Please Take Action to Help Refugees

Aylan Kurdi (left) and his brother Galip (right), who died fleeing war and persecution.

This made me want to cry. If this does not break your heart you haven’t got one. Imagine if these children were your son or daughter. Young lives lost forever, so tragic, so sad. The UK needs to take action now! All these people want is somewhere for their children and themselves to be safe, to have the opportunity for a peaceful and fulfilled life just as we all do. I don’t fully understand what is happening in the middle east but know we cannot take everything at face value, the only thing any of us can be sure of is that innocent people are suffering and need help, a sanctuary, a safe haven from the turmoil of war.

If you are not familiar with this awful tragedy, though I rather think there are few who aren’t, please read the information from the Huffington Post. Most importantly please take action by signing as many of the following petitions as you can, contacting your MP and David Cameron (contact details further down). Please everyone, including non UK residents, take as much action as you can.  Cameron is rather reluctant to do his part, at least compared to Germany which has taken in over 800,00 , Turkey over 1.8 million, Jordan 600,000 and 1 million to Lebanon – a country whose population is just 4 million.

Please sign the following petitions. These are simple quick sign petitions pleases sign as many as you can.

Britain must accept its fair share of refugees seeking safety in Europe
https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-britain-must-accept-its-fair-share-of-refugees-seeking-safety-in-europe

No more drownings. Immediate sanctuary for those fleeing from war
https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-theresa-may-mp-no-more-drownings-immediate-sanctury-for-those-fleeing-from-war?recruiter=284550806&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-no_msg&fb_ref=Default

80 Syrian war refugees are waiting in Calais for their rightful and legal asylum in the UK! Please open the border for them!

https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-80-syrian-war-refugees-are-waiting-in-calais-for-their-rightful-and-legal-asylum-in-the-uk-please-open-the-border-for-them-2

We are willing to house Syrian refugees; please rescue more of those fleeing the conflict.
https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-rt-hon-theresa-may-mp-we-are-willing-to-house-syrian-refugees-please-rescue-more-of-those-fleeing-the-conflict

Tell the UK Government to accept a fair share of refugees and migrants

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/264/119/557/?z00m=26055224

Accept more asylum seekers and increase support for refugee migrants in the UK.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105991

Create a compassionate Euro-wide policy to deal with refugee migrants in Calais
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105590/signatures/new

Please share petitions widely

Scroll down for Cameron’s and MPs contact details including twitter and e-mail and other ways you can help.

From the Huffington Post

Haunting Image Of Drowned Boy Sums Up Consequences Of ‘The Syrian War In One Photo’

A Turkish gendarmerie soldier moves the body of the Syrian boy who was one of 11 people to die after a boat sunk while trying to reach Greece

“Lying facedown on the shore of a Bodrum beach this haunting image of a drowned Syrian toddler illustrates the perilous risks, and heartbreaking consequences, of the journey tens of thousands of migrant families have undertaken, chasing a better life in countries shuffling responsibility for taking them in.

Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary, who made a desperate plea on Tuesday for towns and cities up and down the country to each take in ten migrant families, said: “When mothers are desperately trying to stop their babies from drowning when their boat has capsized, when people are being left to suffocate in the backs of lorries by evil gangs of traffickers and when children’s bodies are being washed to shore, Britain needs to act.

“It is heartbreaking what is happening on our continent. We cannot keep turning our backs on this. We can – and must – do more. If every area in the UK took just ten families, we could offer sanctuary to 10,000 refugees. Let’s not look back with shame at our inaction.”

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron told The Independent “enough is enough”.

He said: “These pictures are beyond horrific. They are the wake-up call David Cameron needs.””

Give Cameron a wake up call

Take Action

Write to your MP and David Cameron

David Cameron – e-mail, telephone, letter or send a tweet

E-mail form
https://email.number10.gov.uk/

Other contact details

Postal

Parliamentary
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 3475
Fax: 020 7219 0918
Constituency
West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, Waterloo House, 58-60 High Street, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6HJ
Tel: 01993 702302
Departmental
10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
Tel: 020 7270 3000
Web & Social media
Website Website: http://www.davidcameronmp.com…

Website Website: http://www.gov.uk/government/…

Twitter Twitter: @david_cameron

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-david-cameron/1467

Contact your MP
http://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-your-mp/contacting-your-mp/

Other ways to help

Five practical ways you can help refugees trying to find safety in Europe
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/5-practical-ways-you-can-help-refugees-trying-to-find-safety-in-europe-10482902.html

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So David Cameron, is this dead Syrian child one of the ‘swarm’ of migrants you fear so much?

