Petitions - Do They Work ?

I dont know if they work. but I know they dont work if no one signs.

in it to win it.. kind of thing.

Signed

In my country - Bulgaria - petitions do not work. It's just because nobody cares what people think. For example, our corrupted mayor sold a forest, got money from there, and now they are building a neighborhood, which can be afford only by really really rich people (we don't have so many rich people around here... meaning that there is no one to live in this neighborhood). There were many petitions and protests. We got national - there were many news reports. The result is that they are still building those houses and our forest is still getting removed by those idiots with no priorities.

So it really depends. I hope that things in the UK are not like around here. And as the other person said, as far as it legal, it is supposed to have some type of influence over your Government.

I really doubt if petitions work. I don't think anyone really cares. I am sure that atleast some of the petitions are started with a good intention but probably 1 in a 1000 might have some effect.

No, the government only cares to respond if it gets many thousands of signatories and then all it does is write a response saying why you are wrong and the government is right.

The best thing you could do is write a personal letter to your local MP or the Health Secretary and see if people who care about this issue who you know will also write their own letters or sign your letter.

Yes, I have signed, but thousands of us signed a petition for a vote on the Lisbon Treaty. We were totally ignored.

Petitions, unless they are done legally, rarely work.