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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to immediately remove the deposit required when a citizen wishes to be put forward to be elected to be a Member of Parliament in this country. More details
Submitted by keith jones of taxpaying pensioner without political affilation – Deadline to sign up by: 06 June 2010 – Signatures: 31
More details from petition creator
The number of people who have been left penniless because of government policy over the last 12 years means that many who wish to put themselves forward to challenge the corrupt Members of Parliament currently occupying seats in the House of Commons simply cannot afford to do so. There have been many utterances by socialist politicians about 'lowering the bar' so that more people can aspire to be MPs (some even argue that is why they were given tax free allowances and unrestricted access to taxpayer pounds in the form of 'expenses' in the first place) but the deposit - and the possibility of losing it - continues to put many people off. Removing the deposit is the only way that corrupt elected representatives being replaced by honest elected representatives is going to be achieved in this country.
Current signatories
keith jones, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- marg barry
- Alexander Thomson
- Philip Glover
- Phil Brand
- Jennifer Rowley
- dp
- Richard Healing
- Dick King
- S King
- Jeff
- James
- Andrew Hart
- Andrew Constantine
- Liam James Tempany
- Graham Crane (petitions.number10.gov.uk/Scrap-LGO/)
- Adam Douglass
- trudy bates
- Jarred Davies
- Clare Kingston
- Andy Arnold
- Michael Arnold
- daniel ramsay
- mr j stonehouse
- joanne frost
- brian winson
- C Skeldon
- Mike Haseler
- Timothy Gulliver
- adrian dwole
- Anne Kasica, the-shg.org
