Tony Bennett

The R J Mansfield petiton on the Prime Minister's website has attracted thousands of votes in the past week and is now lying 29th in terms of popular support. We must all work to get that up to No. 1 ASAP. The moment it gets there, it will become a news item, for sure. And once that happens, the ball should roll faster and faster.

For interest, here are the other most propualr petitions (I've listed just the top 50) - and their level of support up to tonight:

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to

Submitted by / Deadline to sign by / Signatures

1. Abolish plans to build a £100 million mega Mosque.
(with government response)
Jill Barham
18 July 2007
87578

2. Stop proposed restrictions regarding photography in public places
(with government response)
Simon Taylor
14 August 2007
68044

3. Change the current student loan interest repayment, to deduct payments monthly not annually (with government response)
Juliette Frazer
10 January 2008
67611

4. Continue funding for the Royal AIr Force Aerobatics Team - The Red Arrows (with government response)
Nigel Thorpe
24 July 2007
59990

5. Repeal the Hunting Act 2004.
Nick Onslow FRES
15 November 2007
40153

6. Professional Status For Engineers and Engineering
Jon Jennings
23 January 2008
30421

7. Immediately and retrospectively give all Gurkha servicemen and their immediate families past and present British citizenship
Gillon Johnstone
19 October 2007
24196

8. Stop the Chancellor from using lottery money to fund the Olympics in 2012
Dawn Kenyon
16 September 2007
23730

9. Bring back dedicated military hospitals and provide adequate facilities (non NHS) for members of the Armed Forces who are injured or disabled in the course of their duties.
Joseph O'Gorman
6 August 2007
19680

10. Abolish all faith schools and prohibit the teaching of creationism and other religious mythology in all UK schools
Nicola Holt
15 November 2007
15547

11. Defend the right of Christian Unions to control who may come into leadership of them
Anthony Fuller
17 July 2007
14791

12. Scrap all existing and planned tolls, 'road pricing' and so called 'congestion charging'.
John McGoldrick
14 December 2007
13975

13. Make Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister
Joseph Dark
17 April 2008
12745

14. Recognise the deep concerns people have about the safety of the conviction of Michael Shields for a crime committed in Bulgaria. We call on the Prime Minister and his Government to do all they can to assist in persuading the Bulgarian Government to re-open the case and for them to look at new and existing evidence.
Cllr Joe Anderson
18 April 2008
12656

15. Encourage people to get their five a day by cutting taxation on healthy fruit smoothies and juices to 5%.
Innocent drinks
10 October 2007
11745

16. Ask the Sports Minister, RH Richard Caborn MP, to intervene with the Football Association after my football club was 'unfairly' docked points and thrown out of the FA Trophy, following a technical administrative error. (with government response)
Russell Smith
3 September 2007
10365

17. Reject any proposals to ban or restrict the use of older cars Richard Jewell
18 March 2008
10328

18. Retain the Royal Haslar Hospital
David Price
26 October 2007
10109

19. Arrange for the cost of repairs to C of E church buildings to be reimbursed to help preserve our archeological & historic heritage for the future.
Bill Blake
3 July 2007
9883

20. Allow the use of 'Bus Only' lanes by scooters and motorcyles throughout the UK
Richard Skepper
22 July 2007
9468

21. Prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also.
Lynette Dobson
20 August 2007
9295

22. Bring in new legislation to prevent the current abuse by banks and companys in relation to penalty charges
Stephen Hone
28 August 2007
9187

23. Accept the National Association of Estate Agents' concerns about the Home Infomation Pack legislation and the likely affect on the housing market and the economy. We call for the relevant section of the Housing Act to be repealed and ask the Government to discuss more relevant ways of improving the house buying and selling process.
Charles Smailes
12 September 2007
9058

24. Prevent the threatened closure of the A&E department at St. Richards Hospital, Chichester.
Brian Evans
22 August 2007
8950

25. Ensure the survival of independent midwifery in the UK and thereby offer real choice to pregnant women
Kay Hardie
5 September 2007
8553

26. Urgently, and substantially, increase the number of Junior Physiotherapist jobs in the NHS
Jill Wigmore-Welsh
11 July 2007
8509

27. Change the law to permit our target pistol shooters to prepare properly for international and Olympic competitions.
Richard V Malbon
20 November 2007
7998

