To Chris (notgoingtotell),(posted 7519 days ago)You obviously didn't read my reply of the 17th May 2003. I'll repeat it for you below:
"In reply to the above. Obviously, you can never guarantee authenticity - even on a written petition. What the online petition does do is provide an indication of the strength of support. This is why the Consumer Association has also started their own e-petition in respect to the endowment problem. It also helps bring more publicity to the issue, in the case of the Mortgage Shortfall e-petition for example, BBC news are interested in the outcome. In respect to contacting ones MP many people who have been following this site will know I, as indeed many others, have advocated doing this. You can also see the letters between myself and Ruth Kelly the Treasury Minister on repo problems."
I have also contacted the newspapers on numerous occasions. I fully concur with Chris's (chris@anon) more balanced approach.
Mark.