Please help.... Squaddies On the Streets after Serving Country!!!

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This is for anyone thats just started to read this thread, to stop you having to reading all the entries the following is what this thread is all about. The link at the bottom will take you to the EDM signatories.

I'm sure you can spare 2 minutes to email these MPs and ask them to sign EDM 288. The link at the (BOTTOM) also allows you to show your support for our serving soldiers. Click the link and sign the petition.


The current legislation discriminates against service personnel and puts them at a distinct disadvantage when requiring help with housing. An early day motion is currently being signed by MPs which if carried, will help change this legislation, but we need more of them to sign it if we are to get the government to take notice. We now need your support to get this through. Go to http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alcm.cfm to find your MP and then Email your MP asking for support for this EDM. Come on ARRSERS, get of your arrse and give us some support!. :plotting:

If you wish, you could always take this simple letter and copy and paste it to your MP via the link. Don't forget to place their name and yours in the pasted letter.


Dear *******

The following EDM 288 has been tabled in the House of Commons. I believe our armed forces should be given all the support they require for their civilian transition, and housing is a fundamental requirement. I hope you will show your support by signing EDM 288.

Yours sincerely

*************

The new list of MPs to email, the important thing is you have to come from their constituency to get them to act. If you get a reply from them then place it on site.


Peter Ainsworth EAST SURREY info@peterainsworth.com

Hilary Armstrong NORTH WEST DURHAM http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/258.html or armstrongj@parliament.uk

Tony baldry BANBURY http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/411.html or baldryt@parliament.uk

Nicholas Brown NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE EAST & WALLSEND http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/516.html

Chris Bryant RHONDDA http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/164.html

Paul Burstow SUTTON & CHEAM http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/433.html or fitzgeraldja@parliament.uk

Ben Chapman WIRREL SOUTH http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/179.html or http://phil-waterfield.members.beeb....eb/Contact.htm

Paul Clark GILLINGHAM http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/501.html or clarkp@parliament.uk

Jim Cunningham COVENTRY SOUTH http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/209.html

This is the Royal British Legion web-site link. It's possible to email your M.P and sign the petition using their links, once on their site scrowl down to Problems with Social Housing on Discharge. Thank you for your help in this matter.

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/cont...g-513626.shtml

EDM 288 list of M.P. signed up to supporting our armed forces for housing.

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...05&SESSION=885

Regards
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The need for more people to sign the petition is great. Those that have neither signed the petition or emailed their M.P are asked to do so. We need to show a united front on this issue and support our serving soldiers and their families.

I received the following letter today from Service Personnel and Policy Service Conditions MoD. I have made contact with the the department and await their return call. In my request under the FOI, I asked for all correspodance the MoD have had with the DCLG on this issue. The letter, as polite as it is, is not the information I asked for. At least the acknowledge there's an issue to be addressed.

The areas spoken about in para 2, under the LSAP, soldiers that use this option are not permitted to rent out their property or sell it for a certain period. the social housing Nomination Scheme is over subscribed and the waiting list are very long, some Housing Associations have removed themselves from the scheme. The government funded schemes, such as the Key Worker initiative. Military personnel have to have at least 5 years left to run on their contract. The other point is, only a very small proportion of serving personnel are eligible for the scheme, ten thousand military personnel. There are more Civil Servants eligible for this scheme, fifty thousand.

I hope you will continue to support our Armed Forces in this issue. Please sign the petition and email your M.P to sign EDM288.

Regards
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WE now have over 700 signatures on the Petition, but require to break 1000 by the end of next week. I'm sure many people understand that discrimination has no place in this country. However, thats what our serving soldiers and their families have to put up with when leaving the forces.

This petition is about be treated the same as every other subject in this country. No better and No Worse, just the same. I'm sure other users of this site will be willing to pledge their names to the petition. It takes 2 minutes max, and then you have done your part in helping our armed forces.

Thank you for your Time and your vote.

