[Closed] Petition to remove Michael Gove from Office.. please sign

not that it will do much but done

Done.

Done.

I like him

it was a pleasure

I've done it simply cos he's a politician.
Any more? I'll sign every one. A disabled monkey could do a better job than those lot, without a pay rise.

Edit, & I'd trust the monkey more.

Enjoyed that.

Surprised it's only at 25k

I'd prefer just to remove him from the British Isles and leave him to it on some tiny island somewhere remote.

I'd also like to send a bunch of his mates and colleagues there too.

Errmmm, don't we do this at a general election if we can? Who to replace them with, though?

piemonster - Member
Enjoyed that.

Surprised it's only at 25k

This is why we have general elections. If you don't like him, help a political party that won't put him in office. Send them some money or knock on doors. Signing a petition is not going to help with this.

A General Election is a brilliant way of ensuring that a bunch of self serving bastards are removed from office, to be replaced by an even bigger bunch of self serving bastards.

And so it goes.

Done. Gove is such a twunt

Move to Surrey, then you can vote against him next year.
That'll count much more than a stupid petition.
Should need about 16,000 people I reckon to collude with those that voted LibDem last time, to decide who to back, to attempt to form a majority.

As above you get to try and do this at the general election

This petition is a total waste of time at best and actually anti democratic at worst

I'll sign it as soon as binners presents an alternative. 😀

I think you will find the only way to do is at a general election good luck anyway.

Yeah he is a CU...next tuesday, but don't think this will make much difference. Better off going round slapping all his constituents who voted him in the the first place 😉

I don't care because all of them are career zombie maggots with the replacement also going to a zombie maggot. 🙄

As someone in the teaching profession, I like him...

Care to explain what sort of teacher you are, at what sort of school and why you like him?
I havent signed it, thats what elections are for.

Who to replace them with, though?

A turtle on a post. There are a lot of similarities.

I think it's more of a statement to express disgust at him than actually get him removed. I cant believe what some politicians believe is acceptable behavior. Sign and share.

His recent petty attempts to politicize the world war I centenary were disgraceful

Surely this is increased democracy?

In a true democracy we would vote for individuals for each post (obviously not possible) not political parties that place whichever greasy pole climber will aid the leaders aims in that position.

Something like this lets the politicians know that the electorate at large do not agree with a particular stand point.

Guys, a general election is a way of removing him from the House of Commons, not from government office. Obviously not all MPs are ministers, but equally you don't need to be an MP to hold a ministerial position - plenty have been Lords in the past and Lords (last time I checked) aren't elected by us.

Now as for removing Gove, I'd happily have him deported from the planet. Can he take George "don't call me Gideon 'cos people might think I'm posh" Osbourne with him?

He's my MP, decent chap 🙂

Move to Surrey, then you can vote against him next year.

Move to Surrey or have Gove in parliament. Bloody hell that's a tough one.

Gove did not have enough hugs as a kid IMO.

I also have a list of the next changes and suggestions he has in mind -they are the ones that Hattie researched as least effective in improving learning - see the bottom 10 😉

well that felt good , never felt as strongly about something, what a complete **** sadly he/they wont listen to this petition either

A general election is where I select a specific individual who I wish to represent me in Parliament . I do not get to vote for a party nor do I get a say in who is in cabinet or what department they run. This petition is more Democratic. Than the once every 4 years musical chairs competition.

I wonder how many of you boring whiny moaners ever get involved in politics so you can change things yourself? You seem to know a lot more than the people doing things at the moment so you should have no problem getting voted in.

Dobbie.. it's a petition against a vile twunt of a politician. Sign it and stop trolling.
Most here are too human to get involved in politics.

Pointless guff, if you think they will take notice of 25k+ people signing an online petition when they ignored close to1m people demonstrating against a war then you are sadly deluded.

If it's just a cathartic exercise, knock yourselves out. But as has been said ^^^, if you are really bothered, get organised and use the system in place to remove him.

What Robdob said.
Most of those signing probably voted for party XYZ* because that's who their dad voted for all his life.

(* even though you don't vote for a party in Westminster elections, you vote for a member to represent you in parliament)

Move to Surrey or have Gove in parliament. Bloody hell that's a tough one.

the problem is hes got a big majority amongst the legions of (generational) Torry voters in surrey, so youll have spent an awfull lot of money on a tiny house and have arseholes for nieghbours and he'll still get re-elected (coz they all send their kids to private school anyway)

There's a difference between him being an MP and a cabinet minister though – my MP is Liam Fox but he was removed from being defence minister.

I think the petition is a little vague, we don't need him being removed as an MP, just as education minister and that is entirely possible.

Not that I'd have any hope for his successor being any different.

I wonder how many of you boring whiny moaners ever get involved in politics so you can change things yourself?

+1... but who on earth would go into politics when you've got attitudes like:

I've done it simply cos he's a politician.

You get the politicians you deserve.

Voting in general elections doesn't work. Did anyone vote for a ConDem coalition? We've effectively got a Tory government that we didn't vote for.

Tony Blair, in his most popular years, still only managed to get 1 in 5 of the voting age population to vote for him.

The votes of most people don't matter - most people live in safe seats. Elections are decided by a few marginal seats where all the parties concentrate their attention - that's why all three main parties are basically identical.

Wot Ben said

And I can't really be bothered to respond to the numerous assumptions that have already occurred in this thread.

I'm interested - for those that think he should be removed, who is better placed to take on the role, and what policy changes should be made to drive significant improvements in the performance of our children in Maths, Literacy and Verbal Reasoning?

Given that the performance of children in the UK has been sliding on many international comparators for the last 15 years, what is the root cause and what is the solution?

Did anyone vote for a ConDem coalition?

We've effectively got a Tory government that we didn't vote for.

Tony Blair, in his most popular years, still only managed to get 1 in 5 of the voting age population to vote for him.

My voting form didn't have a Tory box nor a Conservative box, nor a ConDem box, and I'd wager the same was true for every other person on here that put an X in a box.

Yes, yes, yes, you vote for a local MP not a party - that's a lovely story. But when MPs almost always follow the party whip, when the party leaders set all policy and the MPs are just there to vote it through, any idea of MPs being independent is a nonsense.

MPs do what they're told - and the people doing the telling aren't their constituents.