Rejected petition The Government should scrap their on-line petitions system as it is pointless.

If Parliament can unilaterally decide to scrap Brexit, ignoring the express wishes of 17.4m people in a national referendum, there is no chance that anything raised in an online petition will ever drive Government opinion or legislation. The system should be scrapped as a waste of taxpayers’ money.

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Parliament have shown that they are unwilling to act on the wishes and instructions of 17.4m people to deliver the UK from the stranglehold of the EU.

If that level of support can count for so little, and be so easily disregarded, what is the point of any on-line petition - which typically garners a few hundred thousand signatures at best?

Parliament are not interested in the opinions of the public and therefore the petitions scheme should be closed as it is simply a waste of taxpayers' money.

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/251900

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

Date submitted 4 April 2019
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