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Ghost Dog

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10. Parliament was required by petition to debate this:
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 11:27 AM
Dec 2017

I (virtually) signed the petition, so received this email after the debate:

Dear (Ghost Dog),

Parliament debated the petition you signed – “Hold a referendum on the final Brexit deal”

Watch the debate: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3e1dd847-9bcc-48fb-b141-5c8441b50ae9

Read the transcript: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-12-11/debates/E3B1D9A4-5B9B-4337-8486-C4BE9A46F2BB/BrexitDealReferendum

Read the research: https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2017-0253

The petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200004

Thanks,
The Petitions team
UK Government and Parliament


It's rather curious that I was able to participate in the (online) petition, simply providing my (real name), email address and postcode of where I live in the Canary Islands. In the original Brexit referendum and in the subsequent general election I was, on the other hand, (imo illegally) disenfranchised, having officially resided in non-UK EU more than fifteen years.

Government responded:

On 23 June 2016 the British people voted to leave the European Union. The UK Government is clear that it is now its duty to implement the will of the people and so there will be no second referendum...

Read the response in full: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200004


A second referendum would not be illegal, as I understand it. Some of what Ms. May's Government is doing might well be, though. Such as withholding information in contempt of parliament.
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