Public petitions

If the Scottish Parliament is to fulfil its founding principles, a debate at minimum on the provisions of the People's Charter would offer a positive demonstration of its priorities to the Scottish electorate.

Let's spread the word far and wide on this petition.

These are the real alternative solutions to the crisis of Capitalism

would like to wish you the best of luck hope your petion does some good

I agree with the majority of that stated in "The People's Charter" but would like to add:

PLEASE fund CAB fully NOW as the other charitable
- council funded advice orgs do NOT work in the interests of justice for the people they work for the broken SYSTEM.

I remember a 1970's BBC programme, "Tomorrows World" telling us that computerization of industry would lead to reduced working week & increased standards of living for ALL. What it has lead to is GREEDY corporates & successive, self-serving opportunistic puppet governments discarding the people on to a scrap heap.
This imbalance has been the main cause of the economical & social crisis we find ourselves in today imo.

I feel it is important for society to help all people fairly to enjoy their life and to contribute, but especially to help those who cannot help themselves.

Austerity robs the poor to put money in the pockets of the rich and that is what it is intended to do.We lose £100 billion every year to the tax-dodging rich..The richest 1,000 people in Britain have increased their personal wealth by £155 billion in the past three years.No austerity for them! Time we stopped being taken for mugs. There is no shortage of money, it just happens to be in the hands of the wrong people. Workers by hand and by brain create the wealth, it is time they owned it. Defend our Welfare State that we fought so hard to win and build. No return to the 1930s! All power to the people's Charter and an end to Tory Party rule. I was born into a 1930s Tory Britain, I don't want to die in one!

Every person should have the right to appeal or contest an injustice, yet that is not the case. We have Laws that favour the rich & powerful in Scotland and the working classes are of only secondary or of no importance. I was child of the 50's both my Late husband & myself were hard working yet because he died intestate (no issues) I'm not allowed to keep what is rightfully mine & no legal right to appeal or contest it. (I have recently submitted a petition please read it when it is lodged & if in agreement please support it.)

The Elderly are often targeted by violent individuals as they are easy targets. Working with these offenders is dangerous.It is realistic to expect staff up to 68 years of age to physically restrain and intervene in violent incidents with young, fit and sometimes disturbed prisoners. Would you want your Grandparents to be patrolling overcrowded prisons, trying to make society a safer place for everyone. We ask the goverment to recognise Prison Officers status as a first response emergency service and as such allow a retirment age of 60.

Let everyone retire at the age of 60 and let the young population into the work force, I have worked since i was 12 years of age due to my father being in a fatal accident in the late sixties. Their is a lot of people out their like myself who would like to call a day. This Goverment wants everyone to retire when we are fit for nakers yard just like our cars, then dispose us into our graves to save giving us our pentions to what we deserve.

stop making the poor pay for the mistakes of others, our health and public services must remain protacted from the private sectors greed!, our children must have a future not the dole!

Stop making the Poor ,Infirm,Elderly the scape goats for everything .Renationalize everything at no cost to the country and make the rich pay there way and if they want to leave the country let them but let the state retain there assets .Then we may have a level playing field and be rid of the class system and have a new synergy

Everyone needs decent affordable homes, decent secure jobs, free education,free healthcare and a safetynet of welfare benefits ensuring the well being of all.
We need to protect the vulnerable in society with decent pensions and disability benefits.

I have attended public meetings hearing first hand, how the elderly are suffering poverty as we approach the winter, with making the choice of Heat or Eat, going to bed early to reduce fuel cost of gas and electricity.
They have heard from workers in poverty, with low wages subsidize by benefits, struggling to give their children what they need, with the rising cost of living and wages been frozen or getting a token rise of 1% and to be grateful for the rise in low pay for their hard work. We have seen disabled jobs closed down, with Remploy a safe haven for disabled workers, who were proud to work and enjoyed going to work. Now we hear of disabled people in wheelchairs being told if they can use their upper limbs, they are no longer classed as disabled but able bodied to do work, which means a reduction on their welfare benefit.
young people have less chance of securing a job now as to oppose 5 years ago. Clearly young people getting into a job, is a struggle, with many taking on any job with part time hours or zero hour contracts just to get on the ladder. We need to see a growth in jobs with decent pay and better conditions than a zero hour contract, where our youth are being exploited, we face a generation of workers without employment.

