Submitted on Tuesday 31st January 2017
Rejected on Thursday 2nd March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Abolish the UK Parliament online petition process and system.
Online petitions are self selecting and give no scientific indication of popular support. Media will often take one side of an argument and promote a petition in line with their editorial view. They serve no democratic purpose and waste Parliament's time & money. MPs already represent our concerns.
For example: MPs are now obliged to debate two petitions. One to prevent a state visit of the President of the USA, and one to support it. One of these got intense support on BBC News and Sky News on both 30th and 31st January 2017. Both have exceeded the 100,000 threshold but the implication that one view is more popular than the other is entirely media driven. The prevent petition has been 'advertised' on every loop for two days. This risks manipulation and abuse of parliamentary process.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/181746
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