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Ensure that the UK's New Polar Research Ship is called Boaty McBoatface.

Submitted on Friday 6th May 2016

Rejected on Monday 9th May 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Ensure that the UK's New Polar Research Ship is called Boaty McBoatface.

Petition Details

The country was asked and the country voted. Boaty McBoatface was the clear choice for the name of the UK's New Polar Research ship with 124,000 votes yet the government has opted to name it after Sir David Attenborough despite only receiving 11,000 votes.

Additional Information

We are a country which preaches democracy but the establishment is failing our nation.


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This petition was rejected

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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