Irrespective of the merits of the spelling and grammar in the original petition, the reason that it will be ignored is is because so far only 1,228 people haver signed it!

If this is such a burning issue of concern to those serving, how come so few (and their families) have bothered to sign the petition?

Even if I agreed with it, I wouldn’t be willing to sign it until a few more of the people who would actually be impacted by the changes could be bothered to.

Perhaps because it has only been going 6 days or so?. I signed it just before I posted this thread up and was about no. 180-something. In 6 days a thousand people have expressed their view thats not so shabby is it?.

Perhaps because this is the work of a small group of service families who are genuinely concerned what the future could hold for them and that its bloody poor treatment after years of service to be turfed out of the accomodation that has, for decades, been promised to serving personnel. It is not some slick, well structured, publicity campaign blazened all over the media. If you are saying that the only things with any worth are orchestrated glitzy, professional, media campaigns I find that distasteful to put it mildly. Very X-Factor though.

Maybe if the service families got Simon Cowell to front their grievance they’d have got a few more phone votes….er….I mean petition signatories eh Indiaecho?.