• Reverse the privatisation of our schools
    The Tories are pushing through legislation to remove all secondary and primary schools from Local Authority control by 2020 by turning them into academies. This is the free market gone mad and it must not be allowed to infect our education system. Schools are places of teaching and learning. They are not businesses and should not be run for profit. There is no evidence that academies are performing better than state schools. In fact Michael Wilshaw, Head of Ofsted has recently highlighted how many of the academy chains are underperforming. Academies do not have to teach the National Curriculum, can pay teachers what they like, can set their own holidays and impose longer days on their students, longer lessons and shorter holidays. in other words there is no parity of regulation. Academy Heads are not required to have been teachers themselves so have scant knowledge of running a school. This will spell the end of national pay scales for teachers and will be a disaster for our young people. This is total privatisation of the primary and secondary sector and cannot be allowed to happen.
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    Created by Sandie Choi
  • SCRAP proposed cuts to ESA/PIP for disabled people
    No-one asks to be disabled. My partner has MS and was working right up until the disease struck. She bravely endures her disability, like many people do. Her ESA is a vital element to provide assistance and a small measure of Independence in a life, without which, would rapidly become completely joyless. Many other people rely upon this, too. This is not the action of a humane government.
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    Created by brian murray
  • Recycle Black PET Plastic in Bristol
    If such large quantities of Black PET are being used in the food industry to sell food in all supermarkets, then this recyclable resource needs to be used for the manufacture of further new Black containers, rather than being buried in the soil at further cost to the tax payer, let alone the careless damage done to the environment. Please change our policy for the better. Thanks.
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    Created by Matt Wenner
  • Bring Back Reading Racers Speedway
    Reading has been without a Speedway and Greyhound Stadium for nearly 8 years, following our forced ejection from Smallmead and the failure of Stadia UK to start the construction of a New Stadium, even though they had the full support of Reading Council and the Speedway supporter s of the Racers Club. Recently, there has been a groundswell of interest in resurrecting old Speedway clubs, in Cradley, Oxford, Exeter, and Weymouth for example. The "Reading Speedway Action Group" Committee, are looking to form a Supporters Trust and get aboard this bandwagon and have speedway once again in Reading and the Winged Wheel flying high. To achieve our aims we need YOU to sign this petition to show Reading Council that there is sufficient support for this project. The more that sign, the more leverage and empowerment we will hold. Please sign NOW and help bring back the Racers. It costs nothing except 5 minutes of your time. Follow us on Facebook "Reading Speedway Action Group". https://www.facebook.com/Reading-Speedway-Action-Group-490790471107024/?fref=ts
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    Created by John Hill
  • Please Don't Force All Schools to Become Academies
    Forcing schools to become academies centralises the decision making power, taking it away from local authorities and makes schools cater to the needs of industry. Academies are underperforming compared to schools run by local authorities, and results frequently skew the figures by adding vocational qualifications.. A number of academies are already failing. Greater pressure can be exercised by academies on their teaching staff, forcing them to work weekends and holidays without the right to unionise. Pupils are not safer either, often ignored in 'study centres' or on exclusion if they don't conform. We urge you to reconsider this dangerously undemocratic move.
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    Created by Melissa Smith
  • Please vote AGAINST the HS2 bill on 23rd March
    PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION NOW! THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP THE BILL! THE VOTE IS ON 23RD MARCH!
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    Created by Camden Citizens
  • Remove Peter Lilley M.P as Patron of Herts Aid
    Peter Lilley M.P voted in the house of commons to cut ESA payment for people in the work-related activity group (Wrag) from £103 to £73 a week. despite there being no parliamentary report on the impact on claimants, this is a contradiction of his role as a patron of this charity, and makes his position untenable.
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    Created by Mairtin Burke
  • Save Tremoilet School
    Tremoilet School is a small school with a very big heart, it's part of our small community and we really want to keep it that way. Carmarthenshire Council have decided to try and close our school along with Llanmiloe school and send all children over 5 miles away to another school. If this happens it would be a huge blow to the local community, there would be no more school performances in the local church and the children would no longer be so involved in local affairs. Our small school has turned out some amazing students that have gone on to be extremely successful in different fields like computer software development, teachers, business management and the list goes on. We may be a small school but this does not mean we are willing to let it go,the children are certainly not prepared to lose the school that means so much to them and neither are the parents or Pendine Community.
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    Created by Diane Bufton
  • Save Irlam postal delivery office
    Large population rely on proximity of Irlam sorting office.
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    Created by Craig Skelton
  • Save Carlisle Women's Refuge
    The refuge is a safe place for women who's lives have been shattered by rape, sexual assault and domestic violence. Without this safe place, which although only short term, provides much needed breathing space. Not only that it shows these people that not everyone is out to hurt them. The removal of funding for these vital services, gives abused women the message that no one cares and it is ok for them to be abused. Is this a good message to send out across Cumbria?
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    Created by Eleanor Jasper
  • Save 'The Bridge', in Harrow from closure by the Council
    The Bridge is a purpose built place for the Mentally ill people. It's an activity centre and a drop in centre with a cafe. The building is all on ground floor. There are gardens at the back and side for people to relax. The activities include Arts and Craft, Music Learning, Guitar Learning group - 'Dont Fret', Tabla (Indian drums) learning, Library, Choir meeting -- 'More than Just a Choir', WhyFI - for Paranoia, Pilates, Yoga, 30 Clients with Personal Independence Budgets attend for therapy. People with depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia etc. etc. attend with great benefits to their daily life. The Northwick Park Hospital's Mental Heath Unit refers clients for further support from the services available at The Bridge. I had asked my family, two years ago, to take me to the Switzerland clinic to 'have me put down'. Then I heard of 'The Bridge' and attended the Choir -- ''More Than Just A Choir'' every Tuesday evening. This has turned my life around. The people receiving a great deal of therapeutic benefits will have to revert back to the overloaded GP services and the NHS -- waiting list. The attempt to close The Bridge will end up costing the community far greater!
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    Created by Naresh Lathia
  • Bar filibusterers from the House of Commons for at least 10 working days.
    Filibustering prevents Private Members' Bills from being considered and debated in the House of Commons and is therefore an affront to representative democracy
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    Created by Alan Wheatley