2 million sign petition for a second EU referendum

A Parliamentary petition calling for a 2nd ecu referendum has garnered greater than three.6 million signatures because going stay yesterday. The web page temporarily crashed because of "exceptionally high" visitors, which a residence of Commons spokeswoman stated was "notably better than on any preceding occasion".

The petition became installation by means of William Oliver Healey, who states: "We the undersigned call upon HM authorities to enforce a rule that if the remain or go away vote is less than 60% primarily based on a turnout less than 75%, there should be some other referendum."

ironically, but, it has lately emerged that Healey is surely a company go away voter, and wasn't even on the stay facet. The English Democrat member posted on fb to make clear that he'd set the petition up in might also in anticipation of a remain win, and complains that the web page has been "hijacked" via the continue to be campaign.

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It has on account that turn out to be the most signed petition ever to have existed due to the fact that the contemporary online machine became brought again in 2011. It monumentally overshadows other previously popular petitions consisting of the attention of a vote of no self assurance in health secretary Jeremy Hunt, which acquired 336,000 signatures.

And the petition comes after fifty one.Nine% citizens opted to leave the european on Thursday, with forty eight.1% vote casting to stay on a flip-out of seventy two%. In the meantime, Google trends stated a big spike within the quantity of people asking 'What takes place if we leave the eu?', after the polls had closed. Google additionally stated that 'what is the ecu?' became the second one pinnacle question on the ecu after the results have been announced the day gone by.

"what is the eu?" is the second one pinnacle united kingdom query on the european for the reason that #EURefResults had been formally introduced %.Twitter.Com/1q4VAX3qcm

— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) June 24, 2016

on the petition, it says that "Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate", and this unique web page far exceeds that range. The petitions committee makes a decision whether a petition need to be raised inside the residence, and the committee is due to take a seat again on Tuesday. In the period in-between, signatures stay brought.

but many signatures this petition reaches, even though, it's looking quite unlikely that a 2nd referendum will in reality be held. each France and Germany have publicly introduced that they are in agreement that Britain's departure from the ecu need to arise as speedy as feasible - with out a informal negotiations important.

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Having stated that, before Article 50 is invoked - the procedure important for Britain to go away the european - it has to skip thru the homes of Parliament. Even as the depart aspect came out on pinnacle of the referendum, theoretically it is able to be feasible for MPs and the residence of Lords to go against the population's decision and prefer to remain after all. However, it's uncertain how in all likelihood this would without a doubt be to occur, given the potential backlash from go away citizens and for the sake of democracy.

So we'll see what takes place in the next day's petitions committee assembly...

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