I am yet to ever see any UK Government petition make any tangible difference to policy. If the Digital ID Petition with over 2.9 million signatures[0] didn't sway them, I sadly don't think this one will change anything either.
Oh, I completely agree with you. What does help however is if the back benchers get a ton of emails about this and pressure the government from the inside – when Boris Johnson was teetering on the edge the volume of correspondence MPs received apparently made a big difference in encouraging him to be shoved out.
I'm going to try to meet with my MP the next time I'm back in the UK and hopefully get some sort of sense talked with them...
Choosing autism speaks as a place for support and advocacy is an interested and, in my opinion, a short-sighted choice. They don't hold a strong track record or convey an image of trust towards the ND community. Even when they tried to improve their brand image, their funding mostly going into advertisement and their current choices such as comparing Autism to Cancer and stating that it is a hopeless condition (At least changing away from the autism is curable stance they had) are less than ideal.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Parliament_petitions_websit...
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