Set up and sign petitions, direct on the PM's website

[TRUTH]

For generations campaigners have trooped to Downing Street to deliver petitions urging the government to take action on a host of causes - now they will be able to send a message to the prime minister at the click of a mouse.

A new e-petitions service allows citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up and sign petitions, direct on the PM's website .

A Downing Street spokesman explained: "The new service is essentially the same as the traditional paper petitions that have been collected and delivered by post or hand to 10 Downing Street for generations, but online. This gives petitioners the ability to spread their petitions in new ways, and potentially reach much larger or more widely spread audiences. It also makes it much more economically feasible for the PM or the government to respond to signers of petitions than it was when each reply required separate postage and envelopes."

Number 10 stressed the online service did not replace paper petitions but was simply another channel. "We do, however, ask petitioners to make sure that their signers are aware that signing an identical paper and electronic petition will not count twice."

The petition site was built as an open source project for Number 10 by mySociety, an organisation that is strictly neutral on party political issues.

The most recent petitions on the e-petitions site urge Tony Blair to:
· champion the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, by not replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system;
· create a new exception to copyright law that gives individuals the right to create a private copy of copyrighted materials for their own personal use, including back-ups, archiving and shifting format; and· levy a tax on energy inefficient light bulbs so that their long term financial and environmental cost is visible in their retail price.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1946884,00.html

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

[Fallious]

Nice. Perhaps someone should set up a 7/7 petition on here. I wouldn't know what to say...

[TRUTH]

[flamesong]

There are three threads on this forum which ask basically the same thing.

My answer to them all is basically the same, why didn't you start a petition and then point it out?

[flamesong]

A petition has been started by Mark Sugrue:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/9-11-Truth

[paul wright]

Petition submitted to No 10
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to bare his arse in front of the Houses of Parliament and declare himself the most inveterate liar,warmongering criminal, puppet of higher forces, pervert in the most extreme ways, destroyer of human life and liberty,conspirator in corporate fascism's global hegemony requiring the deaths of millions"

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