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wyuenho07/31/20253 repliesview on HN

The UK has a petition website. It logs the signatory by constituency. Once a threshold os signatory has cross, the government has to respond and parliament will have to consider a debate on the topic.


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Ylpertnodi07/31/2025

And just because they respond, it doesn't actually mean anything will result from it.

"No more something!" "We have seen your petition. Fuck off, peasants".

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crinkly07/31/2025

This exists only to pacify people and make them think someone has listened to them.

voidUpdate08/01/2025

This is the relevant petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903. The government's response so far is "lol no"