A petition calling for a general election has amassed more than 2.5 million signatures – but thousands of those who have signed aren’t living in the UK.
In fact the petition has been signed by people based across a whopping 184 countries, from the British Antarctic Territory to China to the United Arab Emirates. A surge in people signing is attributed to tech billionaire Elon Musk having shared the petition on X/ Twitter, after which the number of signatories more than doubled from one million on Sunday evening to over two million by Monday lunchtime.
There’s a lot of this in the past few days as the petition moves close to three million. These pathetic attempts to undermine is are just that – pathetic. I’ve seen screenshot put up by morons who think they are being clever ‘showing’ that even Keir Starmer signed it. As those more astute quickly pointed out, these were signatures broken down into MP constituency – ergo, people in Kier Starmer’s constituency who signed it. And yes, there are some from abroad. There’s a perfectly valid reason for this.
Only British citizens (my bold) or UK residents have the right to sign the petition, which calls for another general election fewer than four months after having one. But a surprising number of Brits from around the world are calling for a chance to go back to the polls.
And British citizens may well be abroad at the time of signing. It means that they are signing legitimately as you admit here. And, no, people are not signing for a chance to go back to the polls. It’s a protest, you moronic fuckwits.
While this was always just a protest, the fact that lefties are clearly rattled is a bonus and adds to the amusement factor.
You can’t sign it if you aren’t on the Electoral Register. So either there’s mass fraud, with people signing under others’ names (in which case, how would the Mirror know?), or the Mirror’s full of shit.
The Mirror is full of shit.
Some lefties getting a little wound up about this petition, I read one declaring it to be borderline treasonous. There was apparently a similar petition in 2023, I don’t recall nearly so much lefty frothing. S’all right when they do it?
The 2023 petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/641904
As I am on the UK electoral register and a signatory, despite living in rural Ireland. Are they saying that my postal vote is no good either?
They are saying that you are a bot.
I wonder how many of those who voted from abroad left the country when Labour won (or just after) and may return once Labour is kicked out.
I voted (quite legitimately) from Cyprus…
Ah, yes, global supervillain Musk again. No doubt pressing the ‘post’ button from his undersea volcano lair, while stroking his white cat…
I signed it , proud to. I’m for toppling this vile Labour government by any means. In my 72years i’ve never seen such a bunch of detestable creeps in government.
Labour are being what I expected them to be. The so called Conservative party however were Labour in all but name and did sod all in 14 years. They are my candidates for most detestable (although I’ll admit there are a fair few choices – Cameron, Brown, Bliar etc).
I agree, if we’d had any conservative values previously then the current mess would be massively reduced.