Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.
Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don't need a "representative" to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.
To be fair, a lot of the petitions that get uploaded are either dumb or just jokes. That doesn't excuse the government treating the serious ones that have huge public support as if they're also jokes, of course
14 Comments
mrdown@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 28d
Because democracy was always fake. Hope one day we will reach real democracy
Tweak@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 27d
Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.
Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don't need a "representative" to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.
rah@hilariouschaos.com · -3 pts · 27d
Are you sure you hope to reach real democracy? Because in a real democracy, you don't just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 27d
Why i want to and yes to achievw it you don't just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 28d
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 28d
To be fair, a lot of the petitions that get uploaded are either dumb or just jokes. That doesn't excuse the government treating the serious ones that have huge public support as if they're also jokes, of course
renlok@lemmy.zarioth.com · 8 pts · 28d
Yeah it makes the whole thing pointless, it just seems to show how little the UK government actually cares about it's citizens and their opinions.
This site is used to humour us like giving a child an unplugged controller to play your game.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 28d
linux_penguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 27d
quite possibly the one way to make that website more depressing than it already is
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 27d
"It's not just 'no' — it's 'NO'."
Tweak@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 27d
The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 27d
We should start a petition to make the government take petitions more seriously.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 25d
There was one????!!
What was it?
jc1989@feddit.uk · -7 pts · 26d
To be fair, 739,999 of the petitions were memes, Karen's or the woke brigade
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 26d
"Woke brigade" - go on, do elaborate