According to polls around 75% of the country care about fox hunting, they wanted it banned.
Why didn’t you understand the real message of my post above, it’s not specifically about fox hunting, it’s about a silly Tory idea to listen to the people via petitions that will force them to put through new legislation.
Political parties put forward a manifesto every 5 years and we vote for the party we want in power. General elections is when we get our say.
The concept in itself is fine, politicians should listen, but we have to be realistic, if it were up to the people in a vote the country would collapse into anarchy as we’d be selfish when voting on single issues.
Imagine if we all had a vote on things like:
Should income tax be banned?
Should we have council tax?
Should VAT be scrapped?
should we give multi-millionaires a tax break?
Should we pull out of Afghanistan now?
Should we pay for smokers cancer treatment on the NHS?
Should all politicians be hung drawn and quartered?
Either the Conservatives don’t expect many petitions to hit the required 5% of support (over 3 million signatures) or they will have to ignore the people when the subject of the petition doesn’t match what the Conservatives plan to do (like fox hunting).
Basically they will ignore the petitions they don’t like.
At best people will spends lots of time creating petitions, the Tories will debate the subject in parliament and nothing will happen unless the Tories like the idea: if they like an idea why would they need a petition with 5% of the population signing a petition?
David
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