PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE MY PETITION, AND KEEP SHARING. We demand the State pension is re-linked to male average earnings, or inflation, whichever the higher to protect the value of the State pension against means testing, this link should be restored. Britain's WW2 Veterans particularly, but of course all pensioners, including pensioners living overseas should be included, because they have also contributed to Britain's economy over the decades and State pensions should be increased as British prosperity increases, or inflation increases, whichever the higher. Without this Generations past efforts and sacrifices during WW2, none of us would be here today. I have drafted a petition standing up for our living WW2, Veterans, because we all owe our very existence today to the efforts and sacrifices made by this generation of pensioners during WW2.. BUT my petition also demands better State pensions for ALL pensioners, giving a level of State pension they can live on, including overseas pensioners whose pensions are "frozen". They have also contributed to the British economy over the decades. So instead of our Government throwing money into overseas aid that buys fancy cars for dictators, or benefits countries that don't need it, and stop other ways our government waste money... So far Government have refused to act saying there is no money, but there is plenty of money gets sent abroad for various things that could and should be spent back on us, the British people. Particularly we owe the WW2 Generation of pensioners everything we can give them, because they made the ultimate sacrifice, for us! We ask Jeremy Corbyn & Parliament to include woman who stayed at home raising families, and who have paid little or no contributions due to not doing "paid" work, but who worked hard at home bringing children up, raising families, and making sure their husband's had a home to come home to at the end of the War. Also remember the impoverished and neglected war widows.... Also the woman during WW2, who worked in the fields and the Factories, their efforts must not be left out! This Generation have given us everything. They fought for our freedom during WW2. Yet we give them nothing but misery, made to live on a pittance of a State pension. HOW MANY WORLD WAR TWO PENSIONERS ARE GOING TO DIE OF COLD AND/OR STARVATION THIS WINTER BECAUSE THEIR STATE PENSION ISNT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. ?. Winter deaths claim 200 pensioners every day. Millions of elderly people in Britain today are living in poverty, having to choose between eating, and heating their homes because the UK's State pension is so low. Britain’s War veterans have been forgotten by this and previous Tory Government’s. We urge the Government to increase the basic State pension to at least £300 a week, and the State pension should have increases linked directly with male average earnings or inflation, whichever the higher. “OUR WW2 VETERANS FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF EUROPE; THEY WERE SHOT & STABBED ON THE BEACHES IN NORMANDY””. WHEN THE WAR ENDED THEY PAID INTO THE SYSTEM THROUGH THEIR WORKING LIVES. AND WERE PROMISED “CRADLE TO GRAVE” CARE, WHICH THEY ARE’NT GETTING.... THEY LIBERATED FRANCE AND THE REST OF EUROPE – AND YET BRITISH PENSIONERS RECEIVE THE LOWEST STATE PENSION IN WESTERN EUROPE THANKS TO MARGARET THATCHER IN 1980, BREAKING THE LINK THAT KEPT STATE PENSIONS INCREASING DIRECTLY WITH BRITISH PROSPERITY... AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO HAVE MILLIONS TO SPEND ON LAVISH EXPENSES; AND THE GERMAN PENSIONERS GET FOUR TIMES MORE THAN UK PENSIONERS IN WEEKLY STATE PENSION. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”;

Huddersfield is one of the largest towns in the UK. It has a growing economy and thriving student population. To take away the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary A&E will undoubtedly cost lives (with Calderdale Royal Hospital being the 'nearest' A&E). It will increase the burden on Primary Care, especially in rural areas where resources are already limited. Latest news reports suggest this could be the start of a bigger plan to demolish the HRI completely, which would be catastrophic not only in terms of job losses but potential lives lost, and again increasing the strain on over-stretched Primary Care services. http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/live-huddersfield-royal-infirmary-set-10739008

