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“Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU” Petition

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NotSpaghetti Thu 21-Mar-19 08:52:48

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

Kandinsky Thu 21-Mar-19 16:37:00

But anyone with an email account can sign the petition, having an email account doesn’t mean you’re eligible to vote in UK referendums. < sigh >

BlueBelle Thu 21-Mar-19 16:35:31

How funny to say half the votes are false??? when there are huge worries about the original referendum was tampered with

jura2 Thu 21-Mar-19 16:30:21

OH has just signed - to confirm the vote- you have to give your e-mail address and they send an e-mail for you to confirm. Not received as the site can't cope with numbers.

This is the first ever petition OH has signed- we are Yin and Yang - and he is the very calm, quiet, discreet and sensible one.

Ginny42 Thu 21-Mar-19 16:25:09

It's not checked by real people! Kandinsky your guessing is only as good as that - a guess.

Kandinsky Thu 21-Mar-19 16:22:09

I’d say half are false. Who’s going to pay to check the authenticity of all these email accounts?

varian Thu 21-Mar-19 16:18:04

1,088,795 signatures

jura2 Thu 21-Mar-19 16:13:59

The Mirror says signatures must be false because some of them live abroad ! Yes, there are 100s of 1000s of UK citizens who are entitled to vote and live abroad. I personally know dozens who live in Switzerland and France who have voted, and dozens in the UK- and I know 100s both in UK and in EU who have voted, through Remain groups.

tanith Thu 21-Mar-19 16:07:34

Signed as it’s working at the moment waiting for confirmation email.

suzied Thu 21-Mar-19 16:07:27

I've signed, but haven't got the link, must have crashed again.

jura2 Thu 21-Mar-19 15:48:32

Signed it last night- well over a million now- so the gutterpress are now stating signatures must be false- which is rubbish.

paddyann Thu 21-Mar-19 11:59:54

Kandinsky thats exactly how it worked in the 1979 devolution referendum in Scotland ,not only did the people who couldn't be bothered to vote count as no voters but people who were dead and still on the register !! Otherwise we'd have had devolution 20 years earlier than we did ..because the yes vote WAS higher .

ayse Thu 21-Mar-19 11:46:52

Up and running again. Just signed and waiting for link to click

EllanVannin Thu 21-Mar-19 11:32:37

Petition is down for maintenance-----probably crashed with so many signatures.

EllanVannin Thu 21-Mar-19 11:21:48

Just received said email to " click " but when I clicked it gave me a "502 Bad Gateway " message.

Story of my life !!! Doesn't anything go right ?

NannyJan53 Thu 21-Mar-19 11:18:02

I signed it this morning!

GRANOFOUR Thu 21-Mar-19 11:12:21

I'll be signing this petition and forwarding it to as many people as I can.

varian Thu 21-Mar-19 11:08:55

Now over 735,000 have signed

EllanVannin Thu 21-Mar-19 11:03:16

>>>>>>>>>>>signed, just waiting for email confirmation.

Kandinsky Thu 21-Mar-19 10:57:53

More people voted to leave the EU than voted to remain.
The millions who weren’t eligible to vote ( for whatever reason ) are not relevant, neither are the people who couldn’t be bothered to vote.
You’re basically saying that the people who were too lazy to get off their arses & vote are more important than the people who did vote.
Not really how it works.
Sorry.
& of course, many of those non voters may have voted leave.

lemongrove Thu 21-Mar-19 10:57:53

Nothing Corbyn does or says makes any difference, but it shows ( not that we need showing any further) he is a waste of space.

humptydumpty Thu 21-Mar-19 10:56:00

I agree that was immature behaviour, lemon, but in view of TM's later statement do you really think it would have made any difference if he'd stayed?

lemongrove Thu 21-Mar-19 10:55:46

Here we go again with all the daft spinning of numbers.....
Only the votes of those who actually voted actually count.

lemongrove Thu 21-Mar-19 10:54:11

Corbyn is nonchalent apparently.He walked out of a ‘crisis’
Meeting because Ummuna was there.

humptydumpty Thu 21-Mar-19 10:52:50

Completely agree varian - 17 million voted to leave but 49 million didn't vote to leave.

varian Thu 21-Mar-19 10:48:20

It is the 49 million of us who did not vote for it, plus those who did vote leave but have changed their minds who have been dismissed, ignored and threatened by Theresa May.

Think again. No-one could be "nonchalant" about this national crisis.