• Stop the eviction of the Brentford Houseboat Community
    This Will: Save the council an estimated £4 million pounds to spend on schools ect Stop the environmental destruction of an essential tidal stretch of the Thames Save the valuable kingfisher and heron nesting sites Stop the reduction of the size Watermans park to make way for a car Park Save a valued community of local residents Reduce the gentrification of a once diverse area of London This thriving community of Brentford residents have lived and worked in this area for up to 20 years. We are being forced out by Hounslow Borough Council because this area has become a magnate for developers. Selling over priced glass boxes often to overseas investors, changing the character of this historic part of West London. We are not against change and want to be included in the regeneration of the area. These boats are our homes, much loved and in some cases Nationally reconsidered historic vessels with some of them making valuable contributions to one or both war efforts. Please help us convince the council to adopt our low cost, low environmentally impacting solution and save our much loved homes.
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    Created by Paul Mendoza
  • Better Perinatal Mental Healthcare for Women in Northern Ireland
    - Research released last year revealed a staggering 80% of areas in Northern Ireland have no specialist perinatal mental health services and there is no specialist inpatient mother and baby unit in the whole of Ireland. - In addition to the devastating consequences to the woman, untreated illness can have adverse effects on child development and long-term outcomes. - There is also a heavy economic cost of perinatal mental illness to our society and public services. Research released last year shows that the long-term costs to society of perinatal mental illness are more than £8bn for each annual cohort of births in the UK. - Nearly three-quarters of this cost results from the adverse impacts of perinatal mental illness on the child. - The extensive scientific evidence, as well as guidance from Nice and Sign show that this will need to include a new inpatient mother and baby unit and specialist perinatal community teams.
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    Created by Michelle Bradley
  • Primary School Testing
    This is important to challenge the claim that children need to pass these tests in order to have successful careers. Other important areas of education, such as the Arts, have to be neglected as teachers are pressured to ' teach to the tests'.
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    Created by Clare Downey
  • We want world class education for our kids
    We support government's initiative to secure our kids' future, where they have to face global competition in the job market. We support the Education department that there needs to be a mechanism that can be used (a) to identify children needing more help and support in literacy and mathematics and (b) to identify schools that are not performing at expected level. It is important that kids enjoy their time at the school and learn variety of skills. However what's even more important is that they excel at core skills of reading, writing and maths - the foundations of any higher education that they need to be able to compete in this increasingly global workforce. We would like the government to increase their efforts in ensuring that teachers' concerns listened to and addressed, but not losing the focus on overall objective.
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    Created by ParentsSupport KidsFuture
  • Class 'Britain First' as a terrorist organisation.
    Britain First are a xenophobic, homophobic, and especially islamophobic far-right militant group who disguise themselves under the mask of 'patriotism'. The group is centred by former English Defence League and British National Party members Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding. Britain First should be classed as a terrorist group, due to their hate campaigns and fear campaigns against minority members of British society such as Muslims, and other religious minorities. The group regularly harass and provoke citizens of areas with a high concentration of minorities, and terrorise workers and administrators of 'satantic' and 'terrorist' locations such as halal butchers, and local mosques. Britain First also want to provoke a race war and a complete cultural divide, arguing that Britain is a 'Christian' country (despite having no religious constitution), and that any aspects of minority religions are not acceptable in British Society. Below is a few attachments of Britain Firsts operations, along with their propaganda machine that is the Britain First facebook page. Help fight fascism and rascism. http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/britain-first-just-tried-to-invade-a-halal-slaughterhouse-it-went-badly--ZJx_7ZbKWMb http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/hate-groups/bf/ https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBritainFirst/?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBritainFirst/videos
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    Created by Ruaridh Munro
  • Stop Criminalising The Homeless Of Leeds
