The tradition of public houses in England dates back centuries. They play a vital role in social cohesion and the relaxation and de-stressing of the majority of people. Health studies show that a Type A personality, an inability to release stress, is a greater predictor of cancer than smoking. If the unintended consequence of the smoking ban is the loss of this vital safety valve the overall health of the nation may suffer.
It is a simple matter of legislation to achieve the benefits of non smoking and the benefits of the public house by offering a choice, a basic human right, to be staffed and frequented by those who choose to be there.
The Department of health’s figures on which the government supports its legislation are highly misleading. They focus on the benefits of compliance and disregard the psychological and social health benefits of the public house.

- 98% compliance only means we abide by the law.
- 76% of people in support (and even 55% of
smokers in support); This suggests 55% of smokers support the law while only 21% (76% – 55%) of non smokers do; a highly dubious finding.
- 87 % of businesses said …. only means the public abide by the law.

In view of the government’s recent re direction of tax payers money
I would like part of my tax payers money to ensure that National team sport can be seen on terrestrial TV.
British sport should be viewable to all in Britain. Our children deserve it.
Viewing sport in this country should not be elitist

We the undersigned demand the right to test each Taser on each individual police officer and the Home Secretary before each weapon is released to a FULLY TRAINED officer. We further demand that all officers to whom these weapons are released are fully trained to handle these firearms in order to avoid the abuses we have already seen both in this country and others where they are used. This is in order to reduce the demand for release of these weapons to under-trained and untrustworthy police officers by a Home Secretary who is never likely to be on the receiving end of one unlike perfectly law abiding members of the public who are constantly at threat from under-trained, lazy, or generally uncaring and incompetent police officers. This is not to defame all police officers, but power leads to abuse – it is a fact, and the public need protecting.

this is going to be epic fail .

It must be stopped!

This version of the song is a disgrace to the word “music”. The whole programme has proved itself to be a vehicle in the destruction of credible music. Music stores should be forced to replace the above named version with copies of more credible versions, to include, but not limited to those by Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and John Cale.

We are, the celtic people, are tired of living under the Tyranny of the Queen and her goverment, we want to be free like we once were. We Want a Free Scotland, a Free Wales and a United Ireland, and wont stop until we have it!

Due to the spirit of christmas vanashing we might as well make a token gesture every leap year. With a ban on decorations any where before the 14th December , especially in retail. We can then return to once a year when the season of good will and not commerce is recognized . Let’s kick the mighty £ out of Christmas.

It has come to our attention that the cessation of “the Game” shall only come into effect once the prime minister announces this on national television… As foretold by the prophecy handed down to us throughout the ages by the nameless ones.
Until then the disruption and frustration of near certain loss shall continue.

Sceintific discoveries are now uncovering a link between psyche and disease. As this link becomes more apparent the government policy of using cigarette packets to advertise and promote disease will be recognised as misguided.

Clearly, with a vote so resoundingly against Manchester’s proposed congestion charge, those who supported the yes campaign and the millions of pounds of wasted public money on the referendum should be held accountable. They are evidently so out of touch with the people they purportedly represent to deserve being removed from office.

this petition is to try and stop retailers opening on boxing day

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to do everything in his power to exercise justice for responsible pensioners who verifiably paid their statutory dues during the working life through income tax, national insurance contributions, SERPS or private pension, but who are currently denied access to council tax relief, rent allowance and cold weather payments.

This petition recognises that the government exercises a threshold for access to social security benefits but urges the Prime Minister to review the existing ceiling in respect of responsible pensioners in the light of the spiralling cost of living and the hardship it is inflicting on these marginalised senior citizens who, having made voluntary provision for retirement, are now increasingly obliged to resort to using meagre savings to meet their statutory obligations.

This petition further urges the Prime Minister to consider exempting marginalised pensioners in their seventies, eighties and beyond from paying council tax.

