Government's E-Petition Website Rioters & Looters to lose benefit

by liamssoft | August 4, 2011 at 10:56 am

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August 11th 2011

A petition on the UK Government e-petitions website calling for convicted rioters and looters to be evicted from council houses and to lose their benefits saying they show a disregard for the country that provides for them.receives 100,000 signatures in 48 hours causing the site to crash.

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Taken from the Government web site;

Sorry, e-petitions is temporarily unavailable.

The e-petitions site is having problems at the moment. We need to temporarily suspend the creation and signing of e-petitions to allow us to make sure everything is working properly for you.

We aim to re-open the e-petitions site by Friday morning (12th August).

We're very sorry for the inconvenience this causes you.

The e-petition entitled “Convicted London rioters should loose all benefits” has now passed the threshold of 100,000 signatures and has been passed to the Backbench Business Committee to consider for debate. It will continue to be available for signature once the site is re-opened.

August 4th 2011

Website Crashes on First Day

The government's new e-petitions website crashed as people tried to sign a range of petitions including ones calling for the return of capital punishment, then a counter e-petition to retain the abolition of the Death Penalty for all offenses, and the very popular withdrawal from the EU.

The Directgov website went live with a list of e-petitions on Thursday morning, but repeatedly crashed through sheer weight of numbers as it opened for business with the first tranche of e-petitions.

There were more than 1,000 unique visits a minute, the equivalent of 1.5m visits a day. Government sources said this was far more than the old No 10 e-petitions site had received under Labour and shows that people have more to complain about under the current economic circumstances.

Quite a number of petitions were rejected for failing to meet the terms and conditions.

guardian.co.uk