Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53/week fastest petition ever?

sam_uk · Post by **sam_uk** » 01 Apr 2013, 19:01

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?

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 01 Apr 2013, 19:25

A week!

sam_uk · Post by **sam_uk** » 01 Apr 2013, 19:28

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

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 01 Apr 2013, 20:12

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.

nexus · Post by **nexus** » 01 Apr 2013, 20:26

It takes two seconds to sign.

People are trying to call IDS to account.

What's not to like?

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 01 Apr 2013, 20:54

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

sam_uk · Post by **sam_uk** » 01 Apr 2013, 21:01

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"

nexus · Post by **nexus** » 01 Apr 2013, 21:48

+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?

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:01

signed

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:02

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

acman · Post by **acman** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:31

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.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:35

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

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:36

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.)

ujoni08 · Post by **ujoni08** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:37

Signed.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 01 Apr 2013, 22:39

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

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Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53/week fastest petition ever?

Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53/week fastest petition ever?

Thanks John