I do - so that cancels that out.
Is democracy being by-passed in favour of the billionaires?
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The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. Well now there is a petition demonstrating the strength of public support for revoking article 50!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
I do - so that cancels that out.
That’s convenient. I don’t believe her.
"The former college lecturer also wrote on Twitter that her Facebook had been hacked this morning - after her alleged posts were published by Guido - and that she was closing her account."
It’s not fake.
You just don’t like it.
Totally fake Umgran tit for tat unfortunately so much fake news as Trump would say Anyway shows signs of desperation on the leavers part
And that poor silly toad of a man is still trying to get his 200 supporters to walk in protest ???
No problem trisher
Former college lecturer Margaret Anne Georgiadou made a viral petition backed by a host of celebrities, MPs and members of the public who want a second referendum.
In Facebook posts unearthed by blogger Guido Fawkes, she reportedly wrote online: 'If i got hold of a 'gun' I'd shoot her [Theresa May] point blank in the name of patriotism'.
Evidence of that Urmston gran? because most of the criticism of this petition made by leavers is totally fabricated.
Apparently the woman behind a 4 million strong petition to revoke Article 50 reportedly made a Facebook comment in which she threatened to shoot the Prime Minister.
Not good.
But more disturbingly the lady who raised the petition has received 3 telephone death threats.
Despicable. Any threats of violence, no matter what side you are on, are completely out of order.
Another 300,000 signatures in the last hour. But more disturbingly the lady who raised the petition has received 3 telephone death threats.
Andrea Leadsom reluctantly said that if 17 million signed the petition they might take note of it. Let's hope Parliament is more realistic.
Of course there’s hostility to brexit, millions of people voted to remain.
But leave won so I’m afraid that’s it.
It will be absolute carnage to not respect the result of the referendum, &will result in millions of people so disillusioned that they’ll never bother voting again. And the last thing politicians want is people not voting, especially as voter apathy was bad enough pre brexit!
Just now still growing 4.12 million 11:00 23/3/19. There is a counter one which has been running for almost 6 months and only got around 456,000 signature for exiting with no deal. Considering the relatively short time the Revoke Petition has been running the figures show that the "Will of the People" has changed in favour of staying in.
Still Maybot is in hock to the ERG - What planet is she on?
Today's March will show even more hostility to the Government's course of action. Just hope that Parliament does act in the interests of the country.
Democracy isn't just about who wins; it's about how they win.
In which case we have rarely lived in a Democracy. Every election contains subterfuge, twisting of facts, etc. There have also been claims of rigging, overspending, etc in the past but it doesn't usually mean we get to change the result of the election. The Project Fear tactics of the Remain Campaign was outrageous too but I suspect if they'd have won, the Leavers would be expected to abide by the result.
I can be confident in the way I voted because I didn't just listen to the news (which tended to be biased towards Remain) or what the Leave Campaign were saying. I have watched for years what is happening, saw how Greece were treated, thought about the burgeoning bureaucracy, the length of time it takes to make progress, etc and made my choice. I suspect a vast amount of people did the same. I also think the Remainers were so confident they would win they didn't enter the polling booth.
In a way, I would be happy to have a new referendum because I don't think it would necessarily be as clear cut as you think it would be. A lot of leavers do feel intimidated to admit they voted leave and would do again so in the Polls don't always admit their leaning. I just don't think we have time to do this because we are on the wire. We can't carry on in limbo forever.
Anyway, we could debate this ad infinitum but it won't get us anywhere, we are never going to agree. We just have to wait for Parliament to decide what they are going to do. Whichever side wins, there are going to be some very sore losers.
4 million signatures
petitions mean nothing, achieve nothing are a waste of time
do not bother
out we go friday whoop whoop party time
Poppyred do you really think a second vote would be for Leave now we all know so many huge negatives that will befall us if we do leave? I think a lot of people have changed their mind.
Nearly 4 million signatures
What will the Remainers do, IF the UK is given a second vote and it’s still LEAVE???
You just don't get it at all, do you Urmstongran?
Democracy isn't just about who wins; it's about how they win.
Getting on for 4million now!
Oh my Urmstong
honestly?
Oh for goodness sake! Remainers bleating on and on. All leavers didn't know what they were voting for, thick, don't understand! Sound like the EU bullying beaucrats.
If remainers won the referendum, leave voters wouldn't have been able to have their voices heard. Just a quick pat on the head, there there, we won so get over it and not another word would be said. We shouldn't be bowing down to the EU letting them tell us what we should do. We should have said from the start what we were going to do and if they didn't like it tough we just walk. 39 billion would go a long way to giving our public services a huge boost.
The EU don't care about our little nation, they just want our money to boost their own economies.
There's nothing stopping the moaning remainers from moving over to the EU countries.
I'm so envious of people like you who went into the polling booth, free to make up their mind which way to vote. According to remainers, I had no control over my own thoughts. I had been brainwashed, apparently and was led into the polling booth with a Russian agent holding the pencil and making me vote leave. It's all so unfair.
That said MaizieD I’m not sure it would make an iota of difference to Mrs. May if several of us Leavers sent her a signed petition asking her to revoke the result of the ‘illegal’ referendum and call another.
Getting cross with those of us on here isn’t going to square that circle is it?
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@icanhandthemback
I have spent my entire adult life 'respecting the vote' in General Elections which have returned MPs in the constituencies I've lived in who I haven't voted for. However, in the case of this referendum I have no intention of 'respecting the vote' when it was 'won' by methods which subverted democracy and which, had the referendum been mandatory rather than advisory, would have voided the result and required a 'clean' rerun. I find it horrifying that the 'winners' are prepared to turn a blind eye to practices which, if they are tolerated, will ensure that we never have an open, transparent and democratic vote again.
If you found my comment offensive just bear in mind that thousands of us find it offensive that illegality and cheating won the day and that Leavers are indifferent to it. 'Winning at all costs' is not a good look...
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