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Some have been bonkers, some brilliant.\r\n\r\nWe congratulate our Government on a successful experiment and ask, “What’s next?”\r\n\r\nThe Internet is helping reshape the way live and democracy should not be left out, but for now we will settle for a few gradual improvements.\r\n\r\n1. Allow e-petitions users to create an account, so that they don't need to spend time filling in their details for every petition they support\r\n\r\n2. Allow users to vote AGAINST petitions too, so that our leaders can be confident they are answering the true majority and not just a loud minority\r\n\r\n3. Writing petitions takes passion, which also comes with bias. When a group will be affected by a petition, allow them to explain their position so voters can make more balanced decisions\r\n\r\nImproving e-petitions will help encourage people to engage in democratic debate and make our country and fairer and happier place to live.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2012-09-30T13:24:29.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:28.370Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:39:33.613Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-09-30T13:24:29.000Z","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":9098,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/9098.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":"MP's pay should be the same level as average nurses pay","background":null,"additional_details":"MPs wages should be on par with the average public sector nurses pay.  If MP’s want more money than they should award more to nurses.\r\n\r\nThe argument that reducing MP’s pay would deter high calibre people also applies to the very important role that nurses play.  Our nurses are extremely well trained and dedicated and yet manage on a fraction of the money paid to MP’s , many of who also have additional avenues of income.\r\n\r\nThere needs to be greater parity between what MP’s are paid and the people they serve.\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-11T03:14:40.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:49.387Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:33:59.300Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-11T03:14:40.000Z","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":9110,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/9110.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":"Humiliate offenders in public stocks","background":null,"additional_details":"Prisons are overcrowded and expensive. Asbos are seen as a status symbol. There is nothing to prevent minor crime. We should lock people up, we should humiliate them by sentencing them to spend time in public stocks. This would almost cost nothing and be a real deterent.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-11T04:49:08.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:49.420Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:33:59.471Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-11T04:49:08.000Z","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":3014,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3014.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":"English Democratic Republic (abolish the Monarchy)","background":null,"additional_details":"Remove the Monarchy and declare the nation a republic.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:37:44.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:29.892Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.051Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:37:44.000Z","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":3026,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3026.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":"Soldiers to be paid more than footballers, soldiers fight for our country!","background":null,"additional_details":"We all know how unfair the pay is for British soldiers who fight for us. Whereas footballers play a few matches and are paid thousands, even millions. We need to stop this problem and pay them a well deserved salary.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:41:55.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:29.922Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.149Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:41:55.000Z","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":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":13610,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13610.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":"National Guard to combat civil disturbance","background":null,"additional_details":"The government should create a National Guard (NG) as a defence against civil disturbance.   The NG's purpose will be to bridge the gap between the police and the army.   The NG will be composed of local volunteers - private business people, family men, anyone wishing to stand up for their community against rioters.   As volunteers they will receive no wages.    The NG will receive military-type training, will be uniformed (especially riot uniforms:  helmets, shields etc) and will be armed, eg with rifles firing baton rounds, truncheons, and water cannon.   The NG will be based in areas with a history of riots.   They will be capable of being put on stand-by at short notice, and also will be sufficiently flexible to be bussed to other areas where they are needed.   The specific purpose of the national government will be to bring the National Guard into being, to provide the military training, and to pay expenses, eg equipment, premises, professional advice and training.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-18T22:15:39.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:04.247Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:51.732Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-18T22:15:39.000Z","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":13891,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13891.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":"REFERENDUM ON UK WITHDRAWING FROM THE EU","background":null,"additional_details":"The UK Government is being controlled by unconstitutional  EU directives and is costing the UK millions a day to remain members of the EU.Many of the electorate want action from our Government. Only a proper consituted Referendum will indicate how many.\r\nPlease Debate this issue urgently in Government and arrange for an early Referendum before it is too late!!","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-20T16:56:12.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.184Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:54.754Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-20T16:56:12.000Z","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":3033,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3033.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":"send all Illegal Imigrants back and get the uk back on its feet","background":null,"additional_details":"people all over the uk are sick of been trodden on by the sick laim  and lazy that are flooding all towns thought the uk ","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:42:58.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:29.944Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.233Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:42:58.000Z","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":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3034,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3034.