Petition · past parliament

Shut down petition websites

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

As you may know, recently this website has had a huge petition for a second referendum, causing more and more people to create non-serious petitions, such as:
-4th referendum to shutdown the 2nd and 3rd u referendums
-battle of hasting rematch
-penalty shootout rematch
And many more.

I believe that it has become too easy to change the country just by sitting at a computer and clicking around.
I know this petition is almost the definition of irony, by if this petition succeeds it would cancel out the point to have this petition, but I believe it would make the united kingdom better, by saving councillors and members of parliament time by removing unnecessary and usually uninformed petitions from having to be debated.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The Government and Parliament could choose to shut down this website, but they do not have the power to close all petitions websites.

Timeline

26 Jun 2016 Petition opened for signatures
30 Jun 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 30 Jun 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.