Allowing anyone to grow hemp for food would benefit the enviroment and health of the nation also growing hemp on unused land would reduce or slow down global warming

As a business man, having run my own business for 20 years. I know for certain if v.a.t was none existant the cost of living, would be reduced dramactically. This would then kick start the economy as average working class people would have more money in their pockets. Thus making the public more confident to borrow and spend. In my opinion if this is not done immediatley the country will be in the biggest recession since the 1920′s. please abolish v.a.t for up to 1 year and then bring it back in at around 5% to be increased up to around 10% in late 2010

to save Harmaondsworth cementery from the third runway and let our loved ones rest in peice. why do this to such a nice quite area why ruin a peice of History and why distroy peoples lives just leave it alone

When I wish to travel, e.g. to Scotland or to the Pyrenees, I find that it is much cheaper by plane than by rail. I understand that this is because there is no fuel duty or VAT on aviation fuel.

Please level the playing field so we can afford to travel by the most environmentally friendly means!

As the only option for law-abiding citizens who have no shame in wanting to pursue a certain path, alcohol does more harm than good. It costs families, individuals, their friends and lovers, the NHS so much.

The well respected adage that ‘everything in moderation’ is ok, is not possible when there is only one option. It is best to go one way or another, and not sit on the fence.

Certain people will never change. That’s life and it’s their chosen course, how they choose in their minds to live it to the full.

I believe that the problem will never conveniently disappear until we go one way or another, and that as we seem so intent on going one way then we should put our hearts where our words are and see what happens.

Let’s see how certain folk react when deprived of their drug of choice. Will they all get fat on bacon butties? Will they turn to shrooms or something even harder? Good people are suffering because they are only free to indulge in one thing, and the issue is never going to disappear as long as that thing remains freely available alongside the prohibition of all else.

As a gay man i think it would be nice to see cartoon makers creat gay / lesbian cartoon’s on children’s t.v as the goverment are wanting us all to be more politically correct. the makers of television progams ie emmerdale farm and coronation street have bought is gay actor’s

Currently veterinary surgeries charge exhorbitant fees for drugs, in some cases more than twice the price these can be obtained through the internet. Vets have now begun to charge for prescriptions in line with this Government lifting the ban on charging, leaving consumers in a trapped position of having either to pay for massively over-priced drugs, or buying from the internet AND having to pay a vet extra costs

Pursuant to that law, provision must be made that every householder of old housing stock in GB & NI be given the sum of £1,500 towards the purchase and installation costs (owners of multiple houses will only be paid the gratuity once to keep them in line with single property households) of installing said windmills. Owners of apartment blocks must install windmills of sufficient power to run the entire block of apartments, they will be paid a proportion of their set-up cost. Local councils and housing associations will have to comply with this law, by installing windmills on all of their properties, they will receive government grants to cover their set-up costs also. Where a house holder is an elderly disabled person or couple, the full cost of installing a windmill on their property should be born by the DWP. 2020 should be the target for completion of this scheme.

The large scale expansion of many High Street Grocers has, and is still having, a devastating effect on many small independent businesses. Our High Street are on the verge of complete meltdown. An alternative approach would be to control or restrict what a particular retailer is allowed to sell. For example would there be wider benefits it supermarkets were not able to retail alcohol products and to buy such products you went to a specialist retailer that only sold alcohol. There are many examples of where control can deliver significant and wider benefits. We seriously need to address the preditory tactics laws to protect the wider business community.

Many people don’t work but get their rents and council tax paid plus receive other benefits. I want all unemployed people to get income support plus a housing allowance of fifty pounds per week if they don’t live in rented accomodation but have a mortgage. Rent money paid to the unemployed at the moment pays off the landlords mortgage and this should be capped at a fair level to encourage work. I live in a leasehold flat and get no help with service charges in times of unemployement – the housing allowance would help pay these charges and stop me from facing court action.

Given the condition of the roads, not all the taxes collected for the purpose of road repairs, “Road Tax” is being used. Every driver knows when they almost wreck their suspension on a daily bases they are overpaying for the upkeep off the roads. It is shameful the UK Government are taxing motorist to such an extent while funding private company’s bad securities.

Under the current system, a litre of petrol has levels of duty placed on it and then VAT is applied like any other good. This means that in effect people are paying tax on tax. This is unjust and unfair. Instead the duty should be applied after the VAT is applied to the undutied petrol. This should reduce the price of petrol by quite a lot.

Action needs to be taken against Mr Stringer for his outrageous claim that dyslexia doesn’t exist.

Mr Stringer describes dyslexia as a "cruel fiction" that should be consigned to the "dustbin of history". He believes the reason many children cannot read and write properly is that the wrong teaching methods are used.

