A petition demanding a new general election to oust the Left-wing Labour Government has exploded, racking up over 1,750,000 signatures in under a week. Breitbart has more.
The petition states that the “current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election”, and therefore, the petition called for an election to be called.
While Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party swept to power in July with a 174 majority with 411 seats in the parliament — the best performance for the party since Tony Blair in 1997 — the party only won just over a third of voters.
Since coming to power, Prime Minsiter Starmer has seen his approval continually decline, pushing forward broadly unpopular leftist policies, such as cutting fuel aid subsidies to pensioners and seeking to expand the death tax to include family farms.
A survey this week from Ipsos found that just 23% of the public have a favourable opinion of Starmer, compared to 52% who hold a negative view of the Prime Minister. …
Reform U.K. MPs were quick to seize on the petition calling for a new election, with Farage’s deputy, Richard Tice, saying: “Let’s make this the biggest petition ever in the U.K. – sign, share and spread the word.” …
In Britain, any official petition with over 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, and the government is mandated to issue a response to any petition with more than 10,000 signatures.
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1530 pm Sunday 24th Nov
Its now 953,000 and rising. A statement if nothing else.
Exactly , “they don’t like it up em” Captain Mainwaring
Just hit 1 million.
There’s some experts reliably informing us on Twitter that this can’t possibly be bots, which some cynics have suggested. Their explanations are a bit above my pay grade but they seem confident this is real people voting. Plus the fact you need to confirm via your email before your signature is added, so this would prove too difficult to deploy bots, apparently.
I wonder if it’ll get to 2 million by this time tomorrow. I’m not sure when the thing started.
It’s about 1,394,800 now and still rising quickly.
Hey! I was suggesting it was probably ‘Bots’! @Valerie_London showed evidence it might not be. Now I suspect It’s not bots and continue to sincerely hope it’s not.
Yes I read posts on Twitter querying bots too so you’re not alone. But indeed, the consensus seems to be negative for a bot attack
. Of course, we all know this petition won’t lead to anything meaningful changing, but surely a super high number of signatures will ram the message home to Labour just how despised they are, if nothing else. That has to count for something.
Does not clicking a link sent to your email address prevent bots?
The people who designed this system believe it does. That’s not an unreasonable assumption because each instance of a bot trying to sign the petition would use up a different email address. For practical purposes, this would at least require collaboration by a large email provider, ie, while such an attack is theoretically feasible, only a rogue ISP could pull it off and only one without commercial interest in his own business as that would come to an inevitable end once the issue became known which it inevitably would.
Exactly. I want the message to be made loud and clear to him just how much he’s reviled.
I agree with the sentiment, but really. Starmer has a huge majority and will persist with his Marxist destruction of the UK regardless of a million or two signatures on a petition.
I am reminded of the old advice that protesting is like peeing yourself in dark trousers. You get a nice warm feeling but no-one notices.
I have a nasty feeling the debate, if any, will go something like
‘Should we call a GE?’
OK, the ‘Noes’ have it. Done.
Only a few Labour MPs are dim enough to vote for their own destruction.
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Doncaster North (Eddie-baby’s constituency) has a decent number of signatures.
Wont even get that far…
He may have a “huge majority” in Parliament, but not on the streets. Remember what proportion of the population eligible to vote put him and his party into power? 33.7%. Hardly a ringing endorsement. If only all those non-voters now complaining about the government had voted against them, rather than sitting on the sidelines at the time…
Eh? It was only 20% of the electorate that voted Labour which is the lowest ever I think. And of those many were voting against the Tories and not in favour of Two Tier, Thieves, Militwat and their shower of lying shite.
One third of 60% is 20%. It was a third of the people who actually voted not who were eligible.
Exactly, therrs even some on here who still believe we live in a “democracy”
Signed.
Can we also have a petition to demand a Referendum on Mass Immigration from the Third World? A referendum in which only Indigenous Brits and their descendants around the world can vote? And another Referendum on Foreign Aid?
It’s just that NOBODY EVER ASKED US.
Course they havent, do you think you live in a “democracy” or something…
Yes, take a leaf out of Switzerland’s book, even if occasionally they lose their way. A referendum that clearly states the population’s position, and is acted upon. Now that in the UK would be something else wouldn’t it!
Absolutely spot on! The Swiss People have been leading the way in this for a long time, showing the world how democracy is supposed to function.
They also led the way in organizing citizen militias of every Swiss man, requiring them all to keep a gun and ammunition locked away in their homes, and training the women as support workers in any emergency. It was a brilliant system. Emergency shelters, food and medical supplies were kept ready in cave systems in the mountains, if I remember correctly (reading about it years ago), and even the children knew exactly where to muster and go to the mountain shelters.
