Hi Jan-Marie
Thanks for telling us about the other place which does petitions on line. As there are already two petitions about the same thing running, it doesn’t seem a good idea to start a third, although it might be useful for another occasion.
The 38 degree petition has got over 178,000 signatures in less than 3 weeks, so I think is doing very well.
I wasn’t sure what ‘trial’ you were talking about in your last paragraph. The https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/206274 petition was started by the BHPS. This was similar to a petition which was started last year and got nearly 30,000 signatures in about 6 weeks. It then had to be stopped due to the General Election, with none of the signatures being allowed to be carried forward. As I’m sure you will realise, it is always harder to get signatures a second time round, hence our hope to encourage more people here on the Forum to recruit more additional signers. The thing about the https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/206274 petition is that it, hopefully, triggers a debate in parliament if the 100,000 is reached which the others don’t necessarily.
