Every UK petition

On france, we currently have one with 2.1M signatures, gov still said nope (petition against reintroduction of dangerous pesticide, backed by sciencists community)

I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.

We don't actually live in a democracy, that's just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.

It's a representative democracy, not direct democracy.
- It's Lizard Democracy.
- And why should it be that way? You can certainly have a mixed system. In many American states, for example, official petitions can result in referendums to enact laws without the legislature's intervention.
- Just a reminder that downvoting something doesn't stop it being true.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage is just racking up these own goals while getting ready to sell the whole country in three years time.
- Crossing my fingers for the Corbyn party...

The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.

It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the ~~plebes~~ citizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People's Will recorder.

Wait until you hear about protests
- Just don't inconvenience anyone in any way.
  Being slightly irritating is a terrorist activity now.

Counterpoint: Brexit

That just proves the point. The politicians will do what serves them best, regardless of what's good for the people or the country.
Petition
Bad thing please
Government responded
Yes
The petition to reverse Brexit got something like 4 million signatures. Response: LOL No.
Brexit it's referendum because the Tories were scared of loosing power to Frog Face Faeage's party. So they did a bit of appeasement.

This image is a great reflection of the entire history of the UK, incidentally.

Well they did say yes once in 1215

I mean 122,000 out of 60 million isn’t a lot.

Could likely get 5 million to say banning people based on colour is a good idea, but I don’t agree.

Only need 500 (out of 40mil) + one MP sign off for the government to legally have to respond in Canada. They don't have to say yes but they have to officially acknowledge you at least. I was pretty surprised by how low that threshold is.
- It's only like 10k here too, but the response is always "we have no plans to change anything"

but why

The intern responding doesn’t have the authority to do anything.
Because there is nothing legally binding about petitions.
- If petitions (= begging) are the highest level of what people can do between two elections, something about the system is fundamentally broken.
- Well it does atleast force them to make a public opinion on it, it’s a foot in the door.
Because the government doesn't give a shit about us

What if there was a law that said once something had enough signatures, it needs to be put to a vote?

The only issue I can think of is the threshold being too high and authenticity of the signatures.

At a 1mil signatures, it must be discussed in parliament. They don't do a great job of voting on it, but it's the law.
- That’s comforting to know

We don't deserve nice things.