Submitted on Wednesday 16th November 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legally protect e-petitions
This e-petition is a response to the news article below:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062052/E-petitions-Senior-MPs-want-make-harder-people-say.html
In essence, elements within Government wish to dilute the effect of e-petitions so that they effectively mean nothing. This is aimed at rolling-back and denying the public any ability to initiate Parliamentary Debate on issues affecting them.
We consider the current threshold of 100,000 signatures is already too high; the proposals to raise the bar even higher would be indicative of contemptuous Government keen to sever and isolate itself from the electorate.
We urge the Government to maintain not only e-petitions, but promote other forms of interaction between itself and the public.
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.
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