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

OMG 4 people voted from Vietnam and 281 from the US. Or did they? VPN anyone?

Tell you what, we can have a General Election if, before that, we have another EU referendum.

It’s less than one percent of the overall amount, so I would class that as tiny, it’s 0.80% of the total vote

I know right? Sanctions for all.

Those are people using VPN's - you realise LOTS and lots of people use a VPN these days.

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It's not proof either way as others have pointed out since so many people use VPN.

If you don't use it yourself you may not know that it changes your location. Often that's the purpose as people want to access entertainment that is limited to one country.

That anyone with any sense uses a VPN nowadays with the amount of data the net harvests.

So 53 out of 400,000 are not in the UK. Exclude them then. 😂

405,000 now

In the run up to the GE I actually joined the Labour party, this was the first time I have ever joined a party and I was excited about change and what they could bring.

I've been really disappointed since then, and I do regret my vote. I am also cancelling my membership, and pulling support for the local councillor candidate they wanted me to canvass for, and will be telling them why. I have no faith in this government at all.

That would be funny if it wasn't so frightening for so many people.

Maybe this petition will persuade them to moderate the white paper, at the very least.

This

Agreed. The paucity of online discussion that isn't heavily seeded with inane viral phrases is saddening.

I’d never ever vote Tory, but I couldn’t vote Labour in the last GE. That’s basically coz I’m not thick and could see Starmer et al for the crooks they are.
But come on, all the Tories throwing their toys out of the pram and demanding another GE is laughable- and they call US snowflakes?!

This is the issue. People are so obsessed with sucking it to the ‘rich’ and taking off everyone. No-one is paying attention.

Pensioners, workers, business, private sector, farmers…next its welfare.

The private sector has officially shrunk, there is no money. The budget has shrunk the cash cow. People are now under threat of losing their job and people are oblivious to the release of the paper called “Get Britain Working” paper next week. The so called saviour of the ill and disabled wants to and needs to radically reform and reduce the welfare state as it has ballooned out of all proportion in comparison to similar economies.

It is like people think the endless money tree keeps growing. My real concern is the hugely vulnerable which will be pulled into this mess. Like the vulnerable pensioners, farming families and those reliant on their job in the private sector,

I think some want mn to be pro Labour posts only. Which is unlikely given how badly they are polling. Public sentiment isn't with mn posters who claim all should be pro Starmer and Labour.

They have been woeful but we'll see how the calls increase as they make more 'difficult decisions'. They're shrinking public funding and can't borrow at the rate they are.

Hilarious the Tories demanding a general election now after not giving us one when Truss destroyed the economy.

I didn’t vote labour, I don’t agree with what labour have done so far in office, but they have been democratically elected. So 400,000 people signing a petition is neither here nor there.
Labour got about 9.7m votes in the election and about 29m voted. So the petition would surely need to get beyond 20m to even start to look like the will of the people had shifted?

If people are oblivious they don't read the news. It is being widely reported.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/uk-jobcentres-not-fit-for-purpose-says-liz-kendall-ahead-of-major-reforms

Writing to your local MP to express specific concerns about a specific policy is a better idea than signing a general petition demanding a general election.

That’s an apolitical point - it’s true whoever is in power.

food security is definitely under threat, but more so due to climate change. Record numbers of crop failures this year alone. If food security is your concern, you need to look at candidates/ parties with a robust climate change policy. None of the main parties have these

You can see by many posters on here…they are. Shrink the private sector then the welfare and public sector will follow. As night follows day.

Over 9M voted for Labour in July.

Millions voted in petitions to try to overturn Brexit.

200k (likely from a significant number of RW bots - big in Nigeria at the moment) is a drop in the ocean.

This is hysterical.

I voted for Labour and am delighted so far.

It was also in Labour's manifesto.

At 6am it was only 200,000 - so some people not happy!

That's interesting. Which of the changes do you support?