Clearly they do work because this one achieved quite a lot. It’s not nothing to have a Parliamentary debate on a subject because of a petition!

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CrzyLngPwd a day ago | parent [-]

The number of UK Government and Parliament petitions that have led to an identifiable policy change is so small as to be statistically negligible — effectively a rounding error compared with the total number submitted.

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meheleventyone 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Right but a policy change isn't the guarentee offered just the debate. Getting to a debate is a win! Despite no concrete policy changes it doesn't mean there won't be other second order effects from having this bought to peoples attention.

If you think we're going to have government by petition then I don't know what to tell you.

	▲	Serenacula 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think people want government by petition, I think they just want petitions to have any meaningful impact at all. Which they currently don't.