Posted by Ben @ July 8th, 2010 7:55 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?,spelin an grammer — Tags: rich2020uk —
I feel the law on banning standing in football stadia should be scrapped, and the alternative safe standing terraces which are used widley in europe can then be introcuced.Why the contribution is important
Standing at football games is something that thousands of football fans feel passionately about, and in this day and age can be done in a safe manor. i.e the safe standing format by where each terrace has a barrier to prevent any kind of crush.
I’ve never seen someone so desperate to stand up for 90 solid minutes in my life. Also considering how larey the average British football fan can become do you really think it’s wise to put them in a position where other idiots could push them over or hurt them?
Also, “in a safe manor”? Ooh, so close.
Posted by Andrew @ July 3rd, 2010 5:44 pm. Filed under: Meta-petitioning,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?,Wait a minute... this isn't a petition!,We Petition The PM To Climb This Wall Of Text,Website News —
To better use taxpayers’ money, the government should close down all of its websites that function merely as talking shops, since they are a waste of server space and everyone’s time. Asking people what laws they want changed is an open invitation to waffle at length about things of which we have little understanding. All that happens is that people are conned into thinking they have a stake in the decision-making process. They don’t. This is a waste of everyone’s time.
Wouldn’t it be better if – instead of participating here – people went back to work and did something to help the economy?
Why is this idea important?
The economy is going down the tube and the government’s solution is to get random uneducated people to suggest or vote for new laws? People should go back to to work instead of surfing the net.
That’s right, guys and dolls, the brand new coalition petition submission… er… magician is here! (Since several months of pent-up crazy have been splurged into the site in one day, please excuse a few bumper-length posts.) Users now have the option to ‘rate’ and ‘comment on’ ideas rather than simply sign a petition, and users are asked ‘why is this idea important’, but other than that nothing has changed. Oh, except that the Conservatives don’t want to discuss what policy should be, merely how it should be implemented, and so all ideas must be submitted to one of three libertarian-friendly categories: “cutting business and third sector regulations”, “restoring civil liberties” and “repealing unnecessary laws”. All the ideas in this post are from the first category.
In some ways, it seems to be working. The entire first category will be made redundant if “AT” gets his/her/my way, and z3r010 is promoting the tax policy Cameron would if he thought he could get away with it…
Abolish every single regulation that exists. Here are just a few examples of the good things that abolishing regulations can do:
Abolish planning permission and state-controlled town planning
Town planning, as well as forcing businesses to move away from where they can best serve their customers, also raises the cost of housing. Redrow—a construction company—recently revealed that they spend more on planning permission than they do on bricks. Abolishing it might help us to create some housing that is actually affordable.
Abolishing the minimum wage
The majority of people do not have a problem with the minimum wage. However, I do. Raising the cost of labour is a burden on employers, many of whom are not big corporate enterprises “exploiting” poor people, but small businesses (the ones who all politicians claim to support). Introducing or increasing the minimum wage hurts people whose labour is worth less than what the minimum wage is. For an example, an employer wants to hire ten people at £2.50 an hour each; they cannot do that if there is a minimum wage of £5 an hour. Instead of hiring ten people, they will hire five. There is ample evidence to suggest that minimum wages hurt the poor. Youth unemployment is usually reported as higher than general unemployment. Why could this be? The answer is that young people have very few skills which justify a high wage. Because the law restricts young people from getting jobs at wages which justify their skills, they are priced out of the labour market. This is ethically wrong. If minimum wages destroy jobs, then so-called “living wages” are absolute destroyers of jobs. If you want unemployment to be low, abolish this regulation, the burdens of which fall on those who it is meant to help.
Abolishing anti-discrimination regulation
It sounds like such a good idea, doesn’t it? Without it, blacks, Jews and the Irish wouldn’t be allowed to enter any shop, because people are naturally racist and the state must use its force to stop this discrimination, right?
Wrong. Anti-discrimination laws are not necessary. Every time a business denies blacks, or Muslims, or any other minority group access to its services, it is only harming itself. Turning away customers who are willing to pay for their services means less money for the shopkeeper, or the baker, the butcher or greengrocer, or any businessman you can think of. This is called the free market’s “racist fee”. A racist shopkeeper who does not allow Muslims into his shop will lose out on the money those Muslims will over him.
Should we allow people the right to deny Muslims to their shops? Absolutely. Their business belongs to them and them only. They have the right to freedom of association – they must allow whomever they want (or don’t want) onto (or off) their property. As I have mentioned before, there is a “racist fee” in the free market for those who discriminate. Bigots go bust.
