• Cap private rents in Cornwall
    Paying extortionate rent in a time of a cost of living crisis is totally unacceptable.
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    Created by Peter Fox
  • Invest in our play areas
    In Norden we will be waiting years for our play areas to see improvement. Upper Sherborne Playing Fields – earliest date 3 years / Arlott Drive – earliest date 6 years; Bennett Close/Martin Close – earliest date 10 years / Lyford Green – earliest date 18 years Whiteditch – earliest date 21 years / Oakridge Road – earliest date 43 years; Taverner Field – earliest date 43 years; At the current rate of 3 refurbishments a year, it will take the Council 50 years to upgrade the 147 play areas in the Borough. We need a better programme to meet the needs of residents and children, as many of our play areas are in desperate need of refurbishment now. We believe that the Borough Council need to take refurbishing our play areas far more seriously. We need a better programme of capital investment that meets the need our communities have for improved play areas.
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    Created by Basingstoke & Deane Independent Councillors Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council
  • Stop the plans to uproot Afghan Refugees from London
    It is wrong that these people will be uprooted and their lives turned upside down again. These are families who who are refugees and have right to remain in the UK. If moved hundreds of miles away they will have to start again in a new area. Adults will have to find new jobs and children will have to try and adjust to new places and schools after just being settled in London. Added to which it is uncertain if there would be school and college spaces for them. These families need all our support to try and make the Home Office see how unreasonable and potentially harmful their proposed actions are.
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    Created by helene pursey
  • Don't cancel Autumnwatch
    We need more not less of this genre especially now in such stressful times. Programmes such as Autumnwatch provide vital relaxation and enjoyably informative TV that the whole family can watch together.
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    Created by Alison Jones
  • Stop the energy price Hyke
    Fuel poverty is causing deaths, illness and extreme hardship to millions of people we need to stop this wholesale robbery now, the government won't act because they have a vested interest in keeping prices high. Sign the petition today, share and pass the word.
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    Created by John Humberstone Picture
  • Make the forced installation of Smart water meters without the customer informed consent unlawful
    Please sign this petition and share this petition in order to make the forced installation of smart water meters without the informed consent of the customer unlawful. Also in order to prevent future events where having conditioned people to covertly consent into a one way system that takes away from customers control over water usage, it enables water companies to covertly make claims from customers to offset the water company responsibility for maintaining water infrastructure by such as in this case correlating a self generated smart water meter reading to correspond to a water leak.
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    Created by Giovanna Bertoldi
  • Please save Kouame from deportation
    Kouame's story is like many other asylum seekers. He fled to this country to escaped death at the hands of the government of Ivory Coast. Since arriving here in 2014 he has suffered tremendous anxiety and depression whilst trying to save himself from being sent back into danger.
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    Created by Rosemary Taylor
  • Remove the power of a lone policemen to arrest a female, now!
    Women have been raped and even killed by the actions of lone policemen in London using their uniform as a cover. This measure would make that much less likely that they could do this.
