People's Charter

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 20 Sep 2012
   Meeting of the Parliament

   Point of Order
   1 mention
2. 11 Dec 2012
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   2 mentions
3. 5 Mar 2013
   Public Petitions Committee

   Current Petitions
   1 mention
4. 30 Apr 2013
   Public Petitions Committee

   Current Petitions
   1 mention

1. Scotland1,656 84.1%
2. United Kingdom266 13.5%
3. England20 1%
4. Wales9 0.5%
5. Northern Ireland9 0.5%
6. United States2 0.1%
7. Iceland1 0.1%
8. Chile1 0.1%
9. Afghanistan1 0.1%
10. Poland1 0.1%
11. 2 other countries2 0.1%

1. mike cowley 14 Sep 2012
   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.
2. Simon Macfarlane 15 Sep 2012
   Let's spread the word far and wide on this petition.
3. Raymond Mennie 17 Sep 2012
   These are the real alternative solutions to the crisis of Capitalism
4. thomas wilson 18 Sep 2012
   would like to wish you the best of luck hope your petion does some good
5. C Henson 18 Sep 2012
   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.
6. Dr Malcolm James Cook 20 Sep 2012
   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.
7. Jim Whyte 21 Sep 2012
   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!
8. E.P.Drummond 22 Sep 2012
   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.)
9. Paul Smith 25 Sep 2012
   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.
10. John Watt 26 Sep 2012
    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.
11. sam macartney 27 Sep 2012
    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!
12. David Gavin 28 Sep 2012
    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
13. Ronnie Moran 29 Sep 2012
    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.
14. Hugh Gaffney 29 Sep 2012
    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.
15. Charles Gray 30 Sep 2012
    Scotland is the true home of Socialism: with our
    Trade Unions, let's recover what is best for those
    in need!
16. stephen mc killop 2 Oct 2012
    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
17. joe kirby 11 Oct 2012
    if independance is to happen then we need to secure our country to make it our own
18. john campbell 11 Oct 2012
    Glasgow 1&2 I've signed
19. catriona kirby stuart 11 Oct 2012
    i agree to the charter 100 percent
20. jordan stuart 11 Oct 2012
    we need this to be passed
21. anne jack 11 Oct 2012
    freedom and indepandance and a propserous country
22. cheryl kirby 11 Oct 2012
    im moving back to vote so that scotland can prosper
23. Janette Wiseman 12 Oct 2012
    We need a decent pay for the work we do, I got this same houly rate in 2004
24. michaela 12 Oct 2012
    A fairer economy
25. Murray Steele 12 Oct 2012
    Neo-liberalism has failed the world over, now is the time to push for a democratic socialist alternative.
26. Angus 12 Oct 2012
    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
27. Gerry Skeith 12 Oct 2012
    we are not a strong country unless our voice can be heard above the political pigeons in office.
28. Joyce Pargeter 12 Oct 2012
    This will improve quality of life for everyone
29. judith 12 Oct 2012
    keep people employed
30. BIKI 12 Oct 2012
    Better future for all please.
31. Lorraine Conwell 12 Oct 2012
    Give the Power to the people
32. Rab Amos 12 Oct 2012
    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.
33. Brian 12 Oct 2012
    lets stop talking about action, now's the time to take action.
34. Maria 12 Oct 2012
    for the betterment of Scotland, let's go for it.
35. Aboud Nema 12 Oct 2012
    This is a great work, we need this to be passed, and for good future.
36. Ailsa Wilson 12 Oct 2012
    make the bankers pay for the suffering that they have caused and make sure it can never happen again!
37. Jennifer Gray 12 Oct 2012
    Reading Scottish History book by T C Smout. Always assaults on the workers
    - people can and have changed outcomes over the years.
38. Martin Ketchion 12 Oct 2012
    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.
39. Jonathan Hoyland 12 Oct 2012
    Britain needs all the help it can get and this can only be done if we stand together.
40. Norma Murphy 12 Oct 2012
    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.
41. John Neil 12 Oct 2012
    The present regime is a future devoid of promise or incentive. When accountants steer the ship you run to close to the rocks.
42. Alison 12 Oct 2012
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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.
43. Brian Smith 12 Oct 2012
    Those who say they represent trade unionists and working people better start showing it or move over......
44. Diarmid MacAulay 13 Oct 2012
    Better jobs is too vague. Scots should have a constitutional right to a liveable wage, decent housing and justice before the law
45. James Forsyth 13 Oct 2012
    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
46. Anne 13 Oct 2012
    We can only hope someone- somewhere LISTENS to people at the 'cliff face'
47. J A Donaghey 13 Oct 2012
    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.
48. alex blyth 13 Oct 2012
    i hpoe this signature is sufficient for ur purposes
49. Caroline McCaw 13 Oct 2012
    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.
50. Wendy-Lynn Brookes 14 Oct 2012
    Something's got to be done. There's people starving and people freezing all because of power and greed.