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If you signed the 6m+ Revoke Brexit petition...

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EluphNaugeMeop · 31/03/2019 21:55

Please also sign this:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241848
calling for the process to be halted for a public inquiry into the illegal funding that influenced the referendum.

The government response to the revoke petition was insultingly dismissive but to be fair the petition was simply saying "no stop this stop it now" which did unfortunately leave the way open for such a ridiculous response by failing to give proper reasons why.

Share this petition widely. Let's get this up to 6 million too. Let's see their response to something more specific.

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Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 01/04/2019 09:30

theelements

Shock

No...surely not

I thought I'd imagined all those threads where posters were told to leave the country and being accused of being unpatriotic a traitor and (hushed voice) one of those Johnnie foreigner types

twofingerstoEverything · 01/04/2019 09:30

Since the petitions don't show names, I don't know how people can declare that Xxx number of Rees-Moggs signed.

You can look at the JSON data (clicky link at bottom of petition page) which shows ONLY the MPs' names, and not the names of actual signatories, eg:

Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg MP","signature_count":10795
ie. 10795 of Rees Mogg's constituents have signed.

Peregrina · 01/04/2019 09:36

The mind boggles and 10,795 Rees-Mogg clones walking around.

Persimmonn · 01/04/2019 09:42

I’d like to see a counter petition and the number of signatures for that to see how many leavers are left.

TheElementsSong · 01/04/2019 09:51

I’d like to see a counter petition and the number of signatures for that to see how many leavers are left.

Well, there's the No Deal one, which despite being over 5 months old, is only at 10% of the Revoke petition. However, you have to remember that every single signature on the No Deal petition is from a real actual honest human being (this means having a proper British surname, the DNA to prove it, and who has never left this sacred soil for more than 5 minutes). Whereas the Revoke petition is 90% fake non-humans (which means they have foreign surnames, or have lived abroad, or are a herd of cows).

Therefore only No Deal is valid.

Geddit?

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 09:53

@TheElementsSong calm down. I'm a remainer and you're even getting up nose with your OTT nonsense.

lonelyplanetmum · 01/04/2019 10:00

I agree with Elements.

Instead of coming on here and belittling the six million people who signed the Revoke petition why don't the posters garner their own support for the No deal petition instead?

It has taken nearly six months for the counter petition to gain 600,000 signatures. That's is 10% of the Revoke one. I also haven't seen remainers criticising the veracity of those signatures.

I for one accept that there will be a margin of error in all petitions but they do show a strength of feeling that hasn't dissipated.

TheElementsSong · 01/04/2019 10:00

Yes, sir cole thread policeman sir! ^ ^

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 10:02

I’d like to see a counter petition and the number of signatures for that to see how many leavers are left.

No petition - for either side - will be securely "one person, one vote" anyway.

No petition will give the government a viable mandate to revoke.

We need to get to a second referendum ASAP, which is politically tricky in itself, but if we can bring it about, then there's real hope. I wish everyone would just concentrate on that.

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 10:06

Yes, sir cole thread policeman sir!

Your uterus has duck all to do with it.

Mine's not obliging me to be inflammatory.

Nothing to do with threads, either. I'm beyond embarrassed to be on the same side as remainers who come out with the nonsense you're spouting. Online and IRL.

MissElizaBennett · 01/04/2019 10:06

Done!

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 10:09

I agree with Elements.

Poor you.

Instead of coming on here and belittling the six million people who signed the Revoke petition why don't the posters garner their own support for the No deal petition instead?

What about those of us who aren't leavers but have the wit to know petitions aren't the answer?

What do you want us to do? Start a petition asking that everyone stops fannying about with petitions?

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 01/04/2019 10:10

theelements

Yeah i geddit...

catchingzzzeds · 01/04/2019 10:11

Done

twofingerstoEverything · 01/04/2019 10:29

That Leave without a deal petition has signatories from Peru, the Philippines and Russia (not to mention a hundred other UN BRITISH locations.
I'm genuinely horrified. Grin

twofingerstoEverything · 01/04/2019 10:30

And 218 signatories from Rees-Mogg's constituency!

lonelyplanetmum · 01/04/2019 10:49

have the wit to know petitions aren't the answer?

That's rude. I for one have already said several times that petitions show a prevailing mood. Of course they aren't a solution.

My posts were directed at those who criticise the 6m signatories to Revoke petitions ( but ignore the tardy progress of Leave ones.) That is not the same as perceiving petitions to be some silver bullet solution. However as this is a petition thread - it's fair enough to discuss them surely?

As I've explained there is a distinction between commenting on petitions and seeing them as a panacea. Perhaps anyone on the thread who has said petitions are a 'solution' will identify themselves.

Although to be fair Andrea Leadsome did imply if it reached 17 m it may be a relevant indicator but don't think she's on the thread.

lonelyplanetmum · 01/04/2019 10:50

What do you want us to do? Start a petition asking that everyone stops fannying about with petitions?

If posters aren't interested in petitions it kind of begs the question as to why they're "fannying about" on a petitions thread.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 01/04/2019 10:51

Perhaps anyone on the thread who has said petitions are a 'solution' will identify themselves

Wasn't me

Ive said that that i ont feel they have any effect

They can act as an opinion poll

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 01/04/2019 10:54

I wouldn't have been interested in signing it if i hadnt seen comments along the lines of

'There are only 6 million signatures, that means that remain voters have changed their mind'

Red rag and bull jump to mind

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 10:56

That's rude. I for one have already said several times that petitions show a prevailing mood. Of course they aren't a solution.

It's mild compared to some of the inflammatory guff on this thread.

Personally, I don't think we've got time to muck about expressing our mood through the medium of petitions. The government already have a shrewd idea anyway. Nor do we have time or leeway to inflame things further by calling the other side names.

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 11:00

If posters aren't interested in petitions it kind of begs the question as to why they're "fannying about" on a petitions thread.

Isn't it obvious? I was curious as to why suddenly everyone is going on and on (and on) about petitions.

Then when I read the nonsense being regurgitated around the petitions, I start to lose all hope.

lonelyplanetmum · 01/04/2019 11:01

Im sorry colehawlins.

You have said that posters have no wit (I think that was directed at me).

You also said Elements was OTT and getting up your nose.

Who is name calling?

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 11:03

@Rufusthebewilderedreindeer the opinion polls are "acting as opinion polls".

The petitions are just using up valuable energy.

yougov.co.uk/topics/brexit/all

whatukthinks.org/eu/opinion-polls/uk-poll-results/

colehawlins · 01/04/2019 11:09

You have said that posters have no wit (I think that was directed at me).

You also said Elements was OTT and getting up your nose.

Who is name calling?

I'm confused about why you're confused.

The constant (idiotic, OTT,) leaver-baiting IS namecalling, IS witless, DOES get up noses on both sides and IS distracting us all from the task in hand.

So are the endless round of petitions, and exhortations to sign ever more petitions.