28. Show support that the English people be allowed to celebrate their patron saints day,St George's Day each 23rd of April with a Bank Holiday.
Julia Howemen
19 January 2008
7905

29. Guarantee that the British people will be permitted a binding referendum on any and all attempts to resurrect the EU 'Cconstitution' (and any or all of its content) regardless of nomenclature
R J Mansfield
31 January 2008
7851

30. Extend the London Underground to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Chris Moore
6 August 2007
7608

31. Stop any plans of outsourcing work/letters/Medical results/typing from the NHS to India
Liz Hughes
19 July 2007
7494

32. Scrap plans to allow the banks to share bank account details with others, without getting permission from individual account holders first.
Richard Goedegebuur
9 January 2008
7409

33. Prohibit discrimination in the provision of goods, services and facilities on the grounds of sexual orientation for the remainder of the UK at the earliest point possible
Phelim MacCafferty
17 January 2008
7183

34. Encourage people to cycle by removing VAT on bicycles, tricycles and human powered vehicles and on all cycling parts and spares.
Gary Rowing-Parker
8 August 2007
6795

35. Pass legislation to give canoeists and all other users of un-powered craft the free right to navigate all rivers and canals in England and Wales (similar to the right already enjoyed by cyclists to use bridleways, cycle tracks and roads).
Roger L. Revell
3 January 2008
6620

36. Get the Health Service and medical profession to accept the WHO classification of ME/CFS as an organic neurological disorder and not as a psychosocial syndrome.
Konstanze Allsopp
22 January 2008
6008

37. Upgrade the A1 to dual carriageway between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Morpeth.
Kenneth Patterson
3 April 2008
5771

38. Honour Parliament's committment to patient choice by preserving the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and the service it provides as an integral part of the NHS
Carol Boyce
12 July 2007
5724

39. Oppose the addition of any breed or breed type to Section One of the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991, to oppose any amendments to the Act which call for the restriction of any breed or type (for instance, muzzling in public) and to oppose any Amnesty which does not run in-line with the 1997 Amendment, which may allow some owners to keep their dogs by having them entered on the Register of Exempt Dogs.
Rachel Morrow
9 January 2008
5555

40. Give his personal assurance to British Kidney Cancer Patients that the newly licensed and approved drugs; Sutent (sunitinib) & Nexavar (sorafenib) will be made available to Kidney Cancer patients throughout the United Kingdom on prescription and fully funded by 'our' NHS. Kidney Cancer is notoriously difficult to treat, the standard cancer treatments of chemotherapy/ radiation therapy are not effective against Kidney Cancer (Renal cell Carcinoma). Leading cancer consultants agree that Sutent & Nexavar represent the first real advance in treatment for a hitherto almost untreatable cancer.
Rose Woodward
5 February 2008
5379

41. Ignore the petition to repeal the Hunting Act 2004
Matthew Elphinstone-Walker
20 November 2007
5217

42. Stop Manchester Congestion Charging from happening
Paul Daly
30 January 2008
5014

43. Stand on his head and juggle ice-cream.
Tim Ireland
16 August 2007
4965

44. Introduce tax exemptions for care vouchers to support carers who work
Stephen Burke
3 July 2007
4937

45. Cancel the Humber Bridge debt and reduce tolls.
Paul Harrop
2 January 2008
4892

46. Ensure every pregnant woman in the UK is offered a reliable test for the Group B Strep bacteria
Sarah Hart
19 January 2008
4784

47. Honour the agreement this government signed at the Laeken summit in 2001 to increase state pensions to 40 per cent of the National Average Wage by 2007
Roy Godfrey
26 February 2008
4723

48. Halt plans by the OCR to abolish the Ancient History A-level
Jack Lennon
4 April 2008
4648

49. Scrap Lord Carter's Legal Aid Reforms
Cathie Halliday
22 January 2008
4446

50. Remove the fixed date of 1972 to qualify as 'historic vehicle' and make the qualifying date on the vehicle's 25th birthday.
Stephen Clay MBE
29 July 2007
4290

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Tony Bennett

Up from 29th to 26th position at 1pm today with total signatures now over 8,000.

N.B. message from Speakout just received:

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A big thank-you to all those who signed the Downing Street petition calling on Gordon Brown to honour his manifesto pledge to give us a referendum on giving sweeping new powers to the European Union.

The number of signatures has more than doubled to almost 8,000 but this is nowhere near enough to register on the media radar screens.