Unfortunately, if he researched dyslexia he would have found out that it is a lot more then just "not being able to read or write" You can be the most intelligent person in the world, but with dyslexia you just need a supporting hand to help you organise muddled thinking, something which is most definitely not due to “bad teaching”

How on earth can he state that dyslexia doesn’t exist when he is used to interpreting things one way, used to seeing things one way?

Tasha is awesome, she needs to be a moderator.

Marketing folk seem determined to ruin classic confectionary / chocolates by renaming them to ostensibly make them more easy to understand. Or something. It defies logic. It’s stupid. Please stop this.

‘The noisette triangle’ is now ‘the green one’. Why isn’t the new Audi R8 called ‘the fast one’? Why isn’t an old English sheepdog called ‘the fluffy one’?

It’s stupid, that’s why. Bring back the old names.

And don’t even get me started on Cadbury removing crunchies from Heroes. That’s offensive.

Now that mop-head Jeremy Clarkson has been seen assulting Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You, with a deadly weapon (namely a pen), isn’t it about time that these obviously dangerous writing implements were banned.

I petition the prime minister to ban the building of skyscrapers in London.
London is packed full of beautiful pieces of traditional grand British architecture and to ruin that with building a tall glass box I think is wrong and not supporting the traditional heritage of our great country.
When people want to see skyscrapers they go to New York or Chicago when people want to see grand pieces of traditional European architecture on the grandest scales they come to London or go to Paris.
I understand that they are needed for the financial sector but are they?
London still manages to be one of the biggest financial centres in the world with a relatively low skyline that provides us with a beautiful view of our ancient historic capital city.

The Union Jack has stood for 200 years, DON’T CHANGE IT NOW!

Marriage is making a solemn vow by two people between man and God to live together till death. Therefore it should be for life. If a person knowingly marries another through deception, and it is found out that there was a hidden agenda and achieve British status however, long when it is discovered the status should be removed from the person and then deported.

Ryde council tax UP 6%. Even though house prices have fallen?!

We ask that there be less rules to get a job. The requirements take too many months to go through before a position can be filled. Such as Social Work. This causes too many vacancies. Too much unemployment for those waiting to get a job. Too much burdon on benefits. Too much danger for unhelped clients who can only get agancy assistance. Barbara Ross – Social Scientist – Harmony Care Markets

In its time this store has been the back bone of the musicians and music lovers alike, the staff have been instrumental in creating and cultivating exciting events and concerts and must be kept open.Don’t let local independant record shops be pushed out by bigger shops just because its more financially viable! It shuts in February, don’t let that happen!

Many people are using the British freedom of demonstration to riot and loot. Many of these people have no loyalty to Britain and show this by flying foreign flags. To stop liberty’s being taken I suggest that anyone flying a foreign flag should face breach of the peace charges.

The amount of serious homophobic bullying and abuse going on in our schools is out of order,

As a support member of stonewall I have heard the cases of young teens wanting to end their lives at such a young age due to the torment they get from other teens at school and teachers are not doing anything about this. The United nations has demanded something to be done about this issue last year.

its time for your government to protect these children and bring in tough messures to try and prevent this abuse going on

not only does it mentally scar them in later life but the effects on their education and well being is being is a serious issue and a call for action,

In winter daylight is short and if a school finishes at 3:15 there is no time for the pupils to go out and relax with peers. In the summer it sometimes get really hot and pupils get restless and can’t consentrate from 3 o’clock onwards. Signing this petition will give school pupils a more comfertable day in school.

As a hard working graduate professional I should be able to afford to purchase a single bedroom flat. Instead the influx of rich and lazy landlords have bought up every suitable property and caused the ridiculous rise in housing prices. We can use the current slump as a new start and reignite the housing market while giving less wealthy people a chance on the housing ladder. Stepping stones aren’t enough!

To protect UK manufacturing jobs and the recession hit motor industry from complete collapse the Government must reduce the level of VAT on the sale of all new motor vehicles manufactured in the UK to 1%. This reduction must be fairly offered across the board to all vehicles regardless of engine size.

To avoid potential deflation while buyers wait for the reduction in the VAT payable the reduction must be backdated to January 1st 2009.

