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Keep signing petitions from ivory towers. That's not where political pressure on decision makers comes from.
by poka 7y ago
Keep signing petitions from ivory towers. That's not where political pressure on decision makers comes from.
- _puk 7y agoJust in case you were not aware, in the UK any official petition with more than 100,000 signatures gets discussed in parliament [0]. 0: https://petition.parliament.uk/help https://petition.parliament.uk/help
- starfallg 7y agoThe plan is supposed to be based on science, not politics, yet here you are telling me this isn't the case? On a more serious note, petitions and other methods by experts to publicly state a position isn't just about influencing government policy. It's also a political tool in the aftermath of failed policy. Just like the current panel of experts is a political tool employed by the government to justify the biases in its policy.