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maggiebee | 09:36 Tue 26th Mar 2019 | ChatterBank
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As of this morning I believe there are 5,690,017 signatures on the petition to revoke article 50 and remain in the EU. Will the government pay attention do you think?

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No.
They are only obliged to discuss the petition - very few get any action.
I expect the government must already know that almost half the population wanted to remain being controlled by the EU elite, and a portion of them have refused to accept the result of the vote. The government shouldn't need a petition to point it out to them. Government and parliament must be aware though that this country likes to claim it is a democracy and as such disrespecting the result would be at their, and the nation's, peril.
Only another 12 million or so to go before the Remainers outstrip the Leavers. Keep counting.
Yes they have to at least acknowledge a petition over 10,000 voted so yes, they will pay attention. Will they act on it, no why should they?
Probably they will ignore it -- but I'm sure no-one would be foolish enough as to assume that everyone who supports remaining in the EU has signed the petition already.
I think the rest have changed their minds. ;o)
In as much as it's possible to know, it seems that something like 5-10% of Leavers have changed their minds, and around 5% of Remainers have too. So in that sense the main factors that would affect a second vote are (a) turnout, and (b) demographic changes since 2016.

After the way the EU have bullied us who wants to remain and be abused and bullied further.
you may live to rue that remark, naomi....the keep counting one....
why isn't/hasn't the Lisbon Treaty been mentioned?

as far as I'm aware, not having read all of the darned thing, seems to me that in 2020 the EU Parliament will be a dictatorship.
Already been rejected.

Revoke A50: Lose by 506
Each of these amendment treaties drop the member nations further into the EU mire.
Each must be beyond the Pale for a larger group of member nation citizens.
Wot I Think..
I am soon to be 63 and since I was 18, have always tried to carry out what I saw as my democratic duty to vote in elections and referendums. With regret I now feel unable to ever vote again, as I seem to have been labouring under the misapprehension that in a democracy our elected M.P`s are honour bound to carry out the wishes of the majority, but this only seems to apply if they agree with what we voted to do.
Woe- betide the next politician to knock on my door and ask me to vote.
Precisely. Democracy is apparently only for MPs in the HoC, not for the likes of you and I.
I guess it that old saying that they got their heads in the trough, and we get what comes out the other end!!
The main source of the impasse is simple: around 500 of the 650 MPs (including May) are in favour of Remain. Ergo chaos.
barney, I feel the same about voting in the future.
So do I ( RIP democracy ).
Is to much to ask that they be decent right thinking people and say "Do you know what, we get paid a lot of money to move heaven and earth to carry out what we are asked to do, and do it we will"
I know fantasy land, but I can dream.

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