Campaign suggestions
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What is this part of the website for?
- 38 Degrees members decide together what we campaign on. One way members can suggest campaigns is through this part of the website.
- This part of the website also helps determine how popular campaigns are through the voting system.
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What happens to my campaign suggestions and votes?
- 38 Degrees campaigns are driven by what members want to do. Uservoice one of a number of ways in which 38 Degrees members can say what they one to the 38 Degrees to work on.
- If an idea is really popular on this Uservoice part of the website 38 Degrees will consult members about the idea in other ways e.g. through discussions on our blog and Facebook group and through member surveys.
- Please note that an idea being popular on this part of the website does not guarantee that it will become a 38 Degrees campaign. This is because firstly this area of the site is not visted by all 38 Degrees members and secondly because it is possible for non-members to vote. This can potentially skew the results. If in a member survey the wider 38 Degrees membership says other issues are more important, those issues will take priority.
- If 38 Degrees members vote that an idea should be a priority in our main member survey as well as on this part of the web site, the 38 Degrees office team will start work to turn it into a campaign. You can see the results of these main member surveys here: http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/tag/poll/
Can I ask others to boost the ranking of my issue?
- It might feel tempting to try and boost the ranking of your favorite issue by encouraging loads of people not involved with 38 Degrees to come and vote for it.
- Please don’t do this — this is intended as a space for 38 Degrees members to discuss together what they want us to do.
Are there any rules?
- It’s really important that the 38 Degrees website is a place where we can all have a healthy debate – which is why we don’t moderate comments or campaign suggestions before they are published. However, to ensure our site stays family friendly we have a few rules that you can read here:
http://38degrees.org.uk/pages/comments-policy
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National Trust to remove Creationist Display from The Giants Causeway Visitor Centre
The National Trust opened a Visitors Centre at the Giants Causeway, inside it is a display that gives credence to the idea held by fundamentalist evangelical Young Earth Creationists that the earth is a mere 6000 years old. It gets murkier when digging deeper and finding out that the local extremist Caleb Foundation, who tried to get similar YEC displays in the Ulster Museum, have links to local councillors and MLA's..some of whom were involved in the Visitors Centre. This "Foundation" is opposed to equal rights concerning same-sex marriages and such-like.
402 votes -
83 votes
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Asking the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) to publish information on MP's spare bedrooms at taxpayers' expense
To ask IPSA to publish information which lists the number of bedrooms that MPs have in their London accommodation - paid for through their taxpayer-funded expenses.
Why?
In the light of the current legislation which aims to claw money back from social housing tenants who are in receipt of housing benefit if their accommodation has 'too many' bedrooms - it might be interesting to discover how many MPs have claimed for housing that they 'under-occupy', and which of these MPs are in favour of the bedroom tax.
3 votes -
Hedgerow Trimming at sensible times of the year
Trim hedgerows at the correct time, not just when it's convenient!
Hedges are often flail trimmed at inappropriate times, having a massive effect on wild-life.
i.e. hedges are trimmed in the spring when they are about to come into flower and birds are nesting, or in the autumn after fruit have set, destroying winter food stores.
It is understood that time is money, so using flails instead of traditional hedge management is seen to be acceptable, but to flail them when they are at their most productive is such a waste, especially since hedges are now the last refuge of…7 votes -
4 votes
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BAN THE BEDROOM TAX
This is a human rights issue, if you can't pay you have a very realistic chance of becoming homeless. If you do pay and that means you're on benefits you can't afford to pay. Why should people give up their HOMES?? There is NO BLACK AND WHITE only grey. There are so many things wrong with this idea. The poor are getting hit for what the banks did and they're okay, in their 15 roomed mansions. Are they paying tax for their houses?? What about people who find themselves on benefits for the first time in their lives due to…
4 votes -
'extra house(s) tax' should be introduced
If they're getting taxed for having more than one house per household then they're going to be more inclined to sell for a lesser amount than if they were having the luxury of less tax for 2nd/3rd houses that they have now, which will lower the cost of buying houses AND free up houses at the same time, meaning no new builds needed. We need more houses for our ever growing population, yet there are people with 3/4 houses & it's not on.
4 votes -
The sale of inflated concert tickets above face value and legal touting from ticket companies
I would like to see the sale of concert tickets through over inflated resale prices stopped via sites such as Ebay and similar. In addition the ability of large ticket selling organisations to be allowed to legally tout, selling face value tickets at three times the price stopped so that the average individual has the opportunity to buy tickets at face value.
