Petition Take down the government petition site.

Increasingly the government's petition site is being used for more & more frivolous purposes such votes of no confidence in individual ministers and efforts to reverse the result of the EU vote. These petitions are undemocratic in their nature and simply a means to complain having lost an election

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EU Referendum petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36634407

Examples of unnecessary "no confidence" petitions.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/123469

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111975

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121152

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

9 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 9 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 15 January 2017
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About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.