• Referendum for a Directly Elected Mayor of Durham County Council
    Durham County Council have abandoned communities across the County and people have been left without representation. If we move to vote for a Mayor, a candidate WILL be standing who would return the County to District Councils, giving people a say in their Communities. Sign the petition and start the process to bring back democracy to the people of County Durham.
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    Created by Thom Robinson
  • Make energy companies pay for global warming
    The energy companies have a virtual monopoly in providing the energy to heat our homes, transport us and everything else we need and use. They have no incentive to research and provide cleaner energy to reduce greenhouse gases/slow global warming as they make billions and billions of pounds for their corporate shareholders every year. If the green taxes/surcharges etc were aimed at the polluter not the consumer they would soon clean up their act!
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    Created by Paul O' Riordan
  • Free solar power for every household!
    The authorities of the UK claim that they care about the earth And act like they will do something about it. When in fact all they do is find another harmful way to produce energy, and charge us for it! They only care about the money... Solar panels are a simple solution to a big problem. A government that cares would have done this a long time ago. This issue has an effect on everyone of us, so have your say! Helps poorer people feed the family and keep them warm. Saves the planet from burning fossil fuels
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    Created by Marc Rollinson
  • HMRC to resume talks / negotiations with PCS
    Three weeks in to a four-week programme of detailed, and so far productive, negotiations intended to resolve the four-month HMRC jobs and staffing campaign was ended by the employer on 29 October. HMRC decided to walk away from negotiations. We feel their determination to marginalise PCS clearly trumps their willingness to settle this dispute for the good of the job holders. We need to be involved in negotiations to achieve best deal for our members.
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    Created by Emma Cubbon
  • BBC NEWS: STOP THIS MEDIA BLACKOUT OF THE BEACH PARTY
    We feel the BBC News coverage of the Elections has, to date, been unfairly biased against the Beach Party. This bias is evident in the complete absence of coverage of the Beach Party yet they have been advertising UKIP for months and they have only just recently won their first parliamentary seat largly thanks to the main stream media propaganda. OCCUPY EVERYWHERE POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOT JUST THE 1% Sandy Andy is running for the 2015 General Election and the BBC are censoring this information: We Can Build a Better World! The Beach Party Politics are simple- Free Food Free Housing Free Health Care Free Higher Education Free Electricity, Heating, Water, Internet and Basic Utilities. The Beach Party manifesto is to provide these things to every citizen and will make politics more interesting. The BBC is evidently only working for the interests of big business and unethical industry profit which it has done for many years. Times are changing more rapidly then ever as we become more entangled with the interweb, but we hope for the sake of the world that this change goes in the right direction. Humanity could easily be obliterated by war, become slaves to Big Business Corporations or fade away amid the mounting effects of climate change so we hope to address these Bias Bloody Companies head on, with an online petition. If you think these ideas are important to stand up for, then please sign this and tell your friends. The Beach Party was founded on the simple aim of ”Being Nice” … pass it on! Anonymously we rise together – Andrew Robertson offers hope. It’s a pretense that we live in a DEMOCRACY in the UK, lets be honest, it’s a PLUTOCRACY which desperately needs re-shaping. Noam chomsky said a Princeton University paper by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page shows that our economic elite and organised groups representing Big Business Clients interests have substantial independent impact on governmental policy while average citizens and mass based interest groups have little or no impact. This behavior of Blatant Bias Corruption to benefit the few at the expense of license payers is frustrating for everyday people who fund these Big Bogus Companies. We can change things but we need to wake up to reality. The Beach Party is throwing its hat into the political ring with forward thinking ideas that aim to change life for the better, right now, for the majority of the population but the media should not be censoring this information. How do we pay for all these free things offered by the Beach Party? The UK currently spends more money on war then it would cost to feed and sanitize the whole world, so understanding this, it’s easy to see how we could feed everyone on our small islands. There are more empty homes in the UK then homeless people and profit from our utility companies is in the multiple billions. Profits at Britain’s ‘Big Six’ energy suppliers are five times higher than they were in 2009 yet average wages have barely increases. This doesn’t seem fair at all. The world produces enough food and has enough space to feed and house everyone alive but capitalism is used to ration goods and services to people with money. As a result many old people who have contributed to this country their entire life now cant afford to heat their house AND buy food. This system is designed to make the rich people richer and the poor people poorer. This country has never been collectively so rich but 1 in 3 now live below the poverty line. Somebody has to change this. http://www.dirtybeach.tv/politics-in-the-uk/
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    Created by Sandy Robertson
  • Improve annual tax statements to avoid political propaganda.
    George Osborne has been criticised for sending millions of households annual tax statements that show the biggest chunk of their contribution going towards welfare, it has been described as “political propaganda masquerading as neutral information”.
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    Created by Truth Bomb
  • Michael Mansfield to chair the CSA Inquiry
    For the truth to out and justice seen to be done, he has the legal mind to take the establishment to task and let justice seen to be done. Do not allow the establishment to select another so called expert.
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    Created by David Levy
  • Improve the services provided by Northern Rail
    To improve the quality of the North's rail lines, by encouraging the main rail service to improve its quality of service, so people in the north of England don't feel neglected. This will also encourage more people to use the train. More people want a reliable rail service, so commuting between cities should be more comfortable and reliable
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    Created by Joshua Bastow
  • Stop the Scottish nationalists neverendum
    The neverendum is a destructive and divisive strategy that is a very corrosive influence on our society. We are a nation of only 5 million so the SNP should do the honourable thing and accept the result rather than continue to gripe and grouse about outside influences within our devolved parliament.
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    Created by galen milne
  • MP`S SHOULD DONATE THEIR WAGE RISE TO FOOD BANK CHARITIES PERMANENTLY
    In this time of austerity and poverty we should be joining together to make sure that no one in our communities is going without food , a warm meal and something to drink .We should also be reaching out to those who cannot look after themselves
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    Created by Robert Knox
  • Scotland against fracking
    Because it is so important that we end fracking as it is a danger to our planet and Earth, not just our homes.
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    Created by Jonathan Dale
  • Repatriate UK plastic bags to Scotland
    Scots have exercised their devolved powers to help save the planet. To restrict the energy and resources required to make millions of plastic bags every year and to help us all stop polluting the planet by dumping plastic in landfill sites, the Scottish Government has introduced a compulsory charge of 5p per bag. This is not a tax, The money goes to the shops and supermarkets who sell you the bag and the VAT goes into the Westminster treasury. It is estimated that £9million per year could flow south to the UK treasury from this tax alone. There is no compulsory bag compulsory charge in England. Scots need to stop these subsidy junkies in England bleeding this country dry of our wealth, talent and resources. To redress this subsidy imbalance I propose that all Scots working or living in England who travel north across the border should repatriate as many free English plastic bags home to Scotland as they can each trip so we can re-use and recycle them as required.
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    Created by Sean Gill