May rejects petition to revoke article 50 despite 2m signatures

[nitpicker]

Source: The Guardian

Theresa May “will not countenance” revoking article 50 despite a public petition calling for the Brexit deadline to be cancelled adding almost 2m signatures in a couple of days.

When asked for the prime minister’s view on the petition, a No 10 spokeswoman said May worried that failing to deliver Brexit would cause “potentially irreparable damage to public trust”. She said: “The prime minister has long been clear that failing to deliver on the referendum result would be a failure of our democracy and something she couldn’t countenance.”

More than 2 million people had signed the plea for article 50 to be revoked by 11pm on Thursday. The list of names grew so rapidly that the parliamentary petition website crashed several times.

The petition began gaining significant support on Wednesday evening after Theresa May criticised MPs for not approving her Brexit deal. By Thursday, the list of signatures was growing so rapidly that the parliamentary petition website crashed several times. At the time of the first crash, the petition had received almost 600,000 signatures and was growing at a rate of 1,500 a minute.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/21/petitions-site-crashes-after-thousands-back-call-to-revoke-article-50

[DFW]

1. How many millions more need to sign the petition before May finally acknowledges it?

Ignoring the petition IS the "failure of our democracy" that she finds so objectionable, and ignoring it is what should not be countenanced.

[SunSeeker]

2. Her disregard is breathtaking. WTF

[DFW]

4. Just incredible

"Sorreh, we just kahn't be bothahd"

[area51]

10. +1 n/t

[Thekaspervote]

3. She's blinded ..and by what? The history book of democracy will not look kindly at her

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. May is listening to the sound of a different orchestra. Her citizens are screaming at her

to stop Brexit. She keeps hearing something else at her own peril.

[LittleGirl]

5. She's done. Eom

[3Hotdogs]

6. She's done when she's no longer there.

Until then, its bugger, all.

[haele]

8. She's a Thatcherite. The Hoi Polloi are just farm animals to Thatcherites.

Brexit is making disaster capitalists lots of quick money they can put in overseas accounts - and as a bonus (in their way of thinking), will force the average British citizenry back in the "proper" Dickensian hierarchical status as experienced through period novels and TV.

May and her ilk, including the Labor Party members who are just playing at opposing Brexit, see themselves as proper British nobility, modern heirs to the Great Houses of the Middle Ages, to take the place of the petty inbred House of Lords seat warmers.
The EU, taxes that pay for the socialist safety nets that kept Britain from sliding into third world status all those decades, and all those other "regulations" that keep them from feasting on the lower classes just cramp their style...

She's just putting up with the current embarrassment as a business decision. It's just a short term "annoyance" to her and her cronies.

Haele

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[defacto7]

11. Your democracy has already failed. Fix it.

Public trust is already almost irreparably damaged. Fix it.