Petition Don't waste parliamentary time debating e-petitions

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Debating e-petitions is a waste of parliamentary time that could be put to better use.

There is nothing democratic about collecting 100,000 signatures - that is less than 0.2% of the population.

The only people who bother to sign petitions are people with strong views so they are not representative of the population as a whole.

We already have a far better way of finding out what the public wants to government to do. They're called general elections.

We voted for our MPs because we liked their policies. Don't force them to waste their time debating the worthless views of extremists.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

25 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 25 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 4 August 2012
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