#e-petitions

Dear fellow Australians,

MPs to debate petitions on ‘recognising and rewarding’ nurses | Nursing Times

A parliamentary debate is scheduled to take place tomorrow in response to calls for nurses and their colleagues to be given a pay rise for their efforts during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.

On Thursday MPs are set to debate a series of e-petitions submitted to the government on the topic of giving health and social care professionals appropriate recognition and reward for their work.

One…

Writing About Brexit: Proroguing Parliament

This was first posted on Facebook on 28th August 2019, and repostd here with support from my Ko-Fi network.

Boris Johnson will prorogue Parliament from the 2nd week in September – week beginning 9th September – to 14th October: Queen’s Speech 14th October.

This means that if MPs in the Remain Alliance intend to do anything short of revoking Article 50 to prevent no-deal Brexit on the 31st of…

Writing About Brexit: proroguing Parliament, 1

This was first posted on Facebook on 29th August 2019.

Boris Johnson will prorogue Parliament from the 2nd week in September – week beginning 9th September – to 14th October: Queen’s Speech 14th October. (more…)

The possibility of Change

Following on, coincidentally, from my last (re)post

Recognize this guy?

‘Your country needs YOU’

And this woman?

You’ll almost certainly be familiar with the former image and accompanying slogan – or variations on it, depending on your geographical location. Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener– for it is he – was the face of military recruitment during the WW1 campaign of a century ago. You might…

Post: 9 April 2013

This is a map of people who signed a petition yesterday against a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher:

22,659 people signed the petition yesterday. This map is based on the postcode districts of 22,585 of those responses. (74 responses gave invalid postcode information and are excluded).

I have applied a standard deviation. Red dots indicate the centroids of postcode districts with 23 or more responses. Amber dots indicate the centroids of postcode districts with from 8 to 22 responses.

The postcode district counts are from the little-known but quite useful e-petitions open data API. Here's a copy of the data I used, as a csv file. This data and the map are for yesterday's responses only.

The petition itself remains live if you want to sign it.

Following is a list of the postcode districts with 100 or more responses:

L36 Liverpool (Huyton, Roby, Tarbock): 248

L4 Liverpool (Anfield, Kirkdale, Walton): 223

L9 Liverpool (Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park, Walton): 193

L13 Liverpool (Clubmoor, Old Swan, Stoneycroft, Tuebrook): 171

L12 Liverpool (Croxteth Park, West Derby): 168

L20 Bootle (Bootle, Orrell, Kirkdale): 164

L11 Liverpool (Clubmoor, Croxteth, Gillmoss, Norris Green): 150

BN2 Brighton (Brighton, Bevendean, Brighton Marina, Kemptown, Moulsecoomb, Ovingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean, Woodingdean): 140

L25 Liverpool (Belle Vale, Gateacre, Hunts Cross, Woolton, Halewood): 133

L21 Liverpool (Ford, Litherland, Seaforth): 129

BN1 Brighton (Brighton, Coldean, Falmer, Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Stanmer, Withdean): 118

L14 Liverpool (Broadgreen, Dovecot, Knotty Ash, Page Moss): 117

L35 Prescot (Prescot, Whiston, Rainhill): 115

L17 Liverpool (Aigburth, St Michael's Hamlet, Sefton Park):113

WA7 Runcorn: 110

As you can see, based on this data opposition to a state funeral is strongest in the Merseyside area. More than 15% of responses were from the L (Liverpool) postal area. Margaret Thatcher was never very popular in Liverpool.

This is the distribution in Merseyside:

This is the distribution in London:

This is the distribution in Glasgow:

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Attribution statement for the maps: