Submitted on Thursday 4th April 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 10th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
The Government should scrap their on-line petitions system as it is pointless.
If Parliament can unilaterally decide to scrap Brexit, ignoring the express wishes of 17.4m people in a national referendum, there is no chance that anything raised in an online petition will ever drive Government opinion or legislation. The system should be scrapped as a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Parliament have shown that they are unwilling to act on the wishes and instructions of 17.4m people to deliver the UK from the stranglehold of the EU.
If that level of support can count for so little, and be so easily disregarded, what is the point of any on-line petition - which typically garners a few hundred thousand signatures at best?
Parliament are not interested in the opinions of the public and therefore the petitions scheme should be closed as it is simply a waste of taxpayers' money.
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/251900
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