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Originally Posted by Withano
It is kinda pointless, the complete opposite of this petition exists.. Meaning this side of the argument would have been brought up by default as the opposing side of the argument.
Theyre not gonna have the same debate twice.
I suppose its useful to put numbers in perspective? 1.5m against trump doesnt mean much, but there being 15x more people against him than for him means a bit more.
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Well there is that. Parliament debating the "prevent" petition are obviously, by the very nature of debate, going to be debating both sides (and let's face it, are going to come down on the side of a state visit being approporiate). You're right that all it's going to do is put the numbers in perspective and, to be honest, I sort of feel like that's going to amount to this petition essentially shooting itself in the foot (by having a fraction of the numbers that the alternative is attracting).