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by michaelbrooks 3384 days ago
I think it's about pride. We had a petition which had over 100,000 signatures in which forced them to reconsider, but parliament said that they can't go against what the people have voted for.
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> which had over 100,000 signatures

I'm not from the UK and neither for or against Brexit, but what good is a petition with 100,000 signatures when they'd just had a referendum with 17.4 million people voting 'leave'. [0]

Considering most of the signatures would have been people who voted to 'remain', in what world does it make sense for a 100,000 signature petition to overturn a referendum with a 1.3 million vote difference?

Even assuming those 100,000 signatures were all from former 'leave' voters switching sides, it would only change the result to be 17.3 million vs 16.2 million. A difference of 1.1 million.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Referendum_result

The petition actually had over 4 millions signatures - the fact that it had more than 100,000 only meant that the parliament was forced to consider the issue for debate [0]. They did so and considered that the result of the referendum was valid and that there shouldn't be a second one.

[0] https://petition.parliament.uk/help

Thanks for the clarification.

I don't think there's any other conclusion the UK parliament could have come to without destroying faith in the democratic process.

There was also petition to ignore that petition which also had 100000+ signatures.