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I am not suggesting the cane or corporal punish but teachers need to feel that they can teach those that are there to learn and remove those that aren't. Parents should be accountable and forced to take time out of work to take their children home if they are poorly behaved or disruptive. You would hope that the embarrassment factor and potential loss off earnings could be an incentive for the parents to maybe take an interest in their children's education and improve home discipline and subsequently behaviour.  ","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-12T17:10:31.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:54.047Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-23T13:00:50.000Z","closed_at":"2012-02-23T14:00:50.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-12T17:10:31.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":10907,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/10907.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":"Democracy In Parliament","background":null,"additional_details":"When the electorate go to the polls to elect a new government or local council, we are casting our votes democratically without scrutiny by anyone, and without anyone knowing who we are voting for.\r\n\r\nNot so in parliament. There is intense scrutiny in which way members of parliament vote. Whether they are voting with the government or party, and which way they are expected to vote. This is not democracy, this is coercion to vote the way the party wants a member to cast their vote.\r\n\r\nIn this day and age of electronics we should have an electronic form of voting which is a secret to everyone. Each member could be given an electronic voting device with just two buttons, one for yes and one for no.\r\n\r\nEach will press the respective button on the device, only once would be allowed, and cast their vote electronically, saving a huge amount of time and expense. A huge screen in the chamber could then, in real time, electronically record the amount of votes for or again each motion.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-12T17:56:11.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:54.226Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-13T16:56:37.000Z","closed_at":"2012-08-13T16:56:37.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-12T17:56:11.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":11464,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/11464.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat 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NOT military service, but something useful to show them that they have a role to play in society. If it's a gap year building hospitals in the third world or digging wells in Africa, then that's fine. If people don't want to go abroad, then clearing canals, restoring derelict buildings, reclaiming farmland could be some of the tasks to be attempted: leave school, do a year's work for the rest of your community, then get on with the rest of your life.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-14T15:29:54.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:58.593Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-30T09:10:05.000Z","closed_at":"2012-08-30T09:10:05.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-14T15:29:54.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":12155,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/12155.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":"Sack Gus O'Donnell","background":null,"additional_details":"It has been credibly reported that Gus O'Donnell, a bureaucrat who heads the Cabinet Office, is opposing the release of information relating to the embezzlement of public funds via credit cards by senior civil servants. Effective government is impossible where the producer interest has so totally captured government, and democratic control of the machinery of government must be restored. Sack Gus O'Donnell and cancel his pension. Cancel all government credit cards, and set the maximum expenses for any civil servant at zero. 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A large network could be created partly through new construction and using existing roads. It would cross all regions in the UK.\r\n\r\nWhy? Because of the huge economic benefits. 1. Jobs are created in the construction and maintenance of the network. 2. Freight and passengers can be delivered quicker, increases productivity of the economy. 3. Reduced economic inequalities between regions and bringing the UK closer together.\r\n\r\nOther benefits are that it could increase the freedoms of the individual, reduce traffic congestion, makes people able to commute from longer distances and reduces time-wasting longer journeys.\r\n\r\nGermany has autobahns and it is Europe's strongest Economy. They could be made to ensure pedestrian safety. This project could be a great alternative to HS2 which has created significant opposition. And it would be less damaging to the environment than high-speed rail would be.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-04T22:37:42.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:31.913Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-07T16:52:44.000Z","closed_at":"2012-05-07T16:52:44.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T22:37:42.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":12338,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/12338.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":"stop paying money to asylum seekers ","background":null,"additional_details":"why should we pay asylum seekers who dont get there own way  stop giving them our money . it  should be spent on more police ","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-15T11:40:13.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:59.577Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-22T08:55:12.000Z","closed_at":"2012-08-22T08:55:12.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-15T11:40:13.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":12379,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/12379.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":"TO SEEK MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST TAX HAVENS","background":null,"additional_details":"Tax havens are an economic drain on the World. They only exist to aid tax evasion, money laundering and criminal activity that seriously damages the UK and many other countries.\r\nWe the undersigned wish Her Majesty's Government to seek multilateral economic sanctions against any state that has set up their laws to act as tax havens until such time that their laws are ammended and allow outside inspection of their financial and legal companies.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-15T13:14:06.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:59.712Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-22T08:57:17.000Z","closed_at":"2012-08-22T08:57:17.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-15T13:14:06.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":12896,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/12896.