What we need is for you to email 10, 20, 100 of your contacts and get them to sign the petition.

We need to build the momentum. Please - do it today.

Here is the link - http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EU-treaty-NON/

When you have done that we would invite you to visit the new Blog and News sections of the Speakout website.

http://www.speakout.co.uk/blog.aspx

Thanks

John Yates
Director
Speakout Campaign

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Tony Bennett

Quite a good day for the petition, it has risen from 29th to 24th most popular in a day, the total number of signatures tonight being 8,788 (twelve more signed whilst I was typing this posting). Therefore nearly 1,000 have signed it today.

Now, with the petition closing on 31 January, I make that 211 days away.

If 1,000 signed every day, that would be another 211,000, ending up with a total of 220,000 or so.

Under a quarter of a million.

Not enough.

If however we could get this up to 10,000 a day, we would be in business.

If over 1.8 million could sign against road pricing, then surely we can 'top' that to get a referendum on the provisions of this E.U. Treaty - which has already been promised us?

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P.S. A question I asked on this Forum a few weeks ago which was never answered by anyone - and I would like to pose it again. Why isn't this poll featured prominently on UKIP's home page of its website? Is UKIP leaving all the campaigning against the Treaty to speakout?

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Tony Bennett

Well, today the R J Mansfield petition calling for a referendum on the new E.U. Treaty reached 20th place at around 5.30pm - and is close on 19th now, with 9,668 signatories - another 800-odd today.

Good going - but not nearly so good as the No. 1 petition: "Abolish plans to build a £100 million mega Mosque".

Today alone it attracted 8,000 signatures, taking the number of signatories to date up from 98,000 yesterday to well over 106,000 today.

What a shame it ends on 18th July

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UKIP MAN

Hey Ive found a youtube vid advertising it!!!!







:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Tony Bennett

Tonight the R J Mansfield petition calling for a referendum on the E.U. Treaty is up to 18th position, with (at 11pm) 10,197 votes.

(Meanwhile this petition: "Abolish plans to build a £100 million mega Mosque" attracted ten thousand signatures today alone, swelling the total to well over 116,000. It was at 98,000 just 48 hours ago. That's about 1 vote every 8/9 seconds. Shows what can be done)

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Tony Bennett

The R J Mansfield petition calling for a national referendum on the proposed E.U. petition is now ranked 16th on the Prime Minister's website, with 10542 signatures at the time of posting.

The numbers signing have slackened off after last week's surge.

An indication of how far there is to go is that a petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made Prime Ministe is now ranked 13th, with well over 12,000 signatures (how did the Prime Minister's office allow that facetious petition through in the first place?).

I understand from fellow campaigners for a referendum that there are several instances of organisations that you would expect to at least mention this petition on their websites etc., and have been repeatedly asked to do so by several people - but have failed to respond or have actively refused to even mention this petition on their websites. These include:

1) UKIP's website still fails to mention it despite many requests

2) Ditto - Better Off Out

3) Ditto - Democracy Movement

4) Ditto - Campaign for an Independent Britian.

5) Ditto - The Daily Telegraph, which has its own e-petition

6) Ditto - Conservative Home.

Speakout is the main glorious exception to the rule at this stage - plus the Freedom Association; they mention it on their website. Some of those organisations qutoed above claim they only want to promote their own organisations and petitions.

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Westcountryman

Can't see why they haven't put it up. I'll be sure to put it on UKIP Cornwall today.

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pentameter

Judging from this:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/to....html#comments

Conservative Home are commissioning a piece on the referendum and will put up a link to the petition. See the the 3rd and 4th comments.

Tony Bennett

Pleased to see the last two items of more hopeful news.

I have just received this communication from Dr Denis Cooper, the ex-UKIP member frorm Maidenhead who is a very actively campaigning in support of a referendum on the E.U. Treaty. He wrote:

"The editor (of Conservative Home) has just said that he'll put in a permanent link to the petition, so I hope he keeps his word on that. Quite a good traffic, claimed nearly 37,000 hits one day last week. And not all Tories (in fact as far as comments go Tories may even be in a minority) - some overtly Labour and LibDem visitors and commenters as well. Fingers crossed!"

Meanwhile the petition againt the 'Mega Mosque' has soared to over 123,000...with just 10 voting days to go.

I bet it tops 150,000...

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