Currently a lot of tickets to popular bands are snatched up by ticket companies before they are even available to the general public.
In the sporting world this practice has been stopped and tickets are sold with a…
6 votes -
Ban the importation of live Ash trees from EU countries
Ash trees imported into the uk are highly likely to be infected with Ash Dieback Disease (Chalara fraxinea). This is fatal to the UK native Ash tree population (Fraxinus excelior). The disease is present in most EU countries including Holland, Denmark France and Germany.
It is imported to this country via nursey tree stock and in not subject to EU plant passport controls.
It is spread via rain splash or insect movement. The likely result is the loss of all Ash trees in the UK if this disease get a footing in the country. Forestry Commission Research suggest that this…
239 votes -
One UK Citizen One Vote
Voting in the UK should be limited to British citizens or extended to all people residing in the UK legally. Current legislation allows citizens of Commonwealth countries legally resident in the UK to vote in all elections while other people (e.g. EU nationals) are not given that privilege. This means that people from Namibia and Cameroon (for example) may vote in British parliamentary elections while Dutch and Swedish citizens (for example) are prevented from voting.
The Commonwealth is a club dating back to Victorian times and I am certain that most of the Commonwealth nations do not provide the same…
4 votes -
No further land should be sought for housing development in the UK, until all the thousands of permitted applications have been completed
There are already thousands of housing applications throughout the UK that have been granted planning permission, but due to the way the regulations are implemented, the developers are able to 'sit on' such sites for the value to increase. If all these sites were used for the reported housing shortage, we might not be looking at the potential loss of greenfield and green belt sites. .
4 votes -
Encourage the Government of the UK to take action against the insecurity of Human Rights
We believe that the deprivation of human rights and insecurity of people living under terror is unjustifiable. Governments all around the world use terror as a means of torturing and brutality as well as a disregard for human rights. We believe it is necessary for us to understand that human rights violations should end and therefore we should advocate - make a change.
27 votes -
abolish the BNP party
the british natiionalist party stand for fascim and racism i wish to make the world a better place by abolishing these
19 votes -
Save UK Justice
The MOJ should not proceed with their plans to reduce access to justice by depriving citizens of legal aid or the right to representation by the Solicitor of their choice.
6 votes -
Racist Article to Be Removed from (Daily Mail) Mail Online
Article headlined with 'Tyranny of the Welsh Taliban'. An opinion evidence based article falsely + propagandising an 'oppression in Wales of the Welsh language against its people'
Written by Roger Lewis who has previously described the Welsh language in a Daily Mail article "I abhor the appalling and moribund monkey language myself, which hasn’t had a new noun since the Middle Ages"
Roger Lewis also said in this article that 'The Welsh language society- a mob that could teach the Taliban a thing or two, went around vandalising the English road signs'
By "vandalising" actually translates to making the road…
91 votes -
Stop SKY's take over of O2's broadband.
It's just been announced that SKY are buying O2's broadband and landline activities; SKY is already too powerful and has been tainted by phone hacking, the Hillsborough disaster and various other scandals.
I suggest that a campaign is started to put a halt to this purchase.
If it’s not possible to stop the purchase a clause should be built in to allow those with a conscience to exit contracts without penalty.16 votes -
Approve Duane Chapman's visa to enter the UK
Duane Chapman is an American bounty hunter who has captured over 7,000 criminals in a career spanning over 30 years.
He has been denied a visa to enter the UK due to a criminal conviction 35 years ago.
A charge that old should have no bearing on the decision to deny Mr Chapman his visa in light of his continued work to fight crime across the USA.
69 votes -
Thousands of dogs and cats put down every year in UK Please visit.http://www.puppylovecampaigns.org/whatyoucando.shtml
Thousands of dogs and cats are put down in this country every year, because of over breeding. We need to bring in new laws that stops dog and cat breeding farms and back yard breeders from profiting from this cruel trade. Too many of theses animals are kept in horrendous conditions never seeing the light of day and suffering in pain each day. Please write your MP and make 2013 a year that finally stops this cruel industry in the uk and Ireland. Thank you.
37 votes -
1 vote
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Stop any public funding of Maggie Thatcher's funeral.
I don't want any public funding of Thatcher's funeral, we can't afford it, while we are cutting every other public service taxes fund.
4 votes
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