
Good old politics...
E-Petitions "do not have the same weight as paper petitions"... "Public take-up has been slow?"
I wonder what could have given people that idea, maybe it was the 3 million or so who signed up to the Road Charging E-Petition only to receive a lovely email response from Tony Blair telling everyone "I am right you are wrong and road charging is one of the tools we will have to use to fight congestion". I guess that kind of made the system totally pointless in many people's eyes when a few million signatures on a petition larger than any paper one gets fobbed off by the PM of the day.
And to think some people wonder why we are so apathetic about democracy and politics in this country...
I'll get my coat.