To ask remainers to sign this government petiton urging for a 2nd referendum (1 million signed so far)

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

Please sign and spread if you would like this chance! 1 million signed and rising at a rate of about 2000 per minute.

Well I'd rather be called a name than have my country's economy totally fucked up.

Can't really compare the two. That's also puerile and shallow.

Listen, if 2 million of us "get our way", and turn out to be wrong, if it turns out that all of the leaves really meant leave.. then leave has lost nothing and there's egg on our faces. And I'm fine with that, then I'll know for sure that it's what people really want, even if I disagree with them.

I truly believe we will be better than before

A common belief among people who don't understand basic economics. Read this MN thread and see if you feel so chipper:

First Brexit employment casualties

If anything we need a petition asking for a certain majority criteria to be met in order for either side to win (eg 60:40 minimum majority) letting an issue as big as this being decided on by single percentages to me does the country no favours for moving on positively. I mean look at how much fighting and bad blood has occurred just on MN!

People could call me thick and the biggest cunt on planet earth if it would avoid an enormous recession and poverty.

Signed and shared.

No I just understand it different to you .. That's the whole point .. We see things differently.. I don't know your background or education or how long you have taken to make your decision and you don't know mine . But yet you Brand ??

Sorry have just read through the petition! Signed!

Lots of people maybe a few million may have voted differently at the last GE if they were given the chance after Dave got in. Sadly we're a few years too late now and look at the mess we are in.

It's shit but you can't keep going until you get what you want. It would be the end of democracy in this country. We would be a bigger laughing stock of the world if we voted again. Who the hell would be serious about doing business with us when we "can't decide". EU may say fuck off anyway now.

More scary and more certain though is that no future vote or election could ever be taken seriously again. Even more of the electorate in future GEs would think what is the fucking point because if the losers stamp their feet hard enough we may have another revote. No election would ever be properly democratic ever again. This would open the floodgates to revotes over and over.

What's worrying too is the reports or stories of foreign nationals signing the petition with false postcodes!! No idea how true this is.

Let's be absolutely clear the divisions created by Brexit will now grow and grow.

First the antipathy to immigrants which was the basis for some Leave voters has grown and will continue to grow. It has been given legitimacy by this campaign. And the rage when the numbers of immigrants don't change and Brexiteers realise they were lied to will be huge.

Secondly, as the country slips into recession, austerity and political obscurity, the rage of the Remainers at the Leavers will grow. The rage of the Leavers will grow too as they realise Brexit has consequences of which they had no concept and they feel betrayed by politicians.

So no, this is just the start of division, uncertainty and unrest.

We would be a bigger laughing stock of the world if we voted again

Erm, elsewhere in the world, and in europe, they have and do have repeat referendums, because they're referendums, not elections, and other countries understand that so…..

Did you read the thread Bedsheets?

Is that what you knowingly voted for?

We would be a far bigger laughing stock if we fall on our sword without a fight, in the name of some misguided, romantic democratic ideal.

People signing that petition really are embarrassing themselves. It's terrible to watch.

A democratic ideal.

Oh where is the fucking irony emoticon?

Grow the fuck up and get over it

How many jobs have been created by EU funding? How many businesses have relocated here because we are in the EU but have favourable business terms?

Why do you asssume that the only job losses now will be at the top? The will be across the board from top to bottom.

The people at the bottom are the people who will be most affected.

It could reach 20 million or 50 million as any old bod can sign it several times or 10 year olds, anyone in fact. So a waste of time.

What a fall these jubilant people will have.

Almost feel sorry for them

What do people not understand about democracy? Votes cannot be repeated until you get the result you want

I'm in an area that had a huge majority for out for similar reasons to those posted by Ouriana. I find it incredibly insulting that some people think it ok to suggest others are too thick, too old, too Northern, etc for their votes to be valid and want this run again until the voice of the sheltered middle class prevails

I'm one of those people on a 0 hr contract, not because of immigrants, but because the fat cats in power help their fat cat mates in business out, and the only buffer we had against that was the EU, now our working lives will be even worse

Yes its supremely beneficial to live on £57-£73 per week, jump through all the JSA hoops, and end up being sanctioned. You want to rely on tax credits which the Tories have already had one stab at cutting do you?

The areas with high numbers of immigrants are not going to see any change to those numbers. But there will be fewer jobs, lower pay and less welfare. So you will be competing with those immigrants for less cash than before.

The EU has pumped money into the poorest areas of the U.K. such as Wales, Cornwall and Tees, which the Tories haven't lifted a finger to help. If your area got into further economic difficulty you could have applied to the EU for help. But not now.

The mood is jubilant because people haven't the faintest idea of how bad things are going to get.