Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Passed to me today by one of the members on the NUSC forum. Get signing (if you want) http://www.petitiononline.com/nufc2009/petition.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonGoodwyn 1 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Signed it - It won't make a bit of difference but it'll be fun to see how many names they can get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 obafemi martins from germany has signed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 Also add it to each of your own facebook pages and it will spread like wildfire and get momentum rolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 obafemi martins from germany has signed it Excellent Lets get it signed by Tony Blair, andt and dec the works. Emailing to the chron and council. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 30 seconds to sign it, and about 3 for the fat man to throw it away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bias 3 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 This will make NO difference what so ever. I'll sign it anyway :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14020 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 A good few of those signatures are taking the piss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bias 3 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 30 seconds to sign it, and about 3 for the fat man to throw it away... Too true. And i doubt he'd even bother looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshman 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 this is newcastle - anything can happen, have you forgotten about the 1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14094 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 this is newcastle - anything can happen, have you forgotten about the 1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii ?? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshman 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 tsk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentAxeman 189 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 signed it. dont know if it'll do any good but, hey ho........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7084 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 this is newcastle - anything can happen, have you forgotten about the 1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii ?? I signed that fucker too, nout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshman 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 this is newcastle - anything can happen, have you forgotten about the 1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii ?? I signed that fucker too, nout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Has an online petition ever worked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1892 0 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Has an online petition ever worked? Doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I know it's easy to be negative, but online petitions? If you think that'll make a difference you probably think Redheugh's heading a New York-based consortium looking to take over the club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 Has an online petition ever worked? Probably not, but when that woman wrote the piece about Gately the other week, an online petition "organised" a massive number of complaints to the press council which caused a chain of events and got lots of publicity. If people had done nothing online, I guess the number of complaints would have been miniscule in comparison. I cant really see any physical protests happening, but at least this may show the greater world that we are bothered about this name change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Aye because persuading some daft bint to make a semi apology in a newspaper article is comparable isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 Has an online petition ever worked? The logical starting point is to examine the highest profile online campaign that the UK has seen to date. That said, when Peter Roberts posted his 80-word petition on the 10 Downing Street website, protesting against the Government's plans for road pricing, he started the ball rolling with an email to only 29 people asking them to sign up. But his trick was that he didn't stop there. He then e-mailed every driving related website and publication that he could find, and encouraged people to forward his email. That they did, and within a week, his road pricing petition was the most popular on the site. It was when he amassed 40,000 names that things really took off. Both the TalkSport radio station and The Daily Telegraph covered the petition, and this proved the catalyst for a media scrum that would see Roberts on the front page of newspapers in Washington, Australia and France. At one point, Roberts had to keep three mobile phones on the go just to keep up with the interest his petition was attracting. Looking back, Roberts - who now runs the Drivers' Alliance, a group set up with funding attracted in the slipstream of the road-charging petition - believes it was the mix of online and offline tactics that ultimately made his campaign the success it was. "If it had stayed online", he told PC Pro, "it would have made it to around half-a-million signatures. But the fact that it was offline too, encouraged more people to go and have a look and join the debate". In the end, 1,811,424 names were added to the e-petition, and Roberts believes it had a very definite real-world impact. "It kick-started a significant national debate, and put the fear of God up the politicians and assorted quangos," he argued, "which helped cause the Manchester congestion charge plans to fail". Furthermore, Roberts received a response from then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, and while he's circumspect enough to accept that the issue of road charging is likely to return, in his words "it's certainly delayed things by five to ten years." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7084 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/351670/do-...sts-really-work cba to distill, sorry. edit:CT can you pick the bones out of that too? Edited October 28, 2009 by trophyshy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 Aye because persuading some daft bint to make a semi apology in a newspaper article is comparable isn't it? That wasnt your question now was it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 This one won't work. You've got a proper fucking cheek having a pop at NUSC's ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 This one won't work. You've got a proper fucking cheek having a pop at NUSC's ideas. Is this one of your subject changes? Come on then, explain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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