Do people not understand how elections work?

[TeenLifeMum]

In reference to the petition to call for another general election. You don’t get to say “oh wait, actually I’ve changed my mind. I had no clue the Labour Party would try to redistribute wealth and it would impact me so I want a re do!”

Also, so many bots / people from Indonesia filling it in. I have a certain group of people on my fb sharing it. Do they really think we’ll get to vote again? And would they all vote Conservative now?

Am I the one missing something?

It’s on every news channel.

What did Sunak do to force inflation down?

Spiking is already illegal because it's assault and may also be administration of a noxious substance, depending on what the spiking agent is.

It's not necessary to make an already-illegal thing illegal. In addition to the proposed bar staff training, investigating reports and prosecuting suspects would be a better use of the money it costs to draft legislation.

Does this Government understand that this is supposed to be a democracy, rather than some type of a Communist totalitarian regime?

Other than MN, I don't do any social media, and can confirm that the sky is not falling in.

Live free. Don't join.

Even if all of the people who have signed this petition are genuine UK residents, which they are definitely not, particularly with Elon Musk directing people to it on Twitter, it's just slacktivism, isn't it? Feeling a bit pissed off? Sign this petition. Requires fuck-all effort and fuck-all will come of it but hey, at least you've done your bit. Now have another biscuit and resume doom-scrolling.

I'm not sure it's the government that doesn't understand what a democracy is, rather it's all those that have signed this pointless petition who are the ones why don't understand democracy. If any of them are human. I suspect the vast majority are bots.

Anyone can add a petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/

It has to go through a process where civil servants get the wording they are happy with - or say no! Then you need to get 20 signatures and then it's approved finally and let loose on the public.

The full wording is very simple and you're ignoring the second sentence.

I would like there to be another General Election.
I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.

Did they say they'd raise employers NI? Did they say they'd remove the WFA from people who don't get PTC?
There's more stuff coming out now about the insanity they're proposing about giving those on benefits are going to get a wipe of the dirty stick.

This government clearly doesn't understand anything at all.

They apparently didn't do impact assessments on anything so far.

The only ones who are thick are the ones who think that the people signing it think it will spur a general election. They don’t. It’s a means of getting a message over to this hugely unpopular government.

As a left wing socialist political party with the remit to bring more equity and redistribution of wealth, is the NI increase really a surprise?

Perhaps the question “what is a woman?” is clearer for you? You use the word “woman” when the people in power have no idea what one is. (Except they do of course, but can’t be seen to acknowledge reality and sway from the narrative).

@TeenLifeMum
They said they'd grow the economy without laying out plans on how to do this.

Did they do an impact statement or speak to business about the consequences or raising NI and NMW at the same time?

They have no idea how to make the economy grow and indeed the economy will be contracting with the changes they've made.
They act as though they have just arrived in parliament rather than being an opposition party.
It is like having given children the keys to their father's car and wondering what's the worst they can do.

It is a shit show.

And I am much reminded of Martin Niemoller's poem.

Not really, it just means you get more extreme left and extreme right in the house of commons and dodgy backroom deals are done so that things can actually get passed.

It's not a good idea to have MPs with no experience having a lot of power because they don't know what they're doing, as Liz Truss showed (and she's not even extreme right).

And I am much reminded of Martin Niemoller's poem.

What the actual fuck? Of all the ludicrous hyperbole around these budget decisions, this has to be the most offensive I've seen.

Was just going to say the same

List of signatures by country. It's a way to demonstrate the anger a lot of the public have, most of whom are in the UK.

Doesn't that depend on what channels you consume your news on? I tend to get my news online from BBC news and The Guardian, neither of whom are covering this as far as I can see (or certainly weren't when I checked at lunchtime).

What about the UK postcodes being circulated on Twitter? How is it possible to discriminate between those and actual UK residents?

It's surprising how many idiots, especially on here, that really think this is for a GE

Don’t forget the “Did Joe Biden drop out of the election” searches on Election Day.

Absolutely spot on!

Hilarious..was OK to call for another referendum though.

Our political system is broken

At least it will make them realise how unhappy people are and publicly shames them. Most people I chat to who voted Labour regret it now unsurprisingly.🙄 It won't obviously 'do' anything as such, but in the next election I'll happily be waving them goodbye (again) 🙂