The real racists are trade unions and governments. It was government that enforced segregation and propped up slavery. It was the trade unions who were passionately opposed to the Davis-Beacon Act of 1931, with president of the American Federation of Labour saying that “coloured labour is being sought to demoralize wage rates”.
Why is this idea important?
The free market works best when there are no restrictions placed on it.
We can have zero unemployment if we stop forcing businesses to pay a “minimum wage” and force them to pay for National Insurance, which is a Ponzi scheme that must be abolished at once. (I really do want you to read this article by Lew Rockwell, explaining the evils of government intervention in the labour market.)
We can see our economy flourish if corporation tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax (among many other extremely burdensome taxes) are all abolished.
Remember: “the only “fair” is laissez-faire!”
Bring equality into the tax system with every person paying exactly the same amount of tax regardless of how much they earn.
Why is this idea important?
The tax system massively discriminates against the hard working and wealthy, it’s about time the poor paid their fair share rather than letting the rest of us subsidise them.
On the other hand, in good news for fans of liberal and authoritarian crazy, the category system appears to have been largely ignored when someone has an idea that doesn’t fit any of them. Observe:
Bring back the death Penalty for muder, rape and child sex offenders.
Why is this idea important?
These people cannot be rehabilated and are a danger to the rest of us, And its cheaper to execute them than pay for them to stay in prison
pchapman must be running a pretty messed-up company if this regulation is seriously impeding it.
IT JUST DELETED MY SURGESTION FOR NO REASON. IT TOOK ME HALF AN HOUR TO WRITE. IT CONTAINED NO OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AND WAS NOT AN EXPLOSSIVE POLITICAL TOPIC . SHAME ON YOU CON CON CON LIBS AND CON DOES NOT MEAN CONSEVITIVE IT MEANS TRICKED FOOLED
GET MR CLEGG TO PHONE ME [phone number]
Why is this idea important?
I REFER YOU TO THE QUESTION I MENTIONED SOME MOMENTS PREVIOUSLY.
Okay, let’s see what took MR. M. A. NICHOLLS (and/or grahamsonsett) a full half hour to write. I have highlighted the spelling errors:
My surgestion is about the right to roam. My post code is Scottish but I live in England, This is IMPORTANT as different contries have different laws. I have a small farm in England ,and several footpaths and bridal ways run through it. I agree that people should have the privelage to walk around and see the beauty of the contry side . However I appose that I have to pay nearly £100 in insurance for other people to do this, + anohter 1% in insurance tax increase to be implemented after the June budget. If people whish to do this they should be made to take out their own insurance. I should not be liable for the county councils footpaths. To call out a rescue helecopter would cost several hundred if not thousand of £s to launch and rescue. Most other types of out door enjoyment like sailing , it would be the responsibility of the boats owner to take out their own insurance. Why not hikers? , Today has become an American claim and sue culture, you see many adverts on the tv surgesting you should . Say if I was in somebodies garden stealing apples from their tree and fell and hurt my self , nothing would be done. However if someone was blackberry picking on my land and the same happened they would try sue me .THIS LAW IS A FARCE. In fact the only place you can be done for tresspassing in England is on a military base or a railway line which used to encure a 40 shillings fine.
BY the way LIB DEMS what happened to your fair, Local income tax system to replace the council tax, I did not hear anything about it in the run up to the general elections. Have you ditched the idea.
Why is this idea important?
My idea is fair , those who enjoy their hobby , in this case, walking in the country side should PAY their OWN INSURANCE , not me PAY THEIRS. The cost of other insurance is crippling me already. The gready insurance companies have hiked car insurance by 33% by rasing the excess from £50 to £150. Very stealth hike. TAX FAIR – INSURE FAIR. Thats all I ask.
Okay, so there are some teething troubles with the new website and/or MR. M. A. NICHOLLS’ literacy skills, but maybe there are some good ideas out there.
Why should criminals be incarcerated in prisons in this country.
We could buy land in Africa and put the offenders there.
Any criminal, who commits three prisonable offences within a two year period, not including the time they have spent in prison, will be sent there.
The cost of the airfare will be compensated by the cheaper cost of incarceration.Why is this idea important?
It solves the idea of lack of prison places without letting criminals off with the easy options.
Or maybe there aren’t.
