• Protect Oldway Mansion for Future Generations
    Oldway Mansion is an important grade II listed historic building and a key piece in the history of Paignton and Torbay. It should be able to be enjoyed by members of the public both now and in the future.
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    Created by Adam Field
  • Holyrood free votes for ALL funding outwith Scotlands Borders
    Such a bill is necessary because: The Scottish government must be seen as being 100% fiscally transparent and accountable to it’s Scottish electorate Westminster must not dictate how our monies are spent, only Scottish voters have that right. Increasing reliance on charity, especially food banks, mandates monies should be directed first and foremost to improve the lot of the Scottish people. Cuts to disability and other benefits are impacting the Scots disproportionately. Scotland should not subsidize projects that do not directly improve the life of her people e.g. HS2 or building repairs for either Westminster or Buckingham palace. These are expenses with no merit. Subsidising any part of the Royal family at any level is unconscionable when 20% of Scots face life in poverty.
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    Created by Dr Ivan Bishop
  • Allow us to research Medicinal Cannabis
    This is important as many people myself included suffer needlessly as a result of poor health which could be managed much more effectively with medical marijuana and the oils that could be made from the derivatives of the Cannabis plant.... People are made into criminals for growing or purchasing a herbal remedy... I think we are all becoming aware of the Benefits of Marijuana or Cannabis and I believe that there's simply too many bits of evidence in support of Legalisation
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    Created by Danny Nicholson
  • Refugees Welcome in Ashby de la Zouch
    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
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    Created by Samantha fletcher
  • Sweat Shop Free Bath
    Between April 24 and May 14 2013, three young workers at Foxconn electronics factory in Zhengzhou, China, jumped from buildings to their deaths. 24 others have committed suicide since 2010 because of appalling conditions, such as being sacked if you speak at work, and ritual humiliations in front of hundreds of colleagues. Foxconn are making computers for Dell, Apple, Acer, HP and others. Computers for universities are made in factories like this. A new organisation, Electronics Watch, will work with public sector bodies and electronics workers, to investigate factories making our computers, and start to improve rights and working conditions. The Workers Rights Consortium is a similar body with a focus on the clothing industry.
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    Created by william bonnell
  • Pressure Indonesia to hold a referendum on self-determination for West Papua
    There is daily evidence of individuals being killed, tortured and imprisoned without trial by the Indonesian military and police. Since 1963, an estimated 500,000 West Papuans have died at the hands of the Indonesian occupying forces, more than 25% of the population. Earlier this year there were mass arrests and torture of 116 Papuans in the Timika area. Villages were burned down and a number of villagers were shot and tortured. All this was committed by the Indonesian police and military. In May the Indonesian police opened fire on West Papuans in Yahukimo who were peacefully fundraising for Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam. The police tortured and murdered a 17 year old West Papuan boy (also in Yahukimo) just for peacefully demonstrating for freedom. Even the raising of the West Papuan national flag is prohibited under Indonesian law and Papuans are imprisoned indefinitely for carrying out this act. There are daily examples of the brutal genocide still being committed against the people of West Papua and if left on unnoticed, soon there will be no more Melanesians (indigenous people) left. Please raise this issue on the floor of parliament and urge the government to support the plight of the people of West Papua and their fight for freedom. To me it feels that our politicians only ‘care’ about human rights when there is political gain. In the same time 500,000 West Papuans have been butchered by Indonesia (and this is a conservative estimate), 20,000 have died on both sides of the Israel Palestine conflict (of which 40% were combatants). Now every loss of life that is avoidable is tragic, but if you consider the amount of time spent debating the latter in Parliament, let alone various votes on statehood etc., how can one consider this proportionate or fair? Whilst there are mass demonstrations and threat of boycotts against Israel, just 20 people turned up outside the Indonesian embassy earlier this year to protest. All were of Melanesian origin. We have full open diplomatic & trade relations with Indonesia, without so much of a whiff of boycott. I have absolutely no link to West Papua but since learning of their plight, I have been appalled at the lack of awareness or action both by our government and by the public at large. We are talking about the most vulnerable members of the human race, some whose only encounters with ‘foreigners’ have been marked with violence and hatred. Is their case any less valid than those of the refugees seeking asylum? Unfortunately most of the Papuan’s have nowhere to go and the Indonesian government ensures a wall of secrecy around West Papua. No foreign press are allowed to enter the area.
