Carol Vorderman has demanded a referendum connected rejoining the EU (Image: Getty)
Carol Vorderman has demanded a 2nd EU referendum, successful effect to a petition calling for a caller General Election.
The erstwhile Countdown mathematician took to X, accusing Keir Starmer critics of "stamping their feet", successful notation to a petition that's received much than 2 cardinal votes asking for the PM to telephone different nationalist poll.
"Right wingers stamping their feet saying telephone a General Election", she wrote. "Tell you what.... Let's person a Rejoin the EU referendum astatine the aforesaid time? Six cardinal radical signed that petition".
In 2016 and 2019, determination were pro-EU petitions that garnered much support, but were not implemented. However, the velocity astatine which the petition calling for a caller General Election has gathered enactment is unprecedented.
British acting fable Michael Caine became the latest personage to enactment the petition, urging Keir Starmer to dissolve Parliament and clasp a caller ballot conscionable months aft Labour's landslide triumph connected July 4.
It comes aft weeks of fury, sparked predominantly by cuts to pensioners' wintertime substance allowance and the ongoing enactment surrounding farmers' inheritance tax.
The People's Vote run march successful 2019 (Image: Getty)
During the Brexit referendum year, a canvass was tally demanding: "We the undersigned telephone upon HM Government to instrumentality a regularisation that if the stay and permission ballot is little than 60 percent based [on] a turnout little than 75 percent determination should beryllium different referendum." It got implicit 4 cardinal votes.
Three years later, a canvass was tally calling for the Government to "revoke Article 50 and stay successful the EU". That ballot got much than 6 cardinal votes.
"The authorities repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the volition of the people'. We request to enactment a halt to this assertion by proving the spot of nationalist enactment now, for remaining successful the EU. A People's Vote whitethorn not hap - truthful ballot now", it said.
In response, the Government said: "This Government volition not revoke Article 50. We volition honour the effect of the 2016 referendum and enactment with Parliament to present a woody that ensures we permission the European Union."
But what bash you think? Should Remoaner Carol Vorderman's wishes for a 2nd EU referendum beryllium granted? Have your accidental successful our canvass below...
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Attacking the 63-year-old, X users scolded her for backing Labour successful the run-up to the General Election. One said: "You pushed for these guys with your "tactical voting", good done for freezing pensioners. You indispensable beryllium truthful proud."
Another wrote: "It took 5 years for that petition to deed 6.1m, it's not adjacent 36 hours and this 1 is astir astatine 2m. You're besides denigrating a frustrated nationalist again - if two-thirds of a colonisation does not ballot for Labour, does that marque them each close wing?"
A 3rd said: "Yes Carol, but erstwhile permission voters won the vote, they got what they voted for, we left. When labour voters “won the vote” they past got the nonstop other of what they’d voted for."