David Cameron this afternoon launched a national petition calling for an early general election. If you'd like to sign it click HERE.
I wasn't convinced of the benefits of an early election until today. But I think public anger is at such a level that it may be the only way it can be assuaged. I'll be debating the issue with Jessica Asato from Progress on 5 Live Breakfast tomorrow morning at 8.05am. She, naturally, would rather stick needles in her eyes than have an election.
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Signed!
Gimmick!
Shallow!
That looks more like an attempt to grab data for a mailing list than any serious petition. Why didn't he put it on the No 10 site? Not signed.
signed.
Signed.
"That looks more like an attempt to grab data for a mailing list than any serious petition."
Just don't tick the boxes that say 'pleeze can I haz yr data?' then.
Signed and passed on.
Will Labour supporters want to sign a petition on the Conservatives' site?
Perhaps Cameron should make it more widely available and perhaps downloadable for printing and distributing.
The expenses row just isn’t going away, so Rip Her To Shreds could not resist one more round of putting the honourable members in the Spotified spotlight.
This week we’re asking ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ (Obviously not The Speaker)
http://www.riphertoshreds.co.uk/the-beat-goes-on/spotified/the-playlist/
What a stunt! He could force an election if he really wanted. This gives the impression he wants one now whilst giving him all the time in the world to bugger about.
I feel totally let down.
(PS I still signed it though!)
What a waste of time. Do you think Brown is going to say "Ooh, I see that the Conservatives are calling for a general election: better give them one then"? The leech is going to cling on until May 2010. Cameron would do better to push for that fat pig Martin to oink off.
Not signed.
Signed plus got another to sign it as well!
Just persuaded another to sign it and have sent them a link!
Labour Labour Labour - Out Out Out!
Signed.
Until today I thought a GE now was a crap idea fuelled by the Westminster bubble effect.
Who would want to go to the country now with all this sh1t flying around?
The mood swings wildly daily, but I now think nothing will stop the outcry unless people can have their say.
May 18, 2009 6:16 PM
You don't get it do you - A Ge in say June/july/august or septemeber gives the parties enough time to get rid of the fat pigs and get rid of Speaker Martin. Both are as important as the other in executing. At the moment there are MPs who are cashing in each month with Mp salaries plus Pension contributions.
A dissolution of parliament is the only way to stop the troughing and get a cleaner politics.
Come on Dale - tell us....
Moran or Dorries - who is the more culpable?
Pick up Craig Murray's challenge - your continued silence suggests guilt on Dorries' part!
Ooops! I forgot to paste this link - it explains all:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/dorries_and_dal.html
No election whilst the troughers are in situ....unless Dave wants to throw away seats hand over fist......mackay, kirkbride, hogg, duncan and another dozen others should all be deselected and clean candidates put in place......
Labour sock puppets spotted hosting the socialist skull and bones Flag!
Labour have nothing constructive anymore to say - they don't want an election because they know the British people hate them for the corruption Labour has created in the last twelve years.
Labour made this expensive MP enrichment scheme post 1997. It was built on something that was meant to assist memebers.
When Cabinet members make money at the tax payers expense by claiming 50% more than they pay for council tax you really see that Labour are in it all for themselves!
sinosimon,
Troughers should be removed from any party - if the parties do not do it then the people will!
If you vote UKIP in the European Elections you will make it more likely that they come ahead of New Labour which makes Gordon's position untenable.
So if you really, really want to force a General Election vote UKIP.
Simples!
I'll sign it before Christmas
Much as I want to see the back of Brown and his dreadful government at the earliest opportunity I think the next government would be hamstrung from the start if they start off with people like Julie Kirkbride amongst the ranks of backbenchers. Time is needed to deselect the wrongdoers and to appoint new prospective MP's so I am unable to sign this petition at this stage.
Signed. 12 years of Labour has been a disaster.
Liberal Democrats have done nothing to overhaul their party sleaze MPs or Peers. The Liberal Democrats have done nothing and Cleggs platitude on frontbench MPs surrendering any capital gains is not legally binding or enforceable.
