Rejected petition Ban the use of the description "honourable" when making reference to an MP.

I fail to conceive that any current Member of Parliament could possibly be considered to be "honourable". "Despicable" maybe. Maybe they should say "I thank my despicable friend" or "my very despicable friend". Career politicians are a total blight on this Country.

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0.7% of British people are millionaires. 78% of politicians are millionaires.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

If you would like the House of Commons to change its practice, so that MPs no longer refer to each other using the terms "honourable" or "right honourable", we could accept a petition calling for that.

We can also find no evidence for the statement that 78% of politicians are millionaires. We can't accept petitions which contain statements that are false.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 21 March 2016
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