Stop broadcasters advertising holidays, gatherings and days out.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Why, during a time of national lock down, when we are encouraging the public to stay at home, are we sat on our sofas watching adverts including Jet2 holidays, Centre Parks and documentaries about train travel or the London Underground? How do you expect the public to take this pandemic seriously!

Its time to change adverts to local regions, defer holiday or tourism adverts until this crisis has ended. On one hand the broadcasters are feeding the public stories about the irresponsible people who go abroad, go to work as non key workers, and using mass transit or attending gatherings, whilst on the other these broadcasters are taking money to promote these same things!

Its time to shut these adverts down, otherwise how do you expect people to take this pandemic seriously.

Why it was rejected

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

This would be a decision for individual channels and providers, not the UK Government or Parliament.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

Timeline

25 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
30 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 30 Apr 2020

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