Direct Access To The Parliament

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk

There is a burgeoning virtual community around the development of electronic petitions for a whole range of purposes. However, electronic petitions do not meet the current requirements for presentation to, never mind being debated in, the WA Parliament.

Imagine my surprise and delight at finding that the UK Government has put in place a formal process to co-ordinate petitions to Government/Parliament and to allow those that get sufficient support to be debated in the House of Commons.

In the two years since this system was put in place, 7.2 million people have signed one or more petitions on the site and 19 of those petitions have been debated in the UK Parliament, having achieved the required 100,000 signatures.

Time for something similar to at least attempt to prevent the abuses of power by Col Pot and co, methinks - or even just to let them know what we think of their perversions of democracy.