Rejected petition The Government must consider all legitimate, well-administered petitions.

The U.K. govt must consider all petitions, whether they are on their petitions website or not. Historically, anyone can start a petition and if appropriately-run and well-supported they have been considered by govt. This must not change. The govt must not have a monopoly on petitions.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg recently turned away a petition which was supported by over a quarter of a million people because it had been run on the change.org website.
Organisations like change.org and 38degrees.org monitor and administer their petitions to ensure legitimacy of signatures and to prohibit repeat signing.
Such petitions, and others, should not be overlooked.
The government should not have a monopoly over petitions.
The government is there to serve the people, not to control them.

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/325480

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

Date submitted 18 June 2020
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