Alan Turing - and ongoing campaign

[LONDONER]

Signed

Thanks Cuddly, you can imagine how much this will mean to thousands of people if the petition succeeds. You will have been part of it.

[LONDONER]

Unfortunately the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have declined to make any comment on the campaign:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cumberbatch-ca...ml#gThUdGo

[meridannight]

this has now reached 366k signatures, by their report.

change.org

some of the celebrities who have signed the petition include Michael Douglas, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Alba, Matt Damon, Will Poulter (the nerdy kid from We're the Millers) and -- Richard Dawkins among others.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/.../22995299/

[LONDONER]

Thank you Meridiannight for resurrecting this post. I hope that now more people will see and sign. It's a deserving cause.

[meridannight]

Nick Clegg's response to the petition:

Alan Turing and the thousands of other men should never have been prosecuted. It is utterly wrong that so many people were convicted simply for being who they are.

The Liberal Democrats and I will work to make sure those with convictions for consensual homosexual activity between adults are pardoned. It should never have been a crime in the first place.

Nick

[LONDONER]

Thank you meridannight. I understand that a petition with 500,000 signatures has been handed in to 10 Downing Street.