The U.K. government's petition website is a joke, and any data obtained therefrom should be viewed with great skepticism and as being subject to potential -- if not likely -- manipulation
The Trump Ban: As the U.K.'s Parliamentary Petition Data Turns
First-hand evidence of data manipulation now exists from the U.K. parliamentary petitions site.
On Friday, anyone could go to the website of the "UK Government and Parliament" and look at the infamous petition to "Block Donald J Trump from UK entry."
As of Friday morning, at about 10:30 am Central Standard Time (CST), the raw data file (.json format) could be downloaded from the "Block Donald J Trump from UK entry" petition website. At that time, the total signature count was 527,669, with the total signature count from the U.K. at just 253,966. The sum of the individual signatures for each of the 650 MPs was 250,168.