The reduction in the VAT burden on consumers is cheaper than paying for tens of thousands of people out of work claiming benefits and the collapse of the remaining manufacturing sector in the UK.

This reduction will demonstrate the Government is serious about protecting jobs and industry.

Hospital parking fees are nothing more then a tax on the sick. Many hospitals are situated out of town centres and the only way to reach them is by car. The parking fees are unnecessary and extortionately high in this economic climate. We urge the government to either lower hospital parking fees or scrap them completely.

Woolworth’s is one of the last remaining retail trading stores is part of our British Culture.
It’s what good old Britain stood for.
What is happening to the country forget the banks forget the stock market it’s only people in jobs that keep the economy alive.
No Jobs = no one buying cars or houses or high street spending, enough is enough act now and sign this petition. I DON’T THINK ANYONE UNDERSTANDS THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECT THIS WILL HAVE ON SMALL TOWNS LOSING A KEY RETAIL PLAYER.
The impact on towns such as Leominster, Herefordshire how attractive will some of these towns be when its gone!!!

We at the 28hr day party herby petition the Prime Minister to enforce a 28 hour day with an immediate effect. The people of this fair isle require more sleep and ‘ rest time ‘. Maybe 24hrs in a day was fine in the 1950′s when commerce wasn’t as fast moving and demands so great. However ‘ times change ‘. Making this radical move will also help you. So help others and at the same time help yourself and they will help everyone help each other through times of help.

We await your response

The 28hr a day Party

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We as European Playstation Network users believe that we are being treated unfairly and dismissively compared to the US and Asia, in terms of PSN content and more specifically in the on-line application Playstation Home.

SCEE should be providing a better service in terms of content and additions to Playstation Home instead of adding items now and again, and charging us heavily for them. The US and ASIA versions of Home have much more locations at their disposal. SCEE has provided a substantial amount of broken promises, and let us down many a time.

All we ask, is that we receive our fair share of PSN content in and outside of Home, to rival that of our friends in the US and ASIA.

The head of the Childrens Oxford Dictionary has decided that words like:nun, christian ,vicar,pew,bishop,monk,aisle, carol are no longer required in the book.The reason was that people don’t go to church as much. This is not acceptable and believe that all children should have the right to learn. Learning should not be about whether people attend church or not. Please sign if you want these words back in. Thank you

We would like to see civil service brought back for all 18 year olds, as we belive this would teach the younger more respect, and make them more civilised in the community. It will also make them more disciplined and make them morally stronger within the community.
So we believe all teenagers, except those with disabilities, should be made to join the Raf, Army, or Navy when they leave school.

The resolution of the current financial crisis and our future competitiveness as an economic power rely on society being more of a meritocracy, rewarding those who put the most in to our society.

All elections to have an entry added that says “none of the above”. This would allow those of us disillusioned by our choices of representatives to vote clearly and explicitly.

When we do not want to vote for one party we do not need to vote for “the other party” to express the negative, instead we can vote for “none of the above” meaning that we don’t like any of the options better than none.

While proportional representation has some democratic merits it tends to favour stagnation over change. If we feel there is no need for change we can vote for “none of the above”.

The proposal is that those who vote but choose “none of the above” can be counted as well as those who choose not to vote and these figures can be shown along side the highest votes thereby showing just how popular or unpopular the elected person is.

This should mean that any would-be-politicians need to come up with suggestions, words and/or promises that are more believable than “none of the above”. This changes the emphasis from the voter being to blame for not voting to the politician needing more popular policies.

It seems there is no courtesy these days when people apply for jobs and do not get a response back. It does not take five seconds to write a standard letter back to the person and tell them yes or no – without the applicant having to wait ages just to get a response.

I and others find as commuters we are regularly having to stand up and travel on trains due to insufficient seat availbility. The train companies do not seem to be doing anything about it. We would like the train companies not to be able to charge more than one third of the normal fare for standing passengers that are being ripped off from high fares and unable to travel in comfort on the trains.

This is a serious petition and not intended to be humorous. Life should mean life for all murderers, rapists, paedophiles etc. I propose however that televised gladiatorial matches should be created for the prisoners to fight in. For every victory they earn 1 day off their sentence. The victim/victims family get to choose how the loser is punished. Proceeds from the matches go to victim support, hospitals, education and science only.

