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

[ForsythiaPlease]

In six hours, this is unstoppable-please sign and share
https://t.co/0aZ6Q6VhZD

People jump on others. There is a claxon that goes off and posters jump on here, goading and been generally unkind. Waiting to pull anyone not from their group into a bunfight. They then mass report and delete to silence the posters. More seasoned posters are wise to these tactics and know they go on. People don’t need to @ me as when someone raises it - you’ll get 5/6 posters all weirdly denying they do it.

Which is why it is not working very well and many people are pissed off!

To intentionally vote lib dem was to aid a labour victory, there is no way on earth the lib dems could win outright.
It is also wrong to say that they have literally no left wing support - the neighbouring constituency to me returned a labour MP for the first time in its history, having always been tory since it was created.
The whole point of GTTO was to hold your nose and vote for the usual 2nd place party.

could end up paying

do you really think those on NMW are going to be concerned about someone earning over £100k having to suffer this glitch? They'll just put it in pension contributions as they have that choice

Some of the signatures on that petition are a bit suspect.

Just a few examples from https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143.json
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Territories","code":"PS","signaturecount":1},{"name":"Togo","code":"TG","signaturecount":2},{"name":"Trinidad and Tobago","code":"TT","signaturecount":1},{"name":"Tunisia","code":"TN","signaturecount":1},{"name":"Turkey","code":"TR","signaturecount":27},{"name":"Turks and Caicos Islands","code":"TC","signaturecount":3},{"name":"Uganda","code":"UG","signaturecount":4},{"name":"Ukraine","code":"UA","signaturecount":9},{"name":"United Arab Emirates","code":"AE","signaturecount":129},{"name":"United Kingdom","code":"GB","signaturecount":792903},{"name":"United States","code":"US","signaturecount":405},{"name":"Uruguay","code":"UY","signaturecount":9},{"name":"Uzbekistan","code":"UZ","signaturecount":1},{"name":"Vanuatu","code":"VU","signaturecount":2},{"name":"Vatican City","code":"VA","signaturecount":1},{"name":"Venezuela","code":"VE","signaturecount":5},{"name":"Vietnam","code":"VN","signature_count":13},{"name":"Western Sahara","code

@EasternStandard

Because they are trying to get an acronym going.

totally unsustainable. higher earners are not getting any support from the country, and being labelled all sort of nasty names by people who can’t be arsed to pull their weight. it is so regressed filled with unearned entitlement.

Where are you getting that KS is an unpopular leader?

Just because a million or 2 million people sign a petition that they don't like the policies the labour give, have introduced - doesn't mean KS is unpopular within the party or with other voters

Eh?

Many a LibDem vote was a GTTO vote.

And many a Reform vote was a “the Tories didn’t do a hard enough brexit” vote.

So you can’t add Tory and Reform and say “look, that number beats Labour” as the PP did, if you aren’t going to allow the same maths on the more leftie side.

Happy for Lab and Con to be compared directly, or maths to be done on both, but not the hybrid the PP suggested.

For me, there was no klaxon - this thread was in active so I clicked to see what the petition was.

i havent seen a deletion yet on this thread.

Oh, and I am not @ ing you to be annoying but I need to quote your post so mine makes sense. As you quoted mine.

@Dontcallmescarface

Unsurprising that they would be using fake accounts. Probably related to Tufton Street mob again to stir up discontent.

BBC News - Young people who refuse to work to lose benefits, says minister - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp35r0v7q95o

Do you think others are as happy with Starmer and Labour as I assume you feel or there might be people who think they're doing badly

They have lost their lead after all in record time

I think many people are just pissed off

Russian interference I imagine. We’d better get used to this

Yep.. hopefully it will send the message to Labour

my example shows the total tax at 34% as NI is included

do you really think someone earning £36k average wage is going to be concerned about marginal tax at 62% when in reality the pay packet shows something completely differently in their pay packet

Where can I buy tickets? Surely you're going on tour!

Rachel from Accounts - my aching ribs.😂

From Bluesky:
Surprisingly weak relationship between the "Call a general election" petition and Labour's share of the vote in July"

@Dontcallmescarface ah, but it's all about VPNs apparently.

Everyone who signed is a real life absolutely completely totally honestguv Brit gawdblessum.

Absolutely no bots in there driving a narrative.

They ought to be as the person earning the average wage is being heavily subsidised by the higher earner. A bit of a problem when they reduce tax.

So do the government which is why they are a fan of them. You can ignore them however many people sign them and nobody will notice. Much more difficult to ignore something like the poll tax riots for example.

People feeling like they have actually done something when they haven’t stops them from doing something inconvenient.

cough Liz Truss cough

If you have to repeatedly explain the acronym it doesn’t work.
your made up words make your posts really hard to read and understand

I feel like this might be an issue with writing headlines for click bait. 1) they probably already do lose benefits. It would be odd if they didn’t. 2) It doesn’t look like the article is clear either. She seems to have answered yes to a question about whether they would remove it with out either the interviewer or her mentioning what was in place.

My guess is that a more accurate version of the article would be about Labour having a policy to overhaul apprenticeships and get young people back into work but that this has been lost mot necessarily because or right wing bias by the BBC but because they know that headline will get more clicks. That and the fact that the quality of their journalism on their website is at best questionable and at worst seriously dodgy.

I don’t think he was ever wildly popular but that’s probably no bad thing. But he has quite a lot of room to fall before he becomes less popular that the Tory party or Kemi. Or before he meets the Liz Truss yardstick.