I can't believe May will show enough imagination to do anything but put her deal back in as before. However, presumably it will be an amendable motion to which various ideas could be attached. One will be the Kyle/WIlson amendment to accept the deal on the proviso that it is put to a referendum. Who knows whether it would pass now? That may depend on the order the amendments are voted on - if it's the last one and the only alternative to no deal (or going to Brussels begging for a long extension) then maybe it would.
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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I signed this about 9.45 last night. I was around number 140,000. Its 6.30am and a further quarter of a million people have signed overnight. Shows there is some strong pro EU feeling out there.
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Nearly 427,000 now
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I just watched the odd lady's speech and if I understand correctly she's not very keen on the notion of a sovereign Crown in parliament.
Neither am I, but, I suspect, for very different reasons.
She seemed to be fairly close to inciting people to apply pressure to MPs. Depending on the form the pressure took that could be very normal or highly abnormal. The notion of a leader being hindered in carrying out the people's will by bourgeois democrats is familiar from other times and places.
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Petition currently adding 100k per hour.
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Look where the petitioners are. Islands in the stream, that is what we are.
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Broken
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502 Bad Gateway
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Back on
Only 90k per hour
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Somebody's DDOS'd the petition?
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By midnight on Wednesday, the petition had 300,000 signatures and by 8am it had passed 500,000 signatures, with the highest number of signatories in the Edinburgh constituencies, Bristol West, Cambridge, Hornsey and Wood Green, and Brighton Pavilion.
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https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/revoke-article-50-petition-1-5950314
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Definitely broken only added about 1000 in last 1/2 hour
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"Somebody's DDOS'd the petition?"
We are - by continually checking it to see how well it is doing.
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The UK of GB&NI's begging letter has been rejected, as the odd woman must have known was inevitable.
This is surely the most humiliating thing ever to happen to that country. Way beyond Suez, on a par with the Battle of France. They're utterly exposed as sweaty chancers, crooks, lunatics and dimwits.
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what even with the mention of Grimsby. Will nothing please EU bureaucrats!
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The Declaration of Grimsby. English equivalent of the Declaration of Arbroath?
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Petitions is down for maintenance
We know about it and we're working on it.Please try again later.
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She said the petition "didn't do very well for a week"."I nearly gave up but then I contacted a lot of people and it took off," she added.
A House of Commons spokesperson said the site crashed on Thursday morning because of "a large and sustained load on the system".
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If you want to see the total number of signatures to the petition but don't want to contribute to the site overload, see https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584/count.json
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I have tried signing a few times over the past 12 hours or so but don't get an email to confirm my sig. Either the government mailservers are choked or Google is greylisting them. I should try with a different email account.
Still getting occasional 502 errors from the nginx proxy as well. Tee hee.
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over 1m
@mediumdave- have you checked your spam box?
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The website might be working currently but it seems the email confirmations are still not working.
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I would much prefer a second referendum, as parliament calling a halt would just enrage Leavers by confirming their suspicions that the establishment is conspiring to frustrate the 'will of the people'. However, at this late stage, I feel we can no longer afford to worry about such niceties. At least this petition will remind MPs that almost half the country never wanted to start on this path at all. Hopefully Saturday's People's Vote demo in London will be huge too.
Stil can't sign it though - just getting a 502 error each time I try.Posted 5 years ago # -
@paddyirish Oh yes. I tried it with another account (for which I can access the logs) but no delivery attempts there yet.
Update - just got the confirmation to gmail. Looking at the headers, it seems that the petitions site is using Amazon SES for emailing. No greylisting from google so presumably whatever process that actually calls SES to send emails is backed up.
Still can't confirm though as "petitions is down for maintenance". Ha!
Is this the hand of the Brexiteer deep state? :)
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Nearly 2 million now.
The second time I saw Pere ubu they gave the audience a binary vote- did we want a new song or sixty seconds of their old song sixty seconds over Tokyo. We all voted for the latter
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as would be only fitting, gembo-san
suicide were supporting elvis costello in the 1978 gig above, and the howling punters had no idea they were witnessing history
unlike today where history is being rewritten by the hour
didn't francis fukuyama abolish history in the nineties ?
and yet here we all are, ever ready to pish on the grave of neo-liberal capitalist realism, first chance we possibly get
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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Over 2 million now
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