These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover...
While the huge number of signings on this petition obviously does reflect _something_, I'm not sure it's actually doing anything meaningful. Likewise the upcoming march this weekend for a Peoples Vote:
https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march
These are now simply ignored. The sheer stubbornness of Theresa May's position as evidenced by her statement last night means we're going to go to the wire on something that's been worked on for years. People calling it a national disgrace are absolutely correct.
I can only hope that the pressure exerted from various angles (petition, march, sane MPs) will result in Parliament revoking Article 50, but I don't see it happening. It would be too prudent for this parody of a political system.
edit: the site's back now. Apparently it runs on Rails with DelayedJob doing most of the grunt work in the background.
edit2: just found the most popular petition on there with over 4m votes and absolutely nothing came of that:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/131215
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover...
While the huge number of signings on this petition obviously does reflect _something_, I'm not sure it's actually doing anything meaningful. Likewise the upcoming march this weekend for a Peoples Vote:
https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march
These are now simply ignored. The sheer stubbornness of Theresa May's position as evidenced by her statement last night means we're going to go to the wire on something that's been worked on for years. People calling it a national disgrace are absolutely correct.
I can only hope that the pressure exerted from various angles (petition, march, sane MPs) will result in Parliament revoking Article 50, but I don't see it happening. It would be too prudent for this parody of a political system.
edit: the site's back now. Apparently it runs on Rails with DelayedJob doing most of the grunt work in the background.
edit2: just found the most popular petition on there with over 4m votes and absolutely nothing came of that:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/131215