Submitted on Sunday 26th June 2016
Rejected on Friday 1st July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Decline to trigger article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Although the referendum of 23/6/16 led to a narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU, the margin represents only about 2.7% of the electorate and the "leave" vote represents only about 27% of the population as a whole.
This seems a small mandate for such a momentous decision.
In the UK a referendum such as the recent one on EU membership is not legally binding on the government, so there is no requirement to act on the result.
Although young people under 18 will be most affected by this, they do not get to vote.
Another referendum would be unlikely to produce a clearer mandate, and might produce a contradictory result to the first one, leading to protracted and pointless debate.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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