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

It's a waste of time. I'm not sympathetic to farmers. They have got a very good deal as regards IT. The winter fuel allowance was very sneaky.

Yes, and the last government were such paragons of virtue and transparency. You can't turn around an election result within a few months of the vote. You can't turn round an oil tanker in four months when you're trying to undo 14 years of damage. Give them a chance.

Not again!

Labour said they wouldn't increase taxes on working people. So as long as we accept that some of the hardest working people in our communities (farmers and businesses owners) are not working people they are doing fine.

I've no problem with them taking the winter fuel allowance from the richst pensioners but taking it from some of the poorest (those that just fall short of entitlement to pension credit) is unforgivable.

Yes the people voted for a party but our politics now allows very vague/wooly manifestos like "create growth" and then the party to do whatever they like. E.g. they said we won't increase National Insurance. They have increased National Insurance aha but on employers not employees so that's great then ...as another pub closes.

”Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest post-election fall in approval ratings of any British prime minister in the modern era.
Just months after coming to office, the U.K. Labour leader is already languishing on an approval rating of -38“

Regardless of what MN thinks people don’t seem to like Keir. I don’t think anything will happen though.

Labour won a democratic election (or, given how much their vote went down too, lost it the least). A petition to get rid of them is ridiculous.

Lol at writing to MPs though if yours is anywhere near as useless and invisible as my ultra-safe-seat Labour MP.

Isn’t the saying “you lost, get over it?”

Or does that only apply when Farage voters say it?

Err BBC is the most left wing media there is ..

16% of the vote and a vote larger than Corbyn got at the last GE and this lot are in.

It’s a shit show and an embarrassment.

I wish Labour were less cloth-eared about rural affairs. I think the IHT change should have been in the manifesto. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with the way things are going overall. I didn't expect to love this government, but i think they're quite competent and doing some stuff that needed doing, plus some Reform type things which you wont read about in the papers because it doesnt suit the billionaires to give any credit to Labour. Certainly zero interest in seeing Badenoch or Farage having a go.

Not that there's anyone out there trying to Influence UK politics or anything...

Nah, why don’t we just storm the Capital Building ? Oh wait, we don’t have one…

Sorry was exceptionally tired waiting for teens to come in!

the last government would float an idea in the papers. Depending on the reaction would decide if they ran it or not.
using the media to decide if they should do something or not is not an effective way to run a country or get us out of this mess. Let alone long term plan for things like housing and climate crisis

As opposed to the last crew who've done so much damage to this country that it will take years and years to recover.

I think people are just in shock that the country is actually being run by grown ups for a change.

You’re worried about food costs, this would suggest that you’re struggling with the cost of living. The billionaires have got you worried about their tax bill

are you aware that 50% of farms in uk are tenants, they don’t own their farms, they rent from people such as National trust etc, won’t pay iht

People were seriously pissed off over
Iraq war
hs2
brexit
covid parties
jobs for mates and covid
covid fraud
Dominic Cummings
unelected prime ministers

nothing happened then and nothing should happen now.

whichever government got in now was always going to have an utterly shit ride this year or two. They needed to rip off the plaster make some hard decisions that would really hurt. Just to balance the books. As the 4/5 years come around hopefully it evens out and by the end things look brighter and we can have teachers who want to stay in the job, waiting lists down at hospitals and police able to do their jobs not go from one mental health crisis to another (whilst ignoring their own caused by work)

I remember when that came in and the papers were full of pensioners saying they didn’t need it and were going to give it to charity.

They’ve managed to shrink the private sector with their budget, There is no-one to pay for the big state. It’s a car crash.

Petition to stop stupid people and their manipulators from starting petitions.

Another election is called tomorrow who else is there is vote for???

Oh no, the election didn't go our way so we're going to have a tantrum about it

I won't sign. I don't agree with it. I despise the Tories. But you do yourself no credit with your styatement about pensioners having three cruises a year. Certainly not the 100,000 being pushed into poverty (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/19/winter-fuel-payment-cuts-may-force-100000-pensioners-below-poverty-line) nor those who are fractionally above it. As for being "uneducated", I will pit my education against yours any day. I don't resort to personal insults to make arguments, unlike you.

No, it just means that the right wing has control of the media and social media and they can manipulate it. This sort of shit is just going to increase now Trump is in but people really need to apply rational thought as to where these things are coming from and what are their intentions.

This!

You lost. Get over it. (That's what brexiteers have been saying for 8 years, anyway).

Honestly it is so horrifying just how far the capacity to talk in an even moderately evidence-based and rational way has fallen over the last several years. You can see it on Mumsnet as well as in the world at large.
Of course in the old days too, MN was full of people charging in with half-thought opinions and a scant grasp of the facts but at least it used to be their own half-thought opinions and scant grasp of the facts.
Now, participants in online discussions are responding to deliberately seeded lies and distortions (and stupid gimmicks like this misuse of the petition tool), and the ignorance of individual contributors just adds layers of additional unrealism onto online narratives that are spun by agitators.
And the more people are immersed in this impoverished level of debate the poorer and poorer their critical thinking skills become.
Soon we will be in a position where there are fewer and fewer people around who can remember what it was even like before our former mediocre level of public discussion descended into this curated mass stupidity.