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So I'm not really into serious petitions, don't think they achieve much. But I do like this one that calls for Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53/week:

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ ... -53-a-week

Launched at 12:41 on 01/04/13 the "#IDS Prove It" petition has just exceeded 44,000 signatures.

There is also a serious welfare reform one if that's your bag: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43154

Probably somehow related to peak oil in some tenuous way?

A week!

Corrected.. I bet he couldn't live on £53/ day though!

Sorry to say there's not much point. News reports said Ian Duncan Smith misrepresented his military or education history years ago, then denied it. Neither he or anyone else in the government will take any notice, they are working to keep the money men happy.

It takes two seconds to sign.

People are trying to call IDS to account.

What's not to like?

He won't give a toss. Electronic petitions are a waste of effort but I suppose it makes people feel good.

Approaching 70,000 now:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ ... -53-a-week

I agree in general about petitions I generally refuse to sign them. However every now and again something goes viral in unexpected ways.

Politicians don't give two hoots about a petition, but they do care what the broadsheets & redtops say:

https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=of ... h+petition

Best objection I have read so far is:

"I'm not signing that "force IDS to live on 53 quid a week" thing. He'll only squander it. Give him vouchers"

+1

......and the red tops occasionally follow things like this, especially if they seem popular/zeitgeist-y.

Hence it IS worth signing, plus like I said it takes a minute- so where's the hassle?

signed

Seems to be being signed at a rate of about a hundred a minute

Signed as well, as others have posted, don't usually do anything like that, but the career politicians we have now, are so out of touch, probably because they are out of reach.

The petition has just been mentioned on the BBC news. Hopefully, there will be a massive surge on sign ups now.

85901

It's a reversal of the situation in 1946 when my grandfather, Major W. F. Vernon, Labour M.P. for Dulwich, tested the government's 'Starvation Diet' to see what would happen to him.

(He survived.)

Signed.

It's getting signed at a rate of about 500 a minute now