• Mortgage help for the unemployed.
    I saved for years to get a deposit for a house and had very little social life because of that, but that isn't the issue, I bought a house with my wife and had a beautiful talented daughter. I find myself unemployed through no fault of my own but my mortgage payments are not covered by universal credit, my monthly income is less than £300 a month after housing costs. But if I was renting I could get £172 a week more. is that fair? I have cashed in my pension to cover our living costs , but it has run out. Covid 19 has destroyed my chance of a new job for the time being. I am 59 years old and have worked since I was 17. Please support my petition. I hope to be working soon, but many people will not be able too , protect their homes.
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    Created by Lawrence Brown
  • Reduce the Retirement age back to 65
    I am a 64 year old HGV Driver. I have to work another 2 years to retire. As I am approaching my 65 birthday I now need to have another medical at a cost of nearly £200 to extend my licence. If the retirement age was 65 I would retire in a few months and free up my job for someone else, this would help unenemployment and would be cheaper than Furlough payments.
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    Created by Peter Scott
  • Industrial injury Benefits
    This benefit should never be classed as earning as when working you still get and not taxed so at present if you have been award this due to a injury at work.. you have all taken back, so you don’t get anything and worse off and any paid should be refunded
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    Created by Anita Jayne
  • National Recognition for Prejudice and Oppression
    Events this year have sharpened our thoughts about the need to have a fuller debate about prejudice and oppression within society. The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted injustices within society but, more so, in our cultural psyche, which warn against innate and subliminal prejudice against many groups within society. As a teacher of History and Politics, I don't think dwelling on the relevance of statues (as important as that debate is to many), or playing tokenism with Black History Month, World Days etc. is enough. All groups in society who have experienced actual loss and abuse as a result of prejudice and oppression - not just in racial affairs, but every group who has felt shunned - need others to empathise and follow a path of 'allyship'. In doing so, we can begin to defeat inward cultural bias towards minority groups and all those who have suffered as a result of prejudice and oppression. British society rightly remembers its war dead and all those who fought for our freedoms against oppression and prejudice. It is time for British society to also mark those who have suffered in highlighting acts of prejudice and oppression - their own stories which are a central narrative to our history - in shaping not only a tolerant but, also, more accepting society. A society where we can all show the same solidarity we do every year on 11th of November as a mark of respect. This is why a structural change in how we commemorate our history is needed alongside Armistice Day, Holocaust Memorial Day and others. A place of commemoration is also needed. Thank you for signing.
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    Created by Patrick Murray
  • Save Co-Operative Bank Chatham Branch closure
    There are very branches of this bank in Kent and closing down this branch will reduce the diversity of banks within this part of Kent. It will remove customer choice and prevent local Co-op bank customers having the option for face to face contact banking within this area.
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    Created by Nicholas Alderson-Rice
  • Protect banking services in North East Fife
    North East Fife has had to put up with the systematic erosion of services by private companies, notably bank and post office branches, in recent years. This has got to stop. TSB has announced that 164 more of their branches will close with 900 jobs going with them. With only 3 TSB branches left in North East Fife - in Anstruther, Cupar and St Andrews, we cannot lose these services. In choosing to leave towns, companies like the TSB are only looking at the effects on their corporate balances and are completely ignoring the people who will be affected by these cuts - particularly their own, hardworking staff. Companies like the TSB, and RBS before them, need to understand the importance of their services, but also their presence, in these communities. Any decision to remove physical services and branches from North East Fife will have a detrimental effect on the people who live in the area and use these services. More long term, any withdrawal from these communities will also add large, vacant premises to the High Streets. In the aftermath of Covid and Brexit our High Streets will need support to recover and thrive. Abandoning them now will not aid these recovery efforts. Banking services must be secured in North East Fife, not eroded any further.
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    Created by Rhuaraidh Fleming Picture
  • Stop The St Stephen's street road changes
    New road changes will cause road blocking. Dangerous for other road users. Seriously affect taxi drivers income. Buses will have to reverse into road to get out of parking bays. Dangerous for pedestrians crossing road.
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    Created by Helen Betts
  • Reduce retirement age
    This allows for the flow of staff, with the current ages then no one will retire and the death in service figures will increase. It will also allow for vacancies to open up for school leavers and graduates so as to enable them to have spending power to get on the property market and buy goods which will also help the economy.
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    Created by Mark Travers
  • Home office should not keep applications undecided for more than the stipulated time frame.
    It is important to me because the application fees are high and the applicants end up not getting value for their money. Instead they tend to pay additional costs to get an immigration solicitor to chase the home office. This should not be the case. Let the services be free at all times at the point of delivery and this is only possible if these applications are dealt with within a reasonable time frame and not exceeding the stipulated time frame under any circumstances. If applications cannot be decided within the stipulated time frame or may take longer, my question is how long is longer? It is not specified. Is it 10years, 5 years, 6 months after exceeding the stipulated time frame? If applications remain undecided after 6months, there should be a specified time frame applicants should receive a response. This is a frustrating situation
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    Created by Anna Nsem-Nkongho
  • Save our Church St Mary's RC church Ratho Village
    Our village has grown to over 2,000 residents there is very limited transport for people of faith to go to any other church. It is a Beautiful Church which is over 150 years old survived through two world wars. Please help to save our church
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    Created by Bill Reid
  • Help the Game We Love Most
    This is our national sport; the game we all Watch and keep up to date with. The sport peaks our interest every day: weather it’s a World Cup final, a cold wet night on the first leg of a League Cup match, or the business end of the game -awaiting a much needed transfer to your club, in hope that the club will perform better the following season- the excitement never ends. COVID-19 has taken enough, it cannot erode the very foundations in which that excitement bares its roots!
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    Created by Martin Powell
  • Social Media age limit raised with online checks
    How important is your child’s well-being and mental health?? Upon watching /the social dilemma on Netflix (which I highly recommend) statistics show how mental health issues in children and young people have risen significantly since social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat & Twitter etc have entered our lives. We don’t let our children drink alcohol until the age of 18 as it is bad for their Health and can compromise their decisions yet we let our 13 year olds roam on social media sometimes with no time limits and no control over what they are doing, watching, speaking too or being influenced by. Things are leading to poor self esteem, anxiety, mood swings, tiredness, bullying, depression and more severely self harm and even suicide. Things need to change drastically now, let’s raise the age for all social media sites to 16 with online photo checks (as they do for alcohol, electric cigarettes etc) and help this generation have a brighter happy future. Please forward and share to all you know xx
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    Created by Joanna Smith