The following idea isn’t perhaps crazy but I’m including it anyway for the insight into what hilarymillswilliams might think a “bank holiday” is:
Public sector workers still get 2.5 more bank holidays than the rest of the working population. They get days for Christmas and the Queen’s Birthday and 0.5 for Maundy Thursday. No one else in the private or 3rd sectors gets these. They are outdated and yet another example of how the public sector is out of step with everyone else.
Why is this idea important?
Any additional 2.5 days work from every public sector worker would improve productivity and help cope with the impact of fewer jobs. It’s also patently unfair that some sectors should have different rules to others.
This one, on the other hand, is 100% die-cast crazy
I think we should device a special taxation system for footballers. They should pay higher taxation if their teams lose matches. They get paid this large amount of money because they are supposed to be good footballers and if they failed to do so they should refund some of this money back as taxes.i.e if anybody did not supply a service which they were paid to supply, they should refund the money back. We can call it ‘pay as you play taxation’. This will really motivate them to train harder and try to perform well toI keep their wealth.If we did this here, the whole of Europe will follow. May be we could even extend the same concept to bankers and bosses of big organisations and we call it Performance Tax.
Why is this idea important?
Those players and managers earn obsene amount of money and they have no motivation at all to perform well. With this tax they will keep their money if they delvered and performed well. On the other hand if they played rubbish and their teams lost matches, they have to pay 80% tax on any earning above 1.5millions.They will just have to mange with this small amout of money.These taxes will return to serve their poor fans.
He’s also submitted a more general version of the same idea, but it seems like footballers are the main bane of his existence.
60 million people in UK. Say, 30 million work. 1p per week = 50p a year roughly.
£15 million per year to spend on charity.
£10 million for UK
£5 million for 3rd world.
Surely no one would object to 1p ? And, if they do, they can always opt out.
If the whole world did this, you would see an end to poverty.
Why is this idea important?
EVERY living being should have free access to clean water, sustainance, and education.
Congratulations, you’ve invented tax!
The DMCA “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” is so overbloated and obtuse, that the following circumstances could make you a criminal:
A) If you download a song off the internet that belongs to someone else, who can claim they have proprietorship.
B) If you download something off the internet that may have at one time belonged to someone else, because they can claim you have “infringed” them.
C) If you sell something that is similar to something else, and because it is similar a famous music artist/corporation can point at you and say “they broke the law”
D) Because the DMCA is a modern day bureaucratic bumbling of epic proportion, and rewards bad behavior while punishing good behavior.
E) It has so many restrictions that anyone on the internet could become a potential felon.
Why is this idea important?
People need to make it clear that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is not binding to everyone, since none of us agreed to it; and there should be more than one option to opt out just as anyone chooses to opt out of someone’s campaign or newsletter.
The standards set forth by DMCA should never be outright taken as law, or else all man is made a criminal by default. It is plainly the definition of stupidity to attack people using the DMCA as a sword to beat over the head of whoever they wish.
I disagree with several aspects of the DMCA, such as “being made a criminal if you download a song that belongs to someone else”, and would therefore like to “opt out” of this inconvenient law. Luckily, though, the DMCA is US law and doesn’t apply here.
Reform or repeal completely the Freedom of Information Act that allows access to details about the way organizations and individuals work. Only if certain criteria are met can a request be declined.
Why is this idea important?
In my experience in working in the public sector and related areas, many requests made under the FOI Act are mischievous – a trawl for information rather than a genuine need or requirement to gain access to information that is in the public interest.
In consequence, a lot of time and effort is expended in responding to such requests at the expense of getting on with the work itself.
When we should be concerned about getting more value for money out of the public sector, it would be extremely useful to help this by removing un-necessary obstacles to its achievement.
No.
This act protects all but the law abiding and tax paying people of this country.
Why is this idea important?
I pay tax to support the country, therefore my say is just as important as a eurocrat
No.
Stop the practice of changing the country’s clocks twice a year (from GMT to BST and back), by retaining GMT throughout the year.
Why is this idea important?
This idea is important because the bi-annual clock change is a huge, un-necessary burden, not only to industry but to each individual in the country.
Although it’s hard to quantify, the cost of changing from GMT to BST and back each year certainly amounts to hundreds of millions of pounds per annum and it includes:
- the time spent in changing each and every clock and watch in the UK
- the cost of re-scheduling computers’ overnight batch systems
- the cost of special timetables for transport systems
- the impact on national defences
- etc.
The benefits of changing the clocks are hard to identify!
