Anti-HS2 petition signatures ‘count for nothing’
Some 100,000 signatures had already been collected in online and print petitions in the expectation of triggering a parliamentary debate.
But a relaunch of the Government’s online petition service means those who signed before August 4 may have to add their names again.
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Hide AdPeter Delow, chairman of the Cubbington Action Group Against HS2, which has 2,500 of the names on paper petitions, said: “My first thought is that the Government seems to be disqualifying many voters from their democratic say.
“How can we explain to people that what we have done counts for nothing?”
• See Friday’s Courier for the full story.