House of Commons to debate 2nd EU Referendum

This news just in, as they say so ungrammatically on the telly:

The Petitions Committee has decided to schedule a House of Commons debate on this petition. The debate will take place on 5 September at 4.30pm in Westminster Hall, the second debating chamber of the House of Commons. The debate will be opened by Ian Blackford MP.

The Committee has decided that the huge number of people signing this petition means that it should be debated by MPs. The Petitions Committee would like to make clear that, in scheduling this debate, they are not supporting the call for a second referendum. The debate will allow MPs to put forward a range of views on behalf of their constituents. At the end of the debate, a Government Minister will respond to the points raised.

A debate in Westminster Hall does not have the power to change the law, and won’t …

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Petition “EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum”- Government response

You’ve all heard about the UK’s EU referendum of 23rd June 2016. You’ve all heard of the result, and you’ve almost certainly heard of the collapsing £, the rise in violent xenophobia, plus the anger and despair of:

• those who voted to stay;
• those who voted to leave but realised they’d been lied to (or, if you prefer, had listened to what they wanted to hear, rather than the experts who told them the truth);
• the under-18s who saw their futures being confiscated by the old;
• the expats of all nations who were denied a voice in something that concerned them directly.

This led to mass signings of an official petition on the UK government website, demanding an 2nd EU referendum. We won’t discuss the advisability or otherwise of sinking yet more money into such an exercise right now.

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