Brexit.

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It requires an email address name and postcode, it shouldn't be difficult to determine if the number of people to any given postcode is out of proportion to the number of properties it represents and after signing you must click a verification link received in the email.

Well, the tests are not that strict - I tested it, not even using a VPN and my vote was being counted.

 

[2tee2]

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are you using https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json ? I didn't bother checking if there might be any other options

PS
PowerShell:
while ($true) {Get-Date; (Invoke-RestMethod https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json ).data.attributes.signature_count; Start-Sleep -Seconds 600}

PPS
if I remember correctly people were using some python script to "sign" a previous and related petition, just after the referendum

 

[Porsupah Ree]

are you using https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json ? I didn't bother checking if there might be any other options

I haven't checked how they're going about it - I simply managed to find the site, apparently let loose on Reddit a month ago. Seems to work well, though I rather wish they'd make it clear if any axis increment changes, as with that switch from hourly checking to every ten minutes at 1000 today.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I seriously would not trust him with giving advice to girl scouts on how to sell cookies.

I wouldn't trust him with Girl Scouts!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

MPs advised to travel in groups to avoid abuse over Brexit

Lindsay Hoyle, a Commons deputy speaker, urges colleagues to take precautions

www.theguardian.com

A deputy speaker of the House of Commons has advised MPs they should take a black cab or travel home together to avoid the risk of intimidation or abuse, as public tensions rise over the Brexit process.

Lindsay Hoyle, a long-serving Labour MP, emailed all colleagues on Thursday afternoon to say the Metropolitan police had been “left in no doubt” it had to ensure that “members of parliament can vote in parliament without fear”.

“Personally, I have never felt this level of tension during my time in the house and I am aware that other colleagues feel the same,” Hoyle wrote. “Many colleagues have already been subject to widely publicised abuse and intimidation.”

He advised MPs to take “simple steps” such as travelling home by taxi or with colleagues, and he said most had already taken security measures at home such as installing panic buttons.

On Thursday parliament’s human rights committee published a letter from Max Hill, the director of public prosecutions, listing a string of prosecutions against people who had abused or threatened an MP.

The letter to which the report refers, giving details of complaints received from MPs about harassment and intimidation, is downloadable here.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Sid]

Macron: UK heading for no-deal Brexit if MPs reject May's plan | The Guardian

Emmanuel Macron has warned Britain is heading for a no-deal Brexit unless the House of Commons ratifies the withdrawal agreement negotiated with Brussels.

The stark choice for MPs was laid out by the French president shortly before the 27 EU heads of state and government listen to an appeal by Theresa May for a three-month Brexit delay.

“In case of a no vote or a no, directly it will guide everyone to a no deal, for sure,” Macron said. “This is it. We are ready.”

Bang, that should end the charade in Westminster. Macron is obviously totally on the side of TM.
Time seems to be up.

Sounds like 3 options left:
TM's Withdrawal agreement
Withdraw A50
No deal

EU diplomats have warned there is a growing sense in Brussels and some capitals that there is “nothing more to be done – we are finished”.

Luxembourg’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, spoke of his frustration with the process, saying: “I have the feeling that I am in the waiting room for Godot and Godot is never coming.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Tigger]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

However, she was originally in favour of Remain.

She said many times there wouldn't be an election in 2017.

She said many times there would be a second meaningful vote in December.

She said many times she wouldn't seek an extension to A50.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Could an online petition stop brexit? Theresa May wants a vote between her NA and No Deal as the final say since EU declines an extension. The only hope is a push by opposition, to force the vote to be NA vs. No Brexit. This petition, which has to be considered since it got 100,000 signatures, and the previous motion to take No Deal off the table even after the deadline, could do it.

Saw petition jump past 600,000 as it is growing 4 to 5000 a minute.

Looks like it broke at 617,000

I give it better odds than us petitions, at least the government can not just ignore it.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This sounds all too credible.

ETA: And this response is very apposite

 

[Lianne Marten]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This looks hopeful, and sensible


The significance of April 12 is that it's the deadline for the UK to decide whether or not to participate in the elections to the European Parliament. If we do, that opens the door to a longer extension.

David Allen Green's comments on it all (as he says, he rarely swears -- like me, but I know exactly how he feels right now)

Thread

 

[Tigger]

"The people voted for pain" of course, they weren't told they were voting for pain, they were told unicorns and sunlit uplands.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Guardian Live - EU agrees response to May's Brexit delay request

According to the Press Association, EU leaders are set to offer the UK a plan that would delay Brexit from 29 March to 22 May on condition that MPs approve Theresa May’s withdrawal deal. If the deal is rejected in its third “meaningful vote” in the Commons, the UK would be given until 12 April to come to the European Council with its proposals for the way forward. If the UK agreed to take part in European Parliament elections in May, the possibility would be open for a further extension of several months.

Tusk has not officially confirmed what the bloc’s offer will be but is meeting May right now to communicate it to her.

This would seem to leave open the possibility of the WA being approved conditionally, such as with the Kyle-Wilson amendment, though given the timescale involved therein, that would also require participation in the next EU elections - is that something Parliament would have to approve, or would that happen automatically as a result of continued membership?

 

[Porsupah Ree]

It's over 9000 2,000,000:

UK Parliament Petitions Monitor

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Guardian Live - EU agrees response to May's Brexit delay request



This would seem to leave open the possibility of the WA being approved conditionally, such as with the Kyle-Wilson amendment, though given the timescale involved therein, that would also require participation in the next EU elections - is that something Parliament would have to approve, or would that happen automatically as a result of continued membership?

Apparently,

for the UK to participate in the EP elections, Returning Officers must publish notice of the poll by 12 April, before which the Government must appoint the date of the poll by Order made under the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/785962/190314_-_PARAMETERS_OF_EXTENDING_ARTICLE_50_-_FINAL.pdf para 13.

So Parliament has to approve holding elections, but that shouldn't be a big deal if that's what the government chooses to do.

The consensus among the experts seems to be that, even if we don't hold elections, there would still be ways round that, so it's not an absolute hard requirement, but it would be messy and would strain still further the EU's patience with this mess we've created.

 

[Kara Spengler]

So basically they are being asked if they want a) one date or b) another. They just have to decide next week.

I am putting my bet on the MPs picking they want mauve.