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Petition update, 13 August 2008

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This petition calls upon the Prime Minister to exert pressure on other EU member states to end the monthly Strasbourg travelling circus by the European Parliament.

A poll conducted by the Campaign for Parliament Reform (CPR) has revealed an overwhelming majority, 89% of MEPs, not only want one permanent seat for the European Parliament but also that 81% want the seat to be in Brussels. 84% also believed the Parliament should be able to decide on its own the location of its seat. Strasbourg costs £200 million a year and leaves a massive carbon footprint. The monthly move of the European Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg is producing 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the greenhouse gases produced by 13,000 round-trip flights from London to New York. As long as MEPs have to travel to Strasbourg , people will rightly say that the EU is wasting money - Strasbourg is a waste of taxpayers money. It is time for national governments to bite the bullet and end the wasteful monthly commute, and to give the European Parliament a long overdue permanent home in Brussels.

Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• Paddy Casswell
• Baroness Nicholson MEP
• michael shackleton
• Arlene McCarthy MEP
• Alex Stringer
• John Bowis
• Elena Percival
• Vince Cullip
• Councillor Robert Jones
• Alyn Smith MEP
• David Mansell Jones
• Philip Bradbourn MEP
• Daniel Hassett
• Catherine Stihler MEP
• Tim Swift
• Rt Hon Sir Robert Atkins MEP
• Tristan Mills
• N King
• Robert Shetliffe
• Judith Etchells-Sturley
• sarah thoms
• Richard Tingle
• Ian Hudghton MEP
• M.Turpin
• Andrew Dagens
• Stan Masters. Vote UKIP
• David Mason
• Jonny Goff
• Anya Lawrence
• Gregor Murray
• T. Carbis, leave the EU
• Willie Sawers
• Graham Reid
• Andy Tuckwell
• Roddy Oliphant of Oliphant, yr.
• Alan North
• jim gillan
• Gay Taaffe
• Catherine Bowes
• David Adam
• evelyn murray
• rupert Matthews
• maureen guild
• John Talbot
• Bert Iannetta
• Nick Brand
• Sion Owain
• anna easton
• Andrew Scott
• Jim and Julie Martin-Nichols
• Robert Higgins
• Jimmy Black
• Jim MacLeod
• Imran Ulhaque
• Andy Fraser
• Cllr. Christina Roberts
• Andrea J Chee
• Margaret Collins
• Robert Tollemache
• David Bellamy
• Mark Fullbrok
• Douglas Charles Harper
• Alan Cox
• Michael Joslin
• Mrs Christine Joy Harper
• Suleman Nagdi MBE
• Alan Summerfield
• Lesley Bowles
• Barbara M. Matthews
• christine emmett
• Arnold E Tarling - Vote UKIP
• David Blake
• Richard Tickle
• Alan Palmer
• Sherrie Herridge
• Don Herridge
• Reginald Otten
• Jean Audrey Smith
• Lindsey Kirkby
• Colin Nutton
• Mike Johnson
• Duncan Hector Fraser
• Peter Finch
• John Christopher Jackson and Rosita Janet Jackson
• Dr Kevin Feltham CC
• Richard Weaver
• Michael K.Thompson
• Martin Hardy
• Norman Cruice
• David Graves-Moore
• Heather Wheeler
• Brian Dale
• Nick Sullivan
• Terry Howes
• Councillor Mrs M Orchard OBE
• T.S & O Bickley
• Bryan Tansley
• Nancy Tague
• Denise Powell
• Jack Knights
• Thomas Truscott
• Malcolm Edward
• R B Purdy...just leave the EU.
