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For the record, and Lest We Forget, the current anticipated Brexit Day (11pm on Friday 29.3.2019) is by coincidence DAY 4451.
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Petition HERE to revoke Article 50 is about to top 1 Million signatures. :cheers: :lol:

I'm not convinced it will change anything but it can't do any harm!
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pwrmoore wrote:Petition HERE to revoke Article 50 is about to top 1 Million signatures. :cheers: Image

I'm not convinced it will change anything but it can't do any harm!
Sure Theresa May is on our side...
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Dave wrote:
pwrmoore wrote:Petition HERE to revoke Article 50 is about to top 1 Million signatures. :cheers: Image

I'm not convinced it will change anything but it can't do any harm!
Sure Theresa May is on our side...
2.45M as of this morning but seems to have slowed a bit. Compare that with the largest Pro-Brexit petition which is sitting just under 400,000 after 5 months - and a large chunk of that was a kick it received yesterday in reaction to the petition above.
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pwrmoore wrote:
Dave wrote:
pwrmoore wrote:Petition HERE to revoke Article 50 is about to top 1 Million signatures. :cheers: Image

I'm not convinced it will change anything but it can't do any harm!
Sure Theresa May is on our side...
2.45M as of this morning but seems to have slowed a bit. Compare that with the largest Pro-Brexit petition which is sitting just under 400,000 after 5 months - and a large chunk of that was a kick it received yesterday in reaction to the petition above.
2.58 million now

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Jackie Brown wrote:
pwrmoore wrote:
Dave wrote:
pwrmoore wrote:Petition HERE to revoke Article 50 is about to top 1 Million signatures. :cheers: Image

I'm not convinced it will change anything but it can't do any harm!
Sure Theresa May is on our side...
2.45M as of this morning but seems to have slowed a bit. Compare that with the largest Pro-Brexit petition which is sitting just under 400,000 after 5 months - and a large chunk of that was a kick it received yesterday in reaction to the petition above.
2.58 million now

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2.89 million
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And now over 3 million
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Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

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pwrmoore wrote:And now over 3 million
Make that 14 million approx fewer than voted for in the first place.

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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

Just sayin' like.
true. but also almost 8 times the number of people petitioning for Brexit in the largest pro-Brexit petition to date. which observation is more indicative? Obviously you wouldn't expect every voter to respond to a petition lots won't have access or won't have heard of it or just couldn't be bothered as they don't think it will amount to anything. What is your threshold for taking notice?
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

Just sayin' like.
Yeah but add on the 3.1 million to the 16.1 million who voted remain...
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Dave wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

Just sayin' like.
Yeah but add on the 3.1 million to the 16.1 million who voted remain...
aye, because right enough, those 3.1 million never voted in the first place. :duh:
pwrmoore wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

Just sayin' like.
true. but also almost 8 times the number of people petitioning for Brexit in the largest pro-Brexit petition to date. which observation is more indicative? Obviously you wouldn't expect every voter to respond to a petition lots won't have access or won't have heard of it or just couldn't be bothered as they don't think it will amount to anything. What is your threshold for taking notice?
8 times the number petitioning to leave the EU without a deal on 29th March

Not indicative of those who might wish to leave under other conditions, or those who know (like you first intimated) that the petition won't have any effect anyway.

Just sayin' like.
The revocation of Article 50 "isn't politically doable" without a general election or referendum, the cross-bench peer who wrote the clause has said.

Responding to a petition that passed a million signatures, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard said: "One would have to go back to the people to get authority to do something different from what the people asked for."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politi ... o-petition
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
Dave wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Still fourteen and a half million fewer than voted for brexit in the first place.

Just sayin' like.
Yeah but add on the 3.1 million to the 16.1 million who voted remain...
aye, because right enough, those 3.1 million never voted in the first place. :duh:
It's as illogical as numerically comparing an online petition to the result of a nationwide referendum.
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What percentage of the population was 17million? Hardly the will of the people that we keep getting rammed down our throats.
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It is estimated that up to 3/4 million Brexit voters have died since the refendum and about 2.5 million new voters have registered so the 17.4:16.1 ratio is well out of date.
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