Scotland is the true home of Socialism: with our
Trade Unions, let's recover what is best for those
in need!

when will stop cutting and start investing in our future ? cuts to frountline service and attacks on the sick and disabiled via Adeso are a reflection on the state of our nation and is a national shame

if independance is to happen then we need to secure our country to make it our own

Glasgow 1&2 I've signed

i agree to the charter 100 percent

we need this to be passed

freedom and indepandance and a propserous country

im moving back to vote so that scotland can prosper

We need a decent pay for the work we do, I got this same houly rate in 2004

A fairer economy

Neo-liberalism has failed the world over, now is the time to push for a democratic socialist alternative.

This is the way forward, this has to be done so we can be heard and for us all to move in a united manner and for our future

we are not a strong country unless our voice can be heard above the political pigeons in office.

This will improve quality of life for everyone

keep people employed

Better future for all please.

Give the Power to the people

The charter outlines the aspirations needed to develop a society that we be proud of.Having listened to the dangerous comments from Osbourne, onn workers rights, Grayling two strikes and your in for life,Cameron wanting Eton opened to the masses, it always is just need the moneyTory Conference. That is importance of STUC's Charter.

lets stop talking about action, now's the time to take action.

for the betterment of Scotland, let's go for it.

This is a great work, we need this to be passed, and for good future.

make the bankers pay for the suffering that they have caused and make sure it can never happen again!

Reading Scottish History book by T C Smout. Always assaults on the workers
- people can and have changed outcomes over the years.

I am glad to sign this petition, the way in which our current coalition Government is behaving is ridiculous. Job cut,s tax avoidance for the rich, public sector pension reviews its all a nonsense.

Britain needs all the help it can get and this can only be done if we stand together.

We must strive to fight our corner via The Charter in the hope that we in turn will be living in a society where there is fairness and equity.

The present regime is a future devoid of promise or incentive. When accountants steer the ship you run to close to the rocks.

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The whole tory conference has been about dividing people and looking for people to blame who have no power in the scale of things. We need to be united and show that working together is what the majority wants. Power to the People as John Lennon said.

Those who say they represent trade unionists and working people better start showing it or move over......

Better jobs is too vague. Scots should have a constitutional right to a liveable wage, decent housing and justice before the law

I feel myself that the only way we are going to get a fair way is Scotland on there own we are a very proud people and ambitious

We can only hope someone- somewhere LISTENS to people at the 'cliff face'

Its about time those in Government listened to those that voted them in. Not go blindly off in a direction of their own despite warnings to the contrary.

i hpoe this signature is sufficient for ur purposes

Worried about my grandson and son who are due to leave school in a year or 2
- what will be out there for them the way these cuts are going, you want them to have a decent job with fair pay, but this is becoming more and more unlikely with all these cuts and redundancies and forcing people to work into old age there will be even less vacancies
- I would like to go at 60 and leave room for a younger person to get a job, but there's no way to afford it without the old age pension. Also fed up with the posh rich boys and the press trying to divide the working class by going on about our pension
- ALL working should have the right to build up a fair pension.

Something's got to be done. There's people starving and people freezing all because of power and greed.

Who is kidding who? There is the same amount of money in this world as there always has been..No to austerity!!

"We are all in it together" is a lie.

Much better alternative to all these cuts

It's about time the working class people were given a fairer more socialist alternative to the despicable society where bankers and politicians are rewarded for failure, where there is no real justice and a safe, water & wind tight home is an aspiration not an expected standard for young people today

As a staunch trade unionist for many years, I have learned that you must fight to achieve a just world. Then you must fight to keep it!

Time for action

i worry that there will be no health service, jobs, housing for future generations. it is hard enough to make ends meet as it is

Help to make Scotland the best and fairest country in the world.

We have no other choice but to push forward,things cant get any worse4 what choice do we have. People unite.

We need to unite against this government of the rich! we( the ordinary folk) did not make this situation but it is us
- low paid workers, single mums, students, pensioners. who are being made to pay, Why? how can any government minister justify what they are doing? they need to stop lying and put the money
- that is there! to the right places, jobs make a country prosperous not, a rich out of touch jobs for the boys government!! I could go on but that'll do for now.... cheers xx

We have to fight the appalling policies that this government is inflicting on working people, and fight for a better future for us all.

I Totally Agree With The All Contents Of The Peoples Charter Petition Summary

Fairness for all is a must

somethings gotta give coz this present government is SIMPLY NOT WORKING !!!

The austerity measures are nothing more than a blatant attack on the low paid, unemployed and people with disabilities. Austerity doesn't work and is designed to fail. The future is bleak for all if we continue to allow these draconian measures to take place.