Meanwhile Clegg has left in place a Labour Peer who is as guilty for cashing in on expenses as any other individual in this sorry affair. Lord Rennard is still in his paid chief executive post in the Liberal Democrats - Why?
Then there is the Liberal Democrat £2 Million plus loan that Michael Brown stole from investors.
Labour have left their cabinet sleaze balls in place and the Labour MPs caught claiming for non-existant mortgages are still drawing their salary.
A dissolution is the only way to clean the pigs out of the sty!
Surely we all want the crooks to be deselected first before we have an election.
I'm glad the penny has dropped with you at last Iain.
I signed it but I bet you would get a lot more signers if:
1) It was not on the Conservatives website
2) It didn't look like an attempt to harvest voter's details for marketing purposes.
I have already signed Craig Murray's petition asking the Queen to dissolve parliament.
Why won't Dave just stop p!ss!ng about and table a motion of no confidence.
Call me old fashioned, but that is exactly the sort of thing the Opposition are supposed to do.
Signed...I know that some of the porkers might still be there but above all else I want rid of this complete shower of socialist shite...so I`ll take a chance thank you.
is there any point? There are nearly 60000 on the no 10 epetition.
Surely all troughing snouts should be exposed then deselected first.
Far from seizing the moral high ground , this just looks desperate and a bit cheap.
The current petition on the No10 site has shown that it is useless as a vehicle for mass numbers. At the fastest rate it ever showed, of 10k a day, it would take 1 year to reach 3M votes.
Or if you prefer a nonpartisan alternative: http://tinyurl.com/r9j8zn
Waste of Time.
Preaching to the converted.
Get the petition on the Number10.gov.uk e-petitions, and it might have some use.
[Don't hold your breath though. 60,000+ signed urging Brown to go, but he's just ignored it]
Is this a precedent? Because I'm sure we would have had hundreds of thousands of signatures requiring a dissolution of Parliament in April 1990 when the Poll Tax started.
Perhaps David Cameron can tell us what the threshold is before he will say that the people have demanded a dissolution and so the Prime Minister would oblige. Then he would be bound by the same threshold if he were to be Prime Minister, would he not?
Not a lot of point if we have only the same candidates to vote for.
Whenever it comes, I do hope there are a lot of independent candidates.
UGH! That logo! Cameron's "butcher's apron" "no freedom for England" flag! I really dislike the British flag now.
nO. It wants too much info. Put up a petiition on the no. 10- web as someone suggested.
Since Cameron has without doubt broken the expenses rules, why is his party not taking action against him? Until he can explain how wisteria impedes his parliamentary duties, Cameron does not deserve an election, and he certainly does not deserve to win it. Unfortunately, unlike the Labour Party which seems to be taking a central line of deselection for those who've broken the rules, the Tories appear to be leaving it to Cameron and the Associations - which makes his position rather more secure than it should be! Why has he not yet called for any deselections - and why not his own?!
"Perhaps David Cameron can tell us what the threshold is before he will say that the people have demanded a dissolution and so the Prime Minister would oblige."
Excellent point. If it's any guide, the previous petition, for a referendum on Lisbon, has garnered a staggering 2,530 names in just three weeks.
Perhaps the Queen will assist?
Speaker Martin update: Or Can't go, won't go!
Is this a misstep from DC? He'll probably come to rue that he encouraged this kind of extra-parliamentary quasi-democratic gimmick.
Well at least Iain Dale shows his traditional political consistency by arguing for snap elections to "solve" political crises but only, of course, when the Tories are not in power.
What would have happened had such a snap election been held as a result of political crisis following Argentina invading the Falklands? I think we may have found that the Blessed Margaret's political career might have been a mere coda between two very socialist Labour Governments.
What possible consistency could there be between Iain's opportunistic calling for snap general elections now and his previous "campaign" for fixed term parliaments? None at all.
But next week, all of this would have been ludicrous posturing will have been forgotten, except by those few of us with memories longer than the average goldfish.
Here's another one calling for an immediate general election3,600 signatures so far.
Can't wait for a GE so we can get at rid of this Government once and for all! I've signed!
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