I have an issue with some online petitions. In that you see something along the lines of "starville school in random part of UK I've never heard of is going to be forced to change admissions to take an extra class. This is terrible for the school... Please sign my petition".
You get it on here, you get it fb, you get it on other internet places. And they will get people signing it who have no idea of the local conditions.
Dm's village is 20mph throughout. When it was bought to the council as a proposal, an online petition was shown, with nearly as many signatures as the village. 90% of whom lived not even in the same county, and it's small enough probably most of the people had heard of it.
Silly thing is there is an area of the village (schools shop playground library area) which would be sensible at that,speed. Most if the village, no. Since the bypass opened there isn't an issue with speeding. It opened 20years ago nearly.