Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:The Register is reporting that "39,411 signatories came from Vatican City, even though the city state has a permanent population of only 450." Since signatures from outside the UK will be ignored, and the IP address of each signature is recorded, I'd expect many more signatures to be removed.
Hm. More news about the new referendum. First: apparently someone is running a bot and flooding the signatures; last I heard some 80K had been removed for being obviously bogus, and more were probably in the offing. Even so, the referendum is at 3.9 million now.
The Register is also reporting "Your reporter's school class lists here in leafy North London - a bastion of middle class Remain supporters - were hijacked by parents urging others to sign the Second Referendum petition." Shall we tell the hijackers' children that their parents think it's acceptable to lie in order to get what they want?
Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:
Second: The do-over referendum was started by a Leave partisan several months ago, when it looked like Leave was going to lose. He's not happy that it's been hijacked by the other side since the vote. Third: apparently it doesn't matter. The referendum would amount to an ex post facto law if it passed Parliament, which means it can't happen by the rules of Parliament and (IIRC) the Magna Carta. Also, as far as the EU is concerned there's no do-overs either -- they want the UK to invoke article 50 ASAP now that the vote is done, no spending time working out how to separate first.
Parliament is sovereign - petitions and the wishes of the EU are advisory only.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012