Those who have decided not to care will not be moved – but this should be moment when Britain finally finds its compassion

“He looks asleep, far away in dreamland, as if he dropped off after a long day of play and fun, of tricks and naughtiness. His trainers are still on his feet. Did he pester mum and dad until they bought them? His red T-shirt and trousers have rolled up to reveal his tummy. I want to touch his soft, plump tummy, to hold him, wake him gently and dry him off.

But the boy is dead. He drowned in the foaming, blue sea, just off Bodrum in Turkey, a tourist destination for Europeans seeking sun and fun. The waves delivered him to the beach, gently it seems, so intact is the little body.”

“Look at the picture of the washed up toddler if you can bear to. He is a little person, an innocent, who died before he could grow.  Think of the chances his parents took and why they felt they had no other choice. How frightened they must have been when they got on to the packed, unsafe boat. Did they drown too? They might have seen their child sink. Imagine that. If they survived, they must wish they hadn’t.  We don’t know their names. Maybe we never will. But this is our child now, whoever we are. Even those who support hardline anti-immigration policies, must, I think, feel pity and some urge to help.”

Read More of this moving article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/so-david-cameron-is-this-dead-syrian-child-one-of-the-swarm-of-migrants-you-fear-so-much-10483298.html

 

Please Sign Petitions to Tell Prime Minister David Cameron to Help Refugees

Graphic Home Truths by Flickr user Byzantine_K
https://www.flickr.com/photos/november5/20517791226/in/dateposted/

There are three petitions for you to sign to help refugees trying to escape with their families to safety from war-torn countries.

Please everyone carefully read and sign the following petitions and please share widely. Anyone worldwide may sign these petitions. Refugees need our support.

Care 2 Petition:

Tell Prime Minister David Cameron to Protect Refugees

“Imagine your country spiralling into violence and warfare. Watching everything around you fall to chaos. Fearing you or your children may be killed at any moment.

This is the devastating reality for millions of refugees around the world. They are faced with an incredibly difficult decision: stay in a war-torn country where their lives are at risk, or flee to safety even though the journey in front of them is equally dangerous.

Which would you choose?

This year, over 2,000 men, women and children have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Just last week, a boat capsized off the coast of Libya. Around 200 people lost their lives.

We call on Prime Minister David Cameron to take action and save lives today by increasing resettlement places for refugees.”

Please read more and sign the petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/866/382/203/      This petition needs at least 5,000 signatures, so far only just over 300 so please sign and share widely.

Change Org Petition

Provide urgent medical support to vulnerable people in Calais

“We’ve all seen the news of desperate migrants trying to cross the channel. But few people know about the conditions people are living in. There is no less than a humanitarian crisis on our doorstep and western governments are turning their backs on it.

I know because I’m a nurse out here in Calais, giving medical support to migrants who have fled their countries because of war and persecution and are now living in horrendous conditions. Whole families are crammed into small tents with poor access to food and water, leading to all sorts of terrible health problems. These include serious skin problems, gangrene, breathing difficulties, diarrhoea and scabies. Many have shattered bones after falling from trucks, have been slashed by razor wire climbing fences or have been beaten up.Some are extremely vulnerable, including children and pregnant women.”

Please read more and sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-david-cameron-mp-provide-urgent-medical-support-to-vulnerable-people-in-calais?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=366052&alert_id=ucQoLHdmPC_Cbapp9zz2XvpWmgrNepwzPu8QBHtZQNqVs8LbQ6vZW4%3D

Tell the UK Government to accept a fair share of migrant refugees

“Thousands of men and women are currently stranded in Calais, Italy and Greece, and across Europe after a treacherous journey from their home countries. These refugees often come from war-torn countries with poor human-rights records. In their home countries they may have suffered or be at risk of torture and rape, and fear for their lives and those of their children. They are desperate to reach safety and they are risking their lives. Many have already died. More than 1,800 perished at sea in the first five months of 2015*.