Today the sun rose at 4:47 AM. Had we been on GMT at the time the sun would have risen at quarter to four in the morning, and set at twenty to nine in the evening. Everyone’s still up at ten and it’s pitch black, while it’s blazing away merrily for hours while we’re all still in bed. The disadvantages of this are easy to identify. If you want to fix the clocks, fix them to BST. Indeed, there’s a bill to do exactly this already, which you’d have discovered with even a modicum research.
This is the problem with these websites: the public have a valuable contribution to make but only if they put the leg-work in. CNMapletoft hasn’t, and nor has Mark here:
As things currently stand the Crown Prosecution Service has to authorise all charges before the police are allowed to prosecute. This creates an unecesarry and duplicate layer in decision making. Police sergeants and above should be allowed to authorise all charges, (save perhaps indictiable only – ie the most serious offences). Such officers are qualified by examination and by default will have significant experience. If it was a Custody Officer decision this would also provide an independent judgement (as defined by virtue of the Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984).
Such a proposal would allow the removal of CPS Direct, a massive organisation, costing millions per year. It would allow the CPS to then concentrate on prosecuting and restore some faith in our police service. it would also remove the nervousness of the CPS to only prosecute offences where they are almost certain to win at court (as created by virtue of their own KPI’s).
I would suggest a simple and effective suggestion which will save significant money and lead to a better society.
Why is this idea important?
The idea would reduce costs, increase efficiency and go some way to restoring the faith of the public in a system that is generally viewed as poor. In adittion it may help restore some faith internally within the police service, giving them the feeling that they are making a positive impact upon the society they serve by charging those responsible for crime.
So yes.
Next week, Restoring Civil Liberties and Repealing Unnecessary Laws. And a new background doodle.
Posted by Ben @ April 8th, 2010 5:33 pm. Filed under: Meta-petitioning,Not Government Business,Reject Rednesday,Rejected Petitions,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit! — Tags: Kimberley Ackerley, Mathew Nottingham, Mr R Hook —
We’re running a day late, I know. But there were some lovely rejected petitions last night. Who am I to deny you a show?
by Kimberley Ackerley (rejected)Where jobs are available British workers should be given preference over EU immigrants. These EU immigrants should only be given the jobs if no British citizens are eligible or available to take up the positions. Agencies such as 24-7 recruitment which mainly sign Polish immigrants should not be able to procure the jobs available unless it is proven that there are no British citizens available for the jobs.
This petition was rejected because “This petition presents opinion as fact.” Marvellous! Shall I go on? (more…)
Posted by Ben @ April 1st, 2010 6:59 pm. Filed under: Hang on -- This Should've Been Rejected,Not Government Business,The ePetition Team is a Confederacy of Dunces,You and What Army?,spelin an grammer — Tags: ERIC VARDON -ODONKOR —
by ERIC VARDON -ODONKORDear ,sir iam a soldier currently serving with the household calvary mounted regement.i have done so for 5yrs .early this year i went through some difficulties which made me to sign of from the army.later on i realised i had made a mistake and decided to withdraw my application but this has been refused by all ranks in my regement.the consequences of me leaving the army will be difficult for me and my family .i have two kids and one on the way ,am the only bread winner of my family .if i should leave the army now it would be very disastrous for me and my family.the reason they are giving is over manning in the british army.i know of peopl who were allowed to sign back on.i have about ten months left and hoe you could help me stay
Ignore the horrific spelling and grammar on this petition, as well as his sob story. He’s not the problem here. The problem is the ePetition team, who generally don’t authorise petitions relating to specific cases or personal circumstances. Why they decided to authorise this petition rather than reject it and send the guy an email telling him how bes to go about getting his problem resolved is beyond me.
Posted by Ben @ March 29th, 2010 11:26 pm. Filed under: Not Government Business,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: Paul Chillington —
by Paul Chillingtonmany sovereign states within the eu appear not to adhere to basic tenants of human rights/equal opportunities and often abuse their own judicial infrastructures to the benefit of family, friends and associates. This often occurs at the detriment of a third party, often being a british citizen who has relocated to an eu country to reside and pay into that countries economy either through business/taxes,property or skill. When these countries abuse the rights of british citizens blatantly and illegally, by use of a system which is not transparent , accountable or regulated independently, there should be an avenue open for obvious cases of corruption/nepotism to be addressed outside the normal agreed and accepted avenues, such as exhausting the appeals procedure of that country before being eligible to approach the eu court for breach of human rights and other rights. In reality expat victims have not the time/money to follow these procedures resulting in action not being pursued.
