I find it offensive that Police CCTV vans have a sign saying “Smile! You’re on CCTV” on the side of them. The implication is that the public are predisposed to committing crime and are only stopped from doing so because of the fear that they might be caught.

The vast majority of the population are not only law abiding, but go far beyond what is expected of them in order to make this country a pleasant place to live. The Police exist to serve us, not to treat us all as potential criminals.

I believe that these signs should be removed from all Police CCTV vans.

Many people in the uk are diagnosed with a terminal illness,They or their parents (if children) should receive a one off payment to allow them to fulfill a dream, a holiday for example.

Okay, I’m going to be very blunt, I’m speaking for millions of smokers when I say the tax rises are literally making tobacco inaccessible to people on low incomes. I’m not sure if that was the Governments agenda but It’s really making many people struggle.

I pay £6.02 for 20 of my cigarettes. Do you not think that is enough for the time being?

If tobacco sales stop, where will the government recieve its revenue? The ban on smoking inside pubs has nearly killed the pub industry.

Smokers cannot smoke indoors anymore, buying tobacco requires ID for those who look under 25 making underage tobacco consumption greatly reduced, what’s the problem?

Why does the government desperately feel the need to stop me from smoking? I’m fully aware of the risks, its written on every packet of cigarettes I purchase.

If the government feels so sour about people who smoke recieving free treatment from the NHS, ban smokers from recieving free medical care.

If smokers wish to pollute their bodies with carcinogenic substances that are destroying their health and nobody elses, thats our choice.

Petition for a Prayer Room at Birmingham Central Library

The new library building will symbolize what Birmingham is: a global city with a local heart.

Cultural destination The new library is designed to draw people from not only the local population, but from all over the world as visitors to Birmingham, a city reborn as a cultural destination. The Library of Birmingham is designed to be a place for the dissemination of ideas and information, a social heart of the city; a second home for Birmingham’s diverse community.

Scrap the TV licence for people on State Benefits such as Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and for those who are over 70 and on state pension.

Do we really need to close schools up and down the country just to run elections? Surely we could use other sites.

Crushing a convicted drunk driver’s car would remove the ability to keep using the car and ignore their punishment.

it will be great if you sign because i really care about African children

reduce the pressure indicated.

The EU and UN do nothing to help christians who are murdered over their faith and put in prison.

Action is needed to help the suffering church world wide. We need to address to the world leaders about what is going on behind closed doors.

You can not excuse what is happing out there this abusive behaviour towards human rights. EVERY VOICE COUNTS AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENT OVER THE TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANS. THIS IS GOING ON TORTURE, RAPE AND IMPRISONMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS.

WHERE IS THE JUSTICE TO SPEAK UP AND STAND UP FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN DISTRESS AND SCARED TO DO IT FOR THEMSELVES?

The members of the CATLIN ARCTIC SURVEY are in the Arctic to measure the thickness of the Ice Sheet to PROVE that “Man Made Climate Change” exists. There is no scientific basis that proves the existence of a “Man Made Climate Change”. The current theory that “Man Made” CO2 warms our climate is wrong, CO2 does NOT lead temperatures, it has already been scientifically proven that CO2 follows the Earth warming. The current warming from the past 50-60 years is from an active Sun and NOT Man.

Many new teenage drivers are blatently not to be trusted behind the wheel of a car. They drive ‘properly’ to pass their test, then drive without regard for road safety in their Corsas and Subaru Imprezas. A psychological test would help to weed out these individuals, prior to taking their test. A ‘fail’ would stop them taking their test for another year.

Introduce a license fee, payable per child, for people that want to have more than two children.

This would be purchased from the Government and the money raised would go to help the running of this country.

This limit upon families would help lower the UK’s massive population, and so encourage other countries to follow suit.

How often do you go into a store and see a food you think is suitable for vegetarians/vegans, yet the packaging does not provide a V sign? Or have you gone to find a food that you think is vegetarian/vegan, but but you do not know becuase you have a lack of knowledge of many of the additives’ specific names and does not bare the V sign? After signing this petition I hope that this situation is addressed

All persons looking after animals (both commercial and domestic) should be required to sit an exam to demonstrate they have sufficient knowledge of the animals in their charge to be able to look after them properly and to be responsible guardians.

The exams should be aimed at ensuring adequate care, not ensuring that particular groups can have particular pets e.g. 7 year old having small rodents. The exams should be relevant to the animal types concerned and the cost of the exam relative to the degree of knowledge required to be tested.

I propose that a national register of dogs is set up with mandatory registration for all dogs owned in the UK, and DNA records kept on all dogs. The purpose of this would be to prevent owners from allowing their dogs to foul in public places and not pick up the mess left behind by their pets. Environmental departments of the councils of the UK would have the power to take samples of dog mess left in public places for DNA testing and then issue fines to owners. Spot checks would also need to be carried out by vets and environmental wardens to ensure that dog owners had registered their dogs and had the appropriate paperwork in place.

Please find below my suggestion for fixing Britain’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 20 million people over 50 in the work force. – Pay them £1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Twenty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new British CAR. Twenty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.

4) They must send their kids to school / college /university – Crime rate fixed

5) Buy £50 of alcohol / tobacco a week there’s your money back in duty / tax etc

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back there falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

The general 30 mph speed limit is fine for most built up or residential areas.

20 mph is too slow for most roads.

Drivers should be encouraged to use their judgement, not constantly watch their speedometer.

