Tag Archives: e-petitions

e-petitions

Lord Norton 28/12/2010 – 6:16 pm

I was interested in Baroness Murphy's observation that the blogosphere is "populated by the sad, the obsessed, the eccentric, the fanatic and the ignorant".   I suppose I may qualify under two or three - even four? - of the headings!  I try to keep my fanatical observations to my own blog. However, I was not sure what substance there was to today's story about e-petitions.  It appears to […]

e-Petitions

Lord Norton 20/05/2008 – 9:04 pm

I attended a Hansard Society meeting this evening to discuss e-petitions.  The Procedure Committee in the Commons recently published a report recommending that petitions should be permitted to be submitted electronically.  It proposed that the constituency MP of the petitioner be asked to serve as a facilitator, that the petitions be posted on the parliamentary website for a specific period, t […]