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

Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by thefounder on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:44AM (#19452209)

Nothing good happens when you cancel election results. See all these African countries with elections canceled...you better make sure the vote is not frauded in the first place.

As far as I'm aware nobody got convicted(unlike in the U.S) so your fraud argument is weak even today. I can see a second referendum on no-deal vs May's deal though.

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by bookofgreg on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:30PM (#19456349)

Their fraud is well known amd documented. Here are some of the fines against the leave campaign for breaking the law.

Vote Leave fined for election fraud. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44856992 Leave.EU fined for election fraud. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44080096 Labour Leave fined for undeclared donations. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47623595 Vote Leave fined for unsolicited texts using football lottery to gather details. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47623413 Eldon Insurance and Leave.EU fined for data breaches when misusing company email data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by misnome on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:31PM (#19458005)

So whats the argument against a dictatorship? The people voted for the leader once, therefore they should legitimately have lifetime rule.

Or, re-calling a general election after 1.5 years. Didn’t ‘the people’ already decide?

How about if they were promised one thing, and voted for it, and it turned out to be impossible and based on lies and fraud?

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