might have guessed – I’m one from one of those families. Aside from the health issues there is the matter of its positioning. I’m not a hypocrite, I like most people use modern mobile technology and understand that mobile phone networks expand. But this mast is being positioned in a way that its visual impact is being maximised rather than reduced. Unlike other masts locally, there is no attempt to hide it or position it in a way that would be more subtle. This mast is being place in a junction of two very busy, very built up areas. Not a hint of subtlety has been used here! In a nutshell, this is a bad location for this to be built. We understand that the signal coverage would be increased yes… but at what cost to the local area? Please help support the residents of this area. Many thanks, Mark
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    Created by Mark Barnes
  • Fill the food banks - every little helps
    Austerity and hardship affects so many in the UK today and that number is growing. Whilst the efforts of Tesco and other big retailers to support those in need of food banks is welcome (through collection points and other initiatives), offering shoppers the opportunity to gift / donate their 'points' to the local foodbank (and in the event of those who do not have a clubcard, to by default donate those unclaimed points) could really boost their supplies. Good for the food banks, good for the customers of Tesco and good for Tesco too! Non-political, humanitarian, community spirited and much needed. Especially in the run up to Christmas.
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    Created by Nadine Schofield