Tag Archives: downing street petitions

William Jones

Opinion: Let’s get case for Alan Turing pardon debated in Parliament

By William Jones | Wed 4th January 2012 - 6:59 pm

Today, I ask you as fellow Liberal Democrats to sign the Grant Alan Turing a Pardon petition on the number 10 website.

The petition reads:

“We ask the HM Government to grant a pardon to Alan Turing for the conviction of ‘gross indecency’. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man and was forced to undergo so-called ‘organo-therapy’ – chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41. Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he’d done so much to save. This remains a shame on the

…

Continue reading »
Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged , , and | 19 Comments
Helen Duffett

Daily View 2×2: 16 October 2009

By Helen Duffett | Fri 16th October 2009 - 7:00 am

2 Big Stories

Wilshire to stand down amid expenses allegations

A Conservative MP accused of paying more than £100,000 of public money into his own company announced last night that he would stand down at the general election.

David Wilshire called the allegations “deeply hurtful and unjustified” and predicted he would be cleared by the Commons standards watchdog.

But in a brief statement, he said he had reluctantly decided it would not be “sensible” to seek re-election as the MP for Spelthorne.

(Independent)

Continue reading »
Posted in Daily View | Also tagged , , , , , , and | 2 Comments
Mark Pack

STV petition

By Mark Pack | Sun 26th November 2006 - 5:25 pm

Amongst the various petitions on the 10 Downing Street website is this one calling for STV for public elections (as Scotland is getting for its local elections in May).

Posted in News | Also tagged | Leave a comment
Advert

Recent Comments

  • David Raw
    @ Peter Martin. A further thought. Mandelson may have been appointed because his knowledge of Trump’s varied activities gave him a special hold over said Pres...
  • paul barker
    Is The UK Ungovernable ? No, its hysterical bollox & plays into the hands of The Far-Right....
  • paul barker
    There have been 27 Councillors elected since May 7th - 3 of them are Reform, that's 1 in 9 or 11%. Another striking feature is the number of Reform losses, s...
  • Matt (Bristol)
    Peter Martin, when you reply to me about Transport house I don't think you've read the foregoing comments from me and David Raw. Anyway, back to the future....
  • Rif Winfield
    Mick, Burnham's real problems will start after he moves into No.10 and finally faces his true opponents - the Labour establishment and their Treasury backers. ...