On france, we currently have one with 2.1M signatures, gov still said nope (petition against reintroduction of dangerous pesticide, backed by sciencists community)

I signed the petition but I had zero belief it would actually result in anything.

We don't actually live in a democracy, that's just something they tell us while they do whatever the bloody hell they want.

I mean 122,000 out of 60 million isn’t a lot.

Could likely get 5 million to say banning people based on colour is a good idea, but I don’t agree.

The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.

It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the plebes citizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People's Will recorder.

but why

Counterpoint: Brexit

Scotland stopped voting Labour into power over a decade ago. If only England had the balls to do it too. Torys and Labour, two sides of the same corrupt coin. Come England, youre better than that. Starmer is a tory cunt. Vote greens, or Libdems, or anyone else buy those two corrupt scum parties.

This image is a great reflection of the entire history of the UK, incidentally.

Pretty much - we all put our names to them, but they do nothing.

The best option is to organise writing campaigns to your local MP and indicate that this is the decider on your vote.