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Scrap bombs and War! Support pensioners!

stu | 26.11.2006 14:41 | Social Struggles | Birmingham | Cambridge

Raising awareness about poverty amongst the elderly.

A petition demanding that this society take better care of our elderly


Petition to the Prime Minister in support of pensioners

The United Kingdom is the fifth strongest economy in the world, it currently spends billions on wars, and is now considering spending over 20billion on upgrading the Trident nuclear weapon system.
Yet our pensioners are the most impoverished in western europe.
During winter time many pensioners face the prospect of having to either pay for food or heat. Our elderly suffer whilst gas and electricity suppliers are steadily making huge profits through price rises. This petition demands that the present government link the state pension with salary increases, and
that pensioners are made exempt from paying water and sewage
rates.
 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/supportelderly/

stu


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