There's a Petition to Get John Barnes Onstage With New Order at Glastonbury for "World In Motion"

You might have thought online petitions would have died off with the heady days of "Ban Donald Trump From The UK", which sent the issue all the way to a parliamentary debate. And now that we have petitions sprouting up titled "Stop People On The Internet From Setting Up Barking Online Petitions", then I suppose you could say we are now post-petition. We are not millennials, post-internet, or the Lad Bible generation. We are the post-petition generation, and that is all we will ever be. The British entrepreneurs of the future will be pot-bellied pioneers on champagne yachts in the Bahamas, relaying to a Forbes film crew how it all started when they set up an e-petitions website from their bedroom in Bromley.

Some petitions still cut through the fog of their own abundance, though, for they are good and worthy. Like today's recent discovery, which sees someone pressing for former England footballer John Barnes to join New Order onstage during their Glastonbury performance for a live rendition of their classic footy anthem, "World In Motion", including, of course, his timeless guest rap verse.

"It's Euro 2016 this year," writes the creator, Tom Sharp, "England genuinely have a decent squad (debatable). We could win the trophy (also debatable). But nevertheless, for the punters in the mud at Glastonbury this year, surely it'll be brilliant if John Barnes and Keith Allen came on stage to perform with New Order for the Three Lions anthem 'World in Motion'. Let's make this happen. Should England qualify from the group stage, the performance would go down a storm." Fair enough, Tom.

Considering 140,000 people put their signature on the anti-rap petition of "Ban Kanye West From Glastonbury and Get a Proper Rock Band" last year, the slight chance of John Barnes daring to perform something that could be classified in a court of law as a "rap" will no doubt have the petition world ripping itself apart. Here's hoping. Anyway, sign it here if you have absolutely nothing better to do.

Or just listen to "World In Motion" and be calm.