Every UK petition
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That's not the point. The point of this post is that the government didn't respond.
I read that as the governments response was no. Not that they didn’t respond.
The government in the UK will respond if 10,000 signatures and will debate in parliament if 100,000 signatures.
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That's not the point. The point of this post is that the government didn't respond.
They did, they said no.
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What if there was a law that said once something had enough signatures, it needs to be put to a vote?
The only issue I can think of is the threshold being too high and authenticity of the signatures.
At a 1mil signatures, it must be discussed in parliament. They don't do a great job of voting on it, but it's the law.
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At a 1mil signatures, it must be discussed in parliament. They don't do a great job of voting on it, but it's the law.
That’s comforting to know
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The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.
It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the
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Counterpoint: Brexit
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Counterpoint: Brexit
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Bad thing please
Government responded
Yes
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The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.
It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the
plebescitizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People's Will recorder.Wait until you hear about protests
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I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.
We don't actually live in a democracy, that's just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.
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This image is a great reflection of the entire history of the UK, incidentally.
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Wait until you hear about protests
Just don't inconvenience anyone in any way.
Being slightly irritating is a terrorist activity now.
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I read that as the governments response was no. Not that they didn’t respond.
The government in the UK will respond if 10,000 signatures and will debate in parliament if 100,000 signatures.
So they're going to debate it then because it's definitely over 100,000.
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I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.
We don't actually live in a democracy, that's just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.
It's a representative democracy, not direct democracy.
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It's a representative democracy, not direct democracy.
Just a reminder that downvoting something doesn't stop it being true.
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So they're going to debate it then because it's definitely over 100,000.
That ain’t a real petition bro. We don’t use comic sans on government sites.
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It's a representative democracy, not direct democracy.
And why should it be that way? You can certainly have a mixed system. In many American states, for example, official petitions can result in referendums to enact laws without the legislature's intervention.
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It's a representative democracy, not direct democracy.
It's Lizard Democracy.
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I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.
We don't actually live in a democracy, that's just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage is just racking up these own goals while getting ready to sell the whole country in three years time.
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Counterpoint: Brexit
The petition to reverse Brexit got something like 4 million signatures. Response: LOL No.
Brexit it's referendum because the Tories were scared of loosing power to Frog Face Faeage's party. So they did a bit of appeasement.