Other countries in the EU take on much larger numbers of migrant refugees even when considering capacity to do so**. ”
Please read more and sign the petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/264/119/557/

More Action you can take

If you have time please consider contacting David Cameron:
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-david-cameron/1467

Email: https://email.number10.gov.uk/

And or your MP:
http://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-your-mp/contacting-your-mp/

These people need our help urgently; the UK should not turn its back on people who have been through so much, who are fleeing from war and persecution hoping to find safety not abandonment. The UK government has a moral obligation to direct funds to help refugees, sadly in recent years our governments seem to lack basic morality humanity and compassion. Health care and shelter should be a basic human right, the UK is a rich country and has the resources to supply medical and other aid. It is shameful that there are people seriously ill and not receiving medical care in rich countries such as the UK and France.

There is a lot of anti-immigration feeling among the misguided British Public that is nothing short of monstrous, shocking in the extreme. For an example of the lack of compassion to our fellow human beings from war-torn countries fleeing for their lives read the comments at the end of the article below.
http://cars.aol.co.uk/2015/07/31/department-for-transport-releases-calais-driving-advice/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl15%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D371839

At such times I am ashamed to be British, though a generality we appear to be a nation of xenophobic racists lacking compassion but displaying plenty of stupidity and ignorance fueled by right wing propaganda.

For a more realistic perspective please read the following article

“When you’re facing the world’s biggest refugee crisis since the second world war, it helps to have a sober debate about how to respond. But to do that, you need facts and data – two things that the British migration debate has lacked this summer. Theresa May got the ball rolling in May, when she claimed on Radio 4 that the vast majority of migrants to Europe are Africans travelling for economic reasons. The media has followed suit, one example being the Daily Mail’s unsubstantiated recent assertion that seven in 10 migrants at Calais will reach the UK.

Foreign secretary Philip Hammond this week not only repeated May’s claims about African economic migrants, but portrayed them as marauders who would soon hasten the collapse of European civilisation. Hammond, like many people, could do with some actual statistics about the migration crisis. Here are 10 of the key ones:

Please continue reading the 10 truths about the so-called immigration crisis:

10 truths about Europe’s migrant crisis
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/10-truths-about-europes-refugee-crisis  – again many of the comments at the end of the article convey public prejudice and lack of compassion. One person writes “You can call them what you like, Europe is being overwhelmed and it is not Europe’s responsibility to take on the world’s troubled.”

Besides the fact that  many of them – especially those from Eritrea, Darfur, and Somalia – have legitimate claims to refugee status don’t we have a moral responsibility?

The fact of the matter is that Cameron is not only not allowing refugees into the country he is actively thwarting their attempts to seek asylum.

Can’t we all learn to live together as one species, one country, one world. I am sick of all the hatred, the prejudice and discrimination. We are all human beings regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation religious persuasion or whatever prejudice misguided ignorant people can conjure up. Make no mistake were we all the same race, colour, gender, age and so on someone would find some difference albeit small to aim their misguided prejudice against.

The biggest enemy comes not from refugees or any one the other scapegoats targeted by government propaganda, even our own citizens if they happen to be unfortunate enough to need benefits,  as a distraction from the real cause of much of the misery in this country and indeed worldwide – namely capitalism and the greed of the one percent. Throughout the world the proliferation of wars, persecutions and increased poverty is a result of the capitalist crisis. Many people are desperate to escape their situation over which they are powerless and seek safety within the EU.

The UK and other rich nations caused the poverty that drives people from Africa and elsewhere to find a better life.

It is not “marauding” African migrants, but the UK and other wealthy nations that are threatening living standards and causing poverty for people in Africa and across the world. Sub-Saharan Africa loses $192bn to the rest of the world each year. In return it receives just $30bn back in aid. Whether it is our network of tax havens that allows the theft of billions from countries in Africa each year, the costs we save by recruiting health workers from the world’s poorest countries, the aid we give as loans which contribute to the looming debt crisis, or our carbon emissions which force African countries to pay out billions to adapt to the climate change we cause, it is the UK and our wealthy allies, not African migrants, doing the marauding.

