Government responds to second EU referendum petition

Nothing, thats the point!

The single biggest decision in decades and for decades and to start with they both ran incompetant campaigns where they spent more time smearing each other and lying through their teeth than informing the public who [given googles most searched phrasesafterwards included 'what is the EU' and not to mention that the vote was so close at the end it is easily rgueable it should have been re-done untill one side had a real majority not a trickle..
Sorry I digressed but yes the email was nothing more than the usual PR someone writes on the back of a napkin and tosses away once done without a second thought which given how important this is, is rather uncoupth.

You might want to take your own advice

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You dont seem to understand the way the petition system works. All seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Its not their place to give a response anything other than what they did. Your outrage is misplaced.

Burden of proof isn't on me, you're the one fudging the figures... quite impressively I might add.

Say what you will about the initial referendum being 'democratic' and we should abide by it but 4.1 million signatures on this petition is hardly a small number to fob off with an email.
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The leave campaign states that if the referendum was a close call ( which lets face it, it was 51.9: 49.1) they would call for a second referendum. Surely the remain campaign should be extended the same privilege by calling for a second referendum - it certainly makes more sense. I understand that the referendum embodies democracy, but the leave victors cannot now be hypocritical and disallow the second referendum that would have been called for if the tables were turned. Also people shouldn't be forced out of their own country because of an issue such as this - perhaps a compromise would be the best thing? Leaving the EU, but still remaining close links with Europe. I think that's what the petition is calling for - a cry for attention stating that we should not abandon our European allies.

I beg your pardon?

You misundersstand me, I'm not angry just mildly miffed

Say what you will about the initial referendum being 'democratic' and we should abide by it but 4.1 million signatures on this petition is hardly a small number to fob off with an email.
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By the way, it's not a fob off, it's just the process. They are obliged to respond, and they have. The debate is the next stage.

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Where are people being forced out of the UK? And compromise on what exactly?
Who ever suggested abandoning Europe? The referendum was calling for a severance to the political union, not the trade part (that's my understanding of the Leave position anyway), so the 'cry for attention stating that we should not abandon our European allies' is not needed

Quite right. We should have it carved in a stone tablet instead. Something along the lines of, "No, you can't have another referendum. Suck it up and deal with it, crybabies."

I have an Oxford history degree as it goes.

What is your qualification to opine about Russian history?

I think you misunderstand me, I am simply of the opinion that said email seems somewhat trivial given the gravity of the situation.


Well as Brussels has repeatedly said there will be no cherry picking, they wont give us free trade like before hand but ditch the movement of people/labour/sovereignty, it would be like pulling the trigger on the EU project.




Capital idea!
Although on a serious note I stand by it should be done over, not simply to see if the result will change but to give it more legitimacy [if you will] not the middling percentage point lead. For instance its rather a tradition in Europe to hold referendums repeatedly to solidify the result.

I have an Oxford history degree as it goes.

What is your qualification to opine about Russian history?

Don't want to be dragged into responding 50 replies on this forum like others.

Do you believe that the welsh Assembly should have had a second referendum right after the first?

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Where are people being forced out of the UK? And compromise on what exactly?
Who ever suggested abandoning Europe? The referendum was calling for a severance to the political union, not the trade part (that's my understanding of the Leave position anyway), so the 'cry for attention stating that we should not abandon our European allies' is not needed

1] They're not particularly equatable, Wales was voting for simple devolution which relatively speaking is not even close to what this vote does
2]The effects of the Welsh referendum would in all likelyhood have gone unoticed by the majority of thepublic if the vote had gone the other way whilst this vote has wiped hundreds upon hundreds of billions off of share prices, savings, pensions, investments etc. across the globe and then the long list of other ramifications.
but in Answer no; a roughly 30/60 split for yes is a clear win albeit the turnout was heinous.