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":"Make St Georges day a bank holiday","background":null,"additional_details":"please don't sign if you belong to any subversive group, this petition is about celebrating all that makes England great - that includes all races and creeds ","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:43:31.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:29.948Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.250Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:43:31.000Z","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":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":13859,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13859.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":"UKoutEU","background":null,"additional_details":"It is time the United Kingdon held a referendum on continued membership of the EU. The last referendum on the subject was held in 1975 - two years after joining.\r\nSince that time membership of the EU has become far more envasive and burdensome in relation to the UK. Our financial commitment has escalated significantly, EU laws (now estimated to be 70%+ of UK legislation) flow unchecked from Brussels and European Courts regularly override British Courts.\r\nAt the same time the benefits of continued EU membership become less apparent by the day.   .\r\nOur politicians appear not to want to accept the way  the majority of the UK population feel about continued EU membership. A referendum would allow all political and economic arguements to be presented to the public, who could then make a informed decision.\r\nMake no mistake this is a massive issue for the future of the UK.  If you agree that it is now time to hold a vote on the UK's continued membership of the EU, please sign the petition","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-20T11:48:11.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.067Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:54.382Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-20T11:48:11.000Z","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":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":13872,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13872.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":"it isnt rocket science","background":null,"additional_details":"I am 60, have spent 11 years banged up, for what now would be \"petty crimes\" most serious crime, burglary,\r\n(I will stress, non residential property- ever) sentances- approved school, detention centre, borstal=3 and 1 prison sentence. my nephew was employed by the prison service, and I could not believe how\"convicts\"  were treat nowadays, tv, music centres, female prison warders(we had bromide in our tea!) they can even ring \"mammy\" if they want,apparently, they are even issued condoms if they are requested? no wonder they are all laughing at the system.  until it becomes a deterrant\r\nagain  things will only get worse, the powers that be are obveously more concerned about \"human rights\" and the nanny state, they should be social workers.\r\nlet old school prisoners advise on prison regime, the laughing would stop within a year or two.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-20T14:05:30.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.113Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:54.547Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-20T14:05:30.000Z","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":14013,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14013.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":"Compulsory unbiased political education in schools.","background":null,"additional_details":"In order for our society to be considered a democracy it is vital that the voting public fully understand how our system works and the different views of the political spectrum. The number of voting age adults and youths alike who do not understand, for example, different voting systems, or the ideologies of the different parties, is astounding and upsetting. Often students of politics A Level find themselves explaining our political system to adults who have been voting for 30 or more years. We need an education system that explains in an unbiased way the different viewpoints and aspects of our system in order for democracy to function correctly.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-21T18:46:29.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.606Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:56.188Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-21T18:46:29.000Z","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":3044,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3044.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":"Amend the smoking ban .","background":null,"additional_details":"The smoking ban needs changing . We live in a country with proud traditions of freedom and liberty . A country such as this should be able to accommodate the 12 million people who smoke . Its wrong that millions of people who happen to smoke should be treated as second class citizens . Its old fasioned discrimination and has no place in the UK . 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They should also have to pay fines that are used to repair the damage.\r\nPeople (shopkeepers etc) who's property has been damaged by rioters should be able to submit their claim and this will be assigned to offenders.\r\nFurthermore those who's actions require a prison sentence should also be required to participate in the clean up on a day release programme from prison.\r\nFurthermore rather than a set number of hours of community service, offenders should be given a task with clear directions and their community service is not finished until the job is completed properly.\r\nBasically you break it, you fix it.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-11T05:22:02.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:49.427Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:33:59.496Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-11T05:22:02.000Z","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":13930,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13930.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 inheritance tax - enable individuals and families to plan for the future and minimise their dependence on the state.","background":null,"additional_details":"Inheritance tax should be considered as theft by the state - every penny of the money which is left in a will has already been taxed several times; as income, through VAT and other stealth taxes.\r\n\r\nIt should be a funamental right for a citizen to make provision for their own family (or persons of their choice).\r\n\r\nInheritance tax serves only to make the rich poor and to keep the poor poor.\r\n\r\nInheritance tax currently enables the state to seize money from families when the sum left is over £325,000 - if your house and all its contents and your bank balance comes to more that this, the beneficiary of your estate will pay tax on the surplus at a rate of 40%.\r\n\r\n- that means family homes, cars, etc, may have to be sold to pay the tax, e.g. if someone left you their house worth £390,000 and you had no money to pay the tax, you would have to sell the house to pay your tax liability!