But, Sir… » We are not allowed to petition for Alan Johnson to be sacked over his treatment of David Nutt.

We are not allowed to petition for Alan Johnson to be sacked over his treatment of David Nutt.

Posted by Andrew @ November 4th, 2009 6:02 pm. Filed under: In Which We Mock The Petition Site Itself,Maybe... but not for THAT reason,Wait a minute... this isn't a petition! —

The admins of the petition site have rejected the following petition, which I broadly support:

Sack Alan Johnson as Home Secretary.

by Ted Smith

Alan Johnson has stepped beyond credible remit as the Home Secretary to censor Scientific debate from the public sphere by his dismissal of the Chairman of the ACMD Professor David J Nutt MRCP MRCPsych FRCPsych FMedSci. Professor Nutt was making a valid point about the state of the classification system and he would defend this position in debate, providing evidence to support his statements.

The Government, in particular Home Office ministers, have a record of brushing evidence aside in favour of a baseless agenda. This is not the way to restore trust in the Government.

They did so, because it overlaps with this one:

sack Alan Johnson and install as Home Secretary someone who will substantiallly restrict immigration and devise a population policy for this overcrowded island.

by Robert Moore

This latter petition I cannot support, because it’s almost certainly thinly veiled racism and therefore lands straight in the Maybe… but not for THAT reason category.

So effectively this means that we’re not allowed to petition the Prime Minister to remove Alan Johnson for any reason other than because we hate immigrants, until Moore’s petition closes on the 24th. I appreciate this decision was clearly taken by a web administrator rather than a minister, but it’s the kind of important detail someone should be keeping an eye on, or else the credibility of the whole site (such as it is) could be destroyed.

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