Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy
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Because democracy was always fake. Hope one day we will reach real democracy
Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.
Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don't need a "representative" to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.
Are you sure you hope to reach real democracy? Because in a real democracy, you don't just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.
Why i want to and yes to achievw it you don't just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.
To be fair, a lot of the petitions that get uploaded are either dumb or just jokes. That doesn't excuse the government treating the serious ones that have huge public support as if they're also jokes, of course
Yeah it makes the whole thing pointless, it just seems to show how little the UK government actually cares about it's citizens and their opinions.
This site is used to humour us like giving a child an unplugged controller to play your game.
Petitions are an exercise in long-winded ways the government can say "no lol".
Maybe they'll use LLM generated responses next.
quite possibly the one way to make that website more depressing than it already is
"It's not just 'no' — it's 'NO'."
The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.
We should start a petition to make the government take petitions more seriously.
There was one????!!
What was it?
To be fair, 739,999 of the petitions were memes, Karen's or the woke brigade
"Woke brigade" - go on, do elaborate