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"And… " And, I have nothing further to add at present but do please feel free to do so yourself of course. | |||
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"A supporter of the ridiculous Farage I guess.....lol...lol" An erroneous assumption, my own political allegiance is somewhat irrelevant in this particular issue of national importance! | |||
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"If we were to have a general election if 1 million people sign a petition. We would be having a general election every week." Agree with above. Individual policy recommendations have had similar support and are arguably much more relevant that this easily manipulated "popularity contest",and they have had similar effect. It appears that unless there are actual donations to party coffers and perhaps personal campaign support, not a lot happens. | |||
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"If we were to have a general election if 1 million people sign a petition. We would be having a general election every week." Indeed, if we had a decisive government with a clear direction, free of U-turns and deceit and a respectable, competent PM, the need for such petitions would be greatly reduced and therefore wouldn't have triggered the need for a Parliamentary Debate! | |||
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"If we were to have a general election if 1 million people sign a petition. We would be having a general election every week. Indeed, if we had a decisive government with a clear direction, free of U-turns and deceit and a respectable, competent PM, the need for such petitions would be greatly reduced and therefore wouldn't have triggered the need for a Parliamentary Debate!" So much like the Tories then | |||
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"This afternoon, there is an important debate in Parliament in response to petition 727309 for an immediate general election, which has over 1 million signatures. The debate is being held at 4.30pm and introduced by John Lamont MP. Apparently, it's an 'Open Debate' being held in Westminster Hall, MPs from all parties are invited to participate, and the Government will send a minister to respond, but apart from generating a lot of useless and meaningless hot air, no vote is taking place and it's likely that it'll conclude without further action! Yet such a vital issue should be debated in the full House of Commons and a free vote taken! Once again the parliamentary system does a huge disservice to those of us whom it purports to represent, they just get worse!!! " What action should have been taken by the government of the day regarding the petition for a second EU referendum??? | |||
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"Sorry, guys, I obviously haven't sufficiently explained my point, since many responses so far seem to be clearly missing the crux of the matter. It's totally simplistic to expect a GE to be called at this juncture! The point is that the parliamentary system is seriously letting us down. It's an important issue, so it should be debated in the full house with a free division called at the end. Chances are, with such a large government majority, the motion would've certainly been defeated anyway, but it would've given our parliamentary representatives the chance to voice their – and our – opinion on the issue, highlighting the political instability that we're all currently facing." and isn’t it strange how no political party wants to change the electoral system I’m sure Nige wouldn’t either | |||
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"Sorry, guys, I obviously haven't sufficiently explained my point, since many responses so far seem to be clearly missing the crux of the matter. It's totally simplistic to expect a GE to be called at this juncture! The point is that the parliamentary system is seriously letting us down. It's an important issue, so it should be debated in the full house with a free division called at the end. Chances are, with such a large government majority, the motion would've certainly been defeated anyway, but it would've given our parliamentary representatives the chance to voice their – and our – opinion on the issue, highlighting the political instability that we're all currently facing. and isn’t it strange how no political party wants to change the electoral system I’m sure Nige wouldn’t either " The problem is that when a party wins the current system obviously suits them ,,, the time when it could and probably should have changed was when Clegg sold out to Cameron , | |||
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"Six million signed the petition to stop brexit. " Actually, the petition with over 6 million signatures was debated in Parliament, but again it didn't lead to a vote in the full House. It highlighted strong public feeling, though. | |||
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"This must be the most pointless thread ever posted" That would be the word games | |||
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"Kind of missing to point. The prerogative to call an election rests with the prime minister. Just because don’t like them does mean you get to call an election. If you don’t get this should you even be involved on a political discussion? " With respect, that's not entirely accurate. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act does give the PM a key role in calling elections, but it's subject to parliamentary approval. The bigger issue is whether the current PM is competently managing the role and his party dynamics. Perhaps we can keep the discussion focused on the issue in hand rather than petty and futile personal attacks? | |||
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"This must be the most pointless thread ever posted That would be the word games" Oh no, and here we are in the midst of Word Game Edition 361, yes pointless indeed! 😅 | |||
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"This must be the most pointless thread ever posted That would be the word games Oh no, and here we are in the midst of Word Game Edition 361, yes pointless indeed! 😅" Lol, they're even numbered which just adds to the pointlessness, as if someone is going to go back to see what edition 359 was | |||
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"Kind of missing to point. The prerogative to call an election rests with the prime minister. Just because don’t like them does mean you get to call an election. If you don’t get this should you even be involved on a political discussion? With respect, that's not entirely accurate. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act does give the PM a key role in calling elections, but it's subject to parliamentary approval. The bigger issue is whether the current PM is competently managing the role and his party dynamics. Perhaps we can keep the discussion focused on the issue in hand rather than petty and futile personal attacks? " The Fixed Term Parliament act was repealed (thank goodness) | |||
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"Amazing really. We had 14 years of total shit from the most vile, unelected, selfish, greedy, incompetent, sleazy, politicians ever, and now the cry babies want this lot gone. Do they want Liz back? Costing the nation £Billions? Do they want Cameron back? Who set up Brexit, that worked didn't it? Boris lying everytime he opened his stupid gob. 14 years of austerity which we all should know...does not work. For goodness sake, grow up and accept Labour won the election, let them get on with it. At least they do u-turns when they have gotten it wrong or are about to. Stop stamping your feet, slamming the doors like spoilt child, grow up and wake up. P.S. Why bring this in here? Is this the place for this, duh. " Really? So the 2010,2015, 2017 and 2019 election never happened? Generals Cameron, May and Johnson just stage Coups and seized power? In each one of those 4 elections the conservative obtain more votes and a higher percentage of the vote than Labour did in 2024. It's how our archaic FPTP system works. I don't like this government but I don't want the country to blunder head-first and blind-folded into a general election that will solve nothing. | |||
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"9 million voted for Labour at the election. Now 1 million want it reversed " But how many of those 1 million keyboard warriors actually bothered to go and vote at the last general election. Probably not many of them. | |||
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