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Firstly, I'm really impressed by the idea, and think it would be an excellent way to have public feedback - if this had existed during washup, would the digital

Firstly, I'm really impressed by the idea, and think it would be an excellent way to have public feedback - if this had existed during washup, would the digital economy bill (now act) have passed? But I have a few reservations - no. 10 has had a petition part of their website for years now - the problem was that any ideas that didn't fit with the government's ideas already were ignored. I think your second statement does a nice job of counter-acting your first. Maybe I'm cynical, but this looks like a pretty shallow publicity ploy. I'd love to see some real change come from this (or sites like this), but I'd be shocked if it actually happened.

gaius 16y ago
All that site promised was that anything with x (50,000 IIRC) votes would get a personal reply from the PM. The real test will be when the Countryside Alliance (disclosure: I am a member) use the site to vote en masse for the repeal of the Hunting Act.
socksy 16y ago
I think your second statement does a nice job of counter-acting your first. I was going for naïve hope followed by the crushing realism of politics. Even if any of these ideas did persuade the deputy primemi ister, what's he going to do?