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It is further suggested that this site become part of the testing, so that anyone who signs certain petitions (e.g. those calling for the return of the death penalty, or for immigrants/prisoners to lose their basic human rights) is removed from the electoral roll on the grounds of incompetence. 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Even if you are not local and believe in keeping vital services, please sign and help us to achieve our goal.\r\n\r\nYsgol Dewi Sant is a small secondary school which prides itself as being part of the vital core of the community.\r\n\r\nWith our diminishing health care services also causing concern in the county, we don't need to also worry about loosing our schools! 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Democracy means \"the rule of the people\", not simply to have elections, and so our system should not allow \"electoral dictatorship\" where MPs can vote how they like once they are in office. With a petition of at least 50% of electors signed by an MP's constituents requiring them to vote yes or no on a particular motion and all related constituents would be able to control voting through their MPs and this would enhance the quality of our democratic society.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-06T08:11:26.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:38.405Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:33:19.852Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-06T08:11:26.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":5658,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/5658.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Creation of the Scottish Psychic Industry Authority (SPIA) ","background":null,"additional_details":"The creation of the Scottish Psychic Industry Authority (SPIA) that manages the licensing of worldwide psychics, clairvoyants, fortune tellers, tarot readers and other's that use face to face predictive type divination tools for Scottish based clients. The SPIA will create a new Psychic Proficiency Standard for the licensing of ONLY face to face psychic services in Scotland. We hope to terminate and swich off all premium rate numbers that provide telephone psychic services to Scotland and discourage technological methods of providing psychic services. All those that work in the worldwide psychic industry and provide face to face psychic services in Scotland would need to be registered and licensed with the Scottish Psychic Industry Authority. This new authority would handle all formal face to face psychic services complaints from Scotland residents to a psychic anywhere in the world. 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This has been going on for years recently there being a really bad case where the state has taken a babie only one day old, very heartlessly and cold with no thought or consideration for the parents of the child and as far I as can see without any reason what so ever. you yourself can see by watching the video on you tube Title STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL STEAL ONE DAY OLD BABY. There has to be proper guide lines regarding this really bad issue. 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They - along with the Liberal Democrats - are now enforcing POLICIES that nobody voted for, such as educational and healthcare reforms which are extremely unpopular.\r\n\r\nThe only democracy they'll allow us is this phony petitions business, but instead of using it for silly things like capital punishment and leaving the EU, which would never be allowed to pass anyway, let us use this to show our opposition to the Tories, Liberals AND Labour Party.\r\n\r\nI hereby undersign this petition stating my opposition to all three mainstream parties, their mis-management of the economy for the past 30 years and their corruption, greed and ignorance of democracy. I demand the resignation of David Cameron as a beginning of the reinstatement of democracy in Britain. 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In 2011 many children and indeed adults have little or no understanding of basic economic principles.  The lack of understanding of the free market, the benefits of saving whether as an individual, company or Government, and the difference between currency and real money (Gold and Silver).\r\n\r\nAn investment in economic education for our children will provide valuable life skills that will enable them as adults to recognise the difference between income and expenditure, assets and liabilities; and the need to save for what they desire as opposed to depending on credit.\r\n\r\nThere is a need to educate our children as to how an economy grows and why it crashes to avoid future financial turmoil.\r\n\r\nThe action the UK Government should take is to introduce economics as early as primary 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An area of the Bann will be roped off for the competition preventing intrusion by anglers and/or perverts. Folk will be able to watch it from the marina, or up on the bridge, or the car park beside the Wild Duck.\r\n\r\nThere are two changing rooms in the community centre, wan for men and wan for women, and the hall could be turned into a media centre (no wi-fi, but folk could bring their dongle yokes). There is also a small, but clean, kitchen which provides tea making facilities.  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