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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

andycameron69 Fri 22-Mar-19 09:14:15

a right old giggle, I say, what a comedy, marches and useless petitions, ooooh lets have a petition to solve it all
grin

ooooh lets have a march in slingbacks see what we can
change.... lol x

Day6 Fri 22-Mar-19 09:18:36

The petition is not being taken seriously now it appears fake names from all quarters of the world are signing it.

What a joke. It's desperation, isn't it, from sore losers.

And I agree icanhandthemback, the comment by MaizieD was despicable.

MaizieD Fri 22-Mar-19 09:48:20

And I agree icanhandthemback, the comment by MaizieD was despicable.

OK, then, Day6 refute the allegations. They've been shared often enough on this forum and Leavers remain strangely silent.

One that was especially despicable was Aaron Banks pushing intensive Leave campaigning in the day after Jo Cox's murder when all the campaigns, Leave and Remain, had agreed a moratorium on campaigning. This is not an allegation BTW, his emails actually prove it.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/arron-banks-leave-eu-brexit-campaign-jo-cox-murder-nigel-farage-a8814866.html

now it appears fake names from all quarters of the world are signing it.

Prove it? Fake names? Fake news more like.

The underlying data on the petition only gives a country and the number of signatories from it. So where has this 'names' idea come from?

andycameron69 Fri 22-Mar-19 10:36:13

relax it is just a irrelevant petition

varian Fri 22-Mar-19 10:44:29

It will be interesting to see whether any British people turn up at tomorrow's march or whether they will all be Ukranians and North Koreans, coming from Inverness, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Cardiff, Bristol, Penzance etc.

This petition already has the second largest number of signatures of any UK online petition. The largest, started in May 2016 called on the government to require a 60/40 majority on a 75% turnout before the referendum result could be enacted (which is the normal rule for constitutional change). It reached over 4 million signatures, but was unfortunately ignored by parliament.

MaizieD Fri 22-Mar-19 10:45:15

Any fake names on here?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json

Theresa May is well aware that the referendum was corrupted, even if some here aren't. This is what her Counsel, Sir James Eadie QC, said in court in February 2019

"Eadie:

‘The true position is that the PM is well aware of the notorious facts…well publicised facts…of the EC findings, fact of an appeal, police investigations, ICO, DCMS committees. All properly done…& it is perfectly obvious that the PM has decided to carry on’.

andycameron69 Fri 22-Mar-19 10:52:40

I love to calm down and relax, a petition means nada, nothing , not a sausage

nil
gringringrin

varian Fri 22-Mar-19 12:07:28

More than 3 million signatures now

Caledonai14 Fri 22-Mar-19 12:16:41

Keep it going.

Nicenanny3 Fri 22-Mar-19 12:47:36

I wonder if Junker, Tusk and Merkel have sign ? probably Corbyn has and the usual suspects.

Kandinsky Fri 22-Mar-19 13:19:16

My cat signed it earlier.
He’s sent the link to all his cat buddies.

Jabberwok Fri 22-Mar-19 13:25:48

Kandinsky ????!

Kandinsky Fri 22-Mar-19 13:27:21

Seriously though remainers. You can’t blame people for laughing at this petition. It’s being signed by god knows who yet you’re jumping around in triumph, like it holds more weight than the actual referendum.

crystaltipps Fri 22-Mar-19 13:49:20

I don’t know if anyone’s pointed out that you can’t do Multiple signings as you have to have separate email addresses and confirm via a reply email before it’s counted. So unless your cat has its own email address and has sent a reply it won’t be counted. Anyway why would anyone bother to sign multiple times? I wouldn’t. Leavers just want to downplay the fact that huge numbers of people don’t like their narrow vision of the U.K., and don’t want their steaming pile that is Brexit. Do you honestly think your view is the only one?

jura2 Fri 22-Mar-19 13:56:29

exactly- OH had to sign under his own e-mail address- and it took 10 hours for him to get the confirmation e-mail for him to confirm his vote.

God knows who? Yes, many from abroad- some of them 1000s of British expats abroad who either voted in the Ref, and many who were not able to.

Of course you will do everything to deny that this is how so many people feel now- I suppose the numbers at the march tomorrow will be dismissed too. I am pretty sure that they will beat Farage's 'massive and stupendous' march from Sunderland ;)

icanhandthemback Fri 22-Mar-19 14:08:17

I don’t know if anyone’s pointed out that you can’t do Multiple signings as you have to have separate email addresses and confirm via a reply email before it’s counted.

I have about 5 email addresses because I have multiple business ones plus my personal one so it is quite easy to multiple sign. Lots of people have more than one because they have a work address, a junk email one, a Google one, Yahoo, etc.

Sussexborn Fri 22-Mar-19 14:11:43

Is there a law saying only one e-mail address per person? If so I had better hang around in case the remain police come out to arrest me. Nothing to stop people have 100s of e-mail addresses if they choose to.

I was going to say something very rude to Crystaltipps but realised I would then be stooping down to the Remainers extremely low level.

If the result had gone the other way my feeling is that Leavers would have graciously accepted the result as part of being fortunate enough to live in a democracy.

Now bring on all the ridiculous Remain conspiracy theories. They sound like two year olds having a meltdown. Using every underhand trick in the book to undermine the democratic process. Disgraceful behaviour.

Gonegirl Fri 22-Mar-19 14:12:26

Just said on the news it's up to three million.

MaizieD Fri 22-Mar-19 14:36:59

Now bring on all the ridiculous Remain conspiracy theories.

What ridiculous conspiracy theories would those be? Like the ones Theresa May acknowledges?

The true position is that the PM is well aware of the notorious facts…well publicised facts…of the EC findings, fact of an appeal, police investigations, ICO, DCMS committees.

It appears that Farage thinks that Remainers have enlisted the help of Russian bots. Well, he'd know all about them, wouldn't he? Though as Putin's aim is to break up the EU I don't quite understand why he would be helping the Remain cause...

varian Fri 22-Mar-19 14:39:50

Farage has already planned his escape

jura2 Fri 22-Mar-19 14:49:04

How strange that those who refute totally the multiple fraudulent nature of the Referendum, which has been clearly proven, despite all the attempts to stop investigations, at the highest level ....

are so keen to shout about this petition- which was born how of the massive frustration re the ridiculous debâcle we now have and Mrs May's attempt to tell us how we are supposed to feel about the situation, her blackmail and total ignorance of the 48% who are now a lot more for all sorts of reasons, and the total disregard of cooperation with other parties.

Her comments really inflammed an already very tense situation. I suppose the million + who will march peacefully tomorrow will be ignored or derided too.

Dinahmo Fri 22-Mar-19 15:20:09

Sussexborn

We Remainers have put up with anti EU campaigners since we first joined so I think that we should be able to complain. I've recently discovered James O'Brien on LBC and have found that the Remainers are generally polite and genial and the Leavers are usually belligerent and have little factual knowledge.

crystaltipps Fri 22-Mar-19 15:30:07

Of course people can have more than one email address but just to rubbish hundreds of thousands of people by saying that it’s only a few nutters sending thousands of emails is disingenuous. I’ve sent one thanks.

Persistentdonor Fri 22-Mar-19 15:32:21

I do think if the numbers rise to more than 17.5 million votes the MPs will have to react in some way, but currently the petition needs around 14 million more signatures before that can happen. hmm

humptydumpty Fri 22-Mar-19 15:37:44

Persistentdonor I agree, that is exactly what's needed; but I feel the momentum is now probably wearing off. Let's hope there is a massive turnout at the March tomorrow.