Rejected petition Abolish the government petitions site as deceptive and not fit for purpose.

The government petitions site gives the impression that it give people the opportunity to petition for the government or Parliament to address issues that they feel need to be dealt with.
It is however a sop, intended to deflect people from taking effective action, such as lobbying their MP.

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The biggest petition that this system has seen was the one calling for the EU referendum to to be rerun if it was too close to be decisive. I got 4 million signatures - twice the margin of victory in the referendum. It got, as any other petition does, a patronising "reply" from the government, saying that they would ignore the petition, and a token mention in Parliament.
Similarly, a petition abhoring the gifting of President Trump a State Visit has drawn defiance from the Prime Minister.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/181746

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

Date submitted 31 January 2017
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