• john wilson
• brian chapman
• carole chapman
• Peter Roffey
• John Frederick Mann
• gene plews
• Nigel Lawrence
• Sarah Richardson
• jon-paul mcewan
• Glyn W Johns
• Paul Gregory
• MARY SHERWIN
• Merrick Platts
• Nicola Morgan
• Paul Allard
• John Gilruth
• Angela Finch
• Wilf Forgham
• Daniel Worley
• Tracy Muir
• Councillor Darren Adams-Shaw
• Clifford John Farren
• C.Mary Mundy
• stuart jones
• Roy Attenborough
• pauline latham
• peter james
• Michael Jenkins
• avtar singh
• Tim Boswell MP
• Alison Prior
• J.C.F.Magnay
• R Hardie
• alan bexon
• Rob Lewis
• Rev H.P.Barkham
• Neil Preston
• councillor Carol Hart
• Martin Andrews
• David Brookhouse
• Philip Malin
• Jacqueline S P Smith
• Mike Wood-Wilson
• Pat Roberts
• Robert Kelly
• cllr,lydia ball
• Robin W Brown
• Simon Miller
• Byron Rhodes
• Evonne Williams
• Sean Schneider
• Darius G Laws
• Chris Lingard
• Paul Redfern
• Glenys Kinnock
• Robert Milnes
• Peter Coleman
• Alexandra Pardal
• J David Morgan
• Trevor Robshaw
• Marie Kenneth
• Caroline Lucas MEP
• John Barton
• Elizabeth Colebourn
• Vanessa Grant
• Joseph Cookson
• Linda McAvan MEP
• Janice George
• councillor sue armitage
• Liz Lynne MEP
• Laura Rayner
• Maureen Milnes
• Councillor Steve Niblock
• Trevor Lindley
• Tris Brown
• kennth stubbs
• David Bastable
• Chris Millar
• Philip Hartley
• Eluned Morgan
• Alistair David Blair Cook
• Brian Tetlow
• S.J.Ellis
• Anita Pollack
• Aaron Newell
• Paul Brown
• Andrew Lindley
• Philip Ashworth
• Janice Richards
• Susan Nicholls
• R.J. Hogben
• marnie Richards
• john bull
• Alan Davidson
• Richard Bingley
• Rachel Maycock
• Matt Patterson
• Emma Whelan
• Sukie Sohal
• Claude Moraes MEP
• Mary van den Heuvel
• FLORENCE NOSEGBE
• David Nichols
• Beryl Milnes
• Gareth Young
• Brian Simpson MEP
• Suzanne Richards
• peter skinner mep
• mary honeyball mep
• Andrew Thornton
• Michael Gibson
• Richard Howitt MEP
• Gary Titley MEP
• Roger Fellows
• Antonios Pantazis
• Nicola Dyke
• Bertie Maltby
• Louise King
• Ruwan Kodikara
• Simon Summers
• Dave Besag
• David Martin MEP
• Glyn Ford MEP
• Nicholas Fosh
• Stephanie Kate Ashley
• James Rogers
• Peter Hill
• Nikki Thomson
• kim seeley
• Glenn Goodall
• Craig Woolmer
• Andrew Neilson
• stephen Morgan
• Philip Groves
• Tim Colbourne
• Jag Singh
• Niranjanan Nirmalananthan
• Danny Edmunds
• Ian Walton
• Jenny Stratton
• Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia
• Liz Watford
• Tim Evans
• Andrew Muir
• Christopher Martin Young
• Marjorie Dunn
• Simon Belcher
• Jonathan Jones
• Colin Ross
• Thomas Clement
• Martin Howes
• James Royston
• christian walker
• Phillip A. Malloch
• Greg Simpson
• Peter James Lloyd
• Marije Volger
• Alistair Dillon
• Steve Dunford
• James Joseph Coyle
• Madeline Lasko
• Joseph Sherry
• Isabelle Lanoye
• Laura Brandon
• Andrew Turvey
• Giles Goodall
• Michael Scanlan
• Sandy Howat
• Philip S Rose
• Christine Piper
• Christopher Millest
• A S Martin
• G L Bradley
• K Ward
• Ann O. Coombe
• Rachael Collins
• Richard Tinson
• Brian Stokes
• Walter Phimister
• Simon O'Connor
• Andrew Stroehlein
• Lester May
• David Jones
• Mrs P M Rose
• Jan Glen
• David Meechan
• David Brede
• E. Pamela Heather
• Cllr Shaun McGall
• Ian James Rackow
• Julian Guidetti
• Susan Westlake
• Paul Harding
• Michael Bryan
• Nirmalee Wanduragala
• Kevin Rodgers
• Mark Watson
• Andrew J Boulton
• Oliver Robertson
• Gregory Mills
• Gregory Pearson
• CHRIS wIGGIN
• Peter Gizzi
• Anthony Springall
• Shana Momtaz
• Philip Parsons
• Brian Dawson
• Peter Darrigan
• jonathan harvey
• Matthias Van hoogenbemt
• Joe rukin
• Ruth Beer
• Michael Sebastian Turco
• Jack Macaulay
• David Grundy
• Jan Machielsen
• Lee Howes
• Genevra Forwood
• Velma Hammond
• Grant Fraser
• David Harcombe
• Dr Kaihsu Tai
• Paul Sealey
• Darren Saunders
• Ross Tucknott
• Jeffery Frampton
• Andrew Collingwood
• cecil sandon
• Neena Gill MEP
• Glenys Kinnock MEP
• david Poyser
• Frederick Clark: LEAVE THE EU!