\r\n\r\nInheritance tax encourages short sightedness.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-20T23:54:33.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.314Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:55.228Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-20T23:54:33.000Z","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":13961,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13961.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":"Conscript serial killers and persistent violent offenders","background":null,"additional_details":"Although violence and even murder can sometimes be just a result of the perpetrator snapping under pressure, we all know individuals for whom violence seems to be the norm.\r\n\r\nThese people in times past would have protected the tribe from attack, but they are a liability in modern society.\r\n\r\nWe should their aptitude to use in defence of the realm, which would reduce prison population and increase cannon fodder. 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As they have been compressed in a container from the outside world. The UN meeting which discides the future of Palestinian freedom from starvation of happiness. The UK should support the poeple of Palestine for freedom and peace. And vote for them for UN membership.\r\n\r\nPlease sign for the freedom for Palestine.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-21T18:11:48.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.578Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:56.094Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-21T18:11:48.000Z","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":3070,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3070.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":"Walkers Crisps","background":null,"additional_details":"We the undersigned call on the government to make it an offence to distribute inadequately filled packets of Walkers crisps.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:51:36.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.066Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.606Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:51:36.000Z","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":"irrelevant","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3071,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3071.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":"e-petitions should be cancelled now","background":null,"additional_details":"Pointless, irrelevant, time-consuming, costly, small minded coalition PR. The government should effect another U turn and scrap e-petitions. If evidence is needed for e-petitions to be consigned to 7 minutes of fame, just take a look at the issues that have emerged in one day (but the minimum time for any petition is 3 months, so sorry). They should make us so proud!","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:52:02.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.070Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.623Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:52:02.000Z","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":13976,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/13976.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 youth projects for young people in the poorest and most volitile places in England.","background":null,"additional_details":"If you look at the underlying causes of the riots, it did not START as random looting and violence, there were several reasons, these people are angry and they need to be heard. For years the youth programs in Tottenham and other areas have been systematically shut down which leave the young with nothing to do but hang around on the streets, I propose the government open and fund now programs for youth in these underprivileged areas, these would also create a few more jobs and could be used to teach young people skills they need for work.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-21T13:22:16.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.470Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:55.657Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-21T13:22:16.000Z","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":3085,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3085.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":"This country should become a democracy","background":null,"additional_details":"Meritocracy and social mobility will remain fairy stories unless and until there is room at the top - for anyone.\r\n\r\nBirth, inheritance. religion and appointment should no longer afford access to our legislature or determine our Head of State.\r\n\r\nUntil such time as we have an elected Head of State and an elected Upper House, no-one in public office should be permitted to refer to this country as a democracy.\r\n\r\nWe the undersigned request that our government call elections to Head of State and the Upper House.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:55:07.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.117Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.792Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:55:07.000Z","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":14064,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14064.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":"Turkey and Iran attacks on Iraqi Kurds to be Denounced","background":null,"additional_details":"HM Government to condemn Turkish and Iranian crimes in Iraqi Kurdistan, urge the United Nations, the International Tribunal, and the NATO to condemn those humanitarian crimes, and to press upon Turkey and Iran to end bombing Iraqi Kurdistan, and recognise the political rights of, rather than to exterminate, the Kurdish community within their territories.\r\nTurkey and Iran repeatedly launch operations on territories of Iraqi Kurdistan where civilians and defenceless villagers alongside their villages, orchards, farms and cattle are often targeted. Thus, Turkey and Iran not only attack the territories of the sovereign state of Iraq and stand against the international norms, but also bring about a humanitarian catastrophe inside the territories of Iraqi Kurdistan Region in front of the eyes of the international community.\r\n\r\nFor the shocking images of the civilian victims of Turkey’s air strike of 21st August 2011, please visit:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.chatrpress.com/Detail.aspx?id=5647&LinkID=3","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T02:14:06.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.761Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:56.683Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T02:14:06.000Z","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":{"code":"irrelevant","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14141,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14141.