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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to persist with his praiseworthy plan to persuade the G20 to place a Tobin Tax on financial transactions, designed to aid poorer countries and increase financial stability. More details
Submitted by Richard Lawson – Deadline to sign up by: 17 December 2009 – Signatures: 88
More details from petition creator
The PM has put forward the idea of a Tobin Tax at the G20 meeting in November. This is a tax on financial transactions, which will be hypothecated to poor countries, to which the PM has not unreasonably added a clause to put some to meeting the cost of the next bank bailout. The US and Canada have already talked sown the idea, but many poorer countries and nearly all NGOs will welcome it, and we encourage our PM to persist against all odds.
Current signatories
Richard Lawson, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Fred Brenton
- Cllr Philip Booth,
- linda lever
- Brian Leslie
- Phyl Leslie
- Martin Deane
- Dilys Cluer
- Dave Phillips
- Stuart Jeffery
- C'llr. Rupert Read
- WendyD
- Ben Bradley
- Christopher Padley
- Nigel Harding
- Elinor Croxall
- Deborah Pate
- Sean Thompson
- Robert Irving
- Cllr Jason Kitcat
- Dr Kaihsu Tai
- Douglas Coker
- Robert Triggs
- Carol Kambites
- Nick Wilkins
- Kevin Meaney
- Joseph Simpkins
- Linda Garrard
- Daniel Carins
- Molly Scott Cato
- Richard Bossons
- Ingelin Christensen
- Aldo Mussi
- Benjamin Mabbett
- Karen Leach
- Dr Hugh Swann
- Philip Burrows
- Paul Anderson
- Charlie Graham
- John Marjoram
- Jessica Hodge
- Derek Quinn
- Miranda Cox
- Jon Lucas
- Ricky Knight
- John Heywood
- Councillor Peter Christie
- Hugh Prentice
- Rebecca Yeo
- Adrian Bonds
- shan Oakes
- Chris Keppie
- Vivien Pomfrey MSc
- Lindsay Southcombe
- Rob Pickering
- Helen Banks
- Nicola Belle
- Susan Dack
- Julieanne Porter
- Andrew Bellamy
- Samir Jeraj
- Gill Westcott
- Sam Partington
- Steve Gerrish
- Janet Alty, Green Party
- Rob Ballantyne
- Tony Ross
- Ruth Alison Lewis
- Erica Thompson
- Cllr Martin Whiteside
- Tina Everett
- David Gregory-Smith
- Anne Winner
- Will Everett
- Birgitta Ashworth
- Sue Tanner
- jo sutton
- Dr D. Martin Conway
- Cathy Bell
- Karen Varga
- Cllr John Tanner
- Steve Plater
- Nick Anderson
- John Partington
- Margaret King
- John Bradon
- Tim Hubbard
- Julian Oram
