Petition to undo Brexit gets so many votes it crashed parliament website.

[DetlefK]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/petition-to-cancel-brexit-attracts-more-than-800-000-signatures

More than one million people signed an online petition urging the government to cancel Brexit, with support rocketing in the wake of Theresa May’s statement on Wednesday.

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Parliament’s petitions website repeatedly crashed as the number of signatures shot up -- fueled by endorsements from singer Annie Lennox, actor Hugh Grant, science broadcaster Brian Cox and comedian David Mitchell.

“The rate of signing is the highest the site has ever had to deal with,” the House of Commons petitions committee said on Twitter. “Between 80,000 and 100,000 people have been simultaneously viewing the petition,” it said, “nearly 2,000 signatures are being completed every minute.”

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“The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ‘the will of the people,”’ the text of the petition says. “We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU.”

Any petition exceeding 100,000 signatures is eligible for debate by Parliament. It’s then up to a special Petitions Committee comprised of rank-and-file lawmakers to decide whether one should be held.

[patricia92243]

1. I think people were not really informed about the ramifications of it.

Now that people know more about it, it should be voted on again.

[gratuitous]

3. I agree

Now that the ramifications have become apparent (and so many of the Brexiteers have inexplicably skedaddled from the scene of their mess), a lot of people seem to be either regretting their vote or regretting sitting out the referendum. To me, it would seem to be the easiest thing for PM May to come out and say that she's holding another vote on Brexit to determine if it truly is the now-better-informed will of the people. If another vote confirms Brexit, then proceed with all possible speed to enact it. But if the people now say, "Wait a second!" then shitcan that earlier 52-48 vote and work out a fresh EU membership agreement.

[tblue37]

17. They were not "uninformed," but *deliberately deceived*--and Russia's fingerprints are

all over this debacle.

[SuperCoolPoster]

2. brexit is retarded

Brexit is retarded... i dont get how so many people got duped by this...

[admonish]

4. Same as tRUmp

Brexit folks were duped by the same actors, propaganda, dark money, voter inaction, etc as what put tRUmp in your whitehouse....

I say your whitehouse because I am north of the mason-dixon line.....well north...

[Hekate]

12. Same mechanisms as how the US ended up with Trump. Putin has a long plan to destabilize Western....

...Democracies. In addition, ask: Who does it serve? Follow the money, because Western democracies have their share of the venal and the greedy.

We also have our fair share of the blissfully stupid. Hint: when you mean stupid say stupid, not retarded. Stupid people choose to be that way. Developmentally delayed people don't have a choice.

[janterry]

13. That's a hard word for parents of children

with disabilities
.

I don't hear it used very often, anymore.

[Pope George Ringo II]

19. +1

I don't have children who fit that description, but it's a word I tend to view as on a par with ethnic slurs.

[PatSeg]

18. Watch the movie "Brexit"

with Benedict Cumberbatch on Amazon Prime. It really explains a lot and so much of it was similar to what happened here with Trump.

What gets me about all this is that the referendum only required a simple majority to pass. I thought that was a bit bizarre.

Having lived nine years in California, I developed an aversion to referendums/ballot initiatives, as the public is usually ill informed (the whole point actually) and we hire people to study issues and legislate full time. If they don't do a good job, we "fire" them. We used to get really thick voters' guides explaining the initiatives, but they were often intentionally confusing and the mailers we received could be extremely deceptive. For instance, they would equate Prop 8 with "freedom of speech" and implied that Barack Obama was in favor of it.

[csziggy]

22. That word is super UNcool and should not be used this way

Please consider editing your post.

Welcome to DU!

[BlueJac]

5. I love it...

send May packing!

[BlueFlorida]

6. I just don't understand why

they don't have a second referendum on it?

[DetlefK]

7. No time. Organizing it would take too long.

[BlueFlorida]

8. But they could have done it

before. Like a year ago.

The original referendum was in June 2016. They have had nearly 3 years.

[mopinko]

9. the russians "meddled" there just like they did here. revote.

dear england,
please show the world how to react to a bogus election.
we wish that we were the ones to show the world how to stand up to dirty tricks and cheating, but instead w let this mistake occupy our government.
please stand up to putin.
for all of us.

sincerely,
your weak cousins across the pond.

[Cousin Dupree]

10. Pro-Brexit voters, pro-trump voters. Same bunch.

[maxrandb]

14. You're exactly right

they voted for Brexit just to "own the EU", and now, they can't fucking admit that their entire political philosophy is based on "loving someone else's tears".

They don't give ONE FUCK.

Donnie Shit for Brains voters, voted for him because he promised to hurt the people they wanted to see get hurt

Same with the UK leave voters.

You can't reason with these people. They've lost their souls. Cruelty to the "other" is like a drug to them...they'll never give it up. Cruelty is their Moby Dick

"To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. you nailed it -- "Cruelty is their Moby Dick" -- trumpers and brexiteers

[DoctorJoJo]

16. Plus Putin and Farage--All Right-Wingers

[Myrddin]

23. Common social media feeds, I assume?

I was at a gathering of expats, predominantly Brits, when The Citrus Cyst's inauguration was being televised live.

There was much derision about how on earth US could elect such a fuckwit to the office of POTUS, with one very vocal exception. The Uber-Brexiter in the room started gobbing off about how brilliant tRump would be, and how the US political establishment needed a similar kick in the teeth to Uk's Brexit. The same guy champions every RWNJ politician in Europe.

Many Brexiters also display MAGA in their timelines on Twitter.

MAGA/Brexit - two sides of the same Pond.

[beachbum bob]

11. the conservatives will never let another vote on it for the public, they know how bad it will fail

[moondust]

15. 2nd ref would be fair.

I don't think most voters had much idea what they were getting themselves into. Like Tusk or somebody said, it was crazy to hold a vote without having a good idea what it would involve or what it would eventually look like. "Anything but more of the same" seems to be driving a lot of voters in a lot of places and that's not a particularly sound plan.

[Pope George Ringo II]

20. Sorry, folks.

I'm a British citizen living abroad. I tried to sign it, and, well, um...