Prime Minsterial Petitions

16th November 2006

MySociety have launched an official Prime Ministerial Petition website.

Taking a look some of the petitions, it struck me that I’d quite like to sign up in direct opposition to some of the proposals. I wonder if this is functionality that could be added.

It’s also interesting to see how many of the petitions are environmental.

(As an aside, I know that petitioning the Prime Minister has always happened offline, but it really does hammer home how presidential politics has become. From what I remember of my degree, we are still supposed to have Cabinet Government (you know, ‘the hyphen that joins, buckle that fastens‘ etc etc) but the reality is, no-one would even look at a ‘petition the cabinet’ site.)