Explain why the 2016 EU referendum was called with only four months' notice

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Popularity

This petition has 309 signatures in total, with signatories from 203 constituencies. That makes it the 11,808th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 31% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 23% (average).

Signatures by Constituency

• 5 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 4 - Banbury
• 4 - South West Bedfordshire
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 3 - Bristol East
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Eltham
• 3 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 3 - Fareham
• 3 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 3 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 3 - Bath
• 3 - Arundel and South Downs
• 3 - Winchester
• 3 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 3 - Newport West
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - North Devon
• 3 - Woking
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - Newark
• 2 - Esher and Walton
• 2 - Enfield, Southgate
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - South Suffolk
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - South West Surrey
• 2 - St Ives
• 2 - Guildford
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - Putney
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - Manchester, Withington
• 2 - Pendle
• 2 - Sheffield South East
• 2 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Hastings and Rye
• 2 - Derbyshire Dales
• 2 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Truro and Falmouth
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 2 - Vauxhall
• 2 - Warwick and Leamington
• 2 - Watford
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - Wimbledon
• 2 - Bristol West
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Tewkesbury
• 2 - Arfon
• 2 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Reading West
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North West Norfolk
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Norwich North
• 1 - Hexham
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Salisbury
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Thirsk and Malton
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Stockton North
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - Totnes
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Sheffield Central
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - York Outer
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Sunderland Central
• 1 - North East Hampshire
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Barrow and Furness
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Cambridge
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Bromsgrove
• 1 - Brent Central
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Mansfield
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Milton Keynes South
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Halton
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Grantham and Stamford
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Keighley
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 59 - South East
• 49 - London
• 37 - South West
• 29 - East of England
• 24 - East Midlands
• 23 - North West
• 19 - Wales
• 17 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 16 - West Midlands
• 8 - Scotland
• 7 - North East

Signatures by Country

• 291 - United Kingdom
• 5 - France
• 4 - Spain
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Malta
• 1 - Luxembourg
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Netherlands