Petition If a petition reaches 100,000. All mp's must attend parliament to debate it

How can what we live in be considered a democracy, if only a handful of mp's turn up to debate an issue that a large proportion of voters feel strongly about . While the rest of the mp's consider it of too little importance to turn up .If it concerned their wages or pension they would all turn up.

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It is not enough just to recall parliament if a petition reaches 100,000 votes while the mp's are on their summer holiday ( as a currently running petition proposes). As this would not necessarily guarantee that all mp's attend

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

47 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 47 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 24 February 2016
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