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From my experience, the only way for alcoholics to give up alcohol completely (i.e. teetotal) is when they actually wanted to do so. The adage that ‘you are flogging a dead horse’ comes to mind. No one can force a person to voluntarily not to drink alcohol unless he/she genuinely cognitively desires not to and therefore have a real aversion towards alcohol. If a recovering alcoholic have a genuine aversion towards alcohol in his or her own mind (cognitively) than it is certain that he or she is no longer a RECOVERING alcoholic but a 100% RECOVERED one from my experience. Perceptions of the pleasures of drinking alcohol (heavily, moderately or occasionally) would usually depend on one’s perceptions, motivation, aims, habits, triggers, reinforcers, settings, lifestyle and psychological & physical cravings.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T08:39:44.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.467Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:58.927Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T08:39:44.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14445,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14445.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Link Wages of Companies' Highest and Lowest Earners","background":null,"additional_details":"We call on Parliament to debate the extension of the proposals of Will Hutton's Fair Pay Commission to the private sector- by ensuring that the best-paid employees are paid no more than 20 times the wages of the lowest-paid.\r\n\r\nBritain now has one of the most unequal societies in the developed world, with over 40% of the country's wealth in 5% of the population. Moreover, repeated studies, and the recent financial crisis, have demonstrated that there is no improvement in performance gained through increases in executive pay.\r\n\r\nWe therefore call on the government to implement legislation to compel all private and public sector organisations to pay their highest-paid beneficiaries no more than twenty times the hourly wage of the lowest-paid. This would not outlaw high levels of pay outright, but would provide recognition that the work of the lowest-paid is as necessary as the work of the highest-paid for the success of business, government, and society as a whole.  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In order to ratify it, Eurocrats had to change its name - twice - and force Ireland to vote again, as it had originally said no.\r\n\r\nHaving forced the treaty through, Eurocrats appointed unknown mediocrity Herman van Rompuy \"President of Europe\", again without consulting the people of Europe.\r\n\r\nNeither the position nor van Rompuy himself have any more democratic legitimacy than, say, a general who has taken power in a military coup. Democratically governments, including Britain's, should refuse to recognise his entirely bogus claim to this entirely bogus role.    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The next of kin should not be able to countermand that wish under any circumstances","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T20:10:09.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.281Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:51.374Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T20:10:09.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3142,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3142.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Benefit System only for those that have contributed","background":null,"additional_details":"I think the Government should restrict benefit payments and free housing only to those that have paid into the system and those genuinely in need.  Benefits or free housing should not be handed to immigrants coming to this country until they have worked and paid tax and NI for at least five years.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T20:12:05.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.289Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:51.400Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T20:12:05.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3146,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3146.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Bring back national service","background":null,"additional_details":"If we bring back national service for the younger generation and it's possible that it will dramatically reduce gun, knife and drug crime by installing proper discipline that the youth of today lack","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T20:13:26.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.304Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:51.448Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T20:13:26.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14287,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14287.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Introdcue corporal punishment such as flogging to eliminate overcrowding in prisons","background":null,"additional_details":"As prisons are so clarly overcrowded and expensive to run, whilst at the same time providing an atmosphere of success and comfort to the inmates, flogging would be a far greater deterrent to soft and petty crimes they are being locked up for.\r\n\r\nSo, rather than send repeat criminals and young offenders to cushy cells with play stations, TV's and other luxury items they so clearly do not deserve, flog them instead, where the pain will be felt and remembered.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T09:55:27.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.550Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:59.219Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T09:55:27.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14337,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14337.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Ban Heavy Goods Vehicles in the outside lane of Dual Carriageways or 2 lane Motorways","background":null,"additional_details":"We, the private or business travelling car drivers, are totally fed up with HGV's/Articulated lorries overtaking each other on 2 lane highways/Motorways. These selfish manoeuvres often block the overtaking lane for miles for the sake of less than 1 extra HGV mile per hour. Ban them and our journeys would be much quicker and theirs would be almost the same","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T12:49:02.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.718Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:34:59.743Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T12:49:02.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14381,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14381.