Why in 2016 when the government are looking to make cuts, should they be immune to the same austerity they force so many others to live with? Last year a reported 1.1 million people were forced into using food banks, this year they are trying to force our NHS to do more, with less. They have already attacked the disabled, and raised tuition fees for those looking to further their education while at the same time taking a pay rise. Why should they get to claim personal expenses? Especially when the average MP salary is £67,060. The UK average salary is reported to be £26,500, and yet you and I have to pay for our own food, our own travel expenses, as well as our own day to day living expenses. Whilst I understand that staffing costs make up nearly three quarters of the total MP expenses budget, staffing and office costs as well as reasonable long distance travel costs should be managed by the IPSA. Any other personal claims simply shouldn't be allowed. Let's stand together and remind the Government they stand in office to serve the greater goods best interest and not their own.

The Housing Bill will take away public funding from affordable homes for rent, instead funnelling money into ‘Starter Homes’ that only the rich can afford. It will make it easier for private landlords to evict renters, and do nothing to control private rents. The bill will also force cash-strapped councils to hand over millions of pounds to housing associations to allow them to sell their properties cheaply, and replace secure tenancies with ones as short as 2 years Social housing has been the bedrock of many communities for the past 70 years. It pays for itself and 30 years ago provided homes to one in three British people, allowing people and communities to thrive. We are not against people buying a home, but this must not be at the expense of social housing for those who can’t afford to buy.

Oasis and Befriending are essential to the wellbeing of our autistic children and are a lifeline for them and their families. They help them to learn how to socialise, make friends and to try activities like shopping, bowling or swimming – things that other kids often take for granted. Autistic children are not able to take part in these normal, everyday activities without support and understanding from people trained in autism. Young people with autism are very socially isolated and need expert help to learn social skills and to be around other people. The Oasis Club and Befriending staff have specialist training and experience in autism which is essential in order to communicate with and support children with autism. Without these schemes, autistic children in West Berkshire will have nowhere to go. They will be denied what every child should have - a life with friends where they get to go out and do things in a safe environment with people who understand them and their differences. “Our son had to be home educated for a number of years when depression and anxiety threatened to overwhelm him and the Oasis Club was particularly crucial in those years as his only opportunity to mix with other kids, and our only chance in the week to re-charge our flagging batteries. Oasis has been the single biggest factor in his development from isolated, lonely and unhappy boy to the confident, sociable and happy young man he is today.” We need your support to reverse this decision and ensure children with autism continue to have access to essential services. Please sign this petition to tell West Berkshire Council: • Not to shut down the Oasis Club • Not to shut down the Befriending scheme And to • Keep funding short breaks services for children with autism Please help us to stop West Berkshire Council from closing down these vital services for autistic children. The more people who sign the petition, the louder our voice. With thanks, Kate Lo, West Berkshire Branch of the National Autistic Society

When claiming Tax Credits, the only options you have available to you are that of phone calls, and letters. I have recently been in touch with Tax Credits, and found to my great frustration that the only way the staff will communicate with you is via phone, or writing. This would be okay if the phones were answered in a timely manner, or that the post was direct to the department that it is intended to go to. I have had my post lost, I have had my calls unanswered, and have been cut off. And have now missed an important deadline. If there was a dedicated email address for the departments listed above, I would have had a paper trail, and not missed the deadline. I am not asking for personal emails to be known, just one where claimants can send relevant information through.

We are concerned that fracking could: • Contaminate our water supply • Pollute the air with hazardous chemicals • Cause earthquakes • Reduce the value of our homes • Increase our insurance premiums • Make our roads less safe by increasing heavy traffic • Leak methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide • Cause illness in local populations • Increase noise and light pollution from drilling operations and traffic movement. Fracking is bad for our environment, bad for our communities and we call upon Barnsley Council to reject fracking in Barnsley.

The future of publishing in Wales and with it ‘a distinctive literature from Wales’ could be under threat if the Welsh Government agrees a proposed 10.6% cut to industry funding. Wales’ small but vibrant and diverse publishing industry produces everything from Costa prize-winning poetry titles to young adult novels, from books about sporting and music legends to Welsh history and art, from prize-winning literature: fiction, biography, travel and memoir, academic titles and Welsh classics, to richly illustrated titles and books for children, in English and Welsh. Its independent publishing companies are spread across the country, providing skilled work for an estimated 1000 plus people, from authors to publishers, freelance editors, designers, illustrators, printers, booksellers and many others, often in areas of high unemployment. After a decade of standstill funding, grants to Welsh publishing in English will have been cut by 21% - £158,050 – in the last three years if these latest plans go through. Sign this petition to protect the future of Welsh literature and the Welsh books industry. Join in the conversation on Twitter by using the hashtag #WelshBooksMatter

Landowner Pralhad Kohle is trying to prevent fishermen at Cove Bay from using their boats, as people in the community have done since the 1790s. He is trying to evict them and has blocked access with boulders. Cove Bay would not be the place that it is without the harbour. Cove was built and founded on fishing and removing the boats would remove the heart of the village. It would take away people's livelihoods and remove a natural resource from future generations. The local community deserve to keep their heritage, and be allowed to enjoy it.

Animals need woodland habitat. Riversides need trees to help prevent flooding. Humans need trees and the oxygen provided. A lot of these woods have been ignored for about half a century and are now 'semi-natural'. Suddenly timber is very valuable again (woe to woodchip boilers but that is another campaign...) Lovely Scots pine teeming with red squirrels and pine martins and cross bills and so much other wildlife. My home is right beside one of these woods which is earmarked for clearfelling the last of the trees in the immediate area (Corgarff, Aberdeenshire). It is unbearable to imagine the woodland gone and this seems to be the norm across the park. How can we do this in a national park? We criticise people in other parts of the world for clearing forest and still we do it in our own national parks? Lets stop this!!!

Following the closure of the majority of local pubs in the area, we must put a stop to the erosion of the fabric of our local community through the systematic demolition/re-development of our local pubs in Hackney. We have seen many pubs disappear in Hackney in recent history (19 within a half mile radius in the last 20 years!), to make way for unaffordable housing and developments which have no connection to the local area or its history. We must act now to save one of the last public houses in our area from closure - and in doing so, keep our community from being dismantled by big businesses who have no knowledge or respect for our heritage.

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.