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PETITION FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM - 1 million + signatures already

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GertrudeBelle · 25/06/2016 11:10

A parliamentary petition has been created calling for a second referendum. As I type, it already has 1,061,466 signatures and the number is growing rapidly so it will have to be taken seriously.

I would urge everyone who is concerned about the consequences of yesterday's result to sign it. It only takes a minute. Get your friends and family to sign too.

Link here:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

There's also a map showing the location of the signatories. There are some key Remain territories which don't seem to have picked this up - particularly Scotland and Northern Ireland. Please spread the word. Map here:

petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=131215

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firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:06

That's what I thought too akkakk, but wondered if HereSheComestoSavetheDay could enlighten me on something I've missed. I'm still interested if he/she can come up with an example.

HereSheComestoSavetheDay · 26/06/2016 15:06

Nope, things have changed immediately. People didn't vote for this.

I will not be silenced. I think we should do the brave and honest thing and try to put right our mistake.

HereSheComestoSavetheDay · 26/06/2016 15:08

We never vote on something and then say, well we don't ever need to reconsider that.

Of course decisions must be reconsidered :S

If things change, we reconsider. Things have changed. We should reconsider.

firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:09

Sorry, what did they not vote for? I've tried to avoid the other referendum threads, so tell me please.

Livingtothefull · 26/06/2016 15:09

Nobody voted for this to happen. People voted to safeguard their country not to see it broken up. We can't just plough ahead with this regardless, it is likely to be a disaster.

firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:11

What has changed since Thursday though? As far as I can see a few people have admitted to their ignorance and are bleating about it. That happens at every election doesn't it and new elections don't take place immediately.

buttonfluff · 26/06/2016 15:12

It's not the majority of the population that have voted leave, either. It was a narrow percentage of the electorate, which is entirely different.

And things have already changed with all the backpedalling of promises made by Farage and Boris Johnson that secured a significant number of the Brexit votes.

Littlemisslovesspiders · 26/06/2016 15:12

What has changed since Thursday though? As far as I can see a few people have admitted to their ignorance and are bleating about it

Exactly.

The way people are talking you'd think 17 million people had changed their mind.

firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:13

They voted to leave or not to leave the EU and the result is that we are leaving. Everyone's personal reasons for why they did it are irrelevant now.

buttonfluff · 26/06/2016 15:13

Fireside - elections are legally binding, referenda aren't.

HereSheComestoSavetheDay · 26/06/2016 15:13

Well, for example, people voted to have money put into the NHS instead of paid to Europe. Now they know that was bollocks.

People voted to reduce immigration. Now they find out that we will not be able to reduce it, even if we are not a member. But we still get to financially fuck ourselves.

Let's face it, we've shot ourselves in the foot to try to change our shoes. It turns out that a bleeding foot hurts worse than the difference in colour soothes.

Livingtothefull · 26/06/2016 15:14

Nobody should be ignored or disregarded. The referendum results show that people have serious legitimate grievances and these need to be addressed. We need work together to find a solution as everything needs to change now; but just going forward regardless with this irrevocable step without even careful consideration, without even working out an alternative strategy for our country's future, on the basis of a slender majority vote is not the answer. The stakes are too high.

JoffreyBaratheon · 26/06/2016 15:14

As it turns out it was an 'advisory' thing only - let's make sure our MPs know they will lose their seats if they don't vote to block it.

It's about time they did sit up and listen. This wasn't the place for a stupid protest vote - as some people are now waking up and realising. But a petition and then constant, relentless demands to block it in parliament, are a great way to let your out of touch politicians know that they will be kicked out by us, if they don't do what we want.

2% should not be a mandate to crash an economy.

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:15

I will not be silenced. I think we should do the brave and honest thing and try to put right our mistake You do know that if the vote had gone the other way there would be A N Other poster saying exactly the same thing and you would be laughing at them for their stupidity?

Well... there are people reading that and giggling!

firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:16

But it was heavily broadcast that the NHS claims were all lies a couple of weeks or more ago. I saw it on Sky news myself and it was in the newspapers too. It was one of the many reasons that I decided to vote remain. Hopefully people will educate themselves better when the next serious decisions are being made.

I find it hard to have sympathy for voters who believed every word that self interested politicians had to say.

GreenishMe · 26/06/2016 15:17

The petition is being investigated for fraud

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36634407

Not sure if I have missed someone else linking to this... but here you go!

So this is a petition that was actually created by a Leave voter who was worried the Remain camp would end up shackling us to the EU?

The irony

Livingtothefull · 26/06/2016 15:17

Well you're about the only one laughing today OurBlanche.

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:19

It was broadcast on a lot of news casts that the numbers simply did not add up. For weeks we had arguments about the figures.

Maybe people still voted to Leave despite those numbers, just like many of them didn't vote Leave because of immigration.

I find it hard to have sympathy for voters who believed every word that self interested politicians had to say Absolutely, on both sides.

HereSheComestoSavetheDay · 26/06/2016 15:20

'Well... there are people reading that and giggling!'

Are they laughing on their way to the bank?

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:20

Well you're about the only one laughing today OurBlanche. I imagine very many people are!

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:21

My error... I forgot to take the overly emotion rhetoric seriously!

Livingtothefull · 26/06/2016 15:22

Well I am glad some people are amused. I am appalled, heartbroken and petrified about what this will all mean.

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:22

Are they laughing on their way to the bank? Erm... given that the areas of highest wealth voted Remain and the least wealthy areas voted Leave, that hardly makes any sense either!

firesidechat · 26/06/2016 15:22

My husband is a leave voter who will be very happy if the free movement of people is allowed to continue. I suspect that he will be hated by both the leavers and the remainers for that.

OurBlanche · 26/06/2016 15:26

I don't know, fireside. From pub chats around here many Leavers had no issue with free movement or immigration in general. Lots of immigrants locally, there always have been, mainly as seasonal workers prior to us joining the EU, many businesses would not exist without them, and that is true for the last 50 or 60 years if not more.