Petition Change Petition rules to force a parliamentary vote if a threshold is reached.

Recent petitions have attracted enormous levels of public support, but delivered little to no democratic value to UK citizens and residents.

A parliamentary debate is not enough.

Popular petitions should be able to force a parliamentary vote if a threshold of 500,000 signatories is reached.

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The e-petition system was created to provide us with "an easy, personal way for you to influence government and Parliament in the UK."

Despite 577k and 449k signatures for recent petitions about Donald Trump and asylum seekers respectively, our government was obliged to do no more than discuss them.

A third threshold to force a parliamentary vote on any given petition would offer real democracy, not just meaningless rhetoric. More people would use the system if given real democratic power.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

40 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 40 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 21 July 2016
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