The government website keeps crashing, but there is a petition asking that Article 50 be revoked.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
I’ve signed this, although I still don’t think we can reverse the decision to leave the EU without a popular vote.
https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march
The current shambles is totally irresponsible and has to be stopped. There are ships at sea which will dock next Friday with no idea what customs regime they will be facing. This level of incompetence from the UK, or indeed any, government is unprecedented.
There is a majority in the House of Commons for a soft Brexit. Theresa May refuses to allow this majority a voice because she consistently puts the unity of the Tory party before the good of the country.
The next vote on May’s deal will probably still fail. We need a new Prime Minister who is prepared to seek a majority in the House of Commons and then put the subsequent deal to a popular vote.
Platitude of the Day 
Signed. But it’s a long shot; and if it gets anywhere the shouts of “betraying the people” will start up again.
At the moment I can see no good way out of this mess. Two of my four children are working in the EU, and both of them are planning to take out dual citizenship as soon as they are able. I’m tempted to join them.
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It’s currently gaining about 1200 signatures a minute. It should reach a million sometime today. Then it’s interesting. The “will of the people argument ” based on June 2016 comes down to the 1m majority that vote gained. I’ll be interested to see how hard-line brexiteers deal with that. I suspect they will first try to ignore it.
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That it is a mess goes without saying, but I’m not sure what is so wrong with the deal on offer that it is worth putting everyone through all this chaos. At the end of a negotiation, pretty much by definition, you will end up with a compromise. It will contain some things you like and some things you don’t like.
There might well be a majority in the House of Commons for a soft Brexit, but that is an unnegotiated position. What is gained by having the country formally insist on a deal that is unnegotiated? It strikes me that to do so would be as intransigent as the rest of it.
None of the soft Brexit people currently refusing to vote for the May deal has set out in terms why it is so absolutely unacceptable, except the DUP. The SNP / LibDems / Independent Group won’t vote for Brexit full stop. The ERG is stuffed full of self-obsessed morons. Therefore it is the Labour Party that holds all the cards. A complete solution is in their hands, albeit requiring them to accept the deal on offer. Why would they not?
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I agree. The Labour Party is also playing silly party political games. Corbyn is as evasive on Brexit as May is inflexible. Surely somewhere in the HoC there is someone who can command a majority on Brexit?
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1,311,335 signatures. Is a second referendum already happening?
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No. Protest votes by those with bees in their bonnets are not what determines government policy.
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Now 1.7m+. I don’t disagree with roger; but still, a lot of bees, a lot of bonnets!
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I think Dominic Greive’s suggestion of amending Mrs May’s deal such that it is put to the electorate for a vote along the lines of “The UK should: a) leave the EU on the terms agreed in the Withdrawal Agreement. b) remain in the EU” may well gain traction and be considered a significant change so allowing Speaker Bercow to let it return to the Commons. This could well prove to be a route out of the mire.
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I think that’s an excellent suggestion.
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It’s been around for a month or so.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/back-theresa-may-brexit-deal-then-hold-peoples-vote-backbencher-plan
It has the advantage that it means that no MP would actually have to vote for May’s deal. They could abstain. I think hell will freeze over before May comes round to it, but this petition might give MP’s the courage at last to take the process off this deluded woman, and agree something like this.
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Signed. It’s now at over 2.75 million.
What annoys me is how our options are limited because NI politicians insist they want to be a full part of the UK, whilst at the same time insisting on maintaining their own policy on women’s health, gay rights and libel laws.
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