Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
Why is 10 million a significant figure? Merely because it is a round number and sends the total to 8 figures?
I think it would be a symbolic figure which would start a few people panicking. Quite reasonably, Government ministers are saying for now that when the number of signatures reach 17.4 million they'll start paying attention to the petition, but this means that, morally, they are duty bound to act on it if it ever did get to that figure.

As I say, I don't see the petition getting 10 million signatures, but if I'm wrong, I could see a momentum being established which would make 17.4 million a target to be aimed at and I reckon there's a fair chance that it would be reached in that event.

Although the rate of progress has, predictably, slowed, the number of signatures this morning is now over 4 million.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584