Comment by pjc50

There's no point to them. It's a feelgood option like a lift door close button (edit: apparently this is a bad analogy, suggest a different one please?). Which is why they've degenerated into jokes.

Also the public are hardly of one mind. See the duelling Brexit petitions, https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200004?reveal_respo... vs https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200311?reveal_respo...