Rejected petition Ignore the EU Referendum as it breached 5.1m non-English voters' Human Rights.

The electorate in England (38.9m) is substantially greater than the electorates in Scotland (3.99m), Wales (2.27m) and N Ireland (1.26m). Thus the overall result is skewed in favour of the result in England to such an extent that the results in the other three countries are practically irrelevant.

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The Referendum was a clear breach of the Human Rights of the voters in Scotland, Wales and N Ireland (representing 16.2% of the electorate) as whichever way they voted the result would still have been determined by the vote in England (83.8%). Because of the disenfranchisement of these voters it was not a UK vote but an England vote on behalf of the entire UK. The result should have required at least three countries to vote the same as the simple majority for a clear result to have occurred.

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Date submitted 28 June 2016
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