Petition
calling for UK to hold 2nd EU referendum soars past 2mn signatures
RT,
25
June, 2016
Two
days after voting ‘out’ of the European Union, over 2 million
Brits have signed a petition calling for a second vote, as many feel
dissatisfied with the outcome of the referendum.
The petition on
the British parliament website was posted before the June 23
referendum, urging the government to hold another vote on EU
membership if the support for ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ campaigns
will be less than 60 percent of the populace. Thursday’s referendum
saw only 51.9 per cent of voters supporting the idea of exiting the
bloc, while 48.9 per cent voted to stay.
Hundreds
join ‘F**k Brexit rally’ at Houses of Parliament (PHOTOS)
Only British citizens or UK residents have the right to sign the petition, and it has proved to be increasingly popular, with the number of signatories rising sharply on Saturday, at a rate of some 1,000 signatures per minute at one point. The website indicates the majority of those who signed the petition are based in regions where ‘stay’ support was strongest. This includes London, where people launched their own petition, calling on Mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the capital city an independent state and apply for EU membership.
Scotland
was also among the regions that voted to remain in the bloc, with all
32 local authorities or roughly 62 percent of Scots backing staying
in the EU. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Saturday
that the Scottish government will immediately engage in talks with
the EU to protect Scotland’s position in the bloc.
She added steps
were being taken regarding a possible second independence
referendum.
Under
UK legislation, the Parliament has to consider a debate within a year
regarding any petition which attracts over 100,000 signatures. But
any possible debate would have to take place quickly if current Prime
Minister David Cameron is to be present. The leader of the
Conservative Party said Friday he would be stepping down in the wake
of the vote, as he had forcefully backed the ‘Remain’ campaign to
keep Britain in the EU.
Apart
from petitioning the Parliament, Brits have been voicing their anger
at the referendum results in rallies that took place on Saturday in
London and Newcastle.
Ana
Hundreds
of young Britons gathered near the Houses of Parliament in London,
angry that the voting campaign didn’t give them enough information
on the consequences of the vote and that the decision to leave could
put their future in jeopardy
#BREXIT PETITION: Who Is William Oliver Healey?
21st
Century Wire says…
We
heard about the big petition, but who is the author?
This
is interesting…
The
#EUReferendumPsyop continues in the form of a petition calling for a
second referendum. So far, 2.1 million people have signed it.
An
online search for “William Oliver Healey” reveals a host of
results, almost all of which point to the petition itself or news
articles and blog posts about the petition, and almost none of which
lead to a real human being called “William Oliver Healey”.
No-one
seems to be asking the simple question, who is “William Oliver
Healey”?
From
the beginning, the UK Column alone has described the entire
referendum process as a “psychological operation”. We have stated
that that operation is designed to:
- Distract the public from the bigger policy items which threaten their sovereignty and liberty much more than the EU ever did.
- Create complete division between people: not only white/black, Muslim/Christian, rich/poor, but now division among families, friends and work colleagues.
We
pointed out that somehow David Cameron had managed to have his
friends and colleagues placed in charge of the Leave Campaign,
controlling the opposition debate on one hand, and sidelining UKIP in
the process without anyone other than UKIP supporters seeming to
worry about it. The aim here, we allege, was not so much to make sure
the final result was to Remain, but to make sure that the subject
matter of the debate was restricted to jobs and immigration.
The
aim was to divide. The outcome was irrelevant.
As
the “campaigns” ran, with Remainers campaigning for Leave,
Leavers suddenly jumping ship to Remain and vice versa, it should
come as no surprise, perhaps, that there is a possibility that
“William Oliver Healey”, now running a petition for a second
referendum, should have campaigned for Leave.
Now,
at this point, I must point out that I have no confirmed evidence
that the person I am about to present is the author of the petition.
I am, at this point, asking the question, is he?
William
Oliver Healey
The
William Oliver Healey that I would like to draw to your attention was
a student at de Montford University in Leicester, where he studied
politics. He stood for the Disabled
Students’ Representative role at the Student’s Union,
claiming to suffer from Asbergers.
William Oliver Healey
Following
his university career, he joined the English
Democrats,
for whom he stood in 2014 asMEP
for the East Midlands euroregion. During that campaign he wrote:
“As a personal opinion of my own devising: I believe it is time that the 7.5million economic migrants who came here to economically enrich themselves and who have failed to integrate should now be returned to their place of national origin.”
William
Oliver Healey campaigned
tirelessly for the LEAVE side during the referendum
campaign.
(…)
Is this the same William Oliver Healey who created this petition?