The Lake District is the country's most lucrative tourist spot after London. The damage caused by the December floods to the A591 have effectively haemorraged the cash flow to vital tourist towns. And yet the Government tell us that the necessary repairs cannot and will not be finished until May.... The Lake District holds such a special place in the hearts of so, so many people and just now, like poor Peter Rabbit, both the place and the people must be feeling 'given up for lost' and more than ready to 'shed big tears'. The Lake District holds not only hearts but also livelihoods.... The owners of the Lakeland businesses are not just 'playing shops' for a hobby or pastime.... Whole families take part in the day to day running, organising, stocktaking and customer relations, and with no reasonable access for tourists (the A591), shops and businesses will be bankrupted and some very special places, for example the famous 'Grasmere Gingerbread Shop' will close and may never be able to re-open. Grasmere without the gingerbread? A whole generation of children who will never know the bedtime rhyme 'to bed to bed and dream about the gingerbread'?. The Government appear to be happy with their role of Mr McGregor, and unless the necessary repairs to the A591 are completed quickly, then many traditional Lakeland shops and shop owners, may just end up if not actually put into a pie, then either exiled or left to fade sadly away to a derelict whisper on the fellsides.

The Housing Bill together with measures already proposed by the Chancellor threaten to bring to an end the availability of affordable housing which has to date been available for a third of the population. Without a truly affordable rented sector, people will have to find a solution to their housing needs from the uncontrolled and increasingly expensive private rented sector or open market of housing for sale. No civilised country can operate without an affordable rented sector. The USA offers a warning: affordable housing there means trailer parks or "projects" with a growing but still very small community land trust sector. It was their attempt at "sub-prime housing" provision which caused the banking crisis.

Government have announced the closure of 86 courts and tribunals in England and Wales. If this closure programme goes ahead 38.5% of courts and tribunals will have closed since 2010. These closures will restrict access to courts and tribunals for many court users and will add unnecessary stress for victims and witnesses. The plans that were subject to consultation over the summer contained a series of errors including underestimates of journey times to alternative courts and a lack of detailed cost benefit analysis with many of the proposed closures making no financial sense. Many courts set for closure have better facilities for court users than the ones they are being proposed to be moved to. The Government case for the closures is driven solely by cost and is underpinned by digital processes in the early stages of implementation with the usual associated problems. This decision leaves a justice system in real danger of becoming so divorced from the people who need access to it that it can no longer be considered to be true justice and will undermine public confidence.

Stealing doctors from poorer countries who need them more is morally indefensible, and insufficient doctors for the NHS means over long hours for those we have and less safe practises. Doctors who pay for their own training feel free to leave Britain immediately which is a drain on reserves.

The derelict pub on Gainsborough Square (Lockleaze, Bristol) is an eyesore and a waste of a valuable site with great potential.

Numerous times it has been requested by bother parents teachers that a crossing is put on Damson Lane and refused. 2 children in the past 6 months have been involved in accidents within a few feet of one another and many more have had near misses. The Land Rover traffic and the bus route of the 966 means that children and parents have to weave between cars to get accross and often don't have a clear view of the other side and further down due to the busses and delivery trucks and lorries passing during school hours. There are two infant and junior schools nearby as well as shopping facilities that are frequented nearby making it a high traffic area for both pedestrians and cars. It's only a matter of time before another child/adult is hurt there, a crossing would stop traffic for them to cross safely. There are moms crossing with more than 4 children and a school walking bus with more than 10 children to cross to Yew Tree School on Wherrets Well Lane. A crossing is definitely warranted for the safety of everyone and will allow for the children and parents to get across without having to dip between traffic to get to the other side.

The Eel Brook is an important part of community life in SW6. It was built in 1892 and has been serving pints to locals ever since. If this pub is important to you, please sign to let our council know. For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheEelBrook or follow on Twitter @SaveTheEelBrook UPDATE: the new owner of the Eel Brook has been in touch with the Save the Eel Brook Campaign and we have good news. The plans are to retain the ground floor as an eating and drinking venue, while the flats above will be redeveloped. Plans about the first theatre space are as yet undecided. The new owners are locals too, and not faceless developers, and are keen that the pub works for the people who use it. We have passed on the feedback about the pub we have received through this campaign and we will keep in touch with the new owners as they draw up more concrete plans. Thank you all for your support and for the love you have shown for this pub. Here's hoping we can work together with the new owners to make this place work for all of us. Watch this space for more info!

