Gove is rapidly ruining this country's education system. He is creating schools which only teach what he personally feels is important. Subjects like art, drama and design are being sidelined and considered of less importance than the "core" subjects of Maths, English and Science. Even those are being butchered by Gove, removing anything that isnt 'truly British' from our education.

Across the UK thousands of people with dementia are being denied their rightful entitlement to continuing health care funding. It is quite clear that since the Coughlan judgment in 1999 not much has changed as National Health CCG's and Local Authorities are still willfully abusing the system in order to ‘balance the books’, creating a culture of NHS CHC funding assessors applying their own subjective interpretation of the guidelines onto funding decisions. Alongside that the Decision Support Tool, in its current form, does not take into account the complexities, uniqueness and unpredictability of dementia and therefore is not inclusive and fair when judging medical needs. It urgently needs reviewing for those suffering multiple medical needs from symptoms of dementia. We acknowledge that there is a CHC funding crisis but to use the vulnerable and elderly to fill this void by the misrepresentation of medical needs is morally repugnant. All we are asking is that the NHS, Social Services and the Government obey the law as it currently stands and ask for an urgent review of the DST assessment tool.

Capitalism is an unrivalled humanitarian success story. But it could be better. Ownership of capital (assets) is declining at a time when returns are increasing; i.e. the rich naturally get richer. Returns on labour (wages) are decreasing; i.e. work is less rewarding. Yet, the quality of political debate on the subject of inequality has been abysmal, veering between an illiberal and unproductive pursuit of high earners to 1970s-style price and wage-fixing. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. A sensible, simple, tax system that rewards partnership structures and encourages widespread capital ownership of companies would: 1. Make work pay. 2. Reduce inequality. 3. Improve productivity. 4. Improve industrial relations. 5. Incentivise workers. In summary, as John Lewis said in 1957: " Capitalism has done enormous good and suits human nature far too well to be given up as long as human nature remains the same. But the perversion has given us too unstable a society. Differences of reward must be large enough to induce people to do their best but the present differences are far too great. "

I like many others began my love of literature reading "Of Mice and Men" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" I have re-read them both several times in adulthood. In addition to being entertaining, the book's have powerful messages of fairness, equality and compassion. Our Children deserve to be taught in a balanced way and monumental decisions like this should be made by the experts. The National curriculum should be in the best interest of the pupils and not the whim of someone who "doesn't like them"

This matters greatly because every day we are giving a terrible impression of our country to incoming business people, tourists and other visitors by the shocking inefficiency of our airport checks and controls. Often they are staffed by illiterate and surly staff. One short example: on Sunday 18 May at 0700, there were enormous queues at Heathrow Terminal 5 as hundreds of people queued at border control after disembarking from incoming flights. There were not enough staff at the individual inspection booths. Even people on 'Fast Track' were made to queue beyond any reasonable duration. People were shouting at security (Mitie) and Border Agency staff and those staff in turn were rude or dismissive. The security staff were patently ill-trained to cope with the situation. Those being made to go through security and scanning again (despite just coming off flights) were subjected to another huge queue and lengthy wait. The majority of bags were being checked for explosives. One Muslim woman on her way to Bahrain was in tears having just received bad news from home: she was ignored by security staff. A businessman from South Africa said he would never, ever again fly via Heathrow. When politely challenged, the man wearing the "Supervisor" vest was also dismissive and said if there were fewer retail outlets, there'd be more room for security controls. What a terrible impression of the UK. What are we thinking of?

The introduction of fees into the Employment Tribunal system has reduced the access to justice of many deserving people. The large reduction in claims, as shown by official statistics, is not mainly, as suggested, the elimination of ‘vexatious’ litigation but rather the actual prevention of access to justice of vulnerable persons. In a civilised society this is simply unacceptable and must stop at once. It is against ‘natural justice’. We ask that this divisive decision be reversed by removing fees, thus restoring traditional ‘fair play’ into the tribunal system.

We feel the BBC News coverage of the European and Local Elections has, to date, been unfairly biased against the Green Party. This bias is not only evident in the almost complete absence of coverage of the Green Party during the European and Local Election results, but also prior to this during the campaign for the elections on Thursday 22nd May and in the months since. Whilst we understand that UKIP made gains in the Local Elections, it has gone largely unreported that the Green Party currently have a total of 162 Councillors and are now the official opposition in Liverpool, Solihull, Islington, Lewisham, and Norwich (15 councillors to Labour's 21). They gained two seats in Bristol, one with over 47% of the vote and retained a third seat, bringing the total to 6. In addition to their many councillors, the Green Party also have one MP, one member of the House of Lords, three MEPs, three MSPs (Scottish Greens), two London Assembly members, as well as a Green-led Council in Brighton & Hove. UKIP don't have any MSPs, London Assembly members, or run a Council. In the European Election coverage the Green Party were only very sporadically and reluctantly mentioned by the BBC. A representative of the Green Party (Leader Natalie Bennett) was not interviewed until 2:30am (26/5/14) on BBC One's Vote 2014, members of the other four parties were interviewed multiple times prior to this. The Today programme (R4) news summary at 8:30am (26/5/14) mentioned the Lib Dems in 5th place, but there was no mention of the Greens, let alone their being in 4th. These are just a couple of examples of the blatant refusal by the BBC to acknowledge the Green Party's successes. Seeing as the results of the European Elections placed the Greens ahead of the Lib Dems they should surely be treated as a Major Party, especially as UKIP are treated as such whilst not having had an MP until four months after these elections took place. The Green's membership has increased by 45% since January. They should receive coverage reflective of their successes and a chance to share the political floor with Farage et al not only during and in the lead-up to elections, but also in the interim period on programmes such as Newsnight and Question Time and in any Leaders' Debates. Incidentally, from the beginning of January 2014 until 22nd May 2014 Question Time has featured five UKIP representatives and only one Green representative (Caroline Lucas). Most despicable of all was how, in much of the BBC's coverage of the election results, the Green Party were consistently lumped in with the 'Others' category and often removed altogether from statistical evidence. This is an insult to the 8% who voted for them - 1.2million members of the British public. The BBC prides itself on painting a fair and unbiased picture of events, however in this case we feel they have not done so. All parties should receive fair, impartial coverage, whether they be Left, Right, or Centre. This apparent news blackout of the Green Party by a much respected taxpayer-funded corporation is incredibly disturbing and must not be allowed to continue. *This petition has been edited to keep its content up to date with the changing political climate*

