Rejected petition Petition Committee to be held to account in upholding its own standards.

A petition which recently passed the committee's scrutiny calling for campaigning for EU membership to be treasonous was an extreme and undemocratic view.

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As such this petition was in breach of the committee's own standards in respect of the publication of petitions that are provocative or extreme in their views. The petitions committee has an obligation to all citizens not to publish such petitions which are inciteful and have defined this in their own standards.

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.

This petition has now been removed from the site. It was accepted in error.

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

Date submitted 17 October 2016
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