better treatment for women who misscarry.

by gemma

sepearate scanning areas in the hospital for women who have misscarried, its seems like a sick joke when you have lost your baby to be sent to sit in the maternity block for your scan to confirm the worst! to have to sit in a room full of pregnant women talking about how many weeks/months pregnant they are and weather its a boy/girl even tho you are happy for them it still kills you listening to it and thinking about your baby your never going to meet its terrible! surely women in my situation have felt the same and being in a different part of the hospital would help slightly!

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.

make it law that some football matches are available on free channels.

by Richard Garland

I 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.

stop describing members of the public who question the veracity of Anthropogenic Global Warming as climate change deniers.

by John Catley

The Prime Minister has chosen to give his full backing and support to the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming. That is his right as an individual and that right is part of the constitution of this country. The Prime Minister does not have the right to insult millions of British people by describing them as “deniers”, a particularly hateful and emotive insult, because they do not share his view. Recently Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, said “I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed.” In spite of this, and significant evidence to show that there is indeed much in doubt, the Prime Minister continues issue his insults.

There’s a difference between “I’m not sure if climate change is happening” and “It’s definitely not happening.” One is stating a feeling of uncertainty, and the other is outright denial – and when I say “denial” I don’t mean the psychological “I’m not listening la la la la” denial, I mean the literal denial. Most people labelled as “clime change deniers” aren’t raising questions about whether it’s going on or not – they’re outright saying it’s not happening. The label is apt.

allow self employed fathers to have the same rights to bond with their baby as employed fathers.

by Philippa Cunliffe

Currently employed mothers have 39 weeks paid Statutory Maternity Pay, self-employed mothers have the same – 39 weeks paid Maternity allowance. Employed fathers have 2 weeks paid paternity leave but self-employed fathers have no Paternity Allowance. This is very unfair as it means a lot of self-employed fathers cannot afford to spend time bonding with their new baby. Self-employed people pay tax just like employees, as well as often creating jobs, so why are they treated so unfairly?

People who aren’t self-employed are paid by their employers during time off, not by the government. I don’t see how that’s unfair, personally. If it were me I’d spend the nine months of the pregnancy putting money aside so I could afford to take a couple of weeks off, but that’s just me.

veto Iceland’s application to join the EU unless it refunds all money owed to the UK and the Netherlands.

by Simon Haigh

Iceland must repay the £2.3bn owed to British taxpayers which was loaned to the country by HMG following the failure of its banking system. Until the loan is repaid, the UK and Dutch governments must veto Iceland’s application to join the EU.

If every country with debts owed to another wasn’t allowed to get involved then the EU wouldn’t get anything done.

…Oh.

pressurise the Payments Council to reverse their decision to abolish cheque payments by 2018.

by Sue Cherry

Over 4 million cheque payments are made each day and many people not only prefer to pay for goods and services in this way it is the only way, other than cash, that some services can be paid for. Some of Britain’s most vulnerable people, including many elderly, disabled and housebound people, rely on cheque payments as a means of goods and service payment and will be greatly marginalised. Many small businesses, charities and local community organisations do not have electronic facilities for payment receipt and will be at risk.

One could argue that this is why they’re making the change in nine years’ time as opposed to, say, killing cheque payments overnight.

Oh dear, we have another “scrap the TV license” moron in our midsts. And this one is armed with misinformation! Let’s get this over with…

Scrap the BBC TV License.

by Mr Richard Moore

Why should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?

Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.

Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?

With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?

Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.

Support the scrappage of the BBC TV License, sign the petition!

Okay, let’s dissect this one, shall we?

Why should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?

Because the BBC is a public broadcasting service, and ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, Sky etc. are businesses supported by advertising.

Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.

Actually, haha, they don’t. What happens is this: BBC Worldwide, the business arm of the BBC, is given the rights to distribute the shows to other territories. What happens then is that BBC America has to bid for those rights, and if they succeed then they get the show. You probably don’t know this but until recently BBC America didn’t have the first-to-air rights to Doctor Who – the American SciFi Channel (now called SyFy) outbid them for the rights to series one through four, and they let those rights lapse this year for the one-off specials.

Additionally, BBC America (which, I need to reiterate, is a business much like ITV and British Sky Broadcasting) actually co-funds some BBC productions such as Robin Hood.

So, y’know. Research.

Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?

Again, this is stuff that is all handled by the BBC’s business arms and is not funded by the money they get from the TV license, you frog’s gusset.

With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?

Considering that television is a luxury item and not a utility, they could always put the TV in the loft if they can’t afford their license.

Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.

There is some debate about this, but once again it’s worth noting that ITV, Channel 4 etc. are supported by advertising. The BBC is not.

Thanks for playing.

Pay politicians and Government employees a fair wage.

by Alexander Petherick-Brian

A member of the Government should be there primarily for the benefit of the people – not their own wallet. We should pay Government employees (including civil servants, members of Parliament, etc) a wage not above the national average. This will encourage them to help increase average earnings, rather than increase their own paycheck.

Keep the greedy out of the government. “by the people, for people”

Basically, your argument is “Politicans make more money than us, and that’s not fair!”

scrap the plans to tax phone lines to subsidise other peoples broadband.

by Tony Humphreys

I request that the Government scraps any plans to add 50p a month tax to phone lines to subsidise further broadband roll out. It is wholly unfair to tax my phone line to pay for someone else’s broadband, and it is as simple as that. It is recognised that rural areas do suffer a slower connection and higher costs, but they have fantastic views, clean air and a safer environment – its a choice people have to live in the country – and a decision they take. Please see sense, and stop this poll tax – broadband is not a vital service.

We’ve gone over this before – it’s 50p. All that means is you get to yam one less Kit-Kat in your gob every month. Can you really be so hard-off that you can’t make do without that extra £6 a year?

create legislation to prevent Traffic Police from ’sniping’ in order to punish speeding drivers.

by Mr Timothy Tiernan

We believe that the practice of Police Officers hiding behind bushes or on bridges above roads etc is unfair and, especially with the latter, there can often be no way for the driver to confirm the speed he or she was driving (by seeing the read-out on the ‘Speed Gun’) before being issued with a fine. This requires the driver to take the Officer’s ‘word for it’ which is unfair and goes against their Human Rights. At the least, any evidence should be supplied to the driver before a fixed penalty notice is issued and enforced. We believe that Traffic Police should be a visible deterrent, not a hidden punishment and finance gathering system.

Surely the better, simpler solution is to not go over the speed limit. It’s really easy – you just take note of the posted speed limit, and then make sure your car doesn’t go above it.