This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Petitions should automatically get debated with enough signitures
Recently petitions with the required number of signatures have not been debated because the debate committee uses some poor excuse to deny the petition.
For example a recent petition to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes the government simply said it couldn't do it so won't debate it?!
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Check the petitions website for the status of petitions. Hardly any get debated!
Even a debate on the issues sends a message to the world what British people are thinking, even if it is at odds to the government's opinion.
At present 11 petitions have had a response from the government and none have been debated.
It's un-democratic to have petitions stopped from having a debate because it doesn't "fit" with what the government wants and makes a mockery of the whole petition system.
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.
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We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104933
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.