Posted by Ben @ June 24th, 2010 1:57 am. Filed under: Wait a minute... this isn't a petition! —
From the ePetition front page:
With a new Government in place a review is taking place of online services, including e-petitions. We are committed to improving the e-petitions process and are looking at ways of ensuring that it functions as part of a cohesive approach to public debate and transparent government. A full announcement on how we plan to use these and other services across Government will be made as soon as this important work is completed.
Existing e-petitions, submitted to the previous administration, will not be carried forward to the new administration as part of this process. E-petitions that were live at the time of the election announcement on 6 April, when the e-petitions system was suspended, will therefore not be reopened for signatures. We will respond to e-petitions that had exceeded the 500 signature threshold as of 6 April 2010.
We will welcome resubmission on issues of concern to the improved e-petitions system when it is launched later in 2010.
Well there we are, then! I guess all we have to do is wait for the new site to go live, and then we can resume mocking the ignorant.