Rejected petition Referendum on default 20MPH limit
The overwhelming majority of people in Wales do not support the changes set to take affect on September 17th 2023.
Whilst the Welsh government has had research conducted on it’s behalf by Beaufort Research, this was on a sample of 1000 people. This is 0.031% of the population of Wales, certainly far from representative of the entire population.
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This new legislation is arguably the largest change to people’s lifestyle and daily activities that the Welsh government has ever put forward.
The damaging effects on commuting, congestion, independence, delivery services, taxi companies, public transport, local businesses and tradespeople are incomprehensible.
There has been many petitions already put forward to scrap the legislation outright, one of which was removed once it reached 21,000 signatures in record time. Despite these petitions showing clear opposition from the public, there has been no compromise or delay to this legislation.
As we’ve seen the Welsh government refuses to acknowledge this opposition, I am calling for a referendum on the matter.
In the event this petition gains significant momentum, the continued refusal by the Welsh government to act on the public’s wishes is a blatant betrayal on both it’s voters and democracy itself.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.
NB the Petition receiving 21000 signatures referred to above was not "removed". It was closed early (with the agreement of the petitioner) in order to ensure that a Senedd debate could take place before the end of term.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards
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