It's up again just now, and has over 900,000 signatures. If anyone from round the world wants to sign it they can, and here's a link
Out of curiosity, what's the point of non-UK citizens signing the petition?
It's a good question, the only reason I think is because trade agreements would be broken/changed/etc with other countries, which could then
Out of curiosity, what's the point of non-UK citizens signing the petition?
It's a good question, the only reason I think is because trade agreements would be broken/changed/etc with other countries, which could then
impact on a) the UK trade with other countries, and b) other countries trade with the UK.
I just looked at that site and it said only British citizens and
residents could sign.
On 03-21-19 13:32, MeaTLoTioN wrote to All <=-
So apparently there's a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU, and the site hosted by the government suspiciously went down this morning preventing anyone from signing it...
If this sort of stuff isn't for this area, happy to move it else where, just wanted to vent more than anything lol... feel free to sign the
petition though, i am hoping that we DO revoke article 50 and remain,
and looking at the numbers, I'd say that's what the population probably DOES want too... you can see heatmaps of people who signed the remain petition, and there's also another for people who signed the leave petition, interesting the numbers are much greater on the remain map.
On 03-21-19 14:15, MeaTLoTioN wrote to nathanael <=-
Out of curiosity, what's the point of non-UK citizens signing the petition?
It's a good question, the only reason I think is because trade
agreements would be broken/changed/etc with other countries, which
could then impact on a) the UK trade with other countries, and b) other countries trade with the UK.
On 03-21-19 22:29, nathanael wrote to MeaTLoTioN <=-
It's a good question, the only reason I think is because trade agreements would be broken/changed/etc with other countries, which could then
Well, sure, Brexit will affect lots of people outide the UK, but the UK government is legally tasked with caring about UK citiens.
Well, sure, Brexit will affect lots of people outide the UK, but the UK government is legally tasked with caring about UK citiens.
Yep. Given that it's a decision to be made by the UK government for their people, I don't think it's my place to sign the petition.
but what do I know, I am just a resident, a citizen, the government obviously know better than the citizens and what's best for our future.
Still, I have a feeling that a lot of people have had a rethink since the original referendum.
On 03-21-19 13:32, MeaTLoTioN wrote to All <=-
So apparently there's a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain in t EU, and the site hosted by the government suspiciously went down this morning preventing anyone from signing it...
Did it go down or was it simply swamped with traffic? ;)
If this sort of stuff isn't for this area, happy to move it else wher just wanted to vent more than anything lol... feel free to sign the
I don't have a problem with it being posted here. Sounds like things are getting worse (and nuttier) over there. :/
petition though, i am hoping that we DO revoke article 50 and remain, and looking at the numbers, I'd say that's what the population probab DOES want too... you can see heatmaps of people who signed the remain petition, and there's also another for people who signed the leave petition, interesting the numbers are much greater on the remain map.
Internet polls are notoriously unreliable, because they are generally
self selecting samples, and easily influenced by multiple factors. Typically people with strong feelings are those who will respond, and I strongly suspect that the strongest feelings would be in the "stay" camp nowadays. But you have optional voting anyway, don't you? That's quite foreign to me, as we have compulsory voting in Australia, which probably leads to more of the moderate voices being heard at election time. And the idea seems to be socially ingrained. During the infamous marriage equality postal vote of 2017, which WAS an optional popular opinion poll conducted through the post, there was still an approximately 80% voter turnout, which is a figure many countries would drool over for their national elections!
Still, I have a feeling that a lot of people have had a rethink since the original referendum.
On 03-21-19 18:12, Dmxrob wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yep. Given that it's a decision to be made by the UK government for their people, I don't think it's my place to sign the petition.
Exactly. People really need to keep their noses out of the business of other countries. Worry about your own.
On 03-22-19 07:36, nathanael wrote to Vk3jed <=-
According to this site, remain now leads leave in public opinion 54 to 45%.
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/should-the-united-kingdom-remain-a -member -of-the-european-union-or-leave-the-european-union-asked-after-the-refer endum/
Problem is, I suspect, that the Brexit vote is legally binding, opinion polls not so much.
On 03-22-19 00:14, MeaTLoTioN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Apparently it went down, there was talk that it was hit by a DDoS
attack from someone tech savvy Brexiteers so that people couldn't vote
to remain in the EU, that story I don't think had any evidence in it so
I am unsure whether to believe it, however I wouldn't put it past our
own government to do something like that, just so that Theresa May
doesn't end up looking stupid with egg on her face when the population vote in a majority to remain (that's just an uneducated assumption / opinion, I have no evidence that it will be a majority remain vote).
Not sure about the pro's and cons of an optional vs mandatory voting system, as I say before not really into politics, mostly don't really understand it as never had to pay too much attention to it or felt compelled to be passionate about it... however, maybe this is changing
my viewpoint somehow or I'm just getting older lol.
So the government website has the voting poll for the Revoke Article 50 thing so that we can come back to the EU (or stay as we haven't yet
left), there's also a Brexit leave poll, and the latter has been
running for months and months, and had at most 350,000 votes on it,
where as the poll for remaining has been going since Feb 20 I think and today I saw it hit 1,000,000 votes, and it's increasing by
approximately 1,500 every minute.
Anywho, thanks for discussing, I really don't have a clue what leaving
or staying will do to me personally or my family, children, etc... but
I just think that being in the EU would be better, for trades globally having the strength of the EU behind the UK, for working (I used to
work for a Swedish company and based in the UK, travelling to and from
the head office ever few weeks was easy while in the EU, but leaving
would have made that so much harder).
people decide to sign at the same time. In the tech world, this is
known as "slashdotting", as tech websites featured on slashdot.com were known to go down shortly after, because of the interest the slashdot article generated. :)
On 03-22-19 18:40, GngrDr3dM4n wrote to Vk3jed <=-
" wanged " - verb
To bring down or make unavailable a website by routing heavy traffic to the site via a link or reference.
Sounds like a more generic name for "slashdotting". :D
On 03-23-19 14:07, GngrDr3dM4n wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Sounds like a more generic name for "slashdotting". :D
Crazy kids these days just go renaming everything silly. <G>rin.
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