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(Is it not 100,000?) Genuine question - has anything ever happened as a result of these petitions? When it has been debated, has there been a meaningful chang

• tomtoise 10y ago
  No, nothing has happened. 100,000 signatures means it's considered for debate, not guaranteed. The response is inevitably: "We have considered debating this and decided actually we don't fancy it. Keep signing the petitions though, they definitely make a difference and don't think about taking direct action of any form."
• toyg 10y ago
  In some cases ("pasty tax" and stuff like that), popular petitions added pressure to the pile that eventually forced policy U-turns. On their own they are pretty useless.