Celebrities back Virgin Trains e-petition
- By Jack Preston -
- Aug 23, 2012
The UK’s celebrity Twitter users have come out in force to support the independent e-petition to keep Virgin Trains.
Following the government’s decision to last week award the West Coast Mainline franchise to FirstGroup a member of the public, Ross McKillop, setup a petition on the DirectGov website calling for a review of the decision.
100,000 signatures will see government forced to consider debating the matter in the House of Commons, at the time of writing over 70,000 UK residents had signed the e-petition.
Support for the movement has been steadily building, with a number of well-known faces giving their public support, including:
• Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar)
• Eddie Izzard (@eddieizzard)
• Jamie Oliver (@JamieOliver)
• Mo Farah (@Mo_Farah)
• Ronan Keating (@RonanOfficial)
• Joey Barton (@Joey7Barton)
• Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)
• Peter Jones (@dragonjones)
• Gary Lucy (@Gary_Lucy)
• Derren Brown (@DerrenBrown)
• Leigh Francis (@LeighFrancis)
• Amanda Holden (@Amanda_Holden
• Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5)
• Jamal Edwards (@jamaledwards)
• Robbie Fowler (@Robbie9Fowler)
• Beth Tweddle (@bethtweddlenews)
• SB.TV (@sbtvonline)
• Tom Harris MP (@TomHarrisMP)
• Danny Mac (@dannymaconline)
• Dick and Dom (@dickndom)
If you’d like to join them and sign the e-petition, click here.
By Jack Preston. Content Executive. Tweets at @JackPressedOn
