Rejected petition Ensure that the UK's New Polar Research Ship is called Boaty McBoatface.

The country was asked and the country voted. Boaty McBoatface was the clear choice for the name of the UK's New Polar Research ship with 124,000 votes yet the government has opted to name it after Sir David Attenborough despite only receiving 11,000 votes.

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We are a country which preaches democracy but the establishment is failing our nation.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129659

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Date submitted 6 May 2016
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