The E-Petitions section of the Prime Minister’s official website allows anyone to create a petition to the Prime Minister, on any subject. The ones that get all the publicity, obviously, are the popular ones, especially when they’re either controversial or represent a significant issue in British politics. But what about the ones that don’t?
Most e-petitions don’t end up with millions of signatures. Most struggle to get past three digits. Quite a lot struggle to get any any support at all. And a select few represent a minority of one - the petitions where the only signatory is the petition’s creator.
This site exists to celebrate the petitions which failed. Every petition listed here had no support at all other than the person who wrote it. Some of them failed because they were simply rubbish as petitions, some of them failed because they were too specialist in their topic, some of them failed because they represented genuinely unpopular opinions, and some of them failed because they were, frankly, bizarre. But the one thing they have in common is that they dropped off the end of the active petitions list without any support and with no chance of making media headlines.
We British, though, are renowned for our love of the underdog. And you can’t get much more under-doggy than a petition which no-one signs. So here they are, in all their glory (or lack of it), preserved for posterity and with the ability for you, the reader, to add your own thoughts and opinions via the comments section. Why did they fail? Do you agree with the author? Would you maybe have signed the petition if you’d seen it before it expired? If not, why not? All these, and other questions can now be answered right here at A Minority of One.
Credits
A Minority of One was conceived by Mark Goodge, and runs on a Wordpress back end. The visual design is based on FastTrack by Stylish Seven Jeans