PETITION FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM - 1 million + signatures already

[GertrudeBelle]

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

"It would appear it is a list of where people (claimed) they were signing it from (postcode?). So, for example there are abou 8,500 from USA..."

I think the data are not up-to-date.

I can't be bothered to check properly, but it looks like around 365,000 for UK, 60,000 from other countries, at the time the data were updated. So around 15% of the signatures are non UK. It's social media cancer in any case, so should be ignored.

Solomonsky it's like you don't actually comprehend what you are reading?

I and a couple of other people have mentioned, through personal anecdote and actually looking at the petition itself that people are signing it that are NOT eligible to vote.

They are not committing fraud, I am not accusing them of being dishonest or doing something illegally.

It doesn't say on the petition 'Don't sign here if you are polish'

Ffs

The point was that IF (and its s huge fucking if) the government went against the majority opinion shown in the referendum based on the petition that it wouldn't be fair to have people WHO ARENT ELIGIBLE TO VOTE INFLUENCING THE OUTCOME IN ANY WAY.

Read that. Re read it.

Tell me exactly where I'm being fucking racist.

They could be. I have no idea.

Taken from the BBC website
'However, there is talk around Westminster- in the wake of a plunging currency and falling share prices - of whether any deal on Brexit negotiated with the EU should then be put to a referendum further down the line'.
Please sign to show the strength of public feeling for further consultation on this issue......

I'm sure I saw online a table of countries that did have more than 1 referendum on the EU, but I can't find it now. Has anyone seen the same? Didn't Ireland have two, because the first was not the answer that was wanted? I'm sorry I can't find the details and I may be wrong, but there definitely is a precedent for this in other countries.

If the petition did get up into the many many millions, could that force another one? How many millions do you think it would take?

I'm not saying that's what should happen btw, it's difficult because I believe in democracy and look at the Swiss, they have referendums on everything and they're prosperous and safe, but it does feel like so many people are having these huge regrets....

Re. The Guardian article- The result of the democratic referendum was "leave". If this isn't acted upon, democracy in this country, and quite possibly further afield, will be dead. Voting would never be trusted again. Why give us a referendum and then not listen to the people? The country would implode with the ramifications and civil war/revolution - far, far worse than now. And the end result for the UK would be a billions times worse than even the worst case scenario of Brexit.

Where is all this information about "all these people having huge regrets"?

16 million voted remain and only 1 million or so signatures for this?

Burn there's precedent. Didn't the house of lords overturn the ruling on same sex marriages? If they announced it today, undoubtedly there would be anarchy. But leave it over 3 months til October... Dust has settled, wriggling can begin. If there's one thing I trust the Tories to do, it's to back pedal.

livingtothefull londonkiwimoney
If bred it voters didn't know what they were voting for then why do it? Surely not because they believed everything the politicians said and now they have 'unpromised' these things it's tough.
Sometimes in life we need to be a grown up and accept our decisions. Having another chance because we ballsed up the first one is ridiculous. I voted remain but probably wouldn't bother voting a second time.

Burn - if 'huge regrets' is the quote from my post - I've seen people say it, on here, on SM, in the newspapers, in RL.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-wants-second-referendum-7985017#rlabs=1%20rt$category%20p$4

Leavers are being called hysterical and unreasonable for calling for a second referendum, yet Nigel Farage was calling for a second referendum a MONTH ago! (Just as they were shouting about evil pencils on vote day.)

Farage told the Mirror: In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way If the remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.”

So what. Who cares what Farage said. He's a Numpty.

Who cares what Farage said. He's a Numpty.

Are Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Gove numpties as well? I'll answer for you. Yes they are. But people clearly didn't vote Leave because they knew the facts, they voted because the Numpties lied to them and talked them into thinking it was a great idea.

But people clearly didn't vote Leave because they knew the facts, they voted because the Numpties lied to them and talked them into thinking it was a great idea.

I have no idea what any of the numpties said on the matter. I made my own choice.

how very dare you suggest anything else was the case.

You voted for politicians without listening to what they said?! Explains a lot...

I have just read the first page and my blood is boiling yet again. Is this all a joke for the older posters? Democracy spirit and all? Are the Leave voters just some soulless being's that can be disposed off easily? Will you accept and get over being lied to this easily in your daily lives too?
It's this fucking apathy and sneering attitude of mainly older generation that has fucked it for us younger ones.

I have just read the first page and my blood is boiling yet again. Is this all a joke for the older posters? Democracy spirit and all? Are the Leave voters just some soulless being's that can be disposed off easily? Will you accept and get over being lied to this easily in your daily lives too?
It's this fucking apathy and sneering attitude of mainly older generation that has fucked it for us younger ones.

Eh??

Everyone of you saying the people calling for another referendum is trying to kid themselves that ahh it's just democracy and all. That's how it has come to the stage where every dick like Farage, Leave campaigners or Gove comes and screws us and goes away knowing rightly that we will again accept it as "ah this is what democracy is all about"
Basic definition of democracy for people like you seems: yeah come and lie to us and we will vote based on those lies and then even if I find out that you lied, I will still live my unhappy ever after knowing I did a demofuckingcratic thing anyway.
Congrats for being so nice afterall

I badly need a sweary thread.

Everyone of you saying the people calling for another referendum is trying to kid themselves that ahh it's just democracy and all

Well would you be calling for it if it had gone the way you wanted? If you are so worried about the narrowness of margin and all that?

No thought not.

It would always have been too close and too small a majority whichever way it went. If we had scraped Remain and the Leavers had called for a referendum, that would have been valid.

Valentine2.....everything that you've based your vote on, every concern you have about your 'fucked-up' future has been shaped by the 'older generation'.

Almost every politician, 'expert' or economist whose advice you chose to listen to before voting has been of an older generation so stop making fucking stupid generalisations.

Experts generally hold degrees though, Greenish. Unlike Leave voters.