Submitted on Friday 21st October 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Failure of Democracy
it is deplorable that all major political parties are forcing their MP's to vote against a referendum on Europe. Over 100,000 people signed a petition to enable a debate on this and to stifle the debate is to go against democracy. I urge the party leaders to allow a free vote on this. To not do so would make the petition system pointless. It says to the people we dont care about your views. The government should allow free votes on all petitions allowed to go through.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Whipping is a matter for political parties and not HM Government
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