Submitted on Monday 26th December 2022
Rejected on Thursday 5th January 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Stop calling Brexit a "Democratic decision".
The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy which has operated for centuries under well established rules.
The electorate voted in the expectation those rules would be followed.
There is no reasonable or rational basis to assume that they trusted the government's promise to ignore those rules.
The principles of representation were set out definitively by Edmund Burke in his famous speech to the electors of Bristol: representatives have a clear duty to give their best, most unbiased judgement, and to not betray democracy by sacrificing it to public opinion.
Brexit is the antithesis of these principles.
In a functional democracy, that result would be taken as a vote of no confidence.
Far from being a democratic decision Brexit has enabled the end of democracy in this once great nation.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you're concerned about the UK's departure from the EU, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
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