Let us stop being driven in the wrong direction and lead the way for the UK

Government attacks on the public sector result in an attack on local communities and the loss of our schools and services. The current attack on Abronhill High School, a school which does well in national comparisons, is a direct reult of these cuts.

Time for change

Leave public section workers alone, get police officers on the street, not on full pay in desk jobs!!!!

A nation of sheep, of followers need to waken up, need to rise up and be counted before the tories and nu labour sell us down the river, with an imaginary debt! Who do we owe this money too? Who created this debt? You? Me? Bankers? Hedge betting?

How long can this austerity be suffered? How long before this country devolves into Greece style rioting?

My fervent hope is that enough people can wake up and deny this debt like the Icelandic people who are thriving without paying their debt!

It is ridiculous that we are one of the richest countries in the wetern world and we are cutting so many crucial public sector jobs. Its time we informed the Government how dissapointed and frustrated we are in their mismanagement of funds.

I am not the most politically motivated trade unionist there has ever been but if we do not waken up and see what this government is doing to its people then we are all going to turn up for our public sector jobs one day and the padlocks will be on the gates and there will be no way back for the working class people of this great country to help get us back to being a nation of wealth and growth in the UK, in europe and the rest of the world.The Peoples Charter is the way forward for the working people of this country to let their voices be truly heard.

I think for any charter to work there has to be some clout behind the words. So this petition needs to be part of a wider campaign of civil action, demonstrations, active and passive resistance and a display of the type of moral and physical courage shown by trade unionist of the past.

independence YES. E.U. N.A.T.O. NO.

It is time the gap between rich and poor is reduced so that we can all enjoy a fairer society.

I marched yesterday in Glasgow along with thousands of others all over the UK and I'll do whatever it takes to show this government that Austerity is not working and we are not all in this together. This government is determined to destroy ever single thing that ordinary people (phelbs) have worked to build for the last 70 years and to take us all back to where the rich got richer and the poor got ill and died!!!!

really feel sorry for all those young folk unable to find work, where is their future? while those in power waltz around in a bubble, making up plans to protect themselves

How long will the UK government continue to try to dupe the public with the smoke screen of austerity measures for the supposed benefit of all when it is obvious they are using the current economic circumstacnes as an excuse and unwarranted justification to dismantle the welfare state, local authority services and pusue their right wing agenda of cuts for the poor, perks for tehrich.

Interesting that we have a Coalition Westminster governement now suggesting retired individuals shsoudl work and be less of a burden to the public purse but the reality is there are insufficient jobs for what is traditionally the working population
- 16
- 65 years olds. Where are the job opportunities for "retirees" coming from?

Though many of the proposals on this charter face substantial political opposition, and economic and structural difficulties in implementation, it is hugely important for those who care about justice and a more caring society to have a clear vision of their basic ideals, and to demonstrate its commitment to them, even if change may be an arduous and fraught process. In its broad scope, then, I am behind this charter 100%, and urge those in power to always keep such ideals in sight, attempt get as close to it as is feasible, and not be disuaded from these goals by the partisans of social fragmentation masquerading as pragmatists, no matter how little of these goals may in practice, at present, be realised.

When will the inhabitants of the Westminster Bubble admit that it is impossible to "Cut" your way out of a recession. We must Grow our way out of this mess.

The points outlined in the Peoples Charter are indications for the starting of a programme of humane benefit for the common good.
If we are to live in Scotland with Social Justice the People's Charter is surely the minimum starting point. End the housing crisis which both chronic and acute by investing in Council Housing to stimulate the economy as a whole.
Iain Mac innes

I want to live in a Scotland that will see a massive

We need a real alternative! And some Scottish politicians prepared to stand up for it.

The six demands in this petition are achievable. They can be practically applied and promoted in our daily lives. I am reminded of the original Chartists whose crusade for working class trade unions was achieved only through struggle. A great power when the film from our eyes is wiped clear and the People of Britain work to build a better future free from the harness of Capital. We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants and Remember their Sacrifices for a better world.

Most of my adult life has been fighting for Independence. I truly believe we as a nation will encourage the heart back into politics which has sadly been missing for a long time. The coalition government have had their way with austerity measures on debt we do not even owe, whilst spending our oil revenue on English projects. I have had enough of this Westminster parliament and want rid of it. The Trident latest being forced once again on us Scots is diabolical. I was one of the original Faslane peace campers who set up camp in June the 10th. I fought Thatcher and her cuts and her poll tax. I will continue to my dying breath to fight for fairness in Scotland.