The public has spoken. They want a general election now. A poll commissioned by the Mirror found that two-thirds of the general public want to head to the polls by the summer. After 14 years of Tory rule - and a host of failed leaders being chosen by a few thousand Conservative members rather than at the ballot box - people have had enough. Rishi Sunak has appeared to promise a vote will be held during this calendar year - before the theoretical deadline of January 2025 set out by the Fixed-term Parliament Act. But many in Westminster believe the Tories will cling on for a few more months and refrain from calling a vote until October. This is simply too long. Rishi Sunak has run Britain since October 2022. Never at any stage has the electorate been asked to choose him as their Prime Minister. This wait must end now. (Deltapoll interviewed 1,642 adults online between December 22 and 29. The data have been weighted to be representative of the British adult population as a whole.)

We need to save this country from this chaotic government who are looking to get Boris Johnson back in as Prime Minister.

Each time we have a new Prime Minister we pay for their life time award.

NHS is in crisis

The current government is the laughing stock of the world

The current 389 bus service through Ridge Hill from Arlies Lane currently operates hourly from 8:01am. Transport for Greater Manchester are implementing a change to an hourly service from 7:33am at the end of the month. We are calling on TfGM to reconsider this change as many residents that live on Ridgehill rely on the 389 service. Not least children that need to get to school on Yew Tree Lane at 8:22am for start of form time at 8:40am, who will now either have to get to school an hour early, with knock on effects for the school or risk being late.

To make such that people with disabilities have equal opportunities to focial mobility as others in society have. When on less income it reduces the opportunities to increase social mobility, so to have free public transport on trains, like buses will help.

people around the uk at 16 want to vote as its their future

Please sign the petition demanding a public consultation on the use of the Central Library building as both an adult education facility and a much reduced public library service. We have campaigned, along with other organisations, for 2 years, to save Stockport's 109 years old Central Library with all of its services. We were overjoyed when a meeting of the full Council, in January 2022, voted to object to the resolution of the Cabinet to go ahead with ending the public library services at the Carnegie endowment library despite petitions totalling over 8,000 signatures; opposition to closure in the Council's own pubic consultation; and opposition from 3 of the Council's scrutiny committees. Despite the Council resolution, the Cabinet pressed ahead regardless, However, at the Annual Meeting of the Council in May 2022, the old Cabinet was ousted. Shortly afterwards, the new Council Leader, Cllr. Hunter announced that the policy on Central Library would be reviewed. We wrote to him calling for the review to be "an ambitious, not a defensive one", asking that consideration be given to redeveloping the Borough’s heritage Central Library, as other Councils have done, instead of moving library services to the Council owned Merseyway shopping centre, as the predecessor Cabinet had intended. We also called for the proposals emanating from the review to be put to public consultation. Cllr. Hunter replied, outlining the new plan and rejecting the call for consultation. He reiterated the Cabinet’s rejection of the call for public consultation in reply to a public question which we put to the full Council meeting on 6th October 2022. The question and reply can be viewed on the official webcast (see https://tinyurl.com/ytyxr2me or https://fb.watch/gc4W2ATenP/) The plan has now been approved by the Cabinet, without public consultation. It will, if implemented, move the greater part of Central Library services, including the Local Archives and Heritage Library, to the Merseyway shopping centre. The remaining book stock at the Carnegie would comprise only "the most popular adult fiction titles"; "a selection of non-fiction that will complement the adult education services" and "a selection of junior and children’s fiction". The reference to adult education services relates to the new plan’s proposal to move the Stockport Continuing Education service into the Carnegie building from another grade II listed heritage building, the former Hollywood Park school. This announcement tells us nothing about the intended fate of the vacated school. Floor plans submitted to the Cabinet show that only 18% of the floor area of the Carnegie building would comprise the reduced library service. The new plan would see almost a third of opening hours at the Carnegie library being unstaffed. This system, called by the Council ‘Open+’, has been introduced already in a number of branch libraries, in order to make budgetary cuts in staffing costs. Moreover, a Manchester Evening News article, dated 7th October 2022 reports a ratcheting up of this process, “Libraries service review - £180,000 Under this proposal there would be an increase in self-service (Open Plus) hours at libraries across the borough - meaning longer periods during which facilities are unstaffed. This would see a roll-out of self-service technology as well as a review of the amount of money spent on new books”. Finally, the ‘elephant in the room’ for the Council leadership is surely the question : ‘How will the future of the Archives Service, the Heritage Library, and the overwhelming bulk of the book stock and services of Central Library, be safeguarded by moving these facilities to a shopping centre which, having been valued at £86 million upon its acquisition in 2016, is now valued at £15.6 million and which requires £5.5 million expenditure on prevention of structural deterioration and rainwater ingress from its roof top car park?’ {Sources : Council Statements of Accounts, 2017/18, pages 64/66 and 2021/22, page 79; https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/stockport-to-sign-off-5-5m-merseyway-works/ } . On 6th October, we wrote to all Councillors calling for their support for public consultation (see the letter here https://tinyurl.com/vd3wemp6 ). This would be entirely consistent with the stand that the Council took in January and is appropriate in view of the far reaching nature of the new plan. We will petition and campaign for support for this demand. Please share the petition widely with friends and colleagues. Stockport United Against Austerity

Because it benefits everyone,even the government.

We Must All Go To Downing Street And Show Them We have Had Enough

This is important because refugees have risked their lives to make the journey to our country for a better quality of life, better jobs, better health care and to feel more safe and secure. The UK talks about the equality given to everyone and their backgrounds. But refugees don't get that equality everyone else has. They get turned down and refused by the government, they either go back to the place they were forced to flee from or face the UK's justice system.