Petition for second EU referendum reaches 1,000,000 signatures.

Any petition on that site with 10,000 signatures gets a response from parliament. At 100,000 it may be debated.

This is an attempt at mitigation. The referendum was technically only advisory, so people are trying to introduce opportunities for another discussion about whether or not the wishes of 24/30 cabinet members (all conservatives), the vast majority of MPs across all parties and the stern, jointly-issued sentiment from the UK's top economic experts should he ignored after two heavily-criticised campaigns failed to inform the electorate on both sides of the debate, and just hours after the result the winning side called one of their main campaign points was "a mistake."

This election was a shining example of democratic process, but it also raises the question about whether or not that is the best form of government when the electorate is ill-informed by two hyperbolic campaigns and a media that has been pandering to and patronising the public for years, selling issues by igniting fear. Our government is not a democracy, it's a representational democracy, and there is a good reason for this.

Why are we ignoring the advice of the people we pay and elect to be informed about these issues, economic experts, top industry figures, and most world leaders, and putting a monumental decision in the hands of a public who were let down by both sides. Ridiculous.

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