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meant to add VPN’s as has been mentioned. I’ll no doubt be listed as not voting from the UK even though I most certainly am.
Indeed, I use VPN on my mobile phone, currently I'm allegedly in Amsterdam 🙂
Front end is there but the numbers aren’t updating on it.
Oh look, now I'm in Singapore.. How did that happen?
Just done this.
2,002,344
Heres a quick table of the country of origin of signatures
Country Sigs
United Kingdom 964,799
France 8,333
Spain 4,621
Germany 3,691
United States 2,842
Australia 2,482
Netherlands 1,691
Ireland 1,379
Gibraltar 1,149
Canada 1,132
Belgium 1,000
Switzerland 960
Italy 937
Sweden 925
New Zealand 884
Denmark 570
Austria 509
Portugal 472
Hong Kong 467
Norway 382
Greece 362
Singapore 318
Luxembourg 308
Finland 288
United Arab Emirates 280
Japan 264
Czechia 249
Isle of Man 199
Jersey 187
Poland 182
Malta 176
Thailand 174
Cyprus 168
South Africa 167
Guernsey 162
Hungary 99
Russia 20
Seems the fight4brexit tweet is plainly talking codswallop
HoC Petitions Twitter was tweeting earlier that they were still experiencing difficulties and that it may take up to 24hrs to receive the validation email.
The logic used in that fight 4 brexit post is astounding
It gets better Anus.
This is what leave voters are sharing this am, see if you can spot the flaw.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36640459#
Did those who have chosen to sign it receive the confirmation email immediately? 6hrs and nothing in inbox/junk.
Mine took about 16hours from yesterday to arrive in my junk folder. The site says allow up to 24hours and they can manually confirm your email address if it's still not received after then, but I'd give it the full 24.
Signed from Oz, put in my Australian postcode, my vote still counts.
So up to 2.8 Million going to see her deflect on that one in PMQ's
signed from Belgium without any sort of VPN. I'm British but they are quite happy with a Belgian postcode. Remember this isn't a vote, it's a request for it to be debated in parliament
3.6million now.
I have some friends on facebook sharing what at first glance is this petition - but in fact is a twist on words as a leave and leave now petition... grrr.
Nearly at 3Million. Just signed and emailed my MP....
It gets better Anus.
This is what leave voters are sharing this am, see if you can spot the flaw.
erm...
Prime Minister David Cameron has already said there will be no second vote.
Just emailed my MP again to flag up the contrast between the petition and the numbers who turned out for the Gammonball Run last week, right here in the supposedly solid Leave North East .
Passed the 3m mark.
Prime Minister David Cameron has already said there will be no second vote.
No,
EU referendum petition hijacked by bots
27 June 2016
0nly 13.4million to go...
0nly 13.4million to go…
Only 17 million to go for the Leave with no deal one...
No,
EU referendum petition hijacked by bots
27 June 2016
Typical BBC reporting - they don't even know what DATE it is...
FFS.
Typical BBC reporting – they don’t even know what DATE it is…
FFS.
🤔
Anyway that's my name added to the list. From Spain.
Just emailed my MP again to flag up the contrast between the petition and the numbers who turned out for the Gammonball Run last week, right here in the supposedly solid Leave North East .
It's a bit more complicated than that, if you look at the map of voting patterns on the Petitions site. Leeds Uni have produced a good map as well:
https://odileeds.org/projects/petitions/?241584
The petition votes are clearly concentrated in a few Remain supporting hotspots. I think it's a good initiative, and would encourage everyone to vote for revocation, but it doesn't demonstrate a widespread geographical shift in attitudes to Brexit (so far).
“Gammonball Run”
😂😂😂😂
I'm reading that a group of Pro-Brexit 'kids' on 4Chan are aiming to discredit the petition. Simultaneously mounting a DDOS attack on the site to stop people in the UK voting, whist also 'voting' using IPs in far flung lands to discredit it.
How thick you need to make your tin foil hate to believe it, I don't know.
Blimey - if I'm reading those stats right - in some constituencies a quarter of constituents have signed the petition!
Well it's now at 10% of those who voted in the referendum I think, if it gets up over 5m it will be significant I think
I was going to sign it, for what it's worth but the site seems knackered.
i just signed took a few seconds and got a confirmation email within a couple of minutes.
Oh, but the OP's link doesn't work, I had to go through the .GOV website.
where is the actual point of this. May is not going to get her deal through so with the extension only 3 weeks away what are the signatories expecting to happen?
Oh, but the OP’s link doesn’t work, I had to go through the .GOV website.
The OPs link is for the map not the petition.
Signing took a few seconds and the validation email arrived about ten seconds after I'd clicked the confirm button.
where is the actual point of this. May is not going to get her deal through so with the extension only 3 weeks away what are the signatories expecting to happen?
In my case I'd <i>hope</i> they'll look at the number of signatories, the compartive lack of support for no deal (on the counter petition) and the lack of support for no deal in Parliament and decide that, as the deal isn't acceptable the alternative with the greatest (though still minority) support is to call off the whole sorry mess and pretend it never happened.
In practice I expect nothing will change and we'll stumble along into 12/04 then it'll be extended to the end of the next European Parliament and we'll stumble along some more until with luck it'll slowly Peter out and all be forgotten after a decade of monopolising parliament.
poah
where is the actual point of this. May is not going to get her deal through so with the extension only 3 weeks away what are the signatories expecting to happen?
Making the point that there's more out there than noisy right-wing racists waving Union Jacks.
Also it tells the EU that the UK isn't totally hopeless.
The point?
Just doing anything to let whoever will listen know that I'm not ok with the absolute ****ing omnishambles that is going on with Brexit at the moment.
And up to 3.5 million, been doing about 100k/hr during the working day as I've watched it, couple that with Saturday's March and it's hard to ignore and very obvious if you dismiss it as insignificant.
In some ways the main part is achieved, MP's are being asked about it, they can see where the stronger opinions are
Making the point that there’s more out there than noisy right-wing racists waving Union Jacks
not everybody that wants to leave the EU falls into that category
not everybody that wants to leave the EU falls into that category
No but they do all seem to fall into the leave category and they have made a lot of noise recently, they have hogged the headlines from the comfy pretence of the ERG etc.
This petition on it's own is not going to do anything.
But....
Assuming we get to a point where Parliament DOES feel it has to step in to "take back control" from the Government, then those MPs are going to be looking closely at what their constituencies support, because that's what will keep them in their seats. And at that point, this petition could have a very strong effect indeed. ie it's hard to claim "my voters want us to leave" when there is a petition signed by a significant number of your voters that actually supports the opposing view.
Parliament never lost control, it's May that has lost control, over and over again.
Parliament is actually doing it's job, it's the leavers who keep banging the independence drum and the sovereignty drum. Oh the irony.
The current situation is quite an interesting test of this.
It seems parliament is sovereign. For now.
For me, the point of the petition is that it demonstrates a significant number of people actually favour simply aborting the whole process. That's an option that almost no politician is prepared to talk about at the moment, even if they are Remainers. At best you'll hear the moderates talking about soft Brexit, Norway, economic union, etc. At least this is airing the subject.
You have to multiply up the numbers who have actually clicked to get the true numbers who would agree, so it's not insignificant.
However, like I said before, I'm not sure it will swing individual MPs. Look at the voting map and it doesn't suggest that Leave voting areas have changed their mind much.
Has anyone else not had the confirm email?
Just over 4 million signatures now