UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit

Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by ipsi on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:28AM (#19450661)

Well, it's more like "The will of the 17.4M + 13M who were okay with it", with the other 21.5M unable to vote due to immigration status, age, failure to register, or other reasons.

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by SeanDav on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:33AM (#19450700)

If it had gone the other way, all these points would have been exactly the same - why would it be any more/less acceptable (from a democratic process point of view)?

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by isostatic on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:34AM (#19451546)

Normally major constitutional changes require supermajorities to pass

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by repolfx on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:14PM (#19454771)

Not in the UK. All constitutional referendums have used 50%+1 including the original remain/leave referendum that happened a few years after joining.

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by isostatic on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:55PM (#19455277)

I'm talking generally across the world, and not just referenda.

> the original remain/leave referendum that happened a few years after joining

That wasn't constitutional change. Nor was it binding.

This referendum was also non-binding, it's right there in the act of parliament that authorized it.

Of course once Parliament agreed to invoke article 50 the referendum became irrelevant. Parliament - specifically the Tories, Labour, DUP, UUP and UKIP mps who decided to take us out of the EU with no deal, not the referendum.

320 MPs can change the UK constitution (although there are some protections with the House of Lords), which is the anomaly globally.

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