Petition the PM

Some may have missed the story of the petition on the number 10 site that caused the server to fall over, entitled

"Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy"

and as I type it has 426,298 signatures and ranks number 1 in the list of the most popular. The second is

"repeal the Hunting Act 2004"

which can only manage 19,943.

The reason I'm mentioning this is simply due to the fact that the link came in via a friend and as a result I've been slowly wandering through the lists. Most entertaining are the petitions that have been rejected. Rejected you say, how can you reject a petition how undemocratic "

stop school for people who dnt want o go"

uh-huh nun of us kneed skoolin, the Pastafarians out there might be miffed that

"Make 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' a National Holiday and give away free peg legs to those in need on this day"

was rejected. Some have been rejected for odd reasons try

"Fibre cable to every home in England"

which was rejected as "It contained party political material"? Anybody?

The ones that make it can be fun too,

"Make Eggs A Compulsory Component In Our Diets"

with 2 signatures, the ambiguous

"Make a determined effort to stop cyclists endangering everyone else by cycling on pavements"

so you want them to ride on pavements to stop them endangering everyone...? Only 7 signatures so who cares? From the high-minded

"create the procedure of ostracism as practised under the ancient Greek Athenian democracy."

to the commonsensical

"Stop moving dangerous killers into open prisons."

which manages to garner 4 signatures.

It's all good fun and if the numbers are high enough might (but only might) make a difference.

Oh and in the half-hour it took to write this the Vehicle Tracking has gone up by 973 to 427,271 and the Hunting Act has gone up by 8 to 19,951; sounds like they need email circular too.