EDITORS
NOTE: Upon closer examination after downloading
the data from this petition, it appears that a great number
of the signatures are from an array of foreign countries ranging from
Cuba, to Mauritania, to Algeria, Argentina, Burundi, Iran and even
Moldova, along with dozens of others. It’s possible that an
overwhelming majority of the petition’s ‘signatures’ are from
overseas. Very odd, and in such a short space of time. Could this be
the work of automated software, also known as ‘internet ‘bots’?
Leader
Tim Farron said the result had been based on lies by the Leave
campaign
The
Liberal Democrats will stand at the next general election on a
platform of derailing Brexit and keeping Britain in the European
Union, the party has announced.
Leader
Tim Farron said on Saturday night that he would be “clear and
unequivocal” with voters that if elected it would set aside the
referendum result and keep Britain in the EU.
He
said the referendum result amounted to a “howl of anger” at
politicians and that the election of a liberal government would be a
way of registering a change of heart by the electorate
Just 48 hours after Brexit, the Leave campaign breaks its two central promises (VIDEO)
25
June, 2016
The
two central promises of the Leave campaign were to return taxpayer
funding of the EU to the NHS in Britain, and to put a stop on
immigration. Just 48 hours after the vote, these promises have been
abandoned.
UKIP
leader Nigel Farage appeared on Good Morning Britain the morning
after the Brexit vote, to dispense with promise number one. Asked if
the Leave campaign would now honour it’s promise to give the £350m
a week which Britain currently spends on its EU membership to the
NHS, Farage answered with a simple ‘No.’
This,
despite a giant red bus trawling the country throughout the campaign
saying quite the opposite.
The
former stockbroker went on to claim the entire idea had been a big
‘mistake’ by the Leave campaign which he’d never signed up to.
25
June, 2016
However,
video has since emerged showing Farage himself pledging those EU
millions to the NHS on BBC Question Time.
But
this is not the only promise, or indeed the biggest, that the Leave
campaign has broken since the Brexit vote.
The
figureheads of the campaign are now all relentlessly backtracking on
the central pledge of the campaign – which was to curb immigration.
Prior to the Brexit vote, the promise to (primarily) working class
Britons was: Vote out, and secure your borders.
The
Canary warned our readers prior to the vote that this promise would
never be upheld. We wrote:
Those
who wish to see Britain cut immigration dramatically are going to be
bitterly disappointed in the event of a Brexit vote. The economics
embraced by David Cameron and the conservatives doesn’t permit
protectionism – or ‘looking after our own’. This is why they do
nothing for working class Britons losing jobs because their bosses
choose to exploit immigrant labour. This is why they do nothing when
companies ship British jobs overseas to exploit workers in far away
countries. They are not patriots, or nationalists. They think as part
of a trans-national capitalist class. The bottom line for them is the
profit and loss accounts of themselves and their peers, not the
personal aspirations of 31 million working people in Britain, or the
near 2 million unemployed. The right can rest assured that if Britain
leaves the EU and the Conservatives stay in power – there will be
every bit as much, if not more, exploitation of immigrant and
overseas labour, and all the losses of jobs, wages and working
conditions that go along with it.
Just
hours after the vote, prominent members of the Leave campaign were
already confirming this nightmare scenario. The conservative plan for
Brexit will likely seek to retain free movement of labour across the
EU, meaning zero decrease in immigration – and possibly an increase
if future trade deals relax free movement of labour laws with other
nations.
And
now, we enter period of chaos.
The
SNP have, rightly, moved to deliver a second referendum on Scottish
Independence. In all likelihood, this vote will be successful.
Membership of the EU is a deal breaker for most Scots – so the
remainder of the UK can kiss goodbye to Scotland.
Lawmakers
in Northern Ireland are also now seeking independence, flung into an
argument on the nation’s fate in the UK which may very well
reignite the still simmering tensions that have blighted the nation
for too long.
There
is even an, at this stage at least, speculative campaign to make
London an independent city-state, which would remain within the
European Union.
In
the bizarre (but no less bizarre than the position in which we now
find ourselves) event that all these moves come off – Wales and the
rest of England would be left behind wondering what on earth to do
with ourselves. In effect, the premise of the Brexit vote would be
turned on it’s head. Wales and England would not have voted to
leave the EU, but instead, the UK – with the rest of the UK
remaining together and in the EU.
All
this, for broken promises by opportunistic politicians who couldn’t
care less about those who voted for their cynical campaigns. Let us
hope we can come together in the wake of it all to build a better
Britain together.
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