Allow Parliamentary Petition Authors to speak in the Parliamentary Debates

All too often the debates for Parliamentary petitions are not well attended, go off track and are not enough of the agent for change they are intended to be. It is time for the people who bring these petitions and lobby to get signatures to be heard in the debates.

This petition closed on 29 Oct 2019 with 1,385 signatures


Reticulating Splines

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Only MPs are allowed to speak in debates, which means that not one petition author has spoken or argued the points of their petition in the debate chamber. For those of us who follow the televised debates, it looks like MPs are simply going through the motions. Allowing petitioners to speak in the debate would be a far better use of everyone's time.


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Reticulating Splines