epetitions

[Marlene]

I have seen the epetition government website and it was fascinating to see what people really want. My quesiton is: Will the government take them seriously?

Some are repetitions and therefore would never collect the necessary number of signatures, some are obsolete and out of spite or completely non relevant. Could the website be better organised and reject, for example repetitions of the same subject?

Has anybody seen the epetition website?

[DJKillaQueen]

In essence it is a good idea. Anything taken up would have to have a realistic chance of passing through the commons and lords which is why not everything is taken up obviously. Also just because something has an epetition doesn't make it either a sensible or valid cause either. I for one think the new rule regarding 100,000 signatures automically ensuring presentation to parliament is a bit low in a country of 70 million. All that aside, anything that allows connection to those who run our country has to be worth something.

[Marlene]

Yes you are right, but some petitions, from what I have seen, are relevant to small communities and groups and it would be very difficult to get 100,000 signatures. Because there are so many petitions repeated, you will never get the necessary required votes for the parliament to consider If they had a system filtering the petitions and rejecting repeations straight away, perhaps things would be better.

[richardbach]

tis a diverison keep s the poluation in teh lop make s them beleve tehy are aprt of democrcy taht there vioces are being heard go onliene sign up wiht some petision turn off pc watch tely safe in teh belef that you are diong good and lobying those yuo lected or maybe didnt if pettions ment anything an had any impact they wuold ban them anyway how many doland ducks adolf hilter harold shipman and micky mouses are registred to vote in teh uk yet they apear on evry petition lol

[HonaloochieB]

Couldn't we partition Richard?

[Jasi88]

All the wonders I have seen are here, we will read about wilderness people,

who have travel halfway round the world to find out that was not easy but care enough to say

that will be enough support from the coommunities and family members.

[peterstorm1985]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Couldn't we partition Richard?

Oh yes.

Please, please richardbach, would you try and get at least 70% of the letters in the right order? And just the odd full stop would help enormously. It's testing my dyslexia to the limit.

[Judy22]

There will be enought signatures from the small communities and groups if they worked together,

Will be harder if they don't. On this occasion transparency is important

for the government to take them seriously.

[StraferJack]

Jasi88 & Judy22

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[Annette Curtain]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Jasi88 & Judy22

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[computedshorty]

Reminds me of Professor

Stanley Unwin.

He says the following:

"A wonderful party! The fly did a buzzy-most around the ceily, Little Boy Blue came left his hormones behind, and stuffed his corn there with his trumpey, and brought his melotrophy. Oh dear, knees up Mother Browny, Huckleberry my fimbold, and he freaked them all out with an enormous mind-blast, which was ... oh dear! And thence to the cool of the early mord, they gathered it there and snoozy-most. But stay cool man, stay cool, won't you."

[Senor Chevalier]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Couldn't we partition Richard?

How do you know he's called Richard?

His name could just as well be Brad Charrich

[Annette Curtain]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Couldn't we partition Richard?

I prefer to know him as ric hardbach or is it ri chardbach or even richar dbach

[edcam]

Epetitions are the refuge of the lazy. What's wrong with writing a letter? What bothers me about them is that there will always be 100,000 that would sign up to something. Some great causes and beliefs, it's true but if the Daily Mail decided to mobilise in favour of say capital punishment or the downgrading of gay rights, there will easily be 100,000 tha will sign it once it goes viral, without them really thinking about what they're signing up to.

[edcam]

Bumped to try and prevent any more epetition threads!