RPI to CPI Early Day Motion 1032

BoxerfanUK

Whats happened to the Number 10 e-petitions website? Has it been closed down under the Lib Cons?

BoxerfanUK

Ripoff wrote: »

Is it time to join under one umbrella? [/QUOTE]
I agree, but it also needs someone with a large media profilE to spearhead a campaign for this, such as the sponsor of this site/forum. Come on :money:... HOW ABOUT IT???

Ripoff_2

BoxerfanUK wrote: »

Whats happened to the Number 10 e-petitions website? Has it been closed down under the Lib Cons?

They say they are opening it up again.

When or should I say if they do then this issue will be on there!

Ripoff_2

BoxerfanUK wrote: »

Ripoff wrote: »

Is it time to join under one umbrella?/QUOTE]
I agree, but it also needs someone with a large media profilE to spearhead a campaign for this, such as the sponsor of this site/forum. Come on :money:... HOW ABOUT IT???

Nice idea, I would have thought this campaign was right up Martins street, he will surely be able to get the point across better than any of us. What do you say Martin?

chris_m

Ripoff wrote: »

Originally Posted by BoxerfanUK
Whats happened to the Number 10 e-petitions website? Has it been closed down under the Lib Cons?

They say they are opening it up again.

When or should I say if they do then this issue will be on there!

Last I heard the plan certainly is to relaunch it - with some degree of moderation to avoid the really frivolous "petitions", like "Clarkson for PM" and similar daft things which, TBH, devalued the principle. I'm afraid some people treated it like they treat places like eBay, where you sometimes get totally frivolous listings heading for astronomical bids where neither the item exists (or is even available for sale) nor any of the "bidders" have any intention of paying.

The plan, as I last heard, was also for petitions gaining sufficient support to actually be debated in Parliament.

However, I haven't seen anything about timescales.

Interested_Taxpayer

Ripoff wrote: »

BoxerfanUK wrote: »

Nice idea, I would have thought this campaign was right up Martins street, he will surely be able to get the point across better than any of us. What do you say Martin?

COME ON MARTIN :money:

BoxerfanUK

Ripoff wrote: »

BoxerfanUK wrote: »

Nice idea, I would have thought this campaign was right up Martins street, he will surely be able to get the point across better than any of us. What do you say Martin?

How do we contact Martin? I presume he can't possibly read half the threads on this forum unless he's superhuman, what about the helpers/moderators, could they bring this to his attention? As you say, this sort of thing would be right up his street and someone like him could make this issue very high profile with his TV exposure etc.

Interested_Taxpayer

I would have thought that BBC pensioners will be affected by this Government robbery.
If so, are there any ex BBC people out there who have the contacts to get Panorama to do a piece to make the millions of affected people aware of the scandal which is about to hit them?
They did something recently about the HMRC tax code errors. Martin also covered that.

Old_Slaphead

Interested_Taxpayer wrote: »

I would have thought that BBC pensioners will be affected by this Government robbery.
If so, are there any ex BBC people out there who have the contacts to get Panorama to do a piece to make the millions of affected people aware of the scandal which is about to hit them?

I believe that the BBC Unions have agreed a CPI up to a max of 4% deal.

BoxerfanUK

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

I believe that the BBC Unions have agreed a CPI up to a max of 4% deal.

If thats true then that's part of the problem! Unions not in union, unilaterally making decisions and agreements without looking at the big picture and consequently playing right into the governments divide & conquer agenda :mad: