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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 155954" data-attributes="member: 23">Well, Andrea Leadsom has already poo-pooed the petition by saying:As if the petition is comparable to a national referendum for which every household in the country was bombarded with &quot;facts&quot; for many, many months leading up to it. The petition needed 100,000 signatures to be considered for debate. I wouldn&#039;t expect the petition itself to revoke Article 50, but the fact that it is has now received over 31 times more signatures than it needed&nbsp; without any real promotion just shows how strongly people feel about this and how there is a definite need for some kind of public consultation about the choices at hand. I share your concerns. Even though it would give the public the opportunity to make a more informed decision and probably ask a different question, there are many people who will cry foul at the possibility of any kind of referendum. Even if we got a second referendum and even if that miraculously changed the outcome, I can&#039;t say I&#039;d feel great about it - as much as I still feel remaining in the EU is the right thing. There&#039;s so much bitterness across the whole country that can&#039;t be erased. We&#039;re now two sets of &quot;us&quot; and &quot;them&quot;s and that will be very difficult to get past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 155954, member: 23"] Well, Andrea Leadsom has already poo-pooed the petition by saying: As if the petition is comparable to a national referendum for which every household in the country was bombarded with "facts" for many, many months leading up to it. The petition needed 100,000 signatures to be considered for debate. I wouldn't expect the petition itself to revoke Article 50, but the fact that it is has now received over 31 times more signatures than it needed without any real promotion just shows how strongly people feel about this and how there is a definite need for some kind of public consultation about the choices at hand. I share your concerns. Even though it would give the public the opportunity to make a more informed decision and probably ask a different question, there are many people who will cry foul at the possibility of any kind of referendum. Even if we got a second referendum and even if that miraculously changed the outcome, I can't say I'd feel great about it - as much as I still feel remaining in the EU is the right thing. There's so much bitterness across the whole country that can't be erased. We're now two sets of "us" and "them"s and that will be very difficult to get past. [/QUOTE]

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