Rejected petition: Ban on all face coverings during protests. Identifying known troublemakers.
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The people find people who cover their faces during protests to potentially dangerous and nefarious.
Causing alarm and distress as we have no idea who they are why they're hiding their faces and what their intentions are.
The people would ask that the wearing of masks without reasonable excuse be made unlawful.
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.
You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704472
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.