Maybe it’s just me (as is occasionally the case with some of the petitions I share) but I don’t really think this is any of the British government’s business.
Posted by Ben @ March 26th, 2010 11:02 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,Look at me! I'm doing Politics!,Not Government Business,This Is What We're Outraged At This Week,What A Dick,What A Load Of Bankers — Tags: jeff kelland —
by jeff kellandSupport BA Cabin Crew Staff
It’s one thing to ask the British government to step in and help out during an industrial strike (which they can’t do anyway), but turning it into a political statement about last year’s bank bailout? Wow, Jeff. You’s a dick.
Posted by Ben @ March 23rd, 2010 5:19 pm. Filed under: Anything that passes the spellchecker must be what I meant,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?,spelin an grammer — Tags: Mr Tim Farr of Designex Cabinets Ltd —
by Mr Tim Farr of Designex Cabinets LtdWe should make an example of Sir Alex Ferguson by stripping him of his knigthood as his behavior is totally unacceptable for a man in his posistion. After all he won his knighthood for his contribution to British sport but yet he continues to conduct himself in an unsporting manor while using his knighthood to bully those around him to his advantage. He should be a role model to so many but only succeeds in being a shocking influence especially to the young. Finally he needs to learn how to chew with his mouth closed. A disgrace of a man not worthy of his Knighthood.
Chewing with his mouth open? He’s history’s greatest monster!
Posted by Ben @ March 8th, 2010 9:33 pm. Filed under: I Want To Watch Sports For Free,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: Richard Garland —
I’ll never get tired of using lyrics from Adam & Joe’s “Football Song” as the title for petitions to do with football. Anyway, here’s a self-entitled whinging bastard’s bastard’s bastard.
by Richard GarlandI think it’s a disgrace that to watch the likes of the English Premier League football matches, that we have to pay a ridiculous fee to a large corporation. I’m not saying that every match should be free, but on average there’s mostly at least ten matches a week in the Premiership, why can’t even one of those matches be given to a free channel? It’s ridiculous that certain companies appear to have a monopoly on this, why can’t the government intervene, and tell these companies to either stop being so tight or face sanctions? It’s simply nothing short of price fixing because they know fine well there’s no competition. Football should be for everyone.
Posted by Andrew @ March 7th, 2010 6:14 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Anything I Want Should Be Free,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Just Like That!,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Not Government Business,Reject Rednesday — Tags: george bryans, graham giles, Miss Bethany Gough, Mr Harry Jackson, Mr Nicholas Evanns, Mr Paul Mcilavey of UK Independence Party, Mr Philip Wailing, Mr Tommy Grimshaw —
by graham giles (rejected)We are fed up with politicians not answering a simple yes or no to a petition.
This petition has been rejected.
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Posted by Ben @ February 26th, 2010 6:25 am. Filed under: I AM TALKING!,Rejected Petitions,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?,spelin an grammer — Tags: Billy Roberts of fight for united —
by Billy Roberts of fight for united (rejected)this petition is on behalf of all manchester united supporters to try get malcolm glazer out of manchester united football club as he has bought the club with borrowed money which leaves the club having to pay massive interest rates talks of selling old trafford and the carrington training complex and its only time before we have to sell our best players somethig has to be done and fast GLAZER OUT LUHG
It’s funny if you read “GLAZER OUT” in the voice of Cole from Scrubs season nine. “Glazer… owtt!“
Posted by Ben @ February 23rd, 2010 3:51 am. Filed under: Not Government Business,Nothing Should Ever Change!,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,We're British, Dammit! — Tags: Robin Hodge —
by Robin HodgeThe team receives its funding from the UK Government, and UK athletics bodies. It receives funding from UK Lottery funds.It flies the UK flag – not a GB one. It’s time it had a rethink and changed the name to Team UK.
Here are the Google Image Search results for “United Kingdom flag”, and here are the Google Image Search results for “Great Britain flag”. Thanks for playing.
Posted by Ben @ February 11th, 2010 8:50 pm. Filed under: I Want To Watch Sports For Free,That'd Be Nice,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: Patrick Hackett —
by Patrick HackettI think that the government should put a limit on the number of football tickets sold to executive members of football clubs, as at the moment most tickets to cup finals are being sold to executives, who have no real support for the club, and real fans of the clubs are getting no opportunity to attend these matches.
This is important!