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MP Work ExperienceIt is important that each MP has served in various sectors of the very services, jobs and people they represent. All I ask is that all MP before taking office has worked in various sections that make up local life. From a Teaching Assistant in a school, to a care home, or in a NHS ward, or small business, working alongside people with various disabilities. The MP working the same hours as the worker to gain essential first hand experiences about the people they are going to represent.66 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dave Richtor
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY TIME OFF.WHY SHOULD WE NOT BE ABLE TO GO FOR A HOLIDAY TO RELAX, & NOT ONLY THAT BUT TO GIVE OUR CHILDREN EDUCATION IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THEIR RELIGIONS AND TO EXPERIENCE SIGHTS THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. MYSELF & MY DAUGHTER BOTH WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SWIM WITH DOLPHINS & I SO WANT TO GIVE HER THAT EXPERIENCE. SURELY THERE COULD BE A MIDDLE GROUND HERE. MAYBE EVEN SET WORK TO TAKE WITH THEM SO THAT THEY DONT MISS OUT ON LESSONS THEY WONT ATTEND. I WOULDNT MIND SITTING FOR AN HOUR OR SO EACH DAY WITH HOMEWORK,AND ENSURING SHE DIDNT MISS OUT ON THAT VITAL EDUCATION. BUT AT THE MINUTE I CANT TAKE HER AWAY AS I CANT AFFORD TO PAY THE EXTRA HUNDREDS OF POUNDS THAT IT COSTS TO GO AWAY IN THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. THEN IF I GO AWAY DURING SCHOOL TIME, I END UP BEING LANDED WITH A FINE, ENDANGERING MY DAUGHTERS PLACE IN HER SCHOOL & THE FACT THAT THE SCHOOL WONT SEND HER CURRICULUM WORK TO DO & SHE WILL MISS OUT.40 of 100 SignaturesCreated by nadine rutherford
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Save MeriamIn case you haven’t already heard, it turns out that barbarism very much exists in the year 2014. Many people, myself included, will often try to convince ourselves that we exist in a sleek chrome sort of place where we giggle at youtubers, slurp frappalappachinos and worry about deadlines. Unfortunately, time and time again this palatable fabrication is ripped away from beneath us as if by a poorly trained waiter. Everything we had propped up to comfort ourselves comes crashing down and we see a stark reality. A woman has been sentenced to death for apostasy. The victim in question is called Meriam. She is a Somalian who upon marrying a Christian man and converting from Islam has been charged with adultery. She was sentenced in Khartoum and will be put to death by hanging in two years. Don’t jump to conclusions though. It turns out that the judge is a fairly progressive man. Not only did he give the woman the chance to recant, which she flatly refused, but he even postponed the sentence for two years to allow her to give birth. Progressive, that would be, if we were living in the sixteenth century. Perhaps the most dispiriting aspect of the case would be that she refused to recant. If someone who changes their faith refuses to deny their new belief under the threat of death, you would almost expect a depraved zealot to respect that conviction. A judge issuing such a verdict either can’t recognize blatant martyrdom or chooses to ignore it because it isn’t in the name of the required deity. I would suggest that he did recognize this and purposefully chose to convict her of adultery instead of apostasy, in a disgusting attempt to sully this brave woman’s name. I call on the British government to demand that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag be freed26 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Daniel Woolton
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Fair Ticket Access to all Sporting Events for Disabled SpectatorsFor far too long, the ticketing arrangements have been biased heavily in favour of Corporate entertainment, a large number of which are not taken up. Such wastage is obscene since it reduces the allocation to the participating Clubs, which has a domino effect on the number of tickets available to Disabled fans. Please look into this as a matter of urgency.9 of 100 SignaturesCreated by John McCrea
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Make MP's Justify VotesMP's appear to work very hard to get elected and then they go off the boil - let's turn that on it's head and make them work equally hard once the dust settles.68 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Robert Heritage
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Open all MI6 files on state sponsored murdersMI6 is alleged to have "organised" two high-profile murders in 1961: Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in January and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in September. Together with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), MI6 is also alleged to have targeted UN Assistant Secretary-General Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 which was sabotaged over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. In 2014, because incriminating evidence has recently come to light, the United Nations is expected to launch an inquiry into these state sponsored murders. (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_How,_Why_and_Who_of_Pan_Am_Flight_103#Naming_names)76 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Patrick Haseldine
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Don't interfere with the hours of the Boatyard Inn Bangor, AngleseyThis is the petition that the Boatyard Inn has been asking its customers to sign: Your Voice Counts! Following the recent notice served by local courts, requesting that The Boatyard Inn alters it’s licensing hours due to public nuisance and child protection issues, we ask you to sign the following petition and Make Your Voice Heard! Here at The Boatyard Inn we pride ourselves on providing efficient, friendly service to every single customer. As you can probably see as you look around our pub, a warm friendly attitude is focal to our success, and we give the utmost respect to our customers. We have hosted numerous charity events, only a couple weeks ago we raised £1000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We pride ourselves on our true sense of community. If you feel that the Boatyard Inn is a safe, relaxed, comfortable environment for both adults and children; a welcoming, homely pub serving the local clientele and tourists; a hive of community and charity based events, with hardworking staff, please sign and make your voice heard. Thank you, Everyone here at The Boatyard Inn. ########################################## The Boatyard Inn website here: http://www.theboatyardinn.org.uk/ and here: https://www.facebook.com/theboatyardbangor ########################################## You can contact the Council here: Licensing Section Council Offices Llangefni Anglesey LL54 6LE Tel: 01248 752847 E-mail [email protected]6 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Nick Brown