Regards

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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...05&SESSION=885

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/cont...g-513626.shtml

[bopdude]

Done, yes, i know it's only 25 mins since last post but what the hell, worth it, :place saluting smilie here:

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UPDATE;

I had a meeting with the Shadow Defence Minister, Mark Harper yesterday 19th Feb. I explained the problems faced by service personnel when leaving the forces, and their housing needs. The Shadow Defence Ministers are putting together a forces welfare package as part of their manifesto. This will include service housing and their future housing needs on leaving the forces, as well as some other areas.

I also got introduced to Baroness Thatcher, which was very nice and she looked well.

I hope you will continue to ask friends and family to sign the Petition, and remember to Email your M.Ps asking them to sign EDM 288.

Regards
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There are over 800 signatures on the petition now. All we require is for people to continue to sign and pass it on to friends and family. I'm sure we have some people on site that have read these treads, and thought, I'll do it later. All I would like to say to them is, Sign it now. Help friends and comrades in need, show your support, it only takes 2 minutes to do and it will help others in the future.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/

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[Tezcatlipoca]

My grandfather was in the RAF, & I've got an uncle in the Paras (who recently got back from Afghanistan).


Signed.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by Matt D

My grandfather was in the RAF, & I've got an uncle in the Paras (who recently got back from Afghanistan).


Signed.

Thats just it, we all, or most of us, have, or have had, family in the forces, so this isn't a petition just to help strangers, this is to help family as well.

Keep it up, spread the word

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I received the following today. As you will see dialogue between the DCLG and the MoD is happening now. I'm still waiting for my questions under the FOI from the these two departments. I would like to know how many service leavers or serving soldiers could afford the Key Worker Living programme.

The ESAG is the group that looks at homelessness of veterans in London, who looks at the homelessness of veterans around the rest of the country? http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/hom...s/ex_serv.html

This is not the time to stop emailing your MPs, keep asking them to support EDM 288, you can signing the petition. We require to keep up the pressure on the government.


Regards

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[RUSTY]

done. ex sapper

[McGraw]

Done. I would have applied to the RAF if I hadn't been born asthmatic.

Cheers.

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The petition is going well and I've noticed that a LT Col has signed with his rank, good on him. The EDM has got two more MPs signed up, one Tory and Labour. Well done to all those that have emailed their MPs as well as those that have signed the Petition.

I hope you will ask family and friends to sign the petition and email their MPs.

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[spike7451]

Guys,
Thanks for all your help so far.
Lets keep it up.

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An MP has replied to another supporter with the following statement. She stated "with an estimated £5bn expected to be spent on accommodation and housing over the next 10 years". I would like to point out, this is not a pledge to do so, its an open gesture, some spin. The fact is the Homelessness Legislation discriminates against our serving personnel and their families, as well as our veterans and thats wrong. I was talking with the Shadow Defence Minister at the start of this week at the HoC. I asked him what happened to the 1.6bn Annington homes Plc, gave the government for the purchase of all the service housing. I was told that 100million was placed to one side to refurbish the quarters still in use and the rest went to the Exchequer. The Exchequer has made over 100million in the shared profits sale agreement since 1997 to 2004 with Annington homes Plc. Whilst military personnel that buy the Annington homes only recieve 1% for each full 10 years served. My question to the Shadow Defence Minister was why are service families not given greater discount for the homes they once rented. The shared profits sale agreement should be there to assist military personnel onto the property ladder.

If we want changes made to the way we are treated, then we must stand together. Those in power will continue to spin figures, and lie to all of us.

EDM 288 is pressing the issue of housing for service leavers and will continue to do so with your support. Stage One is for you to Email your MP asking them to support this EDM. Stage Two, Sign the Petition via the link below and ask your friends and family to do the same.

Thank you for your time and support.

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[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Hitback

I also got introduced to Baroness Thatcher, she looked well.

Pity, good luck with it never the less though