Petition to Call a General Election

[DancingFerret]

A Petition to call a General Election is currently running, and I've never seen one signed by so many in such a short space of time. Clearly there are a lot of unhappy people in the UK - to put it mildly.

Did you vote @DancingFerret ? I would imagine a lot of people signing your petition didn’t.

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I shan't be signing, but I doubt many of the signatories think this will oust Starmer. They want a way to show their disapproval. Protests and hurty words have seen multiple people with lengthy prison sentences so this is another way to cause embarrassment. Fair enough. People have every right to make a fuss about stuff they don't agree with.

Or maybe Vlad is the OP?

Wishful thinking perhaps

And vote in who instead???

Have you seen the growth figures,inflation rate, debt levels, projected interest rates , potentially dying oaps?

Labour are about growth, growth , growth.... I certainly see it alright

I did vote. It's not "my" petition; I simply posted the link to it.

What was the point in posting this ?

Do you think that it makes any difference whatsoever?

We have had a vote, Do you know how UK elections work?

If this is activism generated by either far left or the right ( don't care which angle it's coming from) it's pointless and quite pathetic -

Of course the gvt have to do some unpopular stuff - that pisses off either the right or left- me? I'm fine with all of it - I agree with virtually everything so far. Of course they will get lots of signatures-anyone who voted Tory or Reform likely aren't going to be a fan, nor those to the left of the Labour Party who seem to think there's a constant money tree for every pet cause they have-

If plenty of us had to suck up Brexit despite calls for a second referendum that buggered businesses , economy, and cost hundreds of billions to achieve bugger all - then you will have to suck it up this time- tough!!

@Vaxtable

Wrong. The opposite, in fact. Gordon Brown saved the world economy from disaster in 2008 with his measures in response to the subprime mortgage-induced crisis in the USA.

Austerity was ideological. Tell the electorate we're broke so that we can cut public services. Utterly reprehensible and irresponsible.

maybe if they studied better before voting it could of prevented this ?

This just gives the total votes for each country. I live abroad but im a British citizen so am allowed to vote.

Didn’t they explicitly say they wouldn’t raise tuition fees? I hope the removal of the winter fuel allowance goes for them. Keir is atrocious!

It was explained to you on the other thread about many people using VPN's
Thats what your seeing there - not a sensationalist discovery (sorry)
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People still have the right to protest if they feel the government lied to them before getting into power. Some will defend Labour even when old people start dying of cold because they’re too tribal to do anything else. They’ll even say David Lammy was appointed because of his incredible intellect and maturity on the work stage

Because no pensioners died when the conservatives held power...COVID .. care homes spring to mind.

How many people who signed this think that Labour lied to them?
How many people who signed this just don't like Labour?

See I've signed it, in the hope it forces a vote of no confidence in Starmer Rayner and Reeves.

(I voted Lib Dem and have done for a lot of my voting history)

I've signed it as I feel everything they have done so far is not in correlation to their manifesto. I DO feel they lied to the electorate. And therefore the Labour Party should put someone into the position to uphold what they promised their many voters.

https://pledgeprogress.co.uk

It's just Reform & Tory voters.

Really. A vote of no confidence in a government with a huge majority. I have posted the manifesto promises checker for you to realise that you have been misled by your sources.

Not raising tuition fees would have been stupid. University fees have been cut by 23% in real terms since they were last raised in 2017 and the minute increase merely makes that cut 21%. Universities are on their knees with underfunding. Given that repayments are based on income rather than amount owed, the net effect of raising fees has zero effect on any individual's finances for the time being (except students from hyper-wealthy families that pay upfront who will be down by a less than £1000 over 3 years) and will only make some very wealthy loan-repayers pay a little more in 15-30 years time while most graduates on ordinary incomes will pay not a penny more. What a silly thing to be upset about when the main reason for the various financial plan changes was the Tories having lied about the country's financial position.

I'm a Tory, I hate this government, but this is foolish. It's how parliamentary democracy works.

Gordon Brown saved us ?😂