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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to introduce legislation allowing citizens to trigger referendums on national or local issues. More details

Submitted by Saira Khan of OUR SAY – Deadline to sign up by: 30 November 2007 – Signatures: 373

Petition update, 07 January 2008

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "introduce legislation allowing citizens to trigger referendums on national or local issues."

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14167.asp

Prime Minister's Office

More details from petition creator

British citizens should be able to trigger referendums on any issue where 2.5% of the population have signed a petition - for a national issue this would mean one million signatures and for a local ballot around 3-4,000. Such a system - called Citizens' Initiatives - already operates in Switzerland, New Zealand, Hungary and 24 states in America.

Current signatories

Saira Khan, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • christopher hughes
  • Tom Horrocks
  • Isabel Field
  • Edwood Walker
  • Mark MacGregor
  • Joan Wucher King
  • Noel Woodhead
  • James Graham
  • Douglas White
  • Benjamin Goldsmith
  • Paul Cosier
  • Pete Chown
  • Peter James Willmott
  • David Boothroyd
  • John R H. Walker
  • James Shiell
  • Matt Davies
  • Alexandre GONZALEZ
  • paul nagle
  • Wayne Burdett
  • Andrew Gleadall
  • Chris Mellish
  • Sally Welham
  • Jacqueline Trowbridge
  • Tanjil Rashid
  • Jeff Clark
  • Steve Atkinson
  • Alex Churchill
  • Sean Donaldson
  • David J. Weston
  • evgueni boiko
  • anne upton
  • jamie upton
  • Martin Vickers
  • Philip Hunt
  • Darren Robinson
  • Martin Dixon
  • Terence Upton
  • Harry Day
  • Robin Green
  • christophe boote
  • ROBERT HENDERSON
  • Michelle Taylor
  • andrew johnson
  • richard datchler
  • Robert Daines
  • Henry Fletcher
  • Edmund Brown
  • Scott Porter
  • A Jones
  • Daniel Bond
  • Geoff Hamilton
  • T R Tozer
  • Stuart Pearce
  • Leila Kiersch
  • Steven J Humphrey
  • Harry Horner
  • Griff Parry
  • Michael Dent
  • mr c paine
  • hope
  • Eric Smith
  • Lilian Pearce
  • Brian John Webb
  • john kelly
  • Allan Tallett
  • Neil Kernick
  • Price Sinclair
  • Alan David Rabbitts
  • mr rgl vickery
  • Michael E Warren
  • Laura Hurrell
  • Avril King
  • Julie Graham
  • David Thorne
  • hilary mutton
  • Arthur Brian Lockwood
  • Phil Peter
  • Simon Booth
  • Alex Parsons
  • Mark Binns
  • Dave Smitton
  • Graham Wheatley
  • Valma Clinton
  • john smith
  • James Croft
  • Francesco Sciacca
  • Patricia A Evans
  • J Bush
  • Keith Lonsdale
  • Ralph Boyes
  • Rajeev Shah
  • John Ramsay
  • John Butcher
  • Thomas Rochester
  • Richard Bellamy
  • Guy Dampier
  • Julian Eccles
  • Stephan Hoenig
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  • nadia franchi
  • Angela Reid
  • A Pedrick
  • Harry Brown
  • R. Cox
  • Samantha Lewis
  • David Mitchell
  • John Hopkins
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  • Jack Cox
  • Colin Wilfred Holland
  • Barry Davies
  • susan moorhead
  • Nicola Reed
  • Iain Wooloff
  • Dr George M.P. Bailey
  • Jacqui Milne-Day
  • Jim McGlynn
  • vida henning
  • Isabel Clark
  • Martin Nutt
  • Mark Rivers-Moore
  • Maria Moss
  • Mr G R Williams
  • Martin Dixon
  • Aminur Rahman
  • Richard Price
  • Edmund Brown
  • David Magee
  • Mr K Webb
  • Alexander Vokes
  • Ben Wilson
  • david chambers
  • George A.M. Ensor
  • Carl Barker
  • Michael Charles Adam Holmes
  • Michael David Lewin
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  • Graeme Clark
  • Neville A. Daniels
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  • Pamela Law
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