Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an early general election after a petition calling for a second vote reached two million signatures.
The petition was launched over the weekend and says there should be another vote, just four months after Labour won a landslide, because they have “gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election”.
By Monday mid-morning, it had reached two million signatures and was climbing fast.
But the prime minister said he would not be calling another election.
However, he said he was “not surprised” those who did not want to support Labour wanted a second vote.
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Petitions on the government website are considered for debate by MPs after 10,000 signatures. Petitions get a government response after the tally reaches 100,000.
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Over the weekend, MPs considered to be from the right of the Tories or from Reform UK, were urging people on social media to sign the petition.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice and Conservative shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith were among those sharing the petition.
Donald Trump aide Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, reposted a link to a post which said it had got 200,000 signatures in a few hours. He wrote: “Wow.”
Musk has previously spoken out against Sir Keir Starmer, calling him “two-tier Keir” over accusations police were treating communities according to their racial background in different ways.
Have we forgotten the 14 years of abject misery under Tory government already? People have short memories.
Looks like someone has got a taste for electoral interference.
You can tell how Xitter has become a silo of shithousery, because this is the first time I’ve heard of this.
Musk is a weapons grade dickhead. Anyone half decent should get off his platform immediately.
gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election
Maybe we should have another election after every election?
Maybe we should have another EU referendum, as the winning side definitely broke their promises.
Maybe we should just vote again on stuff simply because we don’t like the result.
Maybe we should wait five years and then have another general election to decide if they should stay in power or not.
Switzerland says hi.
Democracy on steroids.
Maybe we should have another election after every election?
The only chartist demand never adopted was yearly elections, so why not every year?
Maybe we should have another EU referendum
There was a similar petition about that, it got 4.2m signatures.
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You don’t seem very fond of democracy, how very british of you.
I’m losing faith in it.
Well you definitely shouldn’t have any faith in the British “democracy” because it’s not one. Even pretending that it is one is difficult when the “House of Lords” is an institution that exists.
But if we actually tried doing democracy properly maybe it would be good. We actually haven’t tried it yet. The ghouls in charge just use that word because of course they would. It’s easy to stay in power as long as enough people believe the lie.
I suspect the people signing this are the same who argued we couldn’t have a People’s Vote on the terms of leaving the EU
I suspect most of the people signing it don’t even live in the UK and are doing it for a laugh.
I suspect most of the people signing it aren’t even people. Some of the signatures are probably dogs’ pawprints.
It is genuinely disturbing how much far right BS is being pushed onto people on social media. Happily not as much here but my tiktok is covered with the farmers protest and how the government is failing us when they’ve been in charge for less than a year and the last party has literally brought the UK to thw breaking point. Absolutely ridiculous.
People leaving millions to their kids and complaining the kids might have to pay the same tax as everyone else on the inheritance. Entitled parasites.
It is genuinely disturbing how much far right BS is being pushed onto people on social media
Which is why public lies spread with an intention to mislead the public should be a criminal offence.
Labour had 9.7m voters. Tories 6.8m
2m signing a pole dose not come close to representing the folks who did not vote for them in the first place.
Why the hell would anyone expect that number to cause a revote. If it did we would end up with genral elections every 6 months at least.
Starmer needs to make this about foreign billionaires interfering in politics.