Read More:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/uk-and-its-allies-are-the-real-marauders-not-african-migrants?CMP=share_btn_tw

Britain it seems has only welcomed immigrants when required for Labour.

Read a very revealing article about the history of  Britain’s immigration policies
Racism and immigration in Britain
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj68/brown.htm

Time to stand up for what is right and speak out for the vulnerable.

Please sign all petitions if you have not already done so

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/866/382/203/

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-david-cameron-mp-provide-urgent-medical-support-to-vulnerable-people-in-calais?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=366052&alert_id=ucQoLHdmPC_Cbapp9zz2XvpWmgrNepwzPu8QBHtZQNqVs8LbQ6vZW4%3D

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/264/119/557/

To end on a positive note please read the following which shows that people do care.

How grassroots groups are supporting Calais migrants
http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2015/aug/14/calais-migrant-how-grassroots-groups-are-helping?utm_source=change_org&utm_medium=petition

The Worldwide Tribe in Calais
https://www.facebook.com/theworldwidetribe

What life is like in the Calais migrant ‘jungle’ – by young Brit who visited them
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-life-like-calais-migrant-6233953

Related Links

The real criminals, however, are not immigrant workers, but the corporate chieftains and politicians who, in their insatiable lust for profits, plunder the natural resources of poor countries, set up sweatshops, and wage wars for oil and empire. It is their policies that create the grinding poverty and social breakdown throughout the neo-colonial world which forces millions to flee their home countries in search of work here.
http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/2255

Why refugee deaths in the Mediterranean are a global problem
http://fusion.net/story/124692/why-refugee-deaths-in-the-mediterranean-are-a-global-problem/

The New Global Capitalism and the War on Immigrants
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18623-the-new-global-capitalism-and-the-war-on-immigrants#

The Proposed New Law Banning the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses in UK will Not Now be Passed in Parliament

Below is a guest post by the animal and human rights activist and free software supporter Luis Leonel.

They ( Andre , Philip, Christipher,) love British cirus

 

The proposed new law banning the use of wild animals in circuses in the UK will not now be passed in Parliament after being repeatedly blocked by Tory backbenchers Andrew Rosindell, Tory MP for Romford, Philip Davies, MP for Shipley and Christoher Chope, MP for Christchruch.

They claimed that the circus is a “Great British institution… (that) deserves to be defended against the propaganda and exaggerations”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ban-on-wild-animals-in-circus-blocked-by-tory-backbenchers-10092779.html

CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE TORY BACKBENCHERS

Please write and state your objections

Andrew Rosindell

Email: andrew@rosindell.com

Phone:
House of Commons Office: 0207 219 8475 or 8499

Write to :
Andrew Rosindell M.P.
House of Commons
LONDON
SW1A 0AA

Website Andrew Rosindell, Tory MP for Romford
http://www.rosindell.com/

Twitter Page Andrew Rosindell
https://twitter.com/andrewrosindell

 

Philip Davies MP

Email: philip.davies.mp@parliament.uk

Phone:
Constituency Office – 01274 582 272
Westminster Office – 020 7219 8264

Write to:
Philip Davies MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Website of Philip Davies, Tory MP For Shipley
http://www.philip-davies.org.uk/

 

Christopher Chope MP

Email : chopec@parliament.uk

Phone:
Constituency office – 01202 474949
Fax : 01202 475548
Parliamentary – 020 7219 5808
Fax : 020 7219 6938

Write to:
Christopher Chope MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Website of Christoher Chope, Tory MP for Chope
http://www.christchurchconservatives.com/

Warning!  The video contains animal cruelty which many of you will I am sure find upsetting.
Shameful UK Circus Industry

Please Sign a Petition to Help UK Pensioners Who are Going Hungry

UK pensioners are going hungry – please help!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/204/419/166/demand-that-the-sate-pension-is-brought-in-line-with-the-living-wage/?z00m=22416989&redirectID=1540696803

Below is from an e-mail sent to care 2 members concerning the above petition

Please read and sign the petition

“My name is Pete Perry and I am 77 years old. I have had two heart attacks and a stroke. My wife Nikki is my full-time carer.

