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This is a normal post Well this tells me that 3 million people don't bother to look at what they're signing.
At the time of voting it only had 22 signatures probably just his mates.

People seem to really care about it though.

39,000 people from the vatican city (population 800) signed it along with 23,000 from North Korea.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 15:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or that 3 million people
are totally cool with changing the rules of an election after it has happened so that the government can ignore an inconvenient result.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 16:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post After the last general election,
despite the fact only four years earlier the electorate had rejected proportional representation in a referendum, there were the usual calls from the losers for PR. Given that UKIP got four million votes, more than the SNP total, how many UKIP MPs would PR have delivered I wonder. Doesn't really bear thinking about.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 16:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post the uk did not reject proportional representation
it rejected alternative vote... learn your history.
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 16:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Alternative vote is a form of PR.
Learn your politics.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 17:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dude, google exists
The differences are plain to see
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 23:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post an election and referendum are two very different things
a referendum is actually not binding.


EDIT: CHRIST, it's like people are just prepared to get passionate about facts that they haven't bothered to research... what does that remind me of... oh yes, what got us into this clusterfuck in the process.

googling exists... try doing with your thoughts opinions and facts, and then you can do the bare fucking minimum required to not go around spouting off non-sense.

The age of arrogance "i think it there for it's right" where facts are the constant casualty.
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 16:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post A referendum might not be binding but
having another one and another one and another one and ... etc until you get the result you desire is in no way democratic. The UK population were told that if the vote leave succedes then Article 50 will be put in motion. If it isn't the EU could try to kick us out using Article 7 stating there was a breach of democratic principles.
 (emptyspace, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 17:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post They were also told that £350m/week would be added to the NHS budget

(Roger McGough-Pipe, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 17:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Splitting hairs much?
If the rules get changed retrospectively, the vast majority of the people who voted won't care about the technical difference between an election and a referendum. They'll just see that a political elite who they barely trust asked them what they wanted, then gave them the opposite.

What do you think would be the result?
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 17:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's not changing the rules at all.
If a significant enough portion of the electorate want a do-over then there should be one (putting aside the government's track record on petitions). As for ignoring the result, the government can do this according to the rules but it would be political suicide to try and do so; the EU referendum wasn't binding.

It's also fucking stupid to decide this sort of thing with a simple majority and no quorum, but that's a different story.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 16:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post How significant?
Say 48.1%?
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 17:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post If Britain practiced direct democracy then anything over 50%.
But remember that we're talking about a petition here; the rules are that if only 100,000 people sign (i.e. not a percentage of the electorate) then parliament must debate it, that's all. If parliament decides to hold another referendum in that debate then we'll be back to square one.

My gripe is that leaving the EU or remaining will have such a large impact on the country for such a long time that it would have been better for the referendum to have required a supermajority. Two thirds sounds about right to me.

Then again, what do I know? After all I'm just one of those kooks who think voting should be compulsory.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 18:55, , Reply)