Log on to a number of different websites, including the Prime Minister’s and the National Assembly for , and you will find a link to create, present, view, sign and collaborate on petitions.

These petitions range anywhere from "Allow the Red Arrows to Fly at the 2012 Olympics," (which has received 437,717 signatures on the Prime Minister’s website), to a petition on investigating the reorganization of the monarchy (on the National Assembly for website). The rising use of e-petitions has also been applied in Liverpool to elect more city mayors.

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is behind the move away from the traditional way of collecting ‘names on papers’ to e-petitions, making it easier for both governments and citizens to communicate since they are submitted and reviewed directly through government websites.

The widespread introduction of the e-petition in the is revitalizing participation in government and making it easy and accessible for both supporters and champions of causes and issues to be heard.