Petition - Call a General Election

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I chuckled the other day when it got to 100,000. Now, at time of writing, 1.4 million

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143

Now obviously no election will be called off the back of this but it's going to be interesting to see how they avoid calling a debate in parliament
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Job done.
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I was (and still am) willing to give Labour a chance. The tories have had time and really done jack sh1t.

They've done the nasty things first. I bet when we get near the end of this term they will suddenly find the money to give pensioners a big boost or farmers some sort of relief. It's just the way the game is played.

Those petitions are a joke. Something to make the plebs think they really have a say..
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I feel they haven't given much thought to what they'd do if sucessful in having a repeat election.

To be a worthwhile exercise, there would need to be somebody out there who is both willing and capable of doing a better job. As much as I dislike Starmer, nobody currently springs to mind. I'm not a Labour supporter but I sure as hell wouldn't want Badenoch in charge.
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My sense is that the petition is lead by the those with far right views who try to portray themselves as a silent majority, i.e. those who thought Brexit would reverse immigration and us 'indigenous' Englishmen would be able to live life in some 'Vicar of Dibley' pastiche where the only acceptable darkies are those serving us at the corner shop and Poles can work here for fuck-all then go home again.
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The petition now stands at 1.8 million and I daresay it will blow past 2 million by the end of the day. Browsing previous petitions, the only comparable numbers in the last decade were Remoaner reactions to Brexit and "End Child Poverty" (which garnered just over a million). Noting we have a government pointedly not elected by the people of these lands, I think the question being asked with the petition is WTF do you do when your own government sells you out?

The farmers' thing is only the latest but it started with winter fuel payments; both policies came with a very clear "Fuck You" attached. But in between we have the Police going round, knocking on doors for saying Hurty Words on Twitter and, in a re-run of the Russia Revolution, criminals are being let out of jail in favour of political prisoners. And to cap it all off The Rest of the World is laughing at us on the Social Medias

Again, WTF do you do when your own government sells you out?

Even the Guardian thinks it's a bad idea:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/02/labour-plans-britain-private-finance-blackrock

[doggone]

Cosying up to Blackrock is like the PFI Blair was keen on but in overdrive.
It sounds sort of OK until you point out the cost is several times higher.
And you are effectively selling the country to multinational corporation.

This is why they like the idea of hundreds of farms being sold off due to absurdly unaffordable tax demands.
Vulture capitalist swill swoop in on these and get their way with any development they like such as housing and wind/solar/wilding.
You can just eat the protein sludge they also make in a factory somewhere.

Starmer publicly stated he was more interested in dealing with the nice WEF people in Davos than Westminster.
He also said the quiet part out loud specifically mentioning Blackrock rather than 'private finance'.
They have been nobbled, something suspicious happened when Bill Gates was here a few weeks ago.
He got his orders.

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[rpsmith79]

Is there any evidence that any of these "petitions" have actually lead to a change in any law/policy for the whole time they have been running

I'd be interested to know how many of these 2 million odd signatories are actual Labour voters though.............. i'd hazard a guess that there are very few, if any, which makes the whole petition even more pointless
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Why do the Israelis fight so viciously? It must be nice to have a homeland to call your own...
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