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15 Jan 2007 Addiction to petitions
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It started off innocently enough, I gets an email at work from a coworker. I read it and it describes an online petition, a petition of UK Road Travel Tax. It reads:
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month. On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect a NIP with your monthly bill. If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website.
This is not on I thinks. I don't want to pay more money I thinks some more. Fortunately there's a link to the page where you can leave an online signature against this proposed tax which I promptly click through and sign.
The thing that struck me about this site was that it is an official UK government site. It's like having a direct access to No. 10 Downing Street, home to the Prime Minister directly... In a not really kind of way. I rummaged around the site some more to see what other kinds of petitions they had. They have hundreds of petitions on different categories. I found myself signing a half a dozen petitions for things I thought would make the country I live in a better place.
Although the petition for standardised umbrella sizes I feel is a little silly...
People of the British community online go to the 10 Downing Street petition site and sign some petitions or even make your own up. Make the British people's voice heard! The Prime Minister will probably stick his fingers in his ears saying "LalalaI'mnotlisteninglalala", but at least you'll feel better with the illusion that you tried to make a difference.
Posted at: 14:04 PM
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Tony said on Friday 19th of January 2007 at 11:15:31 PM
I spent 20 minutes going through my Hotmail last night... clicking on validation links to petitions!
Bastards making me think my oppinion actually counts.