Submitted on Tuesday 31st January 2017
Rejected on Thursday 2nd March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Abolish the government petitions site as deceptive and not fit for purpose.
The government petitions site gives the impression that it give people the opportunity to petition for the government or Parliament to address issues that they feel need to be dealt with.
It is however a sop, intended to deflect people from taking effective action, such as lobbying their MP.
The biggest petition that this system has seen was the one calling for the EU referendum to to be rerun if it was too close to be decisive. I got 4 million signatures - twice the margin of victory in the referendum. It got, as any other petition does, a patronising "reply" from the government, saying that they would ignore the petition, and a token mention in Parliament.
Similarly, a petition abhoring the gifting of President Trump a State Visit has drawn defiance from the Prime Minister.
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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