Call for a General Election-petition exceeds 200,000 signatures

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In six hours, this is unstoppable-please sign and share
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Made to step down by whom exactly? How does that work? They have a 156 seat majority - that is overwhelming. Vote share is completely irrelevant in our system.

It is always a good time to mention the very vigorous movement to Get The Tories Out at the last election. Many many people voted anything but Tory - so looking at the most likely alternative, to ensure the tories could not win. I couldn't in the end because my local candidate usually in 2nd place was Lib Dem ( Nick Clegg has a lot to answer for) but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Lib Dem won in a very blue stronghold.
I am editing to add that in doing so they knew absolutely that this would mean a labour victory.

Made to step down? How, exactly?

I imagine by the Labour Party itself, as any party does with an unpopular leader. 🤷‍♀️

Ah. Explains a lot.

That’s what Tories do. Labour never defenestrate their leaders.

If you are adding Conservative and Reform vote shares, it is disingenuous not to add Labour and Lib Dem and possibly Green and SNP.

Aside from that, we live in a parliamentary democracy and there is more and more info on how to vote tactically. LD certainly benefitted from that this time, let’s see next time. Straight % vote share is not a key measure,

Oh, and why would Starmer be made to step down, when he led the party to a 156 seat majority?

@SheilaFentiman
Surely you know, Sheila, he is the worst PM in history already after 4 months.😂

Nah, they don't. Starmer has always had low individual popularity ratings, and he was still able to lead his party to a vast majority.

I genuinely hope Starmer serves his full term. I quite like him, but that isn’t why.

It has been a long time since a prime minister did serve a full term, and the Tories got addicted to regicide after ditching Maggie. Some continuity after 5 Tory PMs in the 2015-2024 period would be good.

Yes, I think it's fair to say a loooooot of the votes cast in July were anti Tory more than they were pro anything. I don't love FPTP, but it does give us a pretty efficient way to throw the rascals out.

That genuinely is an issue Labour, and also some of the other parties have to face. It's actually significant, unlike this petition.

Yes - there have been at least 4 threads started with a link to the petition. There is clearly a movement in place to topple the Labour government and it's infiltrating all social media at the moment.

Russian perhaps? I mean they don’t want Starmer. The man has made enemies.

Labour are quite good at blocking out criticism it seems. Especially on mn

By not being honest .. sharing his intentions. What he was going to do to the pensioners and the farmers for starters.
He was too shifty from the onset ….

Alright coating off the Tories and plenty of how his Dad was a tool maker , but there was very very little of his intentions… other than ‘ vote for change’.

Of course… this is a largely left wing site .

Do as I say and not as I do…

Floating voter Btw before I get pounced on.

@bombastix

Yes I remember GreekRescueDog - they were also on the Farmer welly protest thread saying this:

"Bizarre how so many mumsnetters know one farmer and make wild assumptions about the entire farming community.

Please listen to real farmers and their concerns. Many were interviewed at the farmers protest today (which I imagine most of you commenting here did not attend).

But as I imagine most posters here are REVELS (rich enough to even vote labour), the plight of the underdog will be of limited interest."

@CaptainRedbeardandbigbadbarry

The pensioners will be protected by the triple lock rise and the poorest can still claim pension credit and the WFA. My very rich in-laws were getting the WFA and it's crazy that they were!

Only the richest farmers and landowners will be paying reduced IHT.

Where is criticism of Labour blocked on MN, please?

Disagreed with, yes, but blocked?

Someone I used to know started a petition that got 1.8m signatures. It was debated but it didn't change the government's position.

No it just house they are total idiots.

Tbh this is bloody hilarious.

Why have you quoted that from another thread?

People have made incorrect assumptions about farmers on here so that post isn't off

@CaptainRedbeardandbigbadbarry even now. Clearly it's not going well for them. Many think they are woeful hence the reaction.

@SheilaFentiman I didn't say blocking I said blocking out, ie all is fine it must be the Russians / bots or whatever. That kind of thing

If you are adding Conservative and Reform vote shares, it is disingenuous not to add Labour and Lib Dem and possibly Green and SNP

This doesn't fly. Sorry. The Lib Dems picked up Conservative votes in areas that literally have no left wing support. They are just as much a protest vote as Reform are.

Heading for a million signatures this is amazing 👏