THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER

EDM number 942 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 02/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Economic situation.

That this House welcomes The People's Charter - a Charter for Change, which sets out a programme for challenging the economic crisis and providing hope for a fairer society; notes that this programme includes public ownership of the main banks, public utilities and transport and ending the privatisation of public services, a progressive tax system, investment for full employment, increasing the minimum wage, the restoration of the earnings link for state pensions, an end to home repossessions, empowerment of local authorities to provide affordable quality housing for all, the ending of child poverty, enforced equal pay for women, the restoration of trades' union rights, halting new nuclear weapons and investment for a greener and safer world free of poverty and famine; further notes that the Charter is already supported by the general secretaries of some of Britain's biggest trades' unions as well as numerous national trades' unions, campaigning organisations and prominent people from all walks of life; further welcomes the Charter's declared ambition of collecting one million signatures; and calls upon the Government to respond positively to the demands of this campaign and begin putting people first before the interests of big business and corporate finance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.