A Successful Petition to Trigger a Binding Referendum on a General Election
Considering it is very difficult to design a different kind of electoral system that pleases the majority of voters, we demand a law that uses a government petition (I suggest a million signatories) to precipitate a binding referendum on whether to have a fresh General Election.
Signatures
10
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 10/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 10/100,000
- 30 OCT 2025Petition rejectedduplicate
You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action: Hold referendum if a petition reaches over 650,000 signatures https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/743620 Give More Power to Public Petitions to Force the Government to take Action https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736968
- 03 OCT 2025Petition created
Background
Too many people are feeling that their British way of life is badly threatened, in ways that were not declared during the General Election.
It is hard to understand, in what is intended to be a democracy, that just a few people, elected on a third of the vote, can have such an inviolable hold on power.
A referendum is the most honest expression of democracy.