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":"Abortion on embryos with incurable crippling genetic diseases and for health of mother should preferably be done for embryos less than 13 weeks old","background":null,"additional_details":"Genetic screening to prevent and therefore to weed out carriers of crippling genetic diseases for future generations is an ethical cause. Of course abortion is a serious and private affair and should only be performed if it is for the health and safety of the mother or in the best interests of the foetus. Abortion on embryos should not be done for innocuous curable characteristics like the colour of hair or for clef lips. Human embryos less than 13 weeks old are a group of cells without consciousness. Also billions of potential embryos are rejected every minute in nature from becoming potential living beings. Therefore abortion for embryos with incurable crippling genetic diseases should preferably be done for embryos less than 13 weeks old. However due to the series of medical and psychological tests needed to support the medical grounds for abortion, it may not always be possible for abortion to be much less than 24 weeks of pregnancy.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T15:13:01.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.034Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:57.629Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T15:13:01.000Z","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":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14191,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14191.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":"Limit Legal Aid","background":null,"additional_details":"We often hear of persistant offenders receiving legal aid on an ongoing basis. One offender recently was in court for 75th time. Commits crime, gets caught, gets legal aid, gets someone else to pay for it. Repeat every six months. Legal aid is an important facility to help persons who most need it. The vast majority of UK citizens will never require to use it but it is important that the facility be available for those who do, perhaps on one occasion in their lives. My proposal is that legal aid be limited to perhaps 5 instances during a persons lifetime. Persistant offenders, if they feel they may require the use of a lawyer, should be required to pay an insurance premium to an insurance company or to their favourite lawyer. The more they make use of the policy the more THEY have to pay and not the taxpayer.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T20:04:23.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.207Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.138Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T20:04:23.000Z","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":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14244,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14244.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":"REVIEW SENTENCES FOR FACEBOOK 2","background":null,"additional_details":"We live in a democracy;  we are justifiably proud of our tolerant society, a central pillar of which is free speech.\r\n\r\nIt's totally intolerable that two very young men have been sent to prison for very long sentences, simply because of the timing of their stupid remarks.\r\n\r\nQuite apart from the financial implications of imprisoning young men as a knee-jerk reaction to the riots around the country, it is indefensible that they have received such draconian sentences when compared with the sentences handed out (a) to others who do literally incite riot and disorder and (b) others whose criminal offences are far more serious.\r\n\r\nFree speech is our right - judges are not entitled to deprive us of it.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T06:19:49.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.403Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.758Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T06:19:49.000Z","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":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3084,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3084.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":"Reconsider the proposal to remove Child Benefit to Higher Rate Tax Payers","background":null,"additional_details":"The decision to remove child benefit to higher rate tax payers is grossly unfair. The current proposal will result in cases where a family with one working parent earning £46000 will receive no Child Benefit whereas another with two working parents each earning £40000 will continue to receive Child Benefit. This is not right.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:54:51.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.114Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.773Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:54:51.000Z","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":3088,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3088.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":"Allow Smoking In Pubs","background":null,"additional_details":"The British pub industry is on it's knees and needs help now. Britain has one of the most smoke-free societies in the Western World. Britain is a modern democracy, yet it allows no place with a roof for a minority of people to enjoy a cigarette, something which is still legal and provides the Exchequer billions of pounds in tax revenue, ironically enough, to fund the NHS. Sign this petition if you believe in the rights of the minority, as well as the majority.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T19:55:52.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.129Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:50.828Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T19:55:52.000Z","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":"Please see petition \"Amend the smoking ban\"."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14086,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14086.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":"NHS should NOT spend money on detox programmes for alcoholics, due to high regression rates, except for those genuinely not wanting to drink anymore","background":null,"additional_details":"Rehabilitation & detox programmes for alcoholics are often not cost effective and NHS should not spend money on them, due to their high regression rate. From my experience, the only way for alcoholics to give up alcohol completely (i.e. teetotal) is when they actually wanted to do so. The adage that ‘you are flogging a dead horse’ comes to mind. No one can force a person to voluntarily not to drink alcohol unless he/she genuinely cognitively desire not to and therefore have a real aversion towards alcohol. Perceptions of the pleasures of drinking alcohol (heavily, moderately or occasionally) would depend on one's motivation, habits, triggers, reinforcers, settings, lifestyle, perception, cravings and aims. If a recovering alcoholic have a genuine aversion towards alcohol in his or her own mind (cognitively) than it is certain that he or she is no longer a RECOVERING alcoholic but a 100% RECOVERED one from my experience.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T08:51:53.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:05.844Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:56.940Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T08:51:53.000Z","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":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14199,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14199.