Our only income is the basic state pension, pension credit and carer’s benefit. It is not enough to live on – a 54% increase would be needed for it to meet the Minimum Income Standard – or Living Wage – the amount people in the UK agree is required to live on. I wanted to share with you what this means for us personally.

We are constantly worried about paying the fuel bills, the rent and buying food. We very often put only one small gas fire on, rather than the central heating, and wrap ourselves up in a blanket to keep warm. To save money, we cook from scratch rather than buy ‘ready meals’ (we don’t even have a microwave!) – and we freeze leftovers for another day. We NEVER have a takeaway, cannot afford to go to the cinema, and do not own a TV or stereo. We ‘make do’ as my mother did during the war and rationing years.

Christmas is a particularly stressful time for us, as we like to buy presents for the grandchildren, which means we have to go without our basic necessities.

I have worked hard throughout my life and paid taxes, and I believe the government should support its elderly citizens with enough income to live on – that’s why I started this petition. We need to show the government that we won’t stand for elderly people being left in poverty.Please sign my petition asking the Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb, to increase the state pension to match the Living Wage.” 

Thank you,

Pete Perry
Pensioner, United Kingdom”

“The Living Wage is currently £9.15 an hour in London and £7.85 an hour in the rest of the UK. This equates to £343 a week in London (£294 elsewhere in the UK) for a 37.5 hour working week for an individual. Similarly, the Minimum Income Standard for a pensioner couple is £347.93 per week.

The basic state pension however, is only £113.10 per week for those born before 1951, and although total household income can be topped up with pension credit to £148.35 (for single people) or £226.50 (for couples), a 54% increase (98% for individuals) in this level of income is required to bring this up to an amount people can live on.”

Read more and please sign the petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/204/419/166/demand-that-the-sate-pension-is-brought-in-line-with-the-living-wage/?z00m=22416989&redirectID=1540696803

 
The fact that elderly people, the chronically sick and disabled live in poverty is an absolute disgrace in the sixth richest country in the world. At the end of your working life you want to live in some comfort, have the means to enjoy your self not struggle to make ends meet, which frankly is impossible. You should not have to live an unheated house unable to go out and about, go to the cinema, enjoy a meal out, live the life you deserve to live after working day after day your entire life. And even if you have not worked through no fault of your own such as disability, illness or unemployment or simply to bring up your children, you should nonetheless be entitled to a livable pension –  at least in any decent ethical society.

The fact that his unfortunate couple who struggle with long term serious illness cannot afford a TV or a stereo, basic for most people here in the UK , and are confined to one heated room and struggle to buy enough food is an outrage and should be strongly condemned.

The answer is not to deprive other people such as overseas aid as so many demand, a demand born of a tiresome rhetoric of misguided people along with the well worn immigration red herring meant to distract from the real problems, namely the grossly unfair distribution of wealth .

Please do sign the petition, it is vital to let this government of millionaires know that we the people are sick of this gross unfairness in our society where people die of cold and hunger in unheated homes while the rich get richer and richer.

The answer ultimately is a more fair distribution of the country’s wealth and indeed the world’s wealth and resources, for this and more severe problems exist worldwide including other rich countries such as the USA and Australia as well as obvious so called developing countries which it seems never develop, locked in poverty and deprivation.

Time to bring an end to allowing the minority to live in decadent greed accruing money that they can never spend in a lifetime while others suffer poverty and deprivation, many after working away their entire lives to make another person rich. Why should Pete Perry and his wife and millions like them young and old live like this while the likes of Duncan Smith, Cameron and the other multimillionaire MPs continue to accrue obscene wealth for themselves and the privileged super rich.

This year the wealth of Britain’s richest rose by 15.4%:

Wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 people hits new high of £519bn

‘Astonishing’ year for richest Britons sees fortunes rise 15.4%, according to Sunday Times Rich List:

The combined fortune of Britain’s richest 1,000 people has hit a new high of £519bn – equivalent to a third of the nation’s economic output, and double the figure of five years ago.

