" I find it quite sinister - just because you don't like the result you want to overturn the outcome of free and fair elections?"
Sinister how?
For a petition like this to work, would be totally unprecedented.
And there's no way anything like this would work unless a huge majority of the general population were on-side.
And if they were, it would be the will of the majority of the people, so democratic, not sinister.
Of course it's not going to happen.
What will happen - eventually - is that the voting public will wake up to the fact that the Tories do not have their best interests at heart, and that unless you are seriously rich or the shareholder of a corporation, voting for the tories is like being a turkey voting for Christmas.
When that point will be, no one can say now. But when it happens, this government will be voted out at a general election in the usual way.
People will be angry by then. Probably many of you who defend their policies now. Because, eventually what's as a result of tory policy happening will become impossible to ignore.
People are dying because of this government's policies. Children will grow up in poverty, people are losing out on the chance of secure jobs, and being made to work for benefits or become destitute.
Communities are being destroyed on a large scale, families split up. Emergency services and health care are being attacked, as are our schools, which are being sold off to the private sector by stealth. Nothing is being done to stop the rise of house prices, provide affordable housing or create new jobs.
The most vulnerable in our society are being punished for the crimes of the wealthy. Food bank use and hate crimes directed at disabled people are on the rise. The government are governing according to ideology, but they don't talk about it. They are not interested in evidence.
Justice is being eroded, they also want to take away our human rights and agree to secretive international trade agreements that will restrict our freedom of expression, due process, innovation, the future of the Internet’s global infrastructure, and the right of sovereign nations to develop policies and laws that best meet their domestic priorities, putting at risk some of the most fundamental rights that enable access to knowledge for the world’s citizens. (That last sentence is a quote from the link)
The safety net has huge holes in it now and thousands will fall through them. The government is handing over power and the nation's wealth to coorporations, through privatisation. We are sleepwalking into some kind of modern feudalism where corporations have huge powers to exploit us for profit, when we should instead be putting our heads together to tackle climate change.
Soon enough this will start to have an effect on enough people that the population realise that all the talk about benefit scroungers and austerity was a con. (The PM's background is P.R., FFS, doesn't that ring any alarm bells?!)
I just hope not many people have died or had their life chances wrecked by then, and we still have time to do something about climate change before it is too late, but I am not too hopeful.
So, are petitions like this unrealistic? If course!
But I sign it in the extremely slim hope that, should some event happen that reveals them for who they are, without doubt, and radically changes public opinion, we might have a head start in demanding their resignation!