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":"Free Science Education","background":null,"additional_details":"Make science education at University free, grant bursarys similar to the Medical Education system, allowing currently educated individuals capable of returning to retrain in one of the 4 main sciences namely Physics, Maths, Chemistry or Biology. Create named Science degrees in the Open University for training outside of the education establishment that is also free. Give extra grants to those who already hold a degree in a discipline to return and retrain. (Incentive) Create part time science degree's also free of charge. Have greater injection of funds for individual research grants and monitor that it is delivered to those individuals embarking on scientific research at Phd level. 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A national debate. 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There has been no response as to the impact on the arts (such as \"Seduced, sex from antiquity to now\" in The Barbican 2009 which had works from the likes of Mapelthorpe in its exhibition) and no comment that the large body of evidence that the REA studied actually supports the role of pornography in our society, but that question was not asked of it.\r\n\r\nThe law is not fit to be on our books as its purpose was not inteligently defined from the outset and the arguments behind it have been from emotional standpoints that did not provide solid facts to back up their claims. even the REA complained about the lack of time it had to generate its report.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2011-08-05T11:57:26.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:35.159Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-09-09T09:33:24.000Z","closed_at":"2012-09-09T09:33:24.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-05T11:57:26.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":47309,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/47309.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":"Lower the cost of Road Tax","background":null,"additional_details":"Sign this e-petition if you believe that the jumps in price between different categories for road tax are too steep and should be lowered.\r\n\r\nFor example a 2005 Mazda RX8 is currently £270 for 12 months, and a 2007 Mazda RX8 with the same engine is £470 for 12 months. To double the price for a slightly higher CO'2 emission is not fair.\r\n\r\nSo please sign if you wish the government to make the costs more reasonably staged","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2013-03-18T14:25:49.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:57.431Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2013-03-20T10:06:24.000Z","closed_at":"2014-03-20T10:06:24.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2013-03-18T14:25:49.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":58821,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/58821.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":"Create Underground Network for Birmingham","background":null,"additional_details":"Birmingham is long overdue for a reliable, efficient and effective public transport system such as an underground network.  The current system is dominated by buses which are poor in service, in cleanliness and in efficiency and the Department of Transport need to reconsider the proposal for a Birmingham Underground network and factor in that the reason why places like the Millennium Point are low in visitors as it is quite a walk from the city with no public transport to this tourist attraction. 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They should be put into a 'Super-tax bracket' of 75%, only for footballers earning more than £500,000 a year.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2014-02-12T15:45:04.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:43.991Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2014-02-13T08:19:20.000Z","closed_at":"2015-02-13T08:19:20.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2014-02-12T15:45:04.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":60752,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/60752.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":"stop csa makings parents pay csa from gross pay not net pay","background":null,"additional_details":"Csa have brought in new enforcement laws stating the parent has to make csa payments from there gross pay not net pay. This judgement is unfair as the government already has the tax and national insurance from the paying parent and csa no longer can take this into consideration. This may resolved in absent father's and parents who have regular contact with there child to give up there jobs and resort to go onto benefits!  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If cuts are required to the benefits and Support systems to United Kingdom Citizens then money should be kept in the United Kingdom to benefit us and not foreign countries\r\n\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2014-02-13T18:52:23.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:44.287Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2014-02-17T10:47:39.000Z","closed_at":"2014-11-17T10:47:39.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2014-02-13T18:52:23.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":60959,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/60959.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":"Outlaw jokes about Jesus","background":null,"additional_details":"It appears Christian values are being sidelined. Many comedians..tv shows and broadcasters deem it fine to allow jokes about Jesus to be fine but jokes about other deity or religion are classed as abusive and racial hatred.\r\nIn the UK where our Sovereign is head of a Christian church and where Christianity is the main faith I ask jokes about its deity be outlawed. 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All financial aid to home, land and business owners, within the recently flooded areas, should be subject to prior financial means testing.\r\n\r\ni.e. Home owner - combined household income  +£80k  per annum - no financial aid.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":7,"created_at":"2014-02-17T12:45:05.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:44.788Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2014-03-03T11:42:33.000Z","closed_at":"2015-03-03T11:42:33.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2014-02-17T12:45:05.000Z","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":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":47751,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/47751.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":"MPs should have a published \"Trustworthiness Index\"","background":null,"additional_details":"In the same way that the general public have a Credit Rating which helps lending agencies decide whether a person is worthy for credit, Members of Parliament should have a Trustworthiness Index to help the general public to decide whether to vote for an MP.\r\n\r\nThe Trustworthiness Index should be a number ranged 0 - 10 and should be placed after an MPs name whenever mentioned in print, on television or radio and of couse next to their names on ballot sheets for voting.\r\n\r\nThe Trustworthiness Index should be maintained by an independent body. Keeping election promises raises the Trustworthiness Index.  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