Rejected petition A Successful Petition to Trigger a Binding Referendum on a General Election

Considering it is very difficult to design a different kind of electoral system that pleases the majority of voters, we demand a law that uses a government petition (I suggest a million signatories) to precipitate a binding referendum on whether to have a fresh General Election.

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Too many people are feeling that their British way of life is badly threatened, in ways that were not declared during the General Election.
It is hard to understand, in what is intended to be a democracy, that just a few people, elected on a third of the vote, can have such an inviolable hold on power.
A referendum is the most honest expression of democracy.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action:

Hold referendum if a petition reaches over 650,000 signatures
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/743620

Give More Power to Public Petitions to Force the Government to take Action
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736968

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 3 October 2025
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