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 extra money to people who have more children whilst on benefits","background":null,"additional_details":"There are many people that make a point of having more children to increase the amount of benefit money they receive while many working people put off having children simply for the fact they cannot afford to. We simply cannot afford to keep funding career benefit claimants who keep having children to get more money or a bigger council house while the hard working people of this country are being left high and dry by all the cuts that are happening to get this country back on track.\r\n\r\nI would like the Government to implicate some form of limit on how much these people can receive or even that should you get pregnant whilst on benefits, you will not receive any more money except Child Benefit. 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FOR THOSE OF US WHO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THEIR CURRENT JOB UNTIL WE ARE 66 BECAUSE OF HEALTH ISSUES THIS WOULD BE A GREAT RELIEF.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T22:15:44.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.333Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.568Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T22:15:44.000Z","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":50692,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/50692.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":"Get rid of useless David Cameron","background":null,"additional_details":"David Cameron has said and done nothing regarding the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby, 25, in Woolwich on the 22nd of May. We need to act now against terrorists before more innocent people are killed!\r\nWe don't need to constantly defend Muslim communities if they have nothing to do with radical Islam in the first place, its obvious they have nothing to do with it. Farooq Murad Secretary General of the MCB has spoken out against these terrorist far more than the Prime Minister would ever dare! We have had enough of weak leaders and need someone who is willing to do whatever is needed in this time of need. 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This will have the secondary benefit of bolstering the now over extended and depleted armed forces.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-11T06:44:23.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:49.510Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:33:59.815Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-11T06:44:23.000Z","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":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14104,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14104.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":"Keep the FA Cup at 3pm and make sure it doesn't clash with any other matches.","background":null,"additional_details":"The FA Cup was formed in 1871 and is the oldest association football tournament in the world. Its heritage and great history of quality football is undeniable. Next year the FA plan to move the FA Cup final to 5.15pm from its traditional slot of 3pm. Also last year, the Premier League title was decided on the day of the FA Cup final. These events of past and present undermine what some believe to be the best and most historic club football competition in the world. The current football season is crowded and too busy. Many managers put out their second team in the FA Cup. Please can the FA do everything they can to keep this competition at the forefront of the English game and keeping the FA Cup at 3pm on its own special day will no doubt help English football. 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Those men and women have signed up to give their lives for this country, if necessary, yet are treated as 'cannon fodder' by successive Governments, who use them, shamelessly, to further collective ambition, yet treat them as a dispensable asset when it comes to investing in them, financially. To paraphrase Edmund Burke in his speech of 23/4/1770 'For evil to triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing!' If only! What these 'good men' are doing, is providing the perfect conditions for evil to triumph! 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(No offense to Mike Phelan; but its just not the same).\r\n\r\nI also think that in the wake of the phone hacking scandal people have lost faith in the media and in particular their news providers; by building bridges between these two, the government would not just make football fans happy, but also further establish the BBC's position as the luminary body in news and sport broadcasting.\r\n\r\nIts time to bury the hatchet and get Fergie back on MOTD.\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-22T23:24:46.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.369Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.678Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-22T23:24:46.000Z","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":"irrelevant","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14264,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14264.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":"home owners should not be prosecuted for defending against an intruder in your home by any means upstairs or downstairs if intruder has a weapon ","background":null,"additional_details":"should you be able to defend your home against an intruder with a weapon by any means downstairs or upstairs without fear of prosecution even if it results in the intruders death","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T08:54:16.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.475Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.965Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T08:54:16.000Z","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":14290,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14290.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":"Increase Minimum Sentences","background":null,"additional_details":"Crimes involving violence or criminal damage to have a 5 year minimum sentence without remission.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T10:15:27.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.564Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:59.255Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T10:15:27.000Z","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":42715,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/42715.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":"withdraw subsidised bars and meals from the House of Common","background":null,"additional_details":"Withdraw the perks that mp's have by virtue of the subsidies in the bars in the House of Commons. 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Moreover, repeated studies, and the recent financial crisis, have demonstrated that there is no improvement in performance gained through increases in executive pay.\r\n\r\nWe therefore call on the government to implement legislation to compel all private and public sector organisations to pay their highest-paid beneficiaries no more than twenty times the hourly wage of the lowest-paid. This would not outlaw high levels of pay outright, but would provide recognition that the work of the lowest-paid is as necessary as the work of the highest-paid for the success of business, government, and society as a whole.  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