That was before the Mass Stealth Invasion from the Third World, the Muslim Army masquerading as “asylum seekers” everywhere in the West, awaiting the Globalist signal to launch an open armed attack against the mostly disarmed, enfeebled Indigenous Ethnic European populace, entertaining themselves meanwhile by stabbing and raping them.
Just signed, despite me not living there, I’m still a British citizen, and I despise this epic arse-womble. 995,820 as of 1700. Exciting!
1,062,000 at 16:33.
If nothing else this will be hugely embarrassing.
Comfortably racking up 30, 000 votes per hour.
759 in 2 minutes. Oh dear!
Oops, forgot I’m an hour ahead of you guys.
BTW, the Swan was not killed. This makes me happy and relieved. I’d like to think it whooped his nasty arse before escaping his clutches.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1860657410752549076
Thanks for the update Mogs. A shame the swan didn’t kill the perp. They can kill, they’re dangerous if they attack.
Just signed – nearly 1.8 million now
The right wing version of ‘remoaning’.
Not our finest hour.
Yes, we could have a People’s Election. That sounds nice and catchy.
There’s a very cool map of the UK showing which constituencies have the most people signing the petition, if you click on the link just below the number of signatures.
1,055,629 have signed it so far at this moment in time, and rising every few seconds!
1,060,142 already…
1,064,417… wow!
It’s an interesting view – I noted the north in particular seems well represented in this poll… the red wall turning perhaps
Yes, and it’s good to see people signing it in all four nations, including Wales and Northern Ireland.
Though I’d imagine it’s quite useful data for Labour as well, working out where best to focus local election effort
As you rightly said earlier, it will show ordinary folk that they are not alone.
1,062,759 @ 1635.
Just passed 1.9m
UK PERTITION:
MORE THAN VOTED LABOUR?
Note the petition will run until 20 May 2025 – unless it’s pulled early for some technicality. As @Dinger64 suggests it’d be good if it gets more signatures than Labour got votes at the GE.
After the May local election where on current form Two Tier will get hammered.
They’ll simply ignore it as they did with the Covid petitions.
Hmm, not so sure mate!
I signed anyway …
Lol… Why’s that, they will go through the process and acknowledge the petition and carry on as normal, tell me, what do you think will happen??
These petitions are just another pretence that we live in a “democracy”… Nothing whatseover will come of it, apart from some over excited public who dont realise its all faux…
You’re right: it won’t have any practical effect. A petition like this won’t result in a general election. The only formal way we have in this country of showing our disapproval of any government is the way we vote at the next general election. After all, it’s not like this is the first party that’s promised one thing before being elected and delivered another once it’s in power.
Having said that, the petition does provide a platform for people to show the government how unpopular its policies are proving. Who knows, it may even receive some attention from the broadcast media, and add into a narrative of general discontent. It also helps the disgruntled voters feel they’re not alone, so there’s a benefit in terms of morale.
Michael Westwood
Get behind this!
Thanks for his name— I just looked it up and found this:
‘We were lied to!’ Meet the small business owner behind the viral election petition
“A small business owner, Mr Westwood’s previous claim to fame is as the owner of Britain’s ‘cheapest pub’ the Wagon and Horses, which sells pints for as little as £2.30.”
And here he is:
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1uEZcF.img?w=534&h=716&m=6&x=267&y=140&s=79&d=79
“He revealed: “Not in my wildest dreams did I think this was going to take off like it has”.”
[Dear DS editors, Please put this English Hero’s photo on top of this article page, so we don’t have to look at Two Tier again & again…]
I watched the petition for about 10 minutes and it went up by 60,000 signatures. It now stands at over 1,266,000 signatures.
Iam afraid these petitions are just another construct to dupe you into believing that you live in a “democracy”, and that theres an avenue for your concern and complaints…
Absolutely nothing to get excited about, this will change nothing, look at history… only one thing that will make a change… Pitchforks.
A somewhat cynical view, but I would, on balance, probably agree with you. The response from the Labour Party will be that the electorate provided them with a mandate (even though they have arguably deviated significantly from their manifesto pledges), and that democracy has therefore been observed.
This petition (to which I am also a signatory), will make a media story or two, but I think pinning our hopes on it actually achieving its objective would be wishful thinking. It will be denounced as a work of the “far right”, as is everything inconvenient for our current “government”.
If it makes 2TK and his gang of incompetents slightly more uncomfortable, I think that is all we could realistically expect.
Nonetheless, a bit of karma drama for Starmer the farmer harmer.
“Slightly more uncomfortable” .. Lol…..not got it in him.. You underestimate just how disgusting Starmer is, he treats you and i with utter contempt the only thing that would make him “uncomfortable” and thats a fully deserved pitchfork up his arse..
