Closed petition Parliament to debate meaning and functioning of democracy in Britain

Closed on 11 April 2018

The government’s reply to a petition calling for a referendum on any deal with the European Union misunderstands democracy, a process whereby nothing is set it stone. We want to hear, on behalf of the British people, what parliament thinks democracy is in Britain, and how it will uphold it.

The reply says that there can be no attempt to reverse the result of a narrowly won, advisory referendum, as it is the will of the people.Yet the will of the people last June overturned a 2015 election and did not deliver a government majority. The petition was not calling for a second referendum on leaving the EU (which would be a third after 1975 and 2016) but a first referendum on the exit deal (it seems pointless to call for a debate on the DeXEUs reading and comprehension skills).