piece has apparently disappeared (?) but I did a big feature on the petitions committee a few years ago and the conclusion was v much that unless you're looking for a very specific, narrow and mostly uncontroversial change in law, those HoC petitions/debates don't achieve anything meaningful anyway
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Lee Hurley
I write about this in the next Trans Agenda but I think we need to stop organising petitions to get debates in the House of Commons. All we do is give the worst people a large platform to attack trans people and the papers more fodder.
If we had decent allies there, maybe. But we don't.
If we had decent allies there, maybe. But we don't.
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Empowered by a Parliament where bills not originating from the government is a petty common process, not an anomaly.
If it is archived, I, for one, would love to read it.
I was eventually able to get it via the wbm, but it was genuinely distressing to find it and him just erased.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190905200142/https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2019/09/05/parliamentary-petitions-190805/content.html?sig=R6uiUtIvCqoqEXX6OvXXNi18b-RIHA8ZRrbj73HtocA
And this, kids, is why it's good that some people haven't deleted all their old tweets.