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In view of the fact that our lovely government appear to be prepared to ignore the 1.7 million people who voted on the road pricing petition there is a new petition raised to
"Make it legally binding on the government to hold a national referendum on any e-petition that accumulates 100,000 or more signatures. The result of that referendum to be binding on the government. It is unacceptable in a country that calls itself a democracy that the government can ignore the will of the people stated through one of the few channels available to them. Rule by the people means the government serves the people by doing what they are asked to do by the majority. What we seem to have is a situation where once elected, the government has a blank cheque until the next election. That has now become untenable, and the people must be allowed to speak and be listened to, and be able to sanction the government if this is not done to their satisfaction."
Link here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EPetitonsbinding/
Ok - they will probably ignore this one too... but eventually they will have to listen to us....
"Make it legally binding on the government to hold a national referendum on any e-petition that accumulates 100,000 or more signatures. The result of that referendum to be binding on the government. It is unacceptable in a country that calls itself a democracy that the government can ignore the will of the people stated through one of the few channels available to them. Rule by the people means the government serves the people by doing what they are asked to do by the majority. What we seem to have is a situation where once elected, the government has a blank cheque until the next election. That has now become untenable, and the people must be allowed to speak and be listened to, and be able to sanction the government if this is not done to their satisfaction."
Link here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EPetitonsbinding/
Ok - they will probably ignore this one too... but eventually they will have to listen to us....
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