Road Tax Petitions

T1rez · 5 Jun 2008 at 09:54

Can I urge you to please sign this petition its very quickly earned its way into the Top 5
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNFAIR-VED/

And if your in a good mood this one as well

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

I realise they probably wont listen but we need to do what ever we can to try and make Government take a U-Turn on their policies which will effect everyone of us one way or another.

therealnerd2 · 5 Jun 2008 at 10:00

Yay! E-petitions!

bobert50 · 6 Jun 2008 at 17:18

Durzel · 6 Jun 2008 at 17:25

Apathy is always more effective than e-petitions, easier too.

Booner! · 6 Jun 2008 at 17:35

I have signed, for the sake of 30 seconds it doesn't hurt.

Glaucus · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:09

Signed but e-petitions won't do anything and will do even less while the idiot Gordon Brown is still in charge.

xen_ · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:13

What is an "acceptable level"?

Glaucus · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:14

xen_ said:
What is an "acceptable level"?

0%

The Edge · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:24

Signed but not holding my breath

zain · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:58

You know the site admin are laughing at us, all we do is sign something digitally and think we are doing good because it can bring about change.

In reality it just gives us an easier means of showing concern while still paying excessive amounts.

Has any of these petitions ever worked?

Rich · 6 Jun 2008 at 20:32

Nope.

Remember the road charging one? almost 2 million signatures on that. They were like, "good effort" *into the bin*.

Biohazard · 6 Jun 2008 at 20:33

^ lol and you expect anything less?

Rich · 6 Jun 2008 at 22:46

Not from representative democracy I dont, no. Doesn't make it any less unjust however.

AtreuS · 7 Jun 2008 at 03:26

E Petitions are about as effective as farting into the air in an attempt to move the earth further from the sun!

Why they ever even bothered with them is beyond me.

eidolon · 7 Jun 2008 at 09:48

Has there *ever* been a successful e-petition? Does anyone have any evidence of one where the government didn't just ignore it and say "we know better, so tough luck"

Northwind · 8 Jun 2008 at 19:08

Rich said:
Remember the road charging one? almost 2 million signatures on that. They were like, "good effort" *into the bin*.

Because it was a bad joke. "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy". The response was "There isn't one."

Not that e-petitions are much use anyway, but the fact that 3/5 of the biggest ones ever were based on wrong information or outright lies (this one, the mega mosque one and the red arrows one) devalue them even further. If that's possible. It just proves 1.8 million people will sign their name to anything.

But there's quite a few where there's been decisions made which go in line with the petition demands. You just can't say for sure if the petition has had any effect. The Grey's Lane one (for an armed forces family support centre that was getting nimby'd) might have had an effect, or the council might have unilaterally u-turned without it, hard to say...