Much better to write a personal letter of protest. I read somewhere that for every person who takes the time & effort to write there are approx. 8,000 others who feel the same way. So your one letter represents the views of 8,000 people to those in authority, which has to be better than a petition in which the only effort on your part is to scribble your signature (manually or electronically) and move on.

By the way Shambles, I win £102 every year on the Lottery, that's what I save by not doing it. Ha!