The BBC reports that a petition calling for a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU tops two million signatures, after the vote to leave.
Source: EU referendum petition signed by more than 2m – BBC News
The referendum was a sham. I’ve signed up requesting another vote.
Please sign the petition, if you are a UK citizen with a right to vote.
It’s time for democracy to knock populism into shape.
Thoughts?
Please share this article. Based on the lies, half truths and suppression of the truth, this Brexit referendum result need to be frozen. The honest, legal and proper way forward is a second referendum. Please be sure to sign the online petition
Here’s what Boris Johnson wrote back in February:
There is only one way to get the change we need, and that is to vote to go, because all EU history shows that they only really listen to a population when it says No.
He may have had in mind the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty which followed after the Irish voted ‘no’ in the first – and secured further concessions from the other Member States.
“Say ‘no’ for a better ‘yes'” isn’t bad as a negotiating ploy. But it’s not much of a campaigning slogan. The Leave camp ditched it for ‘Take Back Control’.
And the rest is recent history.
It wasn’t only Boris who saw the attractions of a second referendum. So did Nigel Farage. Speaking to the Mirror he said this:
“In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the remain…
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