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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2019, 04:31 AM Mar 2019

Revoke Article 50 petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled hits 2.5 million signatures

More than two million people have signed a petition calling for the government to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit.

It has become the fastest growing petition ever created on the government’s petition website despite the service crashing several times on Thursday unable to cope with demand as people voiced their discontent for Theresa May’s plans for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.

The 2 million mark was passed shortly after EU leaders agreed to a plan which would delay Brexit from 29 March to 22 May on condition that MPs approve Theresa May's withdrawal deal next week.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cancel-brexit-petition-two-million-theresa-may-no-deal-a8834471.html

I hate to say it - but it is not going to make any difference at all to the idiots that lead us....

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Revoke Article 50 petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled hits 2.5 million signatures (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2019 OP

I know. A referendum on if to hold a referendum. 3Hotdogs Mar 2019 #1

Leadsom says if it reaches more than 17.4 million, there'd be a "clear case for taking action". Denzil_DC Mar 2019 #2

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)

1. I know. A referendum on if to hold a referendum.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2019, 06:32 AM

Mar 2019

Then she can claim that democracy worked.

Denzil_DC

(7,941 posts)

2. Leadsom says if it reaches more than 17.4 million, there'd be a "clear case for taking action".

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2019, 10:08 AM

Mar 2019

I signed when it was around 300,000+, not in the expectation of changing anything, but just because it was the very least I could do at the moment. The way numbers were climbing at the time, I thought, "Woah, this could reach a million." And now here we are.

So, Ms Leadsom, challenge accepted. Or you could just support a people's vote and have done with it, unless you're too frit.

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