[imron]

> 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

[laurent123456]

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

[imron]

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.