Petition for second EU referendum investigated for fraud
 

Nearly eighty thousand signatures added fraudulently

Second EU referendum petition investigated for fraud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic...endum-36634407

77,000 signatures have already been removed.


The irony of this is really quite fantastic

As I said in the other thread, a second referendum is pointless. What's done is done, now's the time for the Brexit voters to be faced with the reality of the situation they've created.

The petition's website states it was set up by an individual called William Oliver Healey, and says: "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."
Thursday saw a 72.2% turnout, significantly higher than the 66.1% turnout at last year's general election, but below the 75% mark suggested by Mr Healey as a threshold.
In a statement posted on Facebook, a campaigner for the English Democrats party identifying himself as Oliver Healey says he started the petition "when it was looking unlikely that 'leave' were going to win, with the intention of making it harder for 'remain' to further shackle us to the EU".
He says the petition has since been "hijacked by the remain campaign".



:joker:

Don't worry, us Patriots will fight for your freedom, You just sit back and relax.

you mean more than half the UK?


I dont think you are grasping democracy here :shrug:

UK population - 64 million
Leave voters - 17 million

You sure that's half the UK? I don't think you're grasping simple maths.

Oh FFS

I mean the voting public not children (thoise that could be bothered to vote

and its arithmetic not maths

Do you get a hard on when you call yourself a fighter

80,000 not in UK


Typical Corruption

Its always sex with you shaun..

:idc:

What an absolute joke.

Yes Dezzy
you are right
they do , however, get a Debate in Parliament
but thats it.

Let's see shall we, I'm a fighter.

No I don't

A certain percentage of signatures on any petition will be false or illegitimate. This is a non-story.

So, not half of the UK then?

And arithmetic is a branch of mathematics

More than half of the people who could actually be bothered to vote.

Fair enough but that's not what LT said

I agree this is pointless but there are now over 3,000,000 signatures on it, so even a few hundred thousand not eligible to be on it is a small number.

Which happens I would guess on most petitions anyway as to always some names there that should not be.

petitions are just the same as inane ramblings on twitter or other yoof social media

they have about as much clout as a wet copy of the radio times

Still leaving over 2million genuine votes.

They wouldn't even consider another referendum. They ****ed the first one up enormously. On both sides.

English people don't have to live in the UK....
Could it be all the ex pats denied their vote?

Wouldn't it be easier to petition for the government to just ignore the first referendum rather than ask for another? If I was a hardcore Remainer that would be my strategy.

not votes just young people getting on a bandwaggon