A Million Britons Call for New Elections
Over a million individuals have joined an online petition demanding a fresh general election in the UK. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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Parliament is set to engage in debate following a petition that demands a re-vote of July’s elections.
An online petition calling for a new general election in the UK has garnered over a million signatures, coming just a few months after Prime Minister Keir Starmer's significant victory for the Labour Party.
Launched on Wednesday, the petition accuses Starmer and Labour of “going back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election,” urging Parliament to consider a revote. As of Sunday afternoon, the petition has surpassed a million signatures, with approximately 2,000 new signatures being added every minute.
According to the government’s petition site, any petition reaching 100,000 signatures must be debated in Parliament, barring “the issue has already been debated recently or there’s a debate scheduled for the near future.”
Though the Labour Party maintains a 163-seat majority, the likelihood of any debate culminating in a vote of no confidence or a new election is minimal. Nonetheless, Starmer will still be required to listen to discussions regarding his performance so far.
Support for Starmer has waned, as reflected in a poll indicating a collapse in backing for the new Prime Minister.
Conservative MP Richard Tice and Reform MP Rupert Lowe have promoted the petition via their social media, with Lowe stating that it “may not force an election, but it will definitely send Starmer a message.”
Starmer assumed office in July after Labour capitalized on widespread discontent with Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, achieving the party's largest electoral victory in over a century. However, by the end of October, his approval rating had plummeted from a post-election high of +11 to a troubling low of -38, based on a survey conducted by More in Common.
This significant decline in approval is attributed to several unpopular decisions made by Starmer, including the cancellation of £300 winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners, the early release of thousands of prisoners to alleviate overcrowding in jails, and a recent budget that introduced £40 billion in tax increases.
Starmer has faced criticism from farming organizations due to a newly imposed 20% inheritance tax on farms, which they argue could potentially bankrupt successors of family farms given the disparity between their paper worth and actual low income.
In an interview with the BBC on Friday, Starmer defended the elimination of fuel payments to pensioners by stating that it “makes sense,” and acknowledged that there were “lots of decisions” made in the budget he would have preferred “not to have had to make.”
Mark B Thomas for TROIB News
An online petition calling for a new general election in the UK has garnered over a million signatures, coming just a few months after Prime Minister Keir Starmer's significant victory for the Labour Party.
Launched on Wednesday, the petition accuses Starmer and Labour of “going back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election,” urging Parliament to consider a revote. As of Sunday afternoon, the petition has surpassed a million signatures, with approximately 2,000 new signatures being added every minute.
According to the government’s petition site, any petition reaching 100,000 signatures must be debated in Parliament, barring “the issue has already been debated recently or there’s a debate scheduled for the near future.”
Though the Labour Party maintains a 163-seat majority, the likelihood of any debate culminating in a vote of no confidence or a new election is minimal. Nonetheless, Starmer will still be required to listen to discussions regarding his performance so far.
Support for Starmer has waned, as reflected in a poll indicating a collapse in backing for the new Prime Minister.
Conservative MP Richard Tice and Reform MP Rupert Lowe have promoted the petition via their social media, with Lowe stating that it “may not force an election, but it will definitely send Starmer a message.”
Starmer assumed office in July after Labour capitalized on widespread discontent with Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, achieving the party's largest electoral victory in over a century. However, by the end of October, his approval rating had plummeted from a post-election high of +11 to a troubling low of -38, based on a survey conducted by More in Common.
This significant decline in approval is attributed to several unpopular decisions made by Starmer, including the cancellation of £300 winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners, the early release of thousands of prisoners to alleviate overcrowding in jails, and a recent budget that introduced £40 billion in tax increases.
Starmer has faced criticism from farming organizations due to a newly imposed 20% inheritance tax on farms, which they argue could potentially bankrupt successors of family farms given the disparity between their paper worth and actual low income.
In an interview with the BBC on Friday, Starmer defended the elimination of fuel payments to pensioners by stating that it “makes sense,” and acknowledged that there were “lots of decisions” made in the budget he would have preferred “not to have had to make.”
Mark B Thomas for TROIB News
