The Parky Petition Hits 100,000!
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday, our titanic campaign to reach 100,000 signatures on the Parky Charter petition reached its climax. After a marathon effort involving Gillian commandeering EasyJet planes, the Judge haranguing cricket-goers at Lords, and an unexpected segue into TikTok virality, that target was reached. To celebrate, we gathered 80% of the Movers & Shakers at Gillian's to raise a glass of bubbly – and were delighted to be joined by some very special guests who had gone the extra mile to get signatures!
Don't stop signing Parky Charter petition! You can do so by going to ParkyPetition.com!
Sponsored by Boardwave, who support Cure Parkinson's.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.0 | The show is generously sponsored by Bordwave, an exclusive European networking community for software founders and CEOs. |
| 0:19.0 | Bordwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:22.9 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, |
| 0:27.3 | please visit cureparkinsons.org.org. |
| 0:31.9 | Ah, wonderful. So, for a will round? Absolutely. Go on. |
| 0:43.4 | Yay. |
| 0:46.2 | Whoa. Slightly over-enthusiatic pouring. |
| 0:50.7 | Woo-hoo! So we're here now to celebrate something that we thought we wouldn't be celebrating for months and months, 100,000 signatures on our petition. |
| 0:59.4 | We had to get to 100,000 in order to get a debate in Parliament. |
| 1:02.9 | And we thought at one stage we might just manage it. |
| 1:06.0 | The deadline was September the 10th, and I could see us on September the 9th, all sitting there terrified. |
| 1:10.8 | It wouldn't get |
| 1:11.2 | there and here we are two months early it's fantastic instead of September the 9th it was Wednesday |
| 1:17.4 | just just after seven o'clock I think we were all gathered around phones and computers waited and |
| 1:23.5 | waited and then went click and went 100,000 and it was an extraordinary moment because let be honest, which of us thought at the beginning in our heart of hearts that we'd really get to 100,000? I wasn't allowing myself to actually think about it because I didn't really sort of believe we could. But the 10th of September, which is the deadline, is also my birthday, so I thought it'd be a nice birthday present. I was an early birthday present, |
| 1:44.6 | which is lovely, but it was so amazing the way that it all took off so suddenly, really, wasn't it? |
| 1:49.3 | It was rattling through the 99,000s and got up to 99,9,990, and then it went up to 99,900, and it stopped. |
| 1:58.9 | It stopped for about a minute. And I thought the gods were |
| 2:01.3 | playing with us and we were never going to get there. But then it clicked on. At 10 past 7, |
| 2:05.5 | it was a marvelous feeling. But the big thing is what happened about 10 days ago, because we had |
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