The worth of Britain’s rich elite is up 15.4% from last year’s total of £450bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

Philip Beresford, who compiled the rankings, said: “I’ve never seen such a phenomenal rise in personal wealth as the growth in the fortunes of Britain’s 1,000 richest people over the past year. The richest people in Britain have had an astonishing year.”

The wealth of the top 1,000 has doubled since the financial crisis, rising from £258bn in 2009.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/18/wealth-britain-richest-1000-new-high-sunday-times-rich-list

Austerity for the poor it seems while the rich get richer.

Note in the above article that the Queen, who already has more money than she knows what to do with, saw her wealth rise by 10 million. One elderly person who most certainly will not freeze or starve to death. While people freeze in unheated homes and can’t afford a TV or even put food on the table this parasite along with her family and other hangers-on live in a decadent style unimaginable to the overwhelming majority of the world’s population. What exactly has this women done to earn an additional 10 million I have to ask.

In the same article Chris Leslie, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: “No wonder the super-rich have got much richer over the last year when David Cameron has given millionaires a huge tax cut. Yet at the same time working people have continued to face a cost-of-living crisis and are £1,600 a year worse off since 2010.

Think what  £519bn could do to improve the lives of suffering people both here and abroad. And not just here in the UK, take into account the huge wealth owned by the one percent:“The richest one percent of the world’s population now controls 48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last year, according to the most recent global wealth report issued by Credit Suisse, the Swiss-based financial services company.”

Here an alarming possiblity:

Hypothetically, if the growth of inequality were to proceed at last year’s rate, the richest one percent for all intents and purposes would control all the wealth on the planet within 23 years.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/17/ineq-o17.html

Think of all the lives that could have been saved by sharing this vast wealth which continues to increase at an alarming rate while most of us continue to descend into poverty. How many children in developing countries could be alive today, how many people could be properly fed and sheltered, provided with clean water. How many more people could live full and meaningful lives in warm homes?  How many new and more efficient hospitals could be built for everyone worldwide and how many more opportunities for education for all… well the list is endless.

The government should be reminded that pensions aren’t a hand out, they were earned and paid for during the person’s lifetime often at the cost of a decent standard of living, particularly in recent years when tax and national insurance, not to mention VAT and council tax, take more than half your income.

Time to demand better. Time to recognise the real problem and not be distracted by thinking that has no basis in reality or morality. Here is one suggestion some misguided person came out with, it is a well aired and misguided  notion born often of racism but mostly ignorance:
“Why not stop overseas aid and stop funding children to fund this.” I assume this person is referring to children in developing countries. It is typical of the way a lot of people in our society think.

 

Really would you want to deny a starving child the miniscule amount of aid the UK sends abroad? This is not the problem, rather  it is the decadent wealth accumulated and controlled by the super rich who have not in any real sense earned or deserve the vast amount of wealth they continue to amass at the expense of the minority included elderly, sick and disabled people here in the UK and starving people including children, one of whom dies every three seconds in the developing world. No one deserves such obscence amounts of money, until people realise this and stop blaming immigration and poor people over seas we will never improve the situation here in the UK or elsewhere. Time for a fair world for everyone.

Look at a few of the comments included in the petition. Such hardship in a country like the UK is an outrage and it has to stop.

“I have worked all my life, I paid into a private pension that turned out to be almost worthless. At present I am still working and will not reach retirement age for quite a while but I could easily be in this position in the future – so could a lot of other people who have spent a lifetime working.”

 
“I am 67 years old and I too am trying to survive on the state pension. I am registered disabled with heart problems, am diabetic and I am calcium deficient resulting in crumbling bones mostly due possibly to diet. help us to provide a staple diet . My wife is unable to draw her pension untill next year due to government rules she is 62 and hopefully, if things are not changed again will get her pension in April”

 

“I have paid all my taxes and so called insurance all my working like, I am still working two years passed my pension age still paying my taxs and yet I do not look forward to retirement how can anybody hope to Iive on the benefits that are paid at the moment it’s a dam disgrace. It’s time to put things right.”

Time to demand change