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

Originally Posted by spike7451

Guy's.
A few years ago I was made redundent from the RAF.On re-locating back home I applied for a council house.I was told that I would have to wait a minimum of seven years before I became eligable for a home.Therefore I had to rent from a private landlord at a high cost.
All of this was despite me moving back to the same location as my family & having my Dads address as my home address.
Even today,ex-servicemen & women are being discriminated against in this way. We currently have a petition going thru the British Parliment to get the housing rules changed.
All I am asking is this,That you take a few minutes of your time & please sign the petition.The military forces where ever you live have provide us all here with entertainment & subject to model.
Please do ths small thing for them.
Thank you.

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

Sorted.

[iain_herts]

done dads ex RAF

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The response has been great thank you. The fact we require to keep it, so please email internally to get more support. I hope to see at least 10 more MPs signed up on the EDM next week. The Petition has done great so lets ensure we keep it going.

This site has been great with its support, so please keep it up.

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

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

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The EDM has got two more MPs signed up taking the total to 142, the petition has 1,566 signatures so far. but we require to break the back of 2,000 by the end of the week.

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Update on EDM 288 and the Petition. At persent 145 MPs have signed the EDM, we really need to get 150 by the end of this week, so please keep emailing them.

The Petition has had over 1,700 signatiures but require to get at least 2,000 by the start of next week. If possible email all your address book contacts asking them to support this petition.

This is a short list of MPs that still haven't signed the EDM. There constituency are after their names. Lets give them as many requests as possible to sign EDM 288.

Thanks for all your help.

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David Anderson. (Lab) Blaydon http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/252.html

Graham Allen. (Lab) Nottingham North. Postal only House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Joe Benton. (Lab) Bootle. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/444.html

Ben Bradshaw. (Lab) Exeter. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/324.html

Tom Brake. (LD) Carshalton & Wallington. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/198.html

Dr Roberta Blackman-woods. (Lab) Durham, City of. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/250.html

Bob Blizzard. (Lab) Waveney. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/422.html

Dr Roger Berry. (Lab) Kingswood. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/118.html

Mr John Baron.(Con) Billericay. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/187.html

Mr Alan Campbell. (Lab) Tynemouth. http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/523.html

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The shared Profit agreement between Annington Homes Plc and the Government should be looked into. the Exchequer has made over 100 Million since 1996 and more military locations are being sold on, the shared profit agreement ends in 2012, so I'm sure there's plenty more profits to be had?

Out of the 1.6 Bn that was raised by selling off the Service Family Accommodation, only £100million was placed to one side for the refurbishment of property still being used by military families. I'm sure we all understand that any refurbishment done only painted over the cracks. There is more than enough profit amongst the money being made to address this issue.

This is just a titbit to get people thinking, we do require more signatures on the petition and EDM 288, so please keep up the hard work.

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This information was sent to me and the only way I could place a box around the information was to scan and paste onto the site.

As you will see the government of the day has failed in supporting our armed forces again. The Labour Party has 352 members of the house, but only 38 Labour MP's have shown support. If you live in a Labour constituency then please email your MP and ask them to support our Troops.

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Alphabetical List of Constituencies and Members of Parliament

http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alcm.cfm



EDM 288
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...05&SESSION=885


Petition 10 Downing Street
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/

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All you have to do is open the link and put your post code in. Then your MPs address and picture will come up. Follow the online instructions and your email will be sent.

Please tell us if you have used this link. There are military camps throughout the UK and some have Labour MP's as their Constituency Minister.

We can change this legislation if we try. Please show your support.

Thank you

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http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/cont...g-513998.shtml

Done - that's a really good idea, and quick and easy to fill out.

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We now have 156 MP's signed up to the EDM 288, The Petition has 2,215 signatures. This topic is now on 9 web-sites, and getting support from all of them. Thank you for you pledge and help in the issue.

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update

The EDM now has 162 MP's signed up, that's six in one day. The Petition has got 2,298 signatures and requires more names. So please keep on going with that one. The need for more MPs to sign is evident by these two press release's. Thank you to everyone for their help and tenacity, I know we will change this legislation in the future and help so many comrades.

The following was in a local paper, if anyone in the forces believes that this issue will not affect them, then think on. The people this paper is talking about were comrades once.

Regards

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Shameful treatment
187 words
1 March 2007
Essex Chronicle Series
(c) 2007 Essex Chronicle .

I have read Anne Fitzgerald's article (about the new centre in Chelmsford for homeless people) in the Essex Chronicle (February 1 issue) with interest. I have never been unfortunate enough to find myself homeless, however it is a well known fact that almost a third of homeless people are from an ex-forces background. These figures are from Shelter and Crisis websites.

You did speak to one man, Jimmy, an ex-serviceman. Does he know that he maybe entitled to help from the Royal British Legion?


A Tory MP, Nadine Dorries Bedford, has set an early day motion trying to help ex-forces and their families have the same rights when they leave the services.

Thanks to this Government, when an individual/s leave they have no rights to even go on to their local authority's waiting list for housing.

Shameful beyond belief, having served one's country. A lot of people are homeless for various reasons, but for the majority of ex-forces who are homeless the reason is this Government and this country's attitude to them.

Andrew Thomas

Address supplied

[bopdude]

Still spreading the word

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Thanks bopdude, take a copy of the link and send onto friends and family.

This is a great Link to use to contact your MP asking them to support our Armed Forces by signing EDM 288. A third of homeless people are ex-forces, just think about that for a moment.........................................

Now use the link and stop it from happening to any more comrades and their families.

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/cont...g-513998.shtml

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There are a lot of MP's that have stated they will sign EDM 288, but have failed to do so. If your MP is one of those Minister, then please email them asking why their name has not appeared on the list.

We need to keep this issue a live by emailing MP's and signing the Petition.


Regards

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[shazzyann]

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