Rejected petition Leave British Summer Time until March next year. Give us double BST in 2021.

Do not put the clocks back in October. If we get another spike in Covid-19, people could be queuing for vaccines in car parks in the pitch dark. SAD in lockdown would be a nightmare. Trying to get the economy back on track would be easier. Double BST next year would be a reward and an incentive.

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We have been blessed with a bit of an Indian summer, which is set to to finish next week. I suffer slightly from SAD myself, and the mere thought of the clocks going back is enough to depress me. Historically, Europe and/or the Scots have opposed this, and I believe that Europe is actually stopping DST? We are no longer in the EU, so that shouldn’t be an obstacle any more, and Scotland, I’m sure, could have a separate vote. We could always change our clocks at the border!

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/321333

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Date submitted 20 September 2020
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