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Access for all to the National Cycle NetworkTo save people on using these from having to go on extremely busy roads risking life and limb https://vimeo.com/94511111109 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Mark Newton
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Give power to the police to deal with noise polution on the spotAs someone who has had to put up with noise I have been horrified by the apathy of the authorities. despite being able to hear noise from a household that was not my direct neighbor the police could not act. If you contact the council department responsible for dealing with the problem you find that you have to make a formal complaint during normal working hours which means that the culprits are notified of YOUR complaint even before the local authority bothers to collect evidence which they will then want to do. A much simpler solution is that the police are called and that they witness and deal with the problem on the spot and perhaps leave until later a return to the property to confiscate equipment used to make excessive noise. In every neighborhood there are people who have to go to work and it is unacceptable that they should have to put up with excessive noise. I personally have witnessed where a noise complaint has been made it has resulted in retaliation from the perpetrators in the form of damage to property resulting in £1000's of damage done and the victim has had to move with the police unwilling or unable to intervene and the local authority uninterested and other neighbors too worried of retaliation to offer supporting evidence. Many people do not report noise problems and suffer in silence because they FEAR retaliation which is a highly realistic risk.152 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Simon Turner
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Oblige the UK's wealthiest people to give something backJust like on the popular TV programme 'The Secret Millionaire', I would like to see the wealthy obliged to spend just a few days per year with under privileged families who live on the breadline. If the families of people who actually live on the meagre salaries paid by these wealthy people were chosen then the exercise would be all the more poignant. The rich would have the opportunity to see that the poor often work much harder than they do.....and that not all people have the support, education, connections or the love in their lives needed to enable them to climb the ladder in our society. I believe that there are very few people in the world that are worth salaries in the hundreds of thousands yet many people are lucky enough to enjoy that sort of income -18 000 people now earn over £1 million per year in the UK and over 1000 people are worth over £65 million.......footballer Gareth Bale earns in one week what the average person in the UK earns in ten years - surely some obligation should come with that. Whilst a fairer tax system is essential, simply imposing higher taxes using the socialist model does risk driving people, innovation and investment out of our country. On the other hand, capitalism as it stands has created obscene extremes of wealth with no responsibility attached. I believe that giving the rich a social obligation to spend just a few days a year living with or volunteering in poor communities would have an incredibly cathartic effect. It could promote compassion, generosity, altruism, mutual learning and hopefully philanthropism. This would help rich people to truly earn what they earn. It is our right to demand that those who posess most of the wealth in our country give something back and make an effort to understand the lives of the huge proportion of our society who work for next to nothing. This is not simply about redistribution of wealth but about bridging divides and having a more compassionate society and hence a more generous society. The wealthy can only fully appreciate how difficult life is on the minimum wage, or less, by diving into that life to see it for themselves. Any communion of disperate parts of our society can only be a good thing and is in fact essential. This is not about stunting capitalism but about responsible capitalism and the responsibility that comes with wealth and power.106 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Darren Wassell
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Occupational Pension - Benefits.Currently people who receive benefits are being indirectly taxed if they also receive an Occupational Pension. This is simply not right. Pensions are there to provide for people not to be a subsidy for governments to renege on their commitments to assist people on Benefits/Low Wages etc.. If the threshold of pension(s) received is less than the benefit then people should be allowed to keep that benefit intact and the pension. Otherwise why would people want to take out pensions if they are to lose them when they need them the most. This government consistently says it's declaring war on benefit cheats. They themselves are the ones cheating. It's simply time to do right. At a time when they are fighting to stop the 'Robin Hood Tax' from being levied it is time that the government let up on people existing on benefits & showed some common sense. They want us to have pensions yet when we do they want to take them back again.23 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Peter Kirby
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Do not extend retirement age for heavy manual workersAs I near retirement I realise that my body cannot physically do the things I could do only a few years ago. The mind is willing but the body is weak. This is despite me performing an office based role for my career. I believe it to be socially unacceptable for this government to expect citizens to perform heavy manual labour for their living beyond the age of 65. To expect people in these job sectors to work beyond the age of 65 will impact on their long term health and life expectancy.53 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Gordon Wilkinson
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