I don't think there is a single one of these petitions that has made a slightest bit of difference to anything, but I am happy to be corrected on this.
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I don't think there is a single one of these petitions that has made a slightest bit of difference to anything, but I am happy to be corrected on this.
Not sure I agree with this, she was a shit Home Sec as well.
If over 17m people sign it they can't continue with the 'peoples' will bullshit
No, it won't have any impact.
I'll sign it anyway, the last one had little impact but its better than nothing I guess.
Cap in hand to the French....
Maybe if 52% of the voting public sign it
Problem is, this is the easiest petition for them to bat away.
Macron needs to hold his ground.
I really think almost no one in the UK supports May even within the conservative party, or her deal, it's far worse than just remaining and does not have the benefits of leaving. Despised by all.
The petition doesn't hold much weight except to put the idea out there.
For me it's the sensible solution. It won't end the "Brexit" / UK independence debate though. Just remove "the gun" from the UKs head and move the debate on to the next stage with a probable general election.
The concept of No Deal isn't illegal but the practical implementation of it violates a few things. Not only the Irish border issue (WTO incompatible with GFA) but all of the legislation that needs to be voted on/ratified by parliament between now and leaving - even with a deal a transition period was needed. Without a deal that wouldn't exist and is, as I understand it, pretty much an impossible scenario.
Isn't it 8 days to go?
16,141,241 people already voted to remain, what difference is some poxy little petition going to make with less than a million 
These petitions are a complete waste of time.
These petitions are a complete waste of time."We will not surrender to France, that's their job"
Nobody like us and we don't care.
For me Macron is either playing games or he isn't the only one against it.
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She is a xenophobe, but smart enough to see the folly of Brexit.
Russia at it again
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16,141,241 people already voted to remain, what difference is some poxy little petition going to make with less than a million
Last time a petition like this got around 2 million signatures. Which is roughly 3% of the total population of the country, not a waste at all. It'll probably get more this time round I imagine.
The revoke Article 50 petition geographical heat map is very interesting to compare to the original Brexit Referendum heat map.
Unsurprisingly they are very similar which gives credibility to the authenticity of the petition.
Surprisingly is that there are quite a few areas which voted leave which have a high density of petition signatures.
Unsurprisingly they are very similar which gives credibility to the authenticity of the petition.
Surprisingly is that there are quite a few areas which voted leave which have a high density of petition signatures.
I'd like to think it will make a tiny bit of difference to any sort of outcome but it sadly won't.
Its intermittent now, getting 502s from their nginx server, which means the servers behind the load balancer aren't responding properly.
Why wasn't that a waste?
Oh I agree, it would need to reach around 6.5m signatures to make a real significance given that would be around 10% of the population. But given it takes like 10 seconds to sign it, I don't see a reason not too if you believe in it.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
It was brought up in the Parliament and although nothing actually happened (no surprise given the relatively low figures) it did at least give a voice to those annoyed people which nobody else at the time was voicing.
830,000 and counting but still not taking new signatures
Really struggling to see how that answered his question.
Unless you would also count screaming into a pillow or punching a door as productive uses of time?
It's easier to sign-up to RAWK...
I can't think of a single one of these online petitions that's had an effect on anything.
I don't understand the outrage behind TM's comments. She's right. Most of the English politicians are deluded people with a mania of grandeur who are still chasing unicorns. That include hard Brexiters who think that cutting off from the very continent you make part off is a viable option, the remainers who think that one can ignore the will of the majority just because most may be idiots and people like JC and the war criminal who think that the EU would offer a fabulous cake for them to eat if they only ask them nicely. What I disagree with TM about is the fact that she omitted that all of this started from a Tory cat fight going out of control. Maybe she should suggest reintroducing the hanged drawn and quartered for those politicians who promised unicorns to brexiteers.
Whether you like it or not WA is the only way forward for an orderly Brexit. Those who do not want a no deal Brexit should vote for it as the UK will be kicked out of the EU in few days time by default.
Whether you like it or not WA is the only way forward for an orderly Brexit. Those who do not want a no deal Brexit should vote for it as the UK will be kicked out of the EU in few days time by default.
It's actually the Kennedy culmination of a Chinese whisper maybe originating from John Stuart Mill.
I've signed it but i have to agree, they usually send some junior minister who parrots off some prepared statements. You can almost predict their response.
I'm starting to think that even if we had a second referendum they wouldn't recognise the result. "We have to respect the original will of the people"
No wonder, look at what you have to do to confirm.Server keeps crashing.
This was captured over 1 hour ago and still no e-mail.
I think the only online petition I have ever signed was one about releasing the fully uncut version of Ken Russell's The Devils on DVD.