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    Created by Adam Perry
  • Don't let outsourcing to private contractors be the ruin of our hospitals
    We don't think its healthy for hospital trusts to make major decisions about service delivery which favour the private sector through the back door at a potential cost to patient well-being and to efficiency. If we let hospital trusts sell off services that are currently provided in-house, it's easy to see how the system could quietly be dismantled, piece by piece. The effects are already tangible - delays in booking appointments, the risk of lower-quality diagnostic imaging being available to consultants and the ability of the private contractor to provide a service that only partially fulfils the outcome ordered by the consultant. This may only be the beginning of a story in which services are progressively outsourced to private contractors, with possible to likely degradation in service quality. It's absolutely clear that a private contractor has a conflict of interests, since the profit motive necessarily comes before the quality of service to a patient. Let's spend the NHS budget wisely, by continuing to provide expert services in-house, so that highly-trained doctors have the information they need and patients get the best possible chance of diagnostic accuracy and the correct prognosis.
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    Created by Alistair DeSizions
  • Prove that Simon Danczuk's mandate does not extend to undermining the leader of the labour party
    We can all agree that Labour's performance in May's election was demoralising. The reasons for the defeat are obvious. The centrists continue to obsess over the middle ground while failing to realise that they are losing the rest of us. The majority of Labour voters still hold social democratic values (as indicated by Jeremy Corbyn's success in the leadership election). Many of these voters have continued to vote Labour since the 90s, despite the party moving ever further to the right. Why? the answer is simple: because Tory rule hurts them, because they are legitimately afraid of Conservative government, and Labour has always seemed like the only viable alternative. However, inevitably a tipping point must be reached: a point at which Labour rule becomes just as abhorrent as Conservative rule. When people start to see this point being reached, they inevitably jump ship- realising that a vote for Labour no longer means anything (as an aside- to those who doggedly stand by the myth that Ed Milliband lost the election because he was too left wing: how is it that, by side stepping ever so slightly to the left- the Tories managed to hijack the majority of Ed Milliband's budgetary pledges in their post-election emergency budget?) To summarise: Labour truly is facing anihilation. But that annihilation lies in continuing to court the marginal vote: because that is all that Labour will be left with before long- a narrow slice of the centre ground, and nothing else. The true battle that Labour now faces is in appealing to the left. Note: while all support is appreciated: this petition is directed primarily at Mr Danczuk's Rochdale constituents (the primary goal being: to gain 10000 or more signatures from his own electorate). Please include postcode.
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    Created by Ian Evans
  • Join the Labour Party and Green party and start taking climate change seriously
    Because we need nature, it doesn't need us, and if we don't act soon it will not only effect future generations, but as we have seen by the sinking of entire Islands, melting of the ice caps, forest fires in Australia, and even floods in our own country it IS already effecting us now. We must take action before it's too late.
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    Created by Ian Gregory
  • Senior General of British Army should be relieved of duties for treason
    We have a so-called democracy that millions have laid down their lives to preserve but is increasingly being downgraded thanks to a right wing majority owned by the elite to instil their own agenda and now senior military officials using treasonous language if the people of Britain vote for Corbyn as PM. If someone of Muslim descent had used such language or any member of the public, there would be an outcry. I'm sure nothing will be done about him. He didn't seem to mind the conservatives cutting back the armed forces massively over the last few years funnily enough.
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    Created by Matthew Phillips
  • Will H.M. the Queen set her subjects a good example?
    Because H.M. Government policies, and H.M. armed forces have played a huge part in causing the current refugee problem.
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    Created by charley young
  • New Daily Trade Union Paper
    There is no mass circulation newspaper supporting working people. It was so encouraging to hear Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party actually supporting the PCS in its struggle against privatisation of the National Gallery. When was the last time a Labour Leader supported workers on strike? Working people need a mass circulation newspaper that will put the point of view of trade unionists to the people of this country to counteract the constant attacks by the millionaire press. Such a paper should be owned and controlled by the TUC and be open to contributors who are sympathetic to workers. The editorial content should support workers in struggle. The content should be wide in terms of culture and sport so as to gain the support of millions of workers.
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    Created by Malcolm Speake