We feel that this country has gone OTT in its attitude to smoking. We have accepted the smoking ban in public places with very little problems – probably because as a group we have great consideration for others. But how much further is this persecution going to go – will it be soon any films showing people smoking will not be allowed to be screened on TV. Will non-smokers not be allowed to see great films such as the Guns of Navarone.

To reveal the identity of The Stig (as seen on TV show Top Gear). The identity of idols should not be concealed.

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I believe it’s about time we had Wrestlemania in the UK or ATLEAST a PPV, over the last few years the popularity of WWE in the UK has soared recently announcing record attendance and profit for their UK tour. I think they could start giving us something more though. We need to start a petition to get their attention to show that we actually want it here. The last mania brought a record $50 million us dollars to their economy

Government should have abolished this tax in 1997, nevertheless it makes excuses for not doing so now, such as the recent reduction in Oil prices. In fact they’ve also used the reduction of VAT as an excuse for increasing fuel duty by 2p (which they said in November they’d forego). Mindful of their failures to control spending however, rationing tax reductions is the least they can do. Since the DVLA holds all records of private cars then they could easily issue a ration book or ‘smart card’ (by recorded delivery) so that individuals could get at least 1500 litres of fuel each year without paying this extra tax. It will also encourage people to replace ‘gas guzzlers’ with more economic vehicles, in order to make the fuel go further. This would be in keeping with the tax incentive for CO2 emmissions which also should have been in place for decades. The real problems with CO2 is that manufacturers have failed to use new technology to deliver Hydrogen cars sooner because they say Government didn’t incentivise this. They should have done it themselves as a moral duty under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

ART THERAPY equals SELF ESTEEM.
Presently I am seeking funding to be able to offer my art classes to people with learning difficulties. I would like to be able to pay for a venue, support workers, user transport, and my time to be able to offer free classes to centres for people with special needs. I have a venue that I could use, but need some funding to set it up.Presently I am working at Centre 404 in Camden Road in Holloway with several groups; children, teens and adults with learning difficulties,I would like to able to expand my operation. I have worked previously at the Camden Society and the City Lit. The value of art and music therapy is of tremendous use to individuals in assisting them with communication skills, the expression of emotions and as a way of developing teamwork, motor skills, eye hand co-ordination and ultimately self-esteem. I have designed a series of fun, easy participation art classes. I am open to any suggestion that you may be able to offer to raise funding for this very worthwhile venture.Yours sincerely GERRY LAFFY 07986-376844
gtheartist84@hotmail.com

the greeks have been totally pining for a war with the UK- behaving arrogantly, being disruptive in the EU… the list goes on. I suggest that Gordon Brown declares war on Greece to show them the consequences of messing with the UK.

Government tax us too much, they take advantage of the fact they have all this money and so as a way of paying back all taxes to be reduce to 1% or less. We deserve to treated fairly.

Unwanted faxes offering goods and services that continually come through on fax machines waste time and paper when industry is trying to cut costs. Unnecessary wastage of paper and fax machine use in environmentally unfriendly, wasting resources and adding to glabal warming.

We believe that no two murders are the same, and cannot be classed under one offence. We believe in degrees of murder reflecting the severity of the offence. We also believe that the death penalty must be reintroduced ASAP for first-degree murder, as it is a complete nonsense to keep people in jail for "life" for such heinous crimes.

This is the peoples petition, since people are the true directors of the NHS, and change can only come through them. By exposing our stories and concerns we can hope for true reformation of this system once and for all. Please sign this petition to let The Goverment know that the people want to run their own healthcare service, and care deeply for it.

Thank you.

To base national policy on politicised opinions from the IPCC is folly.
CO2 is an essential trace gas for human existence , not a pollutant.
As is being proved by the continual increase in CO2 levels, whilst temerature levels decrease, there is no relation between the two.
Couple this with the discredited "Hockey stick" in all its incarnations , the truth about the true aim of so called environmental policies is being exposed as taxation , nothing else.

Thousands of e-petitons are signed on this database. Do you think the government takes notice of them? Probably not. Legitimate and successful e-petitions should be voted on prior to the budget and then brought in as a government action and made law.