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    Created by Trevelyan Evans
  • MPs Second Jobs
    Whilst recognising that it may be difficult to impose a blanket restriction on MPs having secondary, or outside jobs, or outside financial interests, in addition to their work in Parliament, it is surely time for the public to expect their MP to devote most of their time to Parliamentary business and that the remuneration from the public purse should more closely reflect this. This Petition therefore requests that the outside remuneration of an MP should be capped at the maximum amount of the publicly funded salary currently received by that MP or Minister, and that any earnings received or earned over and above that sum by an MP, from any outside source (be it employment, consultancy or any other remunerated job or perk) should be matched by a reduction in their publicly funded MP or Ministerial salary, pound for every pound earned from such outside sources, until the MP salary is entirely exhausted.. This will ensure that any MP earning more than twice his or her Parliamentary salary from secondary employments will receive no Parliamentary salary at all, nor any pensionable benefits that may be based on that salary. It will also mean that any MP currently earning more than £84,144 (or such larger sum based on their actual Parliamentary or Ministerial salary) from an outside source, but less than £168,288, will receive a reduced Parliamentary salary, equal to £84,144 less a reduction by one pound for every one pound he or she earns, over and above that identical sum from those outside sources, and that any outside earnings above £168,288 will thus result in no Parliamentary salary at all. No account should be taken of expenses, or other permitted recoverable sums payable to any individual MP or Minister, in assessing his or her Parliamentary salary. Example 1: MP earns £50,000 in addition to his MP salary. This is below the £84,144 he receives as an MP. He is entitled to receive his full MP salary from public funds. Example 2: MP earns £100,000 in addition to his MP salary. This is £15,856 more than the £84,144 he receives as an MP. His MP salary should thus be reduced by that identical sum to £62,888. This effectively limits his taxable income, but still allows him to retain an overall taxable income, equivalent to almost twice his Parliamentary salary, but also saves the public purse £15,856 Example 3: MP earns £180,000 in addition to his MP salary. This is £95,856 more than the £84.144 he receives as an MP. His MP salary should be reduced by that sum, which exhausts it entirely. He thus receives no publicly funded salary, but can retain his remaining taxable income, whilst saving the public purse the full MP salary of £84,144. In both cases 2 and 3, the payment of pensions based on final salary levels should also be saved by the public purse. Note: The higher the outside earnings, the more likely it will be that the Parliamentary salary will not be payable at all, and most likely, a closer scrutiny will result in the outside financial interests of the MP, whilst he or she is acting in Parliament. Both events may also be likely to lead MPs to reduce their outside interests, if only to preserve their pension rights long term. There is public concern about the high level of remuneration earned by MPs from secondary jobs or remunerated outside interests that could affect their impartiality, or the proper representation of their constituents working in Parliament on the job for which they receive public funds
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    Created by Paul McDonald
  • Bleed control kits for Glasgow
    Glasgow is a vibrant friendly city. We are welcoming and caring, we run toward problems and don't back away, we posses pride in abundance. However, we have as a city been let down greatly by knife crime. For decades we have faced this issue and its destructive outcomes - we have lost our sons and daughters, and there is never any going back from that. I would therefore like to see bleed control kits situated around the city much in the way defibrillators are, which can help to buy time whilst awaiting emergency help. Glasgow, we look forward to a day when knife crime no longer takes our loved ones from us, but in the mean time I hope we could achieve training and support to the public on how to effectively use bleed control kits, so that one day there are less 'what ifs'. Any one of us could be a victim of knife crime. Glasgow sadly still loses loved ones to this horrific crime which leaves a void to families that can never be filled, dreams shattered, chances taken away, love that can no longer be directed to ones who are gone .
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    Created by Josephine Allan
  • School uniform pricing
    I believe that all parents will be wanting to save every penny they can by not having having to adhere to purchasing certain uniform items
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    Created by Jennine Blampey
  • Maths - prime minister - read this - dyscalculia exists
    STATEMENT ON PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK’S ‘MATHS TO 18’ POLICY FROM DYSCALCULIA NETWORK We, at the Dyscalculia Network, welcome the Prime Minister’s focus on the importance of numeracy skills. However, we are worried by the absence of dyscalculia in discussions surrounding the stated plans to extend compulsory maths education to the age of 18. 6% of the UK population have dyscalculia. This means that around 1 million children and 2-3 million adults have a learning difference which means they cannot perform arithmetic like the rest of the population and struggle, for instance, to relate value with number, reading clocks and understanding time. An inclusive approach to maths would ensure universal screening for dyscalculia, much like what is proposed for dyslexia, and compulsory training for all maths teachers into how to support dyscalculic children and adults in their classroom. It would also emphasise not only mathematical facts and processes but mathematical thinking. Unfortunately, nothing has been mentioned by the Prime Minister or opposition parties about dyscalculia. This is deeply regretful. We believe passionately that the answer to lowering numeracy skills is not more maths but targeted and contextualised numeracy that is tangible, relevant, and accessible. Real-life numeracy that can help people in their every-day lives. This includes approaches that can improve the lives of the many people in this country that have dyscalculia. #Dyscalculia #dyscalculiaawareness #neurodivergent #mathsteacher Not everyone is good at maths. Dyscalculia should have as much input as dyslexia.
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    Created by Sally Wilkin