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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to do everything possible, in light of the shock announcement on the 18th June 2007, to ensure that the option of preserving the world famous RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) ocean liner in the UK is at least seriously considered before she is allowed to be sold to Dubai by Cunard Line and Carnival Corporation & PLC. The Government must mobilise British business and local authorities to mount a bid to keep the QE2 here in the UK. The Government should pressurise Cunard Line and Carnival Corporation & PLC to ensure that the British option is at least given due consideration alongside the Dubai bid before the QE2 is retired in 2008. Then may the best bid win. More details
Submitted by Alex Naughton – Deadline to sign up by: 25 September 2007 – Signatures: 176
More details from petition creator
The world famous QE2 is a British icon and maritime masterpiece. She was built in 1967 as the last ocean liner built by John Brown & Co. (Clydebank) Ltd and now is the longest serving Cunard ship. On the 18th June 2007 there was the shock announcement that the QE2 was to be sold to Dubai as a hotel and museum at the Palm Jumeirah development. She has loyally served Britain for 40 years as a floating ambassador and has drawn huge crowds wherever she goes. If saved for Britain she could be a magnificent landmark hotel and tourist attraction. Other countries are doing this with their flagship ocean liners – the Netherlands with S.S. Rotterdam, Sweden with the Kungsholm etc. Britain at least should be given the opportunity to bid for the QE2, at the moment we are being denied this opportunity by Cunard.
We lost out when the Queen Mary was retired in the late 1960s; we can’t let the same happen again with the QE2 without a British bid even being considered. When the Royal Yacht Britannia was retired there was at least a bidding process, so why a similar process be done with the QE2? That way the British people will at least have tried and been given the chance to save the QE2 in the country of her birth.
Current signatories
Alex Naughton, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- B L Rundle
- Bruce Biddulph
- Gavin Stewart
- Chris Jones
- Alistair Black
- Robert G Copland
- Graham Wilson
- h climie
- Jamie Shorthouse
- Iain Robertson
- Philip Glover
- C.Mac Culloch
- John G. MacLennan
- Kevin McGroarty
- George Pennington
- William Couper
- Lee Peat
- Peter Thirkettle
- Cllr Matthew Dean
- arthur taylor
- kate couper
- Andrea J Chee
- Terry Stuart
- Alan Doig
- Iain A. C. Morrison
- E A Gooderson
- Vikki Leese
- nathan thompson
- RAYMOND TERRIS
- Sarah Earney
- Steve Bruce
- Jennie Bruce
- Matt
- James Gradwell-Spencer
- Alun Broadwood-White
- Myles Devin
- james john broadwood-white
- David Kerr
- Matt Gregory
- Roselette DeWitt
- Ruth Kerr
- Annette O'Donnell
- brett.boyce
- Karina Wilson Foskett
- Carol Trimble
- Beth Shelley
- pat realls
- Sallyanne Hurst
- Mr Malcolm Jones
- Gerald A Haskell
- linda christine diaper
- John Benyon
- Jeanette Walls
- Stephen Crooks
- Alan Mason
- Nick Rothery
- Mark Thompson
- Isabella McCrum
- Vanessa Smith
- Frances Coleman
- Jean Crooks
- Claire Hallett
- Stephanie Hampton
- Chris Hilton
- lee Hampton
- patricia smith
- Robert Lightbody
- Andrew Petrie
- stephen cuthbert
- Carl Emms
- Rita Worth
- Richard A. Smith
- Dave Appleton
- Emily Stoodley
- Nick Kriek
- COUNCILLOR MIKE REID
- marykay smith
- Edna Sherrin
- Sylvia Scott-James
- craig spanner
- ethan fox
- Vince Burt
- BARRY
- Cllr Jane Odgers
- Andrew Howard
- RUSSELL MULLAN
- Terry Foskett
- Kevin Saunders
- Lynda Yates
- Scott Gilligan
- Avril Scorey
- Roger Brooke
- J. Pillai
- alison earle
- Roy Sanderson
- Melanie Sanderson
- Karen Perry
- A. Cornforth
- Alan Newnham and Janet Newnham
- joanne elvin
- Jacqueline Cornwall
- J.W.Fulton
- K.J.Rees
- Alison Parsons
- Margaret Sands
- Cheryl McEwan
- shirley hayes-oconnor
- Penny Williams
- Richard Norris
- Peter Worth
- G B Gravelsons
- Anita Wallas
- Richard Overall
- Sue Callaway
- Matthew Lloyd
- Horst Krone
- Carla M. Krone
- Alan Norris
- Colin
- Margaret Phillips
- Alison Duck
- Maurice H. West
- Angela Sign
- Alan S Muff
- Steve Bassett
- Andrew Chklar
- Christine Strachan
- Joan Nevin
- Chris Blakemore
- Glenn Oxberry
- Howard Kretzer
- Edward M Post
- Maureen Pickup
- F Jordan
- Charlotte Kretzer
- Jennifer Foskett
- jackie sanderson
- Patrick M. Reilly
- Sarah Richens
- Peter Betts
- robert rogers
- Gretel Nevols
- David Nevols
- Alan Norman
- Tara Doel
- Mark Chirnside
- captain john dunn
- Gary Woodford
- Alan white
- Rick Skinner
- Nicholas Hall
- Michael Sansbury
- john Sharples
- roger miles
- Jane Suggitt
- mandy downer
- keith falconer
- Hugh Lalor
- brian kay
- Sylvia Butler
- Allan John Page
- Susan Blakemore
- s cleverly
- john paul jones
- Paul Best
- Celia Jarman
- Terry Davis
- Andrew Cam
- Graham Donbavand
- Susan Reynolds
- Jean Riddington
- Tom Butterworth
- Michelle Harwood
- ben webster
- Ellen Silva
