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I think it's about pride. We had a petition which had over 100,000 signatures in which forced them to reconsider, but parliament said that they can't go against

• UK-AL 10y ago
  There was also petition to ignore that petition which also had 100000+ signatures.
• imron 10y ago
  > which had over 100,000 signatures I'm not from the UK and neither for or against Brexit, but what good is a petition with 100,000 signatures when they'd just had a referendum with 17.4 million people voting 'leave'. [0] Considering most of the signatures would have been people who voted to 'remain', in what world does it make sense for a 100,000 signature petition to overturn a referendum with a 1.3 million vote difference? Even assuming those 100,000 signatures were all from former 'leave' voters switching sides, it would only change the result to be 17.3 million vs 16.2 million. A difference of 1.1 million. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Referendum_result https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Referendum_result
  • laurent123456 10y ago
    The petition actually had over 4 millions signatures - the fact that it had more than 100,000 only meant that the parliament was forced to consider the issue for debate [0]. They did so and considered that the result of the referendum was valid and that there shouldn't be a second one. [0] https://petition.parliament.uk/help https://petition.parliament.uk/help
    • imron 10y ago
      Thanks for the clarification. I don't think there's any other conclusion the UK parliament could have come to without destroying faith in the democratic process.