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On france, we currently have one with 2.1M signatures, gov still said nope (petition against reintroduction of dangerous pesticide, backed by sciencists community)
Don’t you guys have a more effective way of convincing the government?
Yellow vests, Citroëns on fire, Guillotines
Citroëns on fire
A fine tradition
Milk poured all over the streets of Paris worked well for the dairy farmers to the best of my knowledge. Imagine the fucking smell two days later.
The French are first class protesters.
I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.
We don’t actually live in a democracy, that’s just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage is just racking up these own goals while getting ready to sell the whole country in three years time.
Crossing my fingers for the Corbyn party…
Hmm, I’d be a little more enthused if he wasn’t on the side of Russia.
Not going to defend him on this but hey, if there’s any politician who might do what the people want, it would be Jeremy Corbyn.
Not going to define him on this
Why not? Honestly fuck that.
Sorry, typo, meant to say defend not define.
Oh! Well that’s a totally different slant haha! Thanks for the clarification.
reminds me of my philosophy teacher arguing against someone because my teacher said that we don’t live in a democracy, but a lot of people disagreed.
i still remember the look of disapointment in their face, since they had just told us the definition of democracy😭
I love people who say “we don’t live in a democracy because we live in a republic.” Yeah, we don’t live in a republic either, bitch.
i understand thinking you live in a democracy, but i’ve never heard people saying it’s a republic 💀
A republic has a specific definition but we absolutely do not meet.
The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by “doing something”, with a “something” which the politicians can safelly ignore.
It’s a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the
plebescitizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People’s Will recorder.Wait until you hear about protests
Just don’t inconvenience anyone in any way.
Being slightly irritating is a terrorist activity now.
Also if you get too much attention you’re hurting your own message
but why
The intern responding doesn’t have the authority to do anything.
Because the government doesn’t give a shit about us
Scotland stopped voting Labour into power over a decade ago. If only England had the balls to do it too. Torys and Labour, two sides of the same corrupt coin. Come England, youre better than that. Starmer is a tory cunt. Vote greens, or Libdems, or anyone else buy those two corrupt scum parties.
LabourStarmer is just warming shitface Nigel’s seat at this point
Counterpoint: Brexit
Petition
Bad thing please
Government responded
Yes
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The petition to reverse Brexit got something like 4 million signatures. Response: LOL No.
Brexit it’s referendum because the Tories were scared of loosing power to Frog Face Faeage’s party. So they did a bit of appeasement.
This image is a great reflection of the entire history of the UK, incidentally.
Pretty much - we all put our names to them, but they do nothing.
The best option is to organise writing campaigns to your local MP and indicate that this is the decider on your vote.
More like “This is good thing, please vote.”
We don’t deserve nice things.
What if there was a law that said once something had enough signatures, it needs to be put to a vote?
The only issue I can think of is the threshold being too high and authenticity of the signatures.