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Build more Prisons","background":null,"additional_details":"Build further prisons across the United Kingdom, so the threat of not being able to house new offenders would never be a concern. 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Once assigned to a child, the benefit cannot be removed, even if the parents split up.\r\n\r\nBeing young, unmarried and having children does not give you any extra advantages when it comes to social housing.\r\n\r\nThe time has come to try to halt the growing number of young women whose only function in society is to live off the state and produce another generation who will repeat the same process.\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T21:22:48.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:07.142Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:35:02.150Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T21:22:48.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14385,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14385.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Tobacco and Alcohol should not be available in the UK","background":null,"additional_details":"On the basis that tobacco and alcohol are known to be seriously bad for your health and addictive, the UK should be proud to have no part in the pepetuation of the consumption of either product.\r\n\r\nIt should be illegal to smoke and drink alcohol.  It should be illegal to make money from the sale, distribution or manufacture of either.\r\n\r\nIt is completely hypocritical to complain about the effects of these products on one hand and allow profiteering from it on the other.  Lead the way UK.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T15:57:45.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.880Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:35:00.350Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T15:57:45.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14414,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14414.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"justice for Chriatians in Britain","background":null,"additional_details":"This nation of Great britain prides itself in being just to all people regardless of race or creed.Our law and order is based on chriatian principles and yet the only group of people in this country, to be persecuted and restricted are christians . this is unjust . please sign this petition for christians to be given the same protection muslims and others are given in respect of their beliefs","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T17:33:00.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.961Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:35:00.694Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T17:33:00.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14416,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14416.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Benefits are for those who EARN them","background":null,"additional_details":"Make work credits the basis of benefits.\r\nthe idea is simple make benefits proportionate to the length of your work history.\r\n\r\nso if you have not worked in UK, you get nothing\r\nFor 1 year you would get minimum x months to help you find another job.\r\nfor 3 years you would get more; and for someone who has worked for 10 years plus they would be entitled to the maximum but also limited in time so they cannot live off the state.\r\nI am sure DWP will be able to work out equitable details; but benefits should be for those who have earned them!\r\nPlease sign and send to all your colleagues","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-23T17:43:56.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:06.969Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:35:00.739Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-23T17:43:56.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14490,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14490.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Make Britain Great Again","background":null,"additional_details":"The benefit system in this country i believe is long overdue an overhaul. On many occasions in the newspapers you see families who have no intension of finding work, being payed to stay at home.\r\nThe streets of this country are dirty and graffiti is rife. I would propose a program in which benefit claimants must work to attain their benefits by cleaning up our streets. I believe there would be far fewer people who *cannot find work*. i also believe benefits should not be payed in cash but vouchers for food and clothing. Not alcohol, flat screens and cigarettes. The education system should also have more power to deal with disruption and institutionally challenge antisocial behaviour sooner than an ASBO. The NHS is also long due an overhaul, the essential employees are being punished while bureaucrats are rewarded there is a need for the reality of being profitable to be considered. 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However we would only like to support this where it’s suitable for example if it would cause more suffering, lifetime imprisonment may be a better punishment than the death penalty but we think there should be an option of the death penalty.\r\n\r\nWe think about the death penalty this way because we both want real justice in this country, the USA still has the death penalty and that’s just part of their culture, they’re used to it. 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We were sent there to find Bun Laden. He is dead. Let's stop being the cannon fodder for the U.S. and to stop more British families being ripped apart","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2012-03-07T14:08:06.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:00.574Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:38:00.129Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-03-07T14:08:06.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":39623,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/39623.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Bring back the theme tune to BBC Radio 4's PM Programme","background":null,"additional_details":"In the period from the early 1970s to 1997, Radio 4's PM programme had a theme tune, the last of which was an excellent, punchy melody to mark the end of the working day, on a station which has very little music, and where few other programmes have signature tunes. Those which there are, such as the Archers and Just a Minute, and Radio 5's \"Sports Report\" have remained the same for years.\r\nThe PM theme tune was dropped temporarily during the sombre period following the death of Diana Princess of Wales. That is now 15 years ago. Is it not now time to bring it back, and liven up that tea-time drive home?\r\n ","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2012-10-02T12:40:11.