Petition to the Prime Minister in support of pensioners
The United Kingdom is the fifth strongest economy in the world, but 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/
The United Kingdom is the fifth strongest economy in the world, but 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/
That's all well and good but...
17.01.2007 09:32
We can ask until we're blue in the face, but no government has ever cared what the people thought except when it comes to staying in power, and then it's nothing but a series of token gestures, hot air and spin, accompanied by a "choice" that isn't. It makes no difference who you vote for - the government always wins, and the apparatus of power and corruption remains virtually unchanged. It's the entire system that needs changing, not just small aspects of it.
I'd like to petition all governments to stop existing so local communities can organise themselves on the principles of mutual aid, co-operation, non-hierarchy and respect for the planet. But you can bet your arse that even if everyone in the whole world signed, those in power would make use of their power to ignore us, or make use of the mass media to tell us the opposite, or maybe even just pay a bunch of goons (sorry, I mean the military and police, though it's not like there's any difference) to beat us up and kill enough of us that the rest back down for fear of their lives.
This is the way of the world under their system, and it's not changing until we rise up and smash it.
So by all means petition the bastards, but don't hold your breath. When it comes to making necessary changes, solidarity and direct action is the only way forward (and I don't mean marching around waving placards either, since that's also far too easily ignored, suppressed or pacified with lies).
Ultimately the E-Petitions website is just another way of the state reinforcing the illusion that you have any say in the way the country is run, when you don't (unless you have serious dough). Time for a reality check, because as long as you keep asking politicians for things, you might as well just pin your hopes on a "lucky" rabbit's foot.
A million pensioners rioting... now that'd be a sight! (I'd love to see them try to put the spin on that one...)
Not defeatist, just realist
anyone know how to
17.01.2007 14:29
yakker
Vote every four years to show you care
19.01.2007 19:16
MP's could not care less about the electorate 'coz they know that if you buy into their democracy then you have no choice - it's one group of people who couldn't give a shit compared with another group of people who only care about themselves - Some 4king choice.
Croltbopper