I don’t think I’ve ever seen a petition make any difference, but it’s over 1.8 million now and getting 30k+ per hour… and this is just at the announcement stage. That’s 3% of the population actually bothering to sign up and click the email link in the 1st 24 hours. If they ignore this then they are telling us that the will of the people can be ignored, and only direct action will change their minds.
Memories of the OSA petition getting 400k+ and getting ignored. I’ll sign it though.
Right there with you, and Brexit and other countless petitions… I’m going to speak to my MP next weekend about this and the OSA.
Hopefully there is enough backlash to put them in their place.
UK still has hereditary Lords, no? that seems long contrary to the “will of the people” to me
They serve an important societal and cultural function, you probably just don’t understand.
Without the landed gentry it’s estimated that within a single generation, Britain’s long standing tradition of pederasty would be gone.
Won’t somebody think of the little boys, and the aristocratic men who lust for them?
We got rid of almost all of the hereditary ones, I think we are down to 90 out of ~800. So while they are not all gone it’s getting better, now we just need to sort out the “cash for peerage” lords. Having a second chamber to sanity check the parliament is not a bad idea, as long as they are genuine experts granted peerage after a lifetime of service to the country or their field.
Glad to see the backlash to it. The UK is fast track authoritarianism.