If there are lots of pedestrians about, say near a school, then 20 is too fast. When the the road is quiet, 20 is too slow.

20 limits on road where 30 is allowed now would add 50% to journeys.

They would increase fuel consumption and pollution.

Lower limits encourage people to take chances and make it harder to predict what a vehicle will do.

Road safety and casualty reduction can be better improved by other measures.

If a 20 limit is really necessary, then this should be introduced on a individual case-by-case basis.

Speed limits should only be changed on an evidence-based analysis of accidents in the road in question, not an emotional reaction to a populist campaign.

As an equal rights country we should have rights to Holidays for religious days for all religions for example Eid and Diwali etc. There was a time when the police force had no blacks or asains but now there are many and actually want more. i think this partition is all fair for all who live here expecially those who were born here. For example a muslim born in britain should have rights to a holiday for his/her religious celebration,its ok for him to pay council tax, income tax national insurance etc but he doesnt get his rights as a british citizen. This is possible we know that and the government knows that and hopefully this will happen. Tust like the police force eventually accepted asains and blacks so will its government. All races all religions lets make this happen lets all have a annual holiday on our religious days. (Ammen…. Ameen… inshallah…..Hopefully with the will of god……)

Isn’t it daft to have aminimum wage then tax people? Seems to me this should be the tax threshold starting point. Increase tax on the higher paid once they earn over minimum wage. Many single people, and childless couples are on Min wage, this would increase their spending power, stimulate the economy.It would also reduce the amount of benefit agency staff and tax collectors..another saving!

Menstruation is a natural part of female biology and yet whenever women buy the essential products needed to hygienically deal with this process we are paying extra. This should not be the case. Bandages have no VAT and neither does contraception, so why do tampons or towels have to?

Petitions of this nature have already been made but without enough publicity they have been unheard and now are closed. Spread the word and get this message out there.

Under my idea, if “No Candidate” got the most votes in a constituency, a new election would he held in that constituency, but with none of the original candidates who received more than 10% (say) of the vote allowed to stand. The remaining (“small party” and “single issue”) candidates (who are an essential and colourful feature of our elections) would not have to pay another registration fee for the new election. The proposal would allow the electorate to have more control when non-local candidates are foisted upon them, as well as enfranchising many who currently feel disenfranchised by the choice of candidates available to them.

i feel that if alcohol is completly banned in the uk that the crime rate will descend rapidly and will be less of a drain on tax payers money for alcohollics to sit on state benfits and drink alcohol and the drunks on the streets who are offensive and abusive and this will be a problem of the past.

Are you fed up with Government receptions serving French Champagne, Chilean Merlot and Brazilian beers with Portuguese strawberries, French asparagus and apples and butter? Why are we so obsessed with sourcing food and drink as cheaply and as badly as possible? We must support British food and drink to the absolute exclusion of all other products and give this growing and important sector a boost and some pride in our food and drink culture.

Most telephone directories distributed throughout the United Kingdom are literally a waste of space. How often are these expensive books used by the the typical household? Quite apart from the costs of production and distribution which are borne by the consumer, whether wanted or not, there are the environmental costs of production and disposal. For most people, the information contained in these directories may be easily obtained elsewhere. For those people who do rely on paper directories, make such directories available on request.

people are breaking the laws of the highway code regarding parking issues on a daily basis and the police are reluctant to enforce the law.all these problems have come about due to changes in the law which have passed parking issues to local councils who are confused as to what action they can legally take.

i want to get rid of dettentions if this cannot be done then get rid of principals detentios this is the 21st century why should we cling on to 19th century inventions if we continue to issue detentions then children everywhere will hate to come to school and will not learn i think that better punishments should be used. not the age old trick of telling your students to come in a break lunch and after school.

It has been stated by ACPO that innocent people have nothing to fear from their DNA being retained even after acquittal. Since police officers must necessarily visit the scenes of crimes, it is reasonable that their DNA be added to the national DNA database and retained for 12 years after leaving the force (or indefinitely in the case of dismissal or resignation while under investigation for misconduct).

Any police officer not enrolled on the DNA database should be prevented from taking a DNA sample from a suspect, or accessing the database in the course of an investigation. This would be a reasonable safeguard against the use of a system by a police officer who clearly has no confidence in it.

I cannot see what the innocent have to fear from having their DNA recorded at birth. In fact I can see some benefits like settling paternity disputes for a start, an errant father could be tracked down and made to pay his dues!

A person might think twice about committing a crime if they know their DNA might bring them to book.

All secondary school students should not have to wear ties, blazers/jumpers, shirts smart trousers smart shoes etc. This is because we should be able to express ourselves through our clothing and also so we can all be different.

This petition is to have the VAT which is placed on motorcycle safety equipment reduced to zero. Currently all motorcycle safety equipment, that is helmets, gloves, boots, leather/Textile jackets/trousers/suits etc. are charged with 15% of VAT.

Should the Prime Minister reduce the cost of any CE approved equipment by this 15% he will be encouraging motorcycle to invest in their safety by wearing more protective clothing. Where as it is the choice by some, and this petition does not seek to change the law on required apparel, to wear little more protective than a helmet , others face the financial constraints of not being ale to afford good safety equipment.

This change will help the government move towards its target of reducing serious injury and death to motorcyclists by actively encouraging the use of CE approved equipment. The reduction in VAT revenue is negligible to the financial cost sayings to both health services and emotional cost to families.

Protect our skin Prime Minister.