'Cancel Brexit' Petition Amasses Record 5.8 Million Signatures

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The British Parliament has said it will debate the petition in April.

Keep in mind there are approximately 68 million Brits (though not all in this total are citizens) in addition to an estimated 6 million living outside the UK, so this is not an insignificant number by any definition

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cancel-brexit-petition_n_5c9b3781e4b08c450ccdf856

A petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked and for the U.K. to remain in the European Union has broken the record for the most number of signatories garnered on the British Parliament’s petitions website.

As of early Wednesday, more than 5.8 million people had signed the “Cancel Brexit” petition. Dozens of new signatures were being added to the tally every minute.

Anyone who is a resident of the U.K. or a British citizen can sign the petition, according to a Parliament spokesman.

Some observers have questioned whether bots or people using fake details have artificially inflated the number of signatories on the petition. The spokesman told the BBC, however, that signature patterns are investigated to weed out fraudulent signatures.

more at the link above

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1. Of course, it appears UK is determined to ignore this, despite the statement that they will consider

in Aprill...

Feels just like congress ignoring the will of the US people on the Mueller report, on global warming, on immigration and Trump's "trumped up" emergency and on and on.

When did so-called Western Democracies determine to ignore the people to this extent?