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I love that a leaver signed it multiple times. Every little helps.
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A little thread to track the 2 current petitions
(185 posts) (21 voices)
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4,865,496
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4,943,382 signatures
It'll be 5M by tea-time.
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5,026,754!!!
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And I havent had my tea yet!
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5,135,667
Just supping a cuppa now.
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Back to 50K+ per hour.
"Leave" petition stuck at 522,369
Circa 10:1 for Leavers unable to do sums.
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I'm starting a petition to re-run last years World Cup semi-final as I don't agree with the result/didn't realise if they scored more goals than us they'd win/couldn't be bothered to play therefore we lost...….
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5,237,354 @20:55
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I'm starting a petition to re-run last years World Cup semi-final as I don't agree with the result/didn't realise if they scored more goals than us they'd win/couldn't be bothered to play therefore we lost...
I mean, it's ridiculous isn't it, demanding a new World Cup tournament. The temerity. France won the World Cup, so should hold it forever.
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I'm starting a petition to re-run last years World Cup semi-final as I don't agree with the result/didn't realise if they scored more goals than us they'd win/couldn't be bothered to play therefore we lost...….
Wonderful! Have five points. Are you going try for a conversion?
But perhaps, rather than a
secondreferendum sorry, sorry, sorry, people's referendum - totally different thing altogether, obvs. - we should ask the TMO to confirm the first one? Make sure no-one was off-side, there was no knock-on and no-one entered the ruck from the side?Posted 1 year ago # -
There was a perfectly good referendum in 1975 and Remain won it by 67% - so the second referendum in 2016 was clearly unnecessary, and it betrayed democracy and the will of the people who knew exactly what they were voting for.
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'in a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way' - Nigel Farage, 2016
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But.....but...we don't live in a democracy
If we lived in a democracy then Brexit should have happened without fuss....the votes were cast, the result was clear.
It didn't
If we lived in a democracy the 'voice' of the people would be listened to
It hasn't
If we lived in a democracy then we should have another referendum
We won't.
If we lived in a democracy then people should have chance to change their mind.
They won'twe have a sham democracy
we have the illusion of democracy
it's look looking at the menu in a restaurant but getting whatever the chef decides.The Tories have put Fixed term Elections in place (which is obviously undemocratic in itself)
Who do you (honestly) think has more power over such decision making.
You with your little vote....or Richard Branson with his billions of ££££££££Posted 1 year ago # -
Ah yes, I remember Moscow in 1991 …
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But.....but...we don't live in a democracy
If we lived in a democracy then Brexit should have happened without fuss....the votes were cast, the result was clear.
It didn't
If we lived in a democracy the 'voice' of the people would be listened to
It hasn't
If we lived in a democracy then we should have another referendum
We won't.
If we lived in a democracy then people should have chance to change their mind.
They won'twe have a sham democracy
we have the illusion of democracy
it's look looking at the menu in a restaurant but getting whatever the chef decides.The Tories have put Fixed term Elections in place (which is obviously undemocratic in itself)
Who do you (honestly) think has more power over such decision making.
You with your little vote....or Richard Branson with his billions of ££££££££Nah. Simple. Just stay in the EU and obediently let them tell us how to behave, and what to do, say and think.
We need a it more discipline in this country. Just bend over and take it.
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That's right, Gero, you're not entitled to complain, now shut up and eat your chlorinated chicken.
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The root cause of all your complaints, Gero, is that for the last couple of years we've had 2 conflicting systems of democracy
Imagine a car with 2 steering wheels
Either one, alone, is workable. But, combined they cannot possibly work
That's not saying either is perfect. Do you let the well informed experts (that's what they're supposed to be) represent you? Or do you let the uninformed public control occasional decisions?
Overall, I think the representative system is far better, but evidently it needs some tweaks
And Titus's comment about obedience is irrelevant & uninformed
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Yeah Titus. We never caused any trouble did We?
Pushing towards 6m now.
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I mean, it's ridiculous isn't it, demanding a new World Cup tournament. The temerity. France won the World Cup, so should hold it forever.
That's not really an accurate analogy is it? What is being suggested is closer to an equivalent of a new World Cup being held before France had even been presented the trophy. Which I imagine they'd be a bit put out over.
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The three-year delay in presenting the trophy is a 'separate' issue.
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It's not really France's fault that the people tasked with presenting the trophy are complete and utter fuckwits.
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True, but that doesn't break the analogy.
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The trophy is only a symbol of the victory. In fact, the winner doesn't get to even keep the trophy, only a cheap, disappointing replica of what they thought they'd won...
Newsflash: Brexit finally found wrapped in newspaper under a South London hedge...by Eric Pickles.
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I'm sure you all know it's pushing 6m now.
Gov response is "Brexit means Brexit"
Parliament debating it on April Fools' Day.In the meantime if you want the funniest thing around today dig out Britain Bites Back FB page. If it is a satire it is brilliant.
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The Mash report got it spot on the other night.
"Let's see if we can have a civilised debate. I voted remain, you voted leave. Why did you vote leave?"
"Fuckin' Muslims innit."Posted 1 year ago # -
The only thing the petition will achieve, no matter how many signatures it ends up getting, will be to prove that the whole petition website is a waste of everybody's time. It exists to give people the illusion of having a voice.
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The Mash report got it spot on the other night.
"Let's see if we can have a civilised debate. I voted remain, you voted leave. Why did you vote leave?"
"Fuckin' Muslims innit.I wouldn't call that "spot on", I'd call it an unhelpful perpetuation of the idea that everybody who voted Leave is a racist moron, which simply isn't true, no matter what many people would have us believe.
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It's disgusting to tar all Leave voters with the same brush like that when the truth is that a disproportionately high number of people who voted Leave are racist morons, and the rest just turn a blind eye to them.
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Exactly, thank you Ben.
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