Bully a warning

A few weeks back, Oli Poole (Gazette/Herald Business Desk) cast an eye over the usefulness or otherwise of petitions.
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Published 12th Apr 2015, 11:00 BST
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Since then we have had a notorious, unsuccessful online petition of a million signatures in support of keeping on a BBC employee who was threatening, violent and foul-mouthed towards a colleague for the most trivial of reasons.

Before that there was a very successful online petition to financially help a disabled pensioner who had been attacked by a thug outside his home and left injured and too scared to go out.

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Clearly, aims and outcomes of petitions vary, but people signing judge with their personal emotions. Sometimes more forethought would have been an advantage, but the aim of a petition isn’t actually to elicit forethought. May the million signatures in favour of a bully just be a warning to us all about human nature!

Jacqueline Deeks

Wendy Ridge

Rustington

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