Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy

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• Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because democracy was always fake. Hope one day we will reach real democracy

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  • rah@hilariouschaos.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hope one day we will reach real democracy

    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.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why i want to and yes to achievw it you don’t just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.

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  • Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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  • renlok@lemmy.zarioth.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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. (Not at all)

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Petitions are an exercise in long-winded ways the government can say “no lol”.

  Maybe they’ll use LLM generated responses next.

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  • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “It’s not just ‘no’ — it’s ‘NO’.”

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  • linux_penguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    quite possibly the one way to make that website more depressing than it already is

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wh should start a petition to make the government take petitions more seriously.

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