Chinese (or ‘Sky’) lanterns consist of a paper-covered wire or bamboo frame and an open flame heat source, which lifts the lantern into the air where it can float for miles from the point of release. Lanterns pose a threat to animals, as they can cause severe burns, injury, suffering, and death, through:ingestion, entanglement and entrapment.. Landowners have called for a ban on Chinese lanterns in the UK, following cases of livestock injured or killed from eating lantern parts accidentally chopped into animal feed during harvest, or getting caught in wire frames that have landed in fields.Sharp parts can tear and puncture an animal’s throat or stomach causing internal bleeding or death. Animals can become entangled in fallen lantern frames and suffer from injury and stress struggling to get free, or starve to death. Marine life is also endangered by lanterns falling into the sea. Help us, and many other organisations including the Marine Conservation Society, Women’s Food and Farming Union (WFU), Soil Association and National Farmers Union (NFU).

The so called 'National roll-out of fibre broadband' is being funded by public money and we - the public - need to be given full access to the matter. The BT Telephone service side of the business (which does the talking to customers ...) should be given access to the data, owned by BT Openreach, to ensure that any telephone user ... interested in using fast fibre access to the broadband network ... can obtain an honest and complete answer as to when, and by what method - and at what price - they will be provided with the connection capability to the fibre broadband network.

Save the government money. Substantial cut in dangerous dogs. Make dog owners more responsible. Protect the public from diseases spread by animal waist and foolish dog owners. And to protect true dog lovers and good healthy dogs.

Sefton Park Meadows are a unique green space heritage belonging to the City and people of Liverpool. They are of great ecological and environmental value and have existed since 1872 when Sefton Park was opened. Sefton Park Meadows are a grand sweeping tree-lined entrance to Sefton Park in a conservation area and within the significant setting of the English Heritage Grade 1 designated Sefton Park. The people of Liverpool have vociferously told the Mayor and Council of Liverpool over the last year to Save Sefton Park Meadows. A preferred developer is to be announced in the near future, followed by a planning application. It is not too late to decide to leave the site as it is, as a significant part of Sefton Park for the benefit of generations to come, as it has been since 1872.

A few days ago, SSE reported annual profits of £1.55 BILLION. At a time when more than half a million struggling households face eviction, and almost a million people are forced to use food banks or starve, when inflation has risen yet again, when working families account for one in four households living in poverty, and 3 out of 4 claims for Housing Benefit are made by working people, SSE's profits, and the 3% increase in dividends paid to shareholders, are an obscenity. Last week, E-On was fined £12 MILLION, for mis-selling energy packages, making it the 5th of the Big Six to be fined for this appalling practice. In total, Ofgem has imposed fines of £100 MILLION on the energy companies, £39 MILLION of which relates to their failure to comply with the rules governing energy sales. But their unscrupulous practices don't end there: those who choose not to pay their energy bills by direct debit are subject to higher charges than those who do, and those with pre-payment meters pay the highest rates of all. Worse still, of the 420,000 pre-payments meters installed in the UK in the last year, almost 25% were installed without the householder's permission. Of the households with pre-payment meters that 'voluntarily disconnect', which is an energy company euphemism for 'have no money to pay for energy', 44% have at least one resident who is either disabled or has a long-term health problem. There can be no doubt that ordinary people in the UK are suffering on many fronts. It has been said many times in the past that people were having to choose between heating and eating, but the situation is now so dire that many can afford neither heat nor food. Austerity isn't just biting, it is eating us alive. And yet, we know that there are so-called celebrities involved in tax avoidance schemes that deprive the economy of MULTI MILLIONS OF POUNDS, and corporations that exploit tax loopholes to avoid paying BILLIONS OF POUNDS. But all around, people are fighting against injustice with petitions and direct action, targeting the DWP, corporations, AND the energy companies. We must keep fighting if we want to improve our quality of life and SAVE LIVES. We need affordable energy and the Big Six will NEVER, EVER provide it. Even the small, independent companies won't provide it, as they, too, have shareholders. The only way that energy will be affordable is to have a nationalised energy sector, devoid of shareholders. Please keep promoting my petition and encouraging people to sign it. Together we CAN make a difference