Nick Wall’s living wage petition closed on 12th September 2007 with 1,270 signatures. A link to the Government response will be published here when it arrives. Supporters of the petition hailed from all regions of the UK, from different creeds and cultural backgrounds, from different political parties, from various trade unions and a multitude of campaigning groups. Thanks to the many who can’t be listed here by name.
Polly Toynbee
Deborah Littman (Co Chair London Citizens Living Wage Campaign)
Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan (Archbishop of Wales)
Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (Bishop of Rochester)
Very Revd Dr Gregor Duncan (Dean of the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway)
Dilowar Khan (Director of East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre)
Frank Field MP
Jean Lambert, Caroline Lucas (MEPs)
Dafydd Wigley (joint President of Mencap Wales; former MP, Welsh Assembly member and leader of Plaid Cymru)
Leanne Wood (Welsh Assembly member)
Sian Berry (Green Party candidate for London Mayor in 2008)
John Rees (Respect Party National Secretary)
Frances Dowds (Director, Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network)
Eileen Devaney (National Coordinator, UK Coalition Against Poverty)
Linda Devereux (Director, National Group on Homeworking)
Sunny Hundal editor Asians in Media & founder of the New Generation Network
Alex Callinicos author, The Resources of Critique
Andrew Glyn author, Capitalism Unleashed
Oliur Rahman, Rania Khan & Lutfa Begum (Tower Hamlets councillors)
Sue Luxton (Lewisham councillor)
Emily Heath (Lancaster councillor)
Joe McManners, Matt Sellwood, Derek Williams & Sid Phelps (Oxford councillors)
Larry Sanders & Steve Leniec (Oxfordshire councillors)
Jim Smowball (North Yorkshire councillor)
Reverend Paul Flowers (Bradford councillor)
Bernard Little & Harry Harpham (Sheffield councillors)
Susan Press (Hebden Royd councillor & Deputy Mayor)
Mohammed-Sarul Islam (Cardiff councillor)
Allan Pritchard (Caerphilly councillor)
Richard Bertin (Vale of Glamorgan councillor)
Geraldine Reardon (Waltham Forest councillor)
Paul Steedman, Vicky Wakefield-Jarrett & Rachel Fryer (Brighton councillors)
Sarah Lunnon, Philip Booth & Martin Whiteside (Stroud councillors)
Joyce & Terry Cartwright (Preston councillors)
Steve Radford & John Coyne (Liverpool councillors)
Denise Roberts (Wirral councillor)
Jim Greenwood (Oldham councillor)
Brian Barton (Campbell Park councillor)
Peter Longhurst (Tandridge councillor)
Martin and Janice Wood (Allerdale councillors)
Simon Letts (Southampton councillor)
John Matthissen (Suffolk councillor)
Jim Bollan (West Dunbartonshire councillor)
Rod McGregor (candidate for the Scottish parliament 2007)
George Micklewright (former leader of Bristol city council)
Joseph Rooney NUS National Executive
Louis Coiffait (Secretary of the Cambridge University Labour Club)
John Gray (West Ham CLP Trade Union Liaison Officer)
Anna-Helga Horrox (Chair, Camden Town Labour Party)
Vinothan Sangarapillai (Haringey CLP)
Ann Ballinger (President, Scottish Secondary Teachers Association)
Geoff Brown (Secretary Manchester TUC)
Ian Pope (Secretary, Southend TUC)
Ben Rickman (Secretary Brent TUC)
Kevin O’Brien (Secretary Merton & Sutton TUC)
Paul C.Dyer (Secretary, Barnstaple TUC)
Jon Gamble (Secretary, Watford TUC)
Chris Burrow (Secretary, Colchester TUC)
Bill Ball (Secretary, Lewes & District TUC)
Sue Tibbles (Secretary, Oxford & District TUC)
Richard Chilvers (Secretary, Waveney TUC)
Alec McFadden (President, Merseyside TUC & MCARF)
Denis Dunphy (President, Liverpool TUC)
Cathy Jackman & Carl Maden (CWU NEC)
Marsha-Jane Thompson (Unison London Region Young Members Convenor & Unison Greater London Regional Committee)
Jim Malone (Brigade Secretary FBU Tayside & Solidarity candidate for Scottish parliament)
Bharti Patel (former Director of the Low Pay Unit; currently Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Ethnic Minority Foundation)
Barry Leathwood OBE former National secretary of the Rural and Agricultural section of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (retired 2002)
Farah Nazeer (Head of Public Affairs, NFWI)
Owen Meharry (Secretary, Glasgow Campaign to Defend Council Housing)
Attila the Stockbroker (punk poet)
Robb Johnson (folk singer)
