the Petition for a 2nd referendum

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Apologies if this has already done the circuits (I'm sure it has, but I've had a look and can't see it) but here's the link to the petition calling for a revote as less than 75% of the population voted and the margin was so tight.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

AIBU to think that its perfectly reasonable to expect a revote considering that in less than 4 hours after the results, the Leave campaign backed out of some of their most significant promises?

And what would happen if the re-vote went for BREXIT would there be another one until the vote went the [right] remain way
Londoners/Scots/Irish may want in but the rest want out

Why should there be a revote??

The majority won

There will still be over a million more people voting out!

Toria I totally agree. I'm honestly agog at some of the posts I seeing.

Stupid fucking idea.

People I know are signing it several times...

Agreed Toria^^

Perhaps we should introduce tests to make sure voters have enough knowledge to vote the way a dictator wants. Mugabe could advise. Perhaps thes tests could screen for things like:

Mental health
SEN
Race/religion
Sex - women following the instructions of their husband/church
Signs of party affiliation.publications that don't agree with the dictator.

People voted. It wasn't remain. Cameron, as part of a metropolitan intellectual elite misjudged the mood of the country. We now have torebuild into something bigger and better than a unit situated in a federal Europe with no real power or independence left.

but I'm not a bad loser either

These aren't my words but I read a very well written argument to this this morning so I'll copy and paste.

No.

Don't call us 'bad losers'. Not today. Because this hurts.

Don't call us bad losers when we have bad winners. Nigel Farage, who said this morning 'We won it without a shot being fired', a mere week after Jo Cox was shot on Farage's most controversial day of the campaign.

Don't call us bad losers when you have Boris Johnson suddenly saying there is 'no rush' to leave the EU, when it was so important to him a day ago. (Yet David Cameron's resignation still seems important to him. Hmmm.)

Don't call us bad losers when you have given fuel to the far right across the continent. Marine Le Penn now has a union jack as her profile pic. We are the pride of fascists everywhere.

(I don't see how expressing our intense dismay on Facebook is equivalent to what many of us feel will result in the fracturing of Europe, the crashing of the economy, an increase in xenophobia and division, and all that comes with that.)

Don't call us bad losers when we have genuine concerns that many of the people who most wanted this foul-named thing called a Brexit - the hurt, the disenfranchised, the unemployed, the vulnerable - have been conned into thinking Farage and Johnson are the anti-establishment voice of the people. (Spoiler alert: they're the voice of power, of money, of self-interest, of themselves.)

Don't call us bad losers. Just call us very worried indeed.

Yes to roses

The result could still be the same. 17mi!lion minds wont all change
Democracy has spoken. So how many referendums do you need to get the result you want.

I am not signing it and no I did not vote but what will happen is that if it is heard again and UK remains then the leaver camps will kick off and say its not fair then violence will happen.
Just accept the Uk is gone. This is going to bring a civil war if you lot keep trying to change the fair decision. It was a fair vote, the people spoke.

So I can only assume all of the signatories of this petition would feel happy at the prospect of UKIP and other far right movements gaining momentum in the UK, just like they have done on the continent. If the Government overthrows the result of the referendum, that terrifying prospect is what we could be looking at. The whole reason we are in this mess and out of the EU is because the British voters have not been listened to and had their concerns taken on board. An overthrow of the referendum vote would be the final nail in the coffin for many of the electorate

Can you right your own stuff op?

Also, the youth vote was obviously suppressed because the election fell during Glastonbury.

Anyone care to guess how many petition signatories would be demanding a revote if the Bremainers had won on Thursday?

I am going to go for......none.

You voted remain because 'better the devil you know'
Yes, I did.

And that's a prime example of voting without knowing the facts which is the same thing the Leave voters are being accused of. Nobody could be certain of our future inside the EU which is as bad as not knowing the certainty of leaving.

There should be no need for a second vote. Remainers? You lost fair and square. Suck it up

Democracy is voting - if the population have strong opinions, they will continue to vote the same.

I for one will shut my mouth and get on with it should a 2nd referendum produce another Leave result - as this will prove that people have made informed decisions not based on false promises.

And the MAJORITY did not vote for either side, as not enough of the electorate turned out for that. 38% of the electorate voted to leave.

Aside from the cost, there's no harm in a 2nd referendum - as it's been repeatedly stated, if the majority of the electorate genuinely wish to Leave, then that will be the result again.

Can you right your own stuff op?

Sure, Kimononono, feel free to read the 6 other paragraphs I have so far penned on this page.

Can you right your own stuff op?

Sure, Kimononono, feel free to read the 6 other paragraphs I have so far penned on this page.

The result could still be the same. 17mi!lion minds wont all change
Democracy has spoken. So how many referendums do you need to get the result you want.

That's a circular answer. If 17 million minds won't change - then the results won't change. So nothing to fear.

And the MAJORITY did not vote for either side, as not enough of the electorate turned out for that. 38% of the electorate voted to leave.

I assume you object to every election ever held in the UK.

It was a fair vote, the people spoke.

When the campaign turns out to be made of lies, I wouldn't call it a fair vote.

Any chance the people who want it can pay for it in full?

Just over a third of the electorate voted to leave and just over a third voted to remain, so a significant portion wasn't bothered.

It is interesting to see the world's reaction. With the UK pulling out there will be huge changes within Europe.

I have signed the petition, not just because I didn't get my way but because a second referendum in the light of the first would give us a whole new list of indicators on which way to vote.

The kids didn't vote. It's really their problem.