Rejected petition Legally protect e-petitions

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This e-petition is a response to the news article below:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062052/E-petitions-Senior-MPs-want-make-harder-people-say.html

In essence, elements within Government wish to dilute the effect of e-petitions so that they effectively mean nothing. This is aimed at rolling-back and denying the public any ability to initiate Parliamentary Debate on issues affecting them.

We consider the current threshold of 100,000 signatures is already too high; the proposals to raise the bar even higher would be indicative of contemptuous Government keen to sever and isolate itself from the electorate.

We urge the Government to maintain not only e-petitions, but promote other forms of interaction between itself and the public.

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.

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

Date submitted 16 November 2011
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