Submitted on Friday 4th December 2015
Rejected on Monday 7th December 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Require referenda for military actions abroad.
We believe that all current and future military actions, beyond the immediate defence of our borders, should have to be validated by a referendum to check that such action represents the general will of the people of the UK.
Recent polls on the subject of military action in Syria have shown a substantial gap between how MPs vote and how the people they are supposed to represent want them to vote.
On a topic as important and with as deadly consequences as military action this is unacceptable and makes a mockery of British democracy.
The UK government should have to make its case to the British people and allow them to decide just as it does with the parliament.
Other countries manage snap referenda on lesser issues.
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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.
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