This petition calling for another General Election in the U.K. has already surpassed the obligatory 100,000 signatures for it to be considered for a debate in Parliament. It’s now well over 1 million, but I wonder how high it will go? In any event it really isn’t a good look for Starmer and his Labour government!

by david_916

5 comments

  1. Idiots being idiots, as always.

    What’s new?

    Doesn’t matter who gets in, same thing.

    Only difference is in how the main media – social included – treat a Labour govt.

    The hilarity in those who absolutely *demanded* a non-legally-binded, advisory referendum being held as though it was unassailable democratic and therefore untouchable now demanding an actually legally binding referendum be overturned because they’ve been told to, though, at least brings some respite from the monotonous boredom..

  2. What’s this supposed to accomplish? Who are we voting for this time – the Tories, the same people who caused all this country’s problems and want to reinstate conscription? The Greens, whom no one takes seriously? The Lib Dem’s, whom no one wants to give a chance?

    Be for real.

    Edit: to clarify, I understand the widespread discontent with Labour’s policies. I’m particularly unhappy with the way Labour is handling foreign policy. But the alternative parties aren’t any better/people don’t sincerely give them a chance. Everyone wants a new election, but no one wants to vote for a new party. Funny how that works.

  3. “I would like there to be another General Election.

    I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.”

    Is such poor wording. It will get looked at and the Members of Parliament will just say:

    “There will be another General Election in 4 years. They occur every 5 years, you know.”

    Then that is that. The creator killed the petition before it had a chance to get anywhere lol. Plus as Labour have a majority rule. They are under zero obligation to actually do anything except listen to the petition and chat about it for a couple of minutes and that’s that.

  4. It’ll be an interesting test of legislation to see if such a gargantuan petition could overrule a ginormous majority, he will likely win a general election if one was called today with a majority in the 330-350 range, in 2019 for example, people in my area hated the Tories guts and still do today, say a petition against Boris like this occurred in April 2020, a disproportionate amount of votes would heap in from my area. It’s the same here, check the demographics of the vote, I guarantee a big proportion will be from the East Anglian coast and the West Midlands

  5. Not a surprise. I didn’t vote for Labour and furthermore, I disagree with pretty much every single decision they’ve made since they’ve been charge.

    That said, we live in a democracy and we can’t just throw our toys out of the pram every time something doesn’t go our way.
    Just like the remainders have to live with Brexit, we have to live with a Labour government for what’s likely to be at least 4 more years.

    Sure, now they have to discuss this in the HoC but they have a majority so don’t expect anything to happen.

    Perhaps this will teach you to think more carefully about who you vote for next time

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