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an online govt petition to get the UK Parliament to debate whether there should be another EU referendum had reached over 3 million signatures. A minimum of 100,000 is required. The govt said they removed 77.000 IP addresses as being fakes.
How do we know millions more could have been faked since this is the biggest petition in history. Is there intelligent software available to hackers to hide IP codes toe undetectable multiple entries?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/134558...g-fraud-probe/
I am assuming it means that any time you have a close vote where a lot of members of the public participated, you could petition for another go round. I think it's a bad idea to want to vote on something again simply because you didn't get the desired outcome.
What would be the purpose of a second vote...other than to overturn a democratic process the outcome of which a lot of people are uncomfortable with and the world markets are responding badly to? Just curious.
There is in this a bitter-sweet irony in that the man who started the petition is an anti-EU activist who predicted Remain would win and started the petition in advance as a response, only to find the positions are reversed and that his petition has been taken over by the opposite position to the one he holds. Rather like those Conservatives who promoted an exit from the EU to punch their leader on the nose, only to find he has been knocked out. It is also rather like an account I once read of the so-called revolution in Afghanistan in 1973 when the cousin of the Shah decided with his mates they would prefer to rule instead but never thought he would go so easily, so that they woke up the day after to realise they were in control of a country but had no plan other than some vague ideas on modernising their new republic. From that one spat between two cousins, Afghanistan was lurched into a poisonous and destructive relationship with Pakistan that descended thereafter into a civil war that has lasted now for nearly 30 years. That tired phrase be careful what you wish for, seems cruelly appropriate in too many cases these days.
childish bollocks...move on.