The United Kingdom claims to protect freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, but this is increasingly being put to the test by various legislation introduced and proposed, including Equality and Diversity legislation, and a proposed Coroners and Justice Bill. Recent cases such as Reigstrar Lillian Ladele, to conduct Civil Partnership Ceremonies (CPCs) and Deputy Registrar Ms Davies in Islington, dropped from her post as Deputy Registrar to receptionist for refusing to work in a way which violated her conscience as a Christian, are in danger of becoming the norm. When orthodox religious opinion on sexual orientation at work and various other ethics, are no longer tolerated by the State in the public and private life of its citizens, and a government fails to see the point of a free speech clause in Bills currently before Parliament that would protect those who hold such views, all citizens everywhere should be alarmed. Everyone who cares about true freedom and open democracy, one with a diversity of opinions in society should be extremely concerned by the way our society is being led without public concensus.

I think that jury service should be offered to people, but they should have the option of opting out. I am surprised that the state has such mediaeval powers, i would have thought that the human rights act would have nullified such a power.

It is absurd that upon the birth of a fourth child, myself and my partner’s housing benefit dropped due to the increased Child Tax Credits. I work a 44 hour week and all that has happened, rather than receive increased help with the new addition to the family, is that the increase in Tax Credits has been negated by the decrease in Housing Benefit, meaning our net household wealth has stayed the same, with a further mouth to feed. Child Tax Credits should be exempt from being counted as income for the purposes of Housing Benefit etc.

Currently VAT on children’s clothing is charged for ages 14+. If like us you have a child who has always been off the growth chart since birth and is currently age 10, but having to wear men’s clothing and shoes, then you too will be having to pay VAT on clothing for a child.
As a general rule our children are becoming larger/taller than before and this current guideline is outdated.
It would be comforting to know that our Government took the age of childhood seriously and decided that a child is a child whilst being dependent upon its parents (and that children’s clothes are still not luxury items).

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

For example if you get 8 years you do 8 years not 4 eyars on good behavour BUT you can do 4 years on good behaviour if you join the army on special conditions fight for our country.

How can we improve both ourselves and our country when we get an education from university but end up with a huge debt. Its worse for the mature student who has no hope in getting a job but goes back to university to get a degree therefore making thmselves more employable. Teenagers dont stand a chance in life because all they will have is a degree and a load of debt.

I have discovered that approx 4% of my council tax bill goes towards paying for council employees pension funds.

As a pensioner struggling to live on a state pension, I believe this is totally unnacceptable

Not many people have a large deposit or if any deposit to put towards a house, i think you will have many prople not being able to buy there own home which in this day and age is wrong, eveyone should have the right to have there own home keeping 100% morgages helps so many people get on the property ladder and without them many many poeple will suffer!!

In the current financial climate we believe that the banks should be forced to stop charging customers for going overdrawn and missing direct debit payments. The fact that public funds are being used to keep the banks going should allow the government to stop such charges. This will help the thousands of people who are now struggling to make ends meet and stop people from being unfairly punished.

Who thinks that some fruit such as are too expensive and it should go down?

Shrove Tuesday and Guy Fawkes Night are to one and all the highlights of the Gregorian calendar. On no other night do the British public come together in such jovial harmony. Therefore we believe it is only right that these occasions gain the respect they deserve and are each awarded a day of national holiday to mark the passing of two truly British events.

Central and Local Government forms associated with Equal Opportunity Monitoring require the applicant to indicate their ethnic origin with numerous choices with the exception of ‘White English’, as the basic form is printed in English and approved by the English Parliament in England will Government ensure that ‘White English’ as a category is included on all future forms in the interest of Equal Opportunity Monitoring?

I would like to ask the prime minister to abolish parking fees on meterd parking places everywhere in the UK. This would encourage people to come back to the city centres and begin shopping again. Parking fees for short trips into town centres only serve to discourage shoppers bothering at all. This would have a greater effect on kickstarting consumer spending than the 2.5% reduction in the VAT rate at a much lower cost. Most shoppers hate paying for parking. Allow everyone a maximum of 2hours with the same fines for exceeding the time limit. This would have the effect of increasing the “turnover” of shoppers and thereby increase consumer spending and perhaps add a little to the “kickstart” that the economy so badly needs. Sometimes it’s the little changes that make the big difference and so often go overlooked.

Jade Goody’s battle has caused a 20% increase in cancer screening. Clearly the NHS is not getting through to women, so Jade’s Law would require NHS surgeries to telephone all women in their practice to explain the importantance of being screened.

We the undersigned request the Prime Minister to repeal the Trinitarian Act of 1812. Thank you.

Soon a film called Corpus Christi will be shown in America. Christians do not want it shown here as it represents Jesus and his desciples as homosexuals. This is blasphemy. The Bible states clearly that homosexuality is an abomination. Please do not reject this. Muslims have had a play removed from the stage because it upset them. atheists have blasphemy about there not being a God plastered on buses. Remember we are still a “Christitan” country. please listen to its citizens. thank you

petition to cancel all personal mortgage/secured debt in the U.K. every 50 years Reasons: 1st To remove the fear of homelessness. 2nd Stop asset values falling by forcing a bottom in the market.3rd Bring buyers to the market as owners are free to drop prices. 4th Create a spending boom, no mortgage = more cash to spend. 5th Investors can be reassured by promising an on going cycle of debt cancellation every 50 years and banks would be able to lend on that basis creating a stable market. 6th the current crisis offers an ideal opportunity for the government to show leadership which would help both the people (popular) and the financial markets by offering an opportunity to create a true asset value assessment in which to invest.

by creating a box on all election ballot papers allowing a vote for “non of the above” would allow a true voice of the people to be shown. giving all parties the opportunity to re address the parts of their manifesto that the true majority of the country disagree with rather than as is at the moment where the people of the country HAVE to vote for the best of a bad bunch(so not to “WASTE”their vote) or not vote at all. if the majority vote should end up to be “none of the above” there should be an interim period of an equal hung parliament for an agreed period of time to enable all parties to change their policies to reflect the voice of a true majority.

Britain’s history and culture is fantastic and unique. Much like the majority of people detest the Euro as a possible currency for Britain, the British pound is a fantastic part of our sovereignty and of our history and culture. We used to have such a fascinating and historic currency that was ditched for a decimal system (which is, in all fairness, much more practical). I suggest that we return Britain to the wonderfully nostalgic and unique system of half-pennies, farthings, sixpence and shillings. It would be more difficult to grasp, but oh so much more fun and interesting. Plus, oh so very cool.

However good a Prime Minister is when they take office, the longer they stay in the post the more likely it is that power goes to their heads!

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.