The funny little petition is being rightly laughed out, of course. I am quite looking forward to the debate in Parliament. Not only do the signatories seem to be largely from abroad, and there really would not be that many of them in a country of this size even if they were all here, but the people behind the whole thing were so lacking in intellect that they never noticed the comparison with the equally daft attempt to use the same method to overturn the result of the EU referendum.
The people who have never got over that are now largely also the people who are stunned that this Government and the MPs who support it are the objects of anything less than public adulation, while they now have their mirror image in the people who cannot believe that Nigel Farage is not Prime Minister or at least Leader of the Opposition, or that Donald Trump is not President of Britain, or that the conduct of our elections is no business of Elon Musk's, or that no number of their signatures on a petition can order up a General Election. Musk, by the way, has endorsed "Tommy Robinson", whom Farage has disowned. After that, should Musk be permitted to enter this country?
Farage was not invited onto the platform at the farmers' protest, whereas even Steve Reed had been asked, while Ed Davey turned up and spoke. Mind you, Davey leads 72 MPs. Not five. That latter figure would increase by a large proportion, though a small amount, if there were a General Election in the near future, which there is not going to be, but Reform UK would still be the fifth largest party after the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, in a hung Parliament. Say it again, though, that there is not going to be a General Election for another four and a half years. Get over it.
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