Volunteer doctors and nurses from MSF were working in one of the few functioning hospitals in Afghanistan. The hospital was targeted by American bombers in an act of complete bungling incompetence. 42 patients and staff were killed by the Americans in their attack. MSF believe that a war crime was committed. Those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions: not only the air crew, but their commanders as well.

‘The Home Office estimates that 14,273 women and girls in Bristol have been a victim of domestic abuse in the past year’ (Bristol Ideal: 2015). For the women who have to flee from domestic abuse there are some fantastic support networks in Bristol that supply ‘emergency’, ‘temporary’ accommodation in safe houses and women’s refuges. I myself was living within a safe house in Bristol with my one year old son when I started this petition. It took me almost a year to move out and that is relatively quick as many women I left behind have been there 2 years and counting. Currently women and families living in temporary housing that need help from social housing to move on are not given priority. This petition is to get Bristol City Council to change the banding criteria to put vulnerable women and children into the highest band, Band 1. Despite being officially classed as homeless and at risk, the current highest banding we can be put into is Band 2. Not all women even get up to Band 2! This petition has got us some great attention and coverage and the issue was out to Bristol City Council in March as a motion to change the banding. A vote was taken and we got a unanimous yes vote. We thought we had won and the change would be made. Unfortunately politics is never that simple. The then mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, did not action the motion so it was not put through. As the local councillor and mayoral elections were coming up we knew we would not see a change happen till after May. So continuing to campaign we attended mayoral hustings, posed questions on radio programmes and used social media to reach out to all the mayoral candidates to give a response to this band change. All were extremely positive about making this change and promised to see it happen. Marvin Rees, the new mayor of Bristol, went as far as putting it into his campaign manifesto to become mayor. Now he is in power, and has been for over 100 days, we still have not seen the band change! So now we are calling on him to make good on his promise and help save many lives. With the startling, but sadly well known, statistic that on average 2 women per week are killed nationally as a result of domestic abuse, it’s time more action was taken to improve services. Bristol City Council needs to give priority banding to re house survivors of domestic abuse to literally save lives. According to Women’s Aid (online), ‘the most dangerous time for a woman is when she is trying to escape her abuser’. Having to wait months to get into emergency accommodation is not good enough. Having to wait years to get out of emergency accommodation is not good enough. Please sign this petition to make Marvin Rees stick to his promise and make this important change ! Thank You. Reference Links: http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic_violence_topic.asp?section=0001000100220036§ionTitle=Statistics http://www.bristolideal.org.uk/domestic-and-sexual-violence/

The Financial Conduct Authority recently dropped it's review into Banking Culture, reportedly under alleged Government pressure (or leaning) as reported by the BBC., however this is denied by the treasury. I ask that we pressure the government to reinstate the review. McDonnell said: “This will be a huge blow to customers and taxpayers who are all still paying the price for the failed culture in the banking sector that’s been widely attributed to be among the main causes of the crash and the scandals over Libor and price-fixing.” He said the FCA was making a “dangerous and costly mistake”. “The chancellor therefore cannot stay silent on this issue. It’s time he used his influence to keep this review going. Otherwise he’s letting down the rest of us who bailed the banks out and also allowing a signal to be sent to carry on regardless. Given the scale and severity of the failings in the financial sector and the criminal behaviour shown by some banks, the scrapping of the FCA’s review into banking culture sends the wrong message at the wrong time,”. Also The review was included in the FCA’s business plan for 2015, but was dropped after an initial assessment found it difficult to compare different cultures inside banks. The decision to abandon the review follows the resignation of the FCA chief executive, Martin Wheatley, after the chancellor forced him out in July. A permanent replacement has not been named to take over from Wheatley, who had flagged his tough stance towards the industry by warning he would shoot first and ask questions later.