• Reduce VAT on medicines and treatments for pets owned by elderly people
    Pets are so important to the mental health and well-being of elderly people. When they become poorly, therefore, it is so important to lessen their monetary burden involved to make the beloved pet better.
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    Created by Bernard Lampitt
  • Kevin Sinfield deserves MBE
    Rob burrow was diagnosed with MND in 2019, he was a healthy rugby player.
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    Created by Lynn Davy
  • Grant all teachers a pay rise
    Teachers form the backbone to our education system. Without them, we would not be able to achieve success or live the lives we deserve.
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    Created by Isaac Ainge
  • Support GP practices - Partners not private enterprise
    A family doctor, who knows your medical history, is vital to our health and well being and should be available for all of us. Our GP practices are under more pressure than ever before. There is a national shortage of GPs and central government is undermining and failing to support surgeries which are led by GP partners - instead they are encouraging the privatisation of GP surgeries leading to disastrous consequences for patient care. Companies such as Virgin, Boots and US company Operose are buying up GP practices when the GPs eventually give up due to underfunding. The private Companies may even get more funding than the GPs were given in some cases. Patients then find that they are unable to get appointments and the same level of care they received before. One practice in Kent, bought up in 2016, went from outstanding, when run by GPs, to inadequate in the 18 months after it was bought up by a private firm. Other GP surgeries have been highlighted on Panorama, showing how the private companies make more money by employing fewer GPs ( perhaps as little as 1 per practice) and making up the needs with less highly trained and much less well paid physician associates who need support, which they may or may not get, from a GP so they don't make mistakes with diagnosis or patient care. The government is encouraging a two tier system to develop. In the near future, if this trend is not reversed, only rich people with access to private health care will be able to get reliable health care when they need it. My own GPs have criticised the political decisions being made which are making it so difficult for the doctors - they say this started in the Thatcher years but every government since has contributed to the problem. One of them described it as "heartbreaking" because the poor will not be able to get adequate care and many may die unnecessarily. The service is at breaking point already. Almost all the appointments at my surgery are now telephone only and this can lead to mistakes being made. I would like to see these decisions reversed by the government and I call on the Health Secretary to take urgent action. It is completely inappropriate for private companies to be running GP surgeries for big profit while neglecting patient care. Central government should be adequately supporting GP led and run partnerships- they are the ones who know how to do the job properly and they are invested in the work. Big business just doesn't care. It's profits before people. If we all petition the Government on this issue, they have to take notice as privatisation of the NHS through the back door is an election loser. I want this to be debated in the House of Commons. This is a national issue which affects all of us.
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  • Sir Kevin Sinfield
    To make a change and bring MND to the forefront and try to get a cure
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    Created by Anthony Williams
  • Let's grow insects
    I think "growing" insects is the sufficient condition of private citizens DOING SOMETHING of real eco-value FOR ALMOST ZERO MONETARY OUTLAY.
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  • KINGSWAY NEEDS SPEED CAMERAS
    Kingsway in Kirkby in Ashfield is having car accidents constantly because of people driving too fast and not paying attention. The central bollards have not stopped the issue. We need an average speed camera system to try and slow people down. This road has a school on it and many residents have vehicles parked on the road. These vehicles are the ones that get damaged and destroyed when speeders hit them. One day it will be the school kids getting knocked over.
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    Created by Callum Turner
  • After 12 Street lighting
    As a constituant of Trinant in the ccbc area. As a high profile criminal activity area we would like to keep the street lights on past 12am as criminals are stalking our homes and doing criminal damage over the time of lights out. It is also dangerous for people who go to work and home and can't see their hand in front of their faces We need to keep our street lights on after 12 am as its dangerous and also criminals are waiting for lights to go out to start their campaign of burglaries and criminal damage. We need to feel safe in our own community.
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    Created by Nicola Carson
  • Council Tax Stop increase
    It's not fair on low income people struggling with the cost of living. This will not help anyone on a low wage below 30000 will force them into debt and more poverty. Very important to take action now this will effect everyone not needed. And cost living now causing poverty won't be affordable not needed.
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    Created by Andrea Taylor
  • Better care for our elderly
    The care and support our elderly need is taking months, leaving our elderly neglected and declining. The municipal care homes were closed and private for profit opened the same as home care, it's only costing millions because you sold off the care. Our elderly are massively neglected and left without care and support due to the ring fenced money. It's stoke on trent and the UK.
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  • Stop Subsidised Food and Alcohol for MPs
    In the year 2020/1 the cost to the taxpayer for food and drink (including alcohol) consumed in Parliament was over £9 million with £1.8 million being spent on ‘Banqueting’ alone.* This in a time where NHS staff are using food banks and are charged to park in their own places of work. The fact that MP’s have decided that tax payers should subsidise their food and alcoholic drinks, without our direct consent, is utterly scandalous. End all food and drink subsidies to Parliament with immediate effect. * Source https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-catering/transparency/cost-of-catering.pdf There is a cost of living crisis, one direct cause is the way that the government have behaved. People must not suffer further whilst parliamentarians enjoy cheap food in drink at our expense.
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    Created by Mark Country
  • Castle Terrace SOS (Sick of Speeders)
    The residents of Castle Terrace, Berwick upon Tweed are sick of the speeding traffic in our street. These are some of the problems we currently face: 1. A daily gamble to safely exit our drives. 2. Drivers coming off the A1 and think they are still in a 60mph zone. 3. Drivers going too fast to safely negotiate the bend at the station end of the street. 4. Lorries and cars overtaking parked cars narrowing the road dangerously. 5. Cyclists been squeezed into a gauntlet. 6. Pedestrians taking risky crossings. 7. Parents rushing to get children to school on time. 8. Boy racers. Castle Terrace residents have formed a group to take up the issue of speeding in the area. Our local Councillor arranged a speed survey and in the week surveyed, the results unsurprisingly confirmed our concerns of speeding. Here are the highlights 1. Roughly half of all drivers broke the speed limit. 2. Nearly 4000 vehicles exceeded the speed limit 3. The top speed recorded was 75.6mph 4. 40 mph plus is exceeded regularly The survey was taken during a school holiday otherwise the numbers may have been higher.
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    Created by Jean Standing