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– Petition calling for UK to hold 2nd EU referendum soars past 2mn signatures:
Two days after voting ‘out’ of the European Union, over 2 million Brits have signed a petition calling for a second vote, as many feel dissatisfied with the outcome of the referendum.The petition on the British parliament website was posted before the June 23 referendum, urging the government to hold another vote on EU membership if the support for ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ campaigns will be less than 60 percent of the populace. Thursday’s referendum saw only 51.9 per cent of voters supporting the idea of exiting the bloc, while 48.9 per cent voted to stay.
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– Petition urging second EU referendum reaches 1m signatures:
House of Commons website temporarily crashes under burden of hundreds of thousands of visits to single petition
A parliamentary petition calling for a second referendum has attracted more than a million signatures, even as unprecedented demand temporarily crashed the website.
On Friday a government website saw an “exceptionally high” number of visits as hundreds of thousands of signatures were added to a second referendum e-petition in the wake of Britain’s leave vote.
By Saturday morning, more than 1 million people had signed up, 10 times the number needed for the issue to be raised in parliament.
The petition, set up by William Oliver Healey, states: “We the undersigned call upon HM government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based on a turnout less than 75%, there should be another referendum.”
On Thursday, 51.9% of voters opted to leave the EU, and 48.1% voted to remain part of the bloc.
A map of the petition’s signatures indicated that most activity was in England’s major cities. The highest number of signatories came from London, where most boroughs backed remain in the referendum.
A House of Commons spokeswoman earlier said the site had temporarily been taken out of action due to “exceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion.”
“UK parliament and the government digital service are aware of the issue and are working hard to resolve the problems as quickly as possible.”
The parliamentary petitions system is overseen by the petitions committee, who consider whether petitions that receive more than 100,000 signatures should be raised in the House. The committee is due to sit again on Tuesday.
The surge came as nearly more than 100,000 people signed another petition calling on London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, to declare the capital independent from the UK and apply to join the European Union.
The Change.org petition had gathered more than 100,000 signatures by Saturday morning. The page, set up by James O’Malley, stated: “London is an international city, and we want to remain at the heart of Europe.
“Let’s face it – the rest of the country disagrees. So rather than passive-aggressively vote against each other at every election, let’s make the divorce official and move in with our friends on the continent.
“This petition is calling on mayor Sadiq Khan to declare London independent, and apply to join the EU – including membership of the Schengen zone (Umm, we’ll talk about the euro …).”
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