No I can't. I'm not upset or disappointed so to speak, it's just one less tool with which to try for a solution. I quite understand why readers may have chosen not to sign.
I don't think that is the issue. Remote gamblers are a remarkably diverse group and also a small minority. The firms spend fortunes on marketing and advertising to contact us and get us to do things. They give up huge proportions of their revenues to affiliates who try to get remote gamblers to do what they do, gamble online. The sites offer bonuses and incentives all to do the core thing that unites the group remote gamblers.
Trying to get such a group to do something else, without incentive, without thrill....sign a petition.... requires two steps, first getting the information that it exists to them and then motivating a signature. Given the time since inception and how few know of its existence the small number is no shock.
Meanwhile those that matter will see the awful response. The UKGC, their legal team and those GRA licenced sites considering wasting half a million in legal fees to defend the GRA as equivalent or better protectors of consumers than the UKGC will see the statements. It is at that senior level a small incestuous world, you could probably find all their email addresses and make sure they see the statement with a brief commentary about how it destroys GRA credibility.
Frankly once the statement was released we did not really need to win some populist campaign, the GRA had already done itself irrevocable harm.