London – Just days after voting to leave the European Union, more than 2.5 million Britons and UK residents had signed a petition calling for a second vote, forcing lawmakers to at least consider a debate on the issue.
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Parliament has to consider a debate on any petition posted on its website that attracts more than 100,000 signatures.
The proposal, posted before the June 23 referendum, said the government should hold another plebiscite on EU membership if the support for Leave or Remain in a referendum was less than 60 percent in a turnout of under 75 percent of eligible voters.
The result on Thursday saw 52 percent of voters, 17,410,742 people, back a British exit, on a turnout of 72 percent.
According to an opinion poll conducted on Friday, half of voters said the result should stand, even if the EU offered more reforms to Britain’s EU membership, while 39 percent said a second referendum should be held under the new terms offered.
Some 48 percent of British adults said they were happy with the result against 43 percent who were unhappy, according to the poll by ComRes for the Sunday Mirror.
The online petition — which only British citizens or UK residents have the right to sign — was proving so popular that by 2136 GMT on Saturday, 2,503,065 people had signed it.
Most of those who signed were based in areas where support for staying in the EU was strongest, most especially London, the website indicated.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who said on Friday he would resign after leading the failed campaign to keep Britain in the EU, had said there would be no second referendum.
The ComRes poll also asked a representative sample of 1,069 adults when the next general election should be.
One third said there should be a vote as soon as the next prime minister was in place in the autumn, while 23 percent said an election should be held early next year.
Some 27 percent said the next election should be in 2020 as currently planned, according to the online poll.
Get over it. You had your chance, you lost, so put on your big boy/girl trousers and stop whining.
No I didn’t vote, I live in Israel, & I still don’t know what I would have voted.
Sore losers.
Very happy to hear England declare its independence. I’m sure other countries will find the courage to follow.
there was a countrywide vote !!
now deal with it all you sore losers who now want to re-write History to suit yourselves
most probably 2.5 million muslims signed petition
Lost so they want a do-over, and more do-over until they get what they want. Sore-losers.
Well the rules says it must be discussed in Parliament. It is hard to see how that discussion will go anywhere much.
The voters have spoken; it is too bad that the losers can’t accept the vote. This was one win for the silent majority. Secondly, I have no use for the Scots who are so annoyed at the results of the Brexit vote, that they want to have another referendum, regarding their independence from the United Kingdom. They had their chance in 2014, and voted to remain with the Commonwealth. In just a little over four months, the voters of the USA will also have their chance, to speak for the silent majority, and bring some sanity back into government.
Though Boris might become prime minister this brexit will be good for the yidden. .