• Melanie Davis
• Annabel Lenton-Thompson
• Katy Dillon
• Patrick Ney
• Stephen Hughes MEP
• Ryan Titley
• Matt O'Grady
• Shaun Ankers
• Jeremy Tozer
• James Fitzgerald
• Alessandro Valera
• Niklas Smith
• David Semmens
• Adrian Barker
• Ross Gilman
• Kate Heywood
• Seema Mehta
• Eluned Morgan MEP
• Robbie Gibbons
• Robert Evans MEP
• Brian Wainwright
• Cllr Sue Luxton (Green Party)
• Philip Booth
• Daphne Groves
• david ingram
• Paul Janik, Slough Party
• Gary Lawson
• Gordon Robinson
• Bram Houtenbos
• Trevor Leavesley
• Helen Mc Avoy
• Vivek Hajarnavis
• Gavin Tester
• Kevin Dws
• D Ritchie
• Christopher Winton
• B Douglas
• JOHN ORD
• Michael Huertas
• Paul Mills
• G Ric Richards
• e banks
• Michael Lam (not an MEP)
• Jo J Day
• Andrew Simpson
• anamaria jorga
• Erica Screen
• Cllr Alan Armitage
• Geoffrey Blyth
• patrina pillay shimmin
• Jenny Beaumont
• Martin Poulter
• john shand
• Terence Pearce
• SUE ROGERS
• John Price
• Ben Parish
• Dylan Jeffrey
• Mike Mowbray
• Steven Gore
• Linda Cullen
• Melvyn Kirk
• brian varney
• Anthony Lenaghan
• Alan Scott
• Richard Melville Ballerand
• louis barwell
• Laura Ballerand
• Nicholas Ashton
• Margaret King
• Martyn Hawkins
• Laura Donaghy
• Emma Walker
• Anne Graves
• Michael Ryan Letheren
• Alexander Grkinic
• Jamie Cowan
• Matthew Gray
• Christina Angelopoulos
• George Ioannidis
• Steve Hallett
• P E G COPE
• reginald john farwell
• cherry masters
• Ben Stevenson
• Tim Ashford
• Martin James
• E Sanders
• walaa Idris
• Frank Petherbridge
• philip camp
• Michael Davies
• Anthony Walker
• Jim Belk
• Isabel Guthrie Better to leave the EU and reclaim our own identity
• Peter Lucas
• S. Rieseberg
• Andrew Soutar
• Robert Christie
• S Edge
• Mike Leadley
• Stuart Henley (ukip-halesowen.org)
• Kieron Merrett
• Sandra Eachus
• Adrian Redgers
• Kate Long
• Peter North
• Noel Allan
• Jason Coward
• Colin Smith
• Collis Gretton
• Keith H Freeman
• Neil Rubin
• Alistair Gunn
• David Hair
• Ray Robertson
• Elaine Nelson
• D.C.EVANS
• Nick Bewley
• Michael Cook
• A Jones
• gareth williams
• Jonathon Staples
• Jason & Tina Purseglove
• Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
• Tomas Forsey
• douglas ewin
• David Farquhar
• Michael I Holt
• Anthony Haynes
• John Clulee
• Ciaran Prendeville
• Grant Maynard
• Gareth Starkey
• Darren Brackenbury
• Roger Hurst
• David Kendrick
• Madeleine Harrold
• Sarah Southern
• Colin Baker
• Craig Chambers
• Richard Gosling
• Robin Rea
• John Kinnon
• Kathryn M Illingworth
• E Alway
• epatterson
• Anne Ward
• John Fulford
• Ken
• Jan Hobbs
• John Prescott
• Sue Hudson
• Stuart Leather
• Alan
• Ann
• Val
• ray khan
• PETER HOWARD
• Irene Leather
• Chris G. Lloyd
• Tony Ingleton
• Andrew Aylett
• Buddug Evans
• Dr Colin Smith

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