    BEING HOMELESS IS NOT A CRIME - THESE PEOPLE HAVE COMPLEX NEEDS AND IT'S THE COUNCIL DUTY BY LAW TO OFFER HOMELESSNESS ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE. Homelessness has risen over 50% nationally and it's important to understand that there's going to be a lot more homeless following the governments implementation of the welfare reform. Young people under 21 aren't entitled to housing benefit and Universal Credit is going to cause a huge epidemic in homelessness. We need to start forming solutions to the homeless crisis rather than creating more problems. These yellow & red cards that result in dispersal orders are inhumane; morally wrong and are deteriorating the health and wellbeing of people who are already vulnerable and unhealthy. They are creating more problems for the people; the council and society in general. The homeless are unable to enter the city centre to attend the essential support services they need after receiving one of these dispersal orders and this is downright evil. They need the support services and shouldn't be restricted for sitting down on the floor when someone decides to hand them a cup of coffee; hot food or some money. What's sad is that they're also being taken to magistrates courts when they can't pay fines or adhere to these restrictive conditions that are causing them to deteriorate. How can you ask someone not to go to their doctors? Their mental health worker? Their counsellor? Their day centre? Their library? Their food bank? Their local 'Pay As You Feel' cafe? Their town hall? Their groups? Their workshops? THIS IS MORALLY WRONG TO REMOVE THAT SUPPORT FROM THEM! These people need intervention, not criminalising. They're then brought to magistrates courts, unable to pay fines and are then sent to privatised prisons for profit. This is the key problem. They're now seen as revenue for corporate private prisons. Where they'll work 40 hours per week for £12.50, facilitating operations from tenders with other corporates operating in the prison. This is slavery. According to Professor Crawford "Unless dispersal orders are part of a wider, multi-agency strategy to provide alternative activities and venues for people, the powers merely put a 'sticking plaster' over local problems and invariably fail to address the wider causes." We understand that during times of severe austerity, Leeds City Council can't afford to sustain further alternative support services specifically for those that have had dispersal orders imposed and therefore can't understand their logic behind this evil decision to criminalise the cities most vulnerable. We, the people are petitioning for the complete reversal of this decision and will form a campaign to ensure that the homeless don't receive inhumane treatment from the authorities of Leeds.
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    Created by Wesley Hall
  • Demand New Forest MP to use e-mail
    Dr Lewis is the ONLY MP in the house of commons who is only accessible through snail mail, the internet revolution of the last century hasn't made it to his office yet. There is a whole generation of voters who might never have written a letter. By not allowing people to contact him by e mail he is denying the electorate access and a voice to their local MP. Having spent over 10 years working in development in rural Afghanistan I have returned to the UK to discover my local MP is less contactable than an Afghan MP. We should have held some cash back from our 'Afghan democratisation endeavour' to help our local MP get on the web! As the government website itself says "email is a very convenient way for people to communicate" and encourages people to e mail their MP. In the New Forest we are unable to do this. E mail enables fast, immediate conversations with those who should be wanting to hear our voice, not silence it. I am not the first to notice the luddite in our midst http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3471687/Julian-Lewis-MP-REFUSES-communicate-constituents-online-regards-emails-insecure-prefers-communicate-letter-fax.html Please sign
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    Created by Grace How
  • Reverse your decision to stop accepting Derbyshire Wayfarer tickets
    For many years the Derbyshire Wayfarer has been a popular and convenient way of exploring the county by bus and train, and is vital for sustainable tourism. The TransPeak route is a useful link between the major tourist centres of Matlock, Bakewell and Buxton. Withdrawing certain bus routes from the scheme makes the ticket less attractive, and passengers are likely to be confused if the ticket is valid on some buses but not others on the same route.
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    Created by Alan Yearsley
  • Consult on sustainable transport in planning applications
    Air pollution affects us all. Clean Air Southampton recently found that the levels of nitrogen dioxide are 50% higher than the legal limit (there is no safe limit). New developments such as West Quay Watermark will only increase the number of vehicles attracted to the area, increasing the amount of pollution present. Air pollution leads to: around 200 early deaths each year in Southampton; Babies being born with smaller lungs (something they will never recover from); Cancer; and Respiratory illnesses. A significant way to reduce pollution in the city is by promoting sustainable transport. Improving provision for cyclists and pedestrians is a significant part of this.
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    Created by Jenny Barnes
  • Suspend from parliament Conservative MPs suspected of Election fraud.
    As stated no member of parliament that could be deemed fraudulent should be allowed to decide what laws pass through the legislative system
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    Created by Richard Kilbride
  • Mergers of local councils
    Because Christchurch will loose its identity. Also Christchurch is not in debt and the others are. Not just Christchurch will loose its identity, but the others will to. If this goes ahead it will become a city sooner or later. Who wants that?
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    Created by Pat Ferris
  • Ban Dangerous Pesticides in Anglesey
    The use of glyphosates has already been banned or restricted in 8 countries. It is not acceptable that ourselves, our children and the animals we share our community with are being routinely exposed to these chemicals whether we like it or not. This is a matter of great importance for those of us who care about each other's health and the health of our children, our cats, our dogs and all the flora and fauna of this community. If you don't live in this area, click here to start a campaign for your city: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/start-a-pesticide-campaign
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    Created by Helen Mcgreary