Hes got alot more to be concerned about than us plebs filling in some facade of a pointless petition, hes gonna have to deal with the Southport murder scandel and the public really arnt going to be very impressed when the cover up collapses and Starmers involvement becomes mainstream, this is what will be uncomfortable….its an absolute disgrace, but i bet he still wont resign..
I bet it is not mentioned by the BBC.
I’d see it differently: the petition system was set up to give a pretend voice to the people, and the people have exploited it to create a strong political statement.
Of course the government will ignore it, but when it’s this big many more millions will become aware that they’ve ignored it. At some stage, the murmurs of discontent become the undoing of any unpopular government, however autocratic.
“create a strong political statement”
Which will bear no fruit… Hence pointless
Tell me when, historically “murmers of discontent” have ever made a difference???
Did Thatcher stand down??
Did Trudeau stand down…
I was signing these almost daily during the scandemic….did the politicians listen to us during covid… No, didn’t care
Dream on..
Good points!
This won’t directly stop Starmer and his bunch of amateurs, but it contributes to the overall picture of how reviled he is, and how it seems most people think he and his government are see you next tuesdays.
The shame is that we didn’t get a proper recall act years ago, because then we could have built on this to get a recall petition in every Labour constituency because of the way they all stood on a manifesto that was obviously a complete crock of s**t and have consistently voted for things that were not in the manifesto or which we were promised would never happen before the election.
1.6 million at 9.30pm on the 24th.
It will be interesting to see when the rise in signatures eases off.
1 million by 4 pm this afternoon.
1.6 million as at now, pushing 1.7 million now signed and still the numbers are flooding in..
Surely they can’t just ignore this ..! Or is there really that many ‘far right’ in the country . ?Probably ..!
Of course they can ignore it, however it’s a clear message to others that they are not alone
Exactly. I suspect more people might find the confidence to voice their opinions on seeing the publicity this generates. The MSM will I suspect largely ignore it but alt media will receive a boost off the back of this. Good.
Giving the ‘silent majority’ more of a voice, more often, is perhaps a way to try and stop all this madness. Waiting for an election only is not going to work
Galloway destroying Starmer and talking about the petition
https://youtu.be/XuyJOl9pNFs?si=SjGmqH7un2_uWEWS
Isn’t cutting subsidies right wing?
Hmm, it seems if you’re against this remoaner style petition then the DS censors your comment. The whole thing is as embarrassing as that second referendum petition which attracted more signatures than this one could hope for (ironically it was preemptively set up by a leaver who expected to lose).
I’m trying to think of a portmanteau for these regretful stay-at-their-homers who are now moaning about the election result. How about ‘STARMERS’?
Now excuse me while I review my subscription.
Moderator here: No Comments about the petition have been ‘censored’ or even slightly moderated, to my knowledge. Perhaps you had to wait for your Comment to appear – that can happen
Come on if petitions actually did anything they wouldn’t be allowed. Qué government arrogant response spitting in your face.
Thank you… Some one understands
And everyone is getting excited about it….. Deluded… Again
Yeah but it’s fun whilst it lasts – come on smile!
Liz Truss was gotten rid off, so why not this stupid eco socialist government led by someone who openly admitted that we prefers Davos to Westminster. In other words he works mainly for globalist interests like Mass Immigration and Net Zero rather than the interests of the British people like farmers, pensioners and all of the rest of us impoverished by this pretend to save the planet nonsense?
And Blackrock!
I think you may have answered your own question there…
Reeves will be thrown under the Bus
Hopefully with the rest of this vile smug government.
A delicious dose of humiliation for these pompous fools who think that they can lie to the people and treat us with contempt. They are not fit for purpose as our public servants. They are sabotaging our democracy, freedom of speech, economy, energy, food and water supply. A very nasty Globalist cabal.
Diverting as this petition is, it’s not really going to affect anything that matters. Perhaps what we really need is a petition calling for a national referendum on Net Zero targets.
The danger of that is, the vast majority would likely vote for net zero, based on the understanding they want to save the polar bears etc, vs the actual reality of impoverishment
1.9 million and counting!
Now at 1.9 million at 10.00am… I’m guessing by lunchtime it’ll be well over 2 million!
Over 2m signatures by 10:55.
Surprised they haven’t had a ‘technical fault’ yet, requiring it all to be reset…
And here we have it:
Sir Keir said: “Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election.
“I’m not surprised that many of them want a rerun. That isn’t how our system works.”
And he would be right to say that. We can criticise Labour all we like, but the fact is that they were voted in. Or rather, not kept out. I’ve always said that people who don’t try to vote have no business complaining about what the government does.
That’s a surprisingly smart answer from 2TK