Submitted on Monday 20th February 2017
Rejected on Friday 24th February 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow people to object to parliamentary petitions as well as support then
Parliament must consider for debate any petition with 100K signatures. Petitions should also allow people to register their objection to the proposition and only those with 100K net signatures in favour should be considered for debate.
Considering parliamentary petitions costs money and currently anyone can propose one and, if it has sufficient support it must be considered regardless of how much opposition their may be to it.
Debates need to be balanced so people should have just as much opportunity to object to petitions as they do to support them.
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/178968
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