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:28.627Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:39:34.552Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-10-02T12:40:11.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"irrelevant","details":"Responsibility for what is broadcast on television and radio rests with the broadcasters and the organisations which regulate broadcasting - the Office of Communications (OFCOM), the BBC Trust and the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (S4C). 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There have been over 150 people who would have been executed under the Treason Act but instead are either in prison or free to walk our streets under license.This law should never had been abolished at the very time we required it most and must be reinstalled to protect us from Terrorists and their supporters","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T20:23:26.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.429Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:51.849Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T20:23:26.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":9175,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/9175.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Stop the ePetition Website Crashing","background":null,"additional_details":"The e-Petition website provides the public with an effective voice that is heard by our Government - but that voice is muted by the constant website CRASHES and SERVER ERROR messages, which prevent the public from voicing or voting on issues which directly concern them. 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Many people believe that the BBC were biased in such coverage and concealment of the report implies this. The public should be aware of the agenda, if there was one, that the BBC had and the personnel responsible for racism and or bigotry if such existed in the BBC. The fact that the BBC has used taxpayers money through the legal system to keep the report concealed implies they are ashamed of their coverage and indeed that legal proceedings could be brought against certain individuals and the BBC subject to the reports findings.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-24T08:27:15.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:07.338Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:35:03.471Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-24T08:27:15.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"irrelevant","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":14567,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/14567.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"cannabiniods in prescribed medication","background":null,"additional_details":"This petition calls upon the government to permit the use of cannabinoids in prescribed medications for designated illnesses and diseases where  benefits to the patient can be achieved. 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What shifting cultivation does is they chop down an area of trees and then live there for 10 years and then pack up and leave then they chop down another area and so on so when they get back to the original area the trees have grown back and the wildlife has gone back. I think that businesses can learn alot from things like this well paper companies so the paper companies can chop down an area of trees and then they can focus on that area so and plant stuff and even after they leave they can still focus on the area and ,try encourage the wildlife to come back aswell as moving onto the next area this is very sustainable. So what do you guys think leave your comments in the section below.\r\n\r\nLets get paper companies to do this.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2012-10-02T13:25:08.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:28.642Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:39:34.615Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-10-02T13:25:08.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":42733,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/42733.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Harsher Sentences for those who commit Animal Cruelty","background":null,"additional_details":"Cruelty, abuse and MURDER of animals (especially but not limited to domesticated pets), should be considered and recognised as lawfully wrong as similar offences committed to human beings.\r\nThe Government considers that existing maximum penalties of a fine of £20,000 and six months imprisonment are appropriate.  It is my opinion the Government must be unemotional, uncaring and extremely unintelligent.\r\nAnimals FEEL fear and pain, both physical and emotional.\r\nI want the government to SERIOUSLY reassess the custodial terms imposed to offenders of the discussed crimes.\r\nPrisons may be over crowded and an extreme expense to the tax payer, but perhaps if the government implemented tougher sentences and tougher conditions within Prison it would act as a deterrent to offenders, thus lowering offences committed, lowering prison populations and lowering the expense to the tax payer.\r\nI wonder how the Queen feels towards Animal Cruelty and the law's surrounding it?","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2012-12-03T17:09:19.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:38.545Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:40:08.930Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-12-03T17:09:19.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3201,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3201.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"stop teaching 5 year olds sex education","background":null,"additional_details":"I feel it is completely outrageous that 5 year old's are being taught anything about sex, its a perverts charter, I would like under 10 s to have their childhood without placing this burden on them.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-08-04T20:29:27.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:30.486Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:32:52.022Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-04T20:29:27.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}},{"type":"archived-petition","id":3202,"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/3202.json"},"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Life Should Mean Life","background":null,"additional_details":"All life sentences should be whole life sentences. In other words, no parole, no remission of any sort. And if an offender trangresses during the sentence, time should be added on. There should also be mandatory minimums for all offences e.g. 30 years for armed robbery, 40 years for rape/sexual offence. And all a prisoner should get inside is a basic bed, basic food. 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