Online petitions are among the very least you can do. The effort is minimal as is the understanding required of the topic or the petition itself. If anyone st

Online petitions are among the very least you can do. The effort is minimal as is the understanding required of the topic or the petition itself. If anyone starts accepting these petitions as valid expressions of the electorate you can look forward to more Boaty McBoatface-type results. Plus, myself and a growing number of others are not on Facebook and therefore will not be represented. It's not the right platform or medium for real political dialogue.