Rivers access e petition

[kendall chew]

Hi,
New to this site, you will generally find me on the "Ninjas on water" site (Slalom). A discussion on one of our blogs was about River access and how to get leverage. It would appear there is a Parliamentary e petition, set up by a chap called Mark Hannant ( date unknown but due to run out in August). Please connect to the link below and, if you agree, sign it. The petition needs a little help and we, as a paddling community need to get 100,000 signatures on the form if it is to have any chance of getting debated in Parliament. Pass it on to your friends, granny, mum,dad, sister, boyfriend, girlfriend - it does not matter just do it, discuss it, talk about it, make it an issue, link it to your facebook page, email your contacts. If we act as a single sport, regardless of discipline we can get there ( facebook has 225,478 likes on the "Canoeing" page) - We only need half of that but, wouldn't it be great to get the whole lot of us signed up to greater access?

Together as one Eh?


http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/9886

PS: If you are Mark Hannant, I hope you don't mind a bit of help.

[kendall chew]

Please sign the e petition, which is not going well - 318 signatures to date. If we get enough the whole thing can then be debated it parliament. If we don't have sufficient numbers on the list no one important gets to hear about it at all! Signing the e petition does not prevent us from addressing the problem of access in other constructive ways, it simply adds to it.

If I look at the 318 signatures ( not that I can) it would seem that no one really gives a monky's uncle about river access and the whole lot is just time wasting hot air, the effort from which could be put into something else more constructive - like mowing the lawn. Does the state of the petition reflect our true atitude towards river access?

I suggest that if we really have issues with rives access then we need to get signed up in large numbers. We need 100,000 signatories - that is less than 50~% of the numbers of people who clicked on the farcebook "canoeing" page. So, please if you agree with the principle(?) of greater river access, sign and cajoule others into doing the same but do not complain if we get nowhere. We live in a democracy!

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/9886

[twopigs]

See viewtopic.php?f=3&t=88947

A discussion about why we should not have the issue raised ......