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The petition directly asks the government to revoke article 50 and therefore keep the United Kingdom in the European Union. It reads: "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is the will of the people. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now for remaining in the EU.
As long as the British Government has not invoked Article 50, the UK stays a member of the EU; must continue to fulfil all EU-related treaties, including possible future agreements; and should legally be treated as a member. The EU has no framework to exclude the UK as long as Article 50 is not invoked, and the UK does not violate EU laws.
Northern Ireland and Scotland don't seem to have heard the rallying cry, despite being more Remain than England.
A few weeks after the referendum, an e-petition originally set up beforehand on 25 May 2016 by a member of the Leave-supporting English Democrats [failed verification] demanding it be re-run in the event that a supermajority was not reached became the most popular petition on the site, receiving 4,150,262 signatures. [13]
E-petitions are an important democratic tool but they need to be part of something bigger to really change things.
Lawyers representing the government in a legal challenge over the Article 50 process said that May would not trigger Article 50 before 2017. [133] However, in September 2016, The Washington Post highlighted the lack of coherent strategy following what it described as the "hurricane-strength political wreckage" left by the Brexit vote. It said ...
A "Vote Leave" poster in Omagh saying "We send the EU £50 million every day - Let's spend it on our NHS instead" The London School of Economics Library has established a collection of referendum leaflets from the remain groups.
The Act's long title is To Confer power on the Prime Minister to notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the United Kingdom's intention to withdraw from the EU. The Act confers on the Prime Minister the power to give the notice required under the Treaty when a member state decides to withdraw. [ 4 ]