The UK should adopt daylight saving.

Daylight savings is the change of one hour to summer and winter times.  Winter would be Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) +1 and summer would be GMT +2.  The British government has changed both/or one of these seasonal times throughout history for many different reasons.

The benefits as stated by 10:10 lighter later campaign are:

1 Cut at least 447,000 tonnes of CO₂ pollution – equivalent to more than 50,000 cars driving all the way around the world – each year

2 Save 80 lives each year and prevent hundreds of serious injuries by making the roads safer

3 Lower our electricity bills by maximising the available daylight and reducing peak power demand

4 Create 60,000–80,000 new jobs in leisure and tourism, bringing an extra £2.5–3.5 billion into the economy each year

5 Reduce crime and the fear of crime

6 Help make people healthier and tackle obesity by giving people more time to exercise and play sport outside in the evening

7 Save the NHS around £138 million a year through reducing road casualties

8 Improve quality of life for older people

9 Make the nation happier – including reducing the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder

10 Demonstrate that dealing with climate change can be good for the economy, good for people and good for society as a whole

This is a simple amendment that should occur to assist environmentally, societally and economically.  Please sign this petition?

Additional links.

http://www.lighterlater.org/

Ian Simpson    Contact the author of the petition