Will the petition mean anything?

As the Downing Street E-Petitions ‘Anti-vehicle tracking and road pricing’ petition reaches the closing date, over 1.6 million people have signed it, I do wonder just how much notice the politicians will take of this ‘feedback’? If past examples are anything to go by, not very much.

I’m quite disappointed that so much of the traditional press have viewed this petition as just another example of British eccentricity. Combined with the ‘self-serving’ ambivalence that government ministers have towards the British public, I think there is no chance of stopping ‘monitored ‘road-pricing’, which for me will be yet another example of this governments inexplicable march toward total surveillance of the British public.