Over One Million Sign Petition Calling For UK To Hold 2nd EU Referendum

It seems that the idea of being outside of the European Union is just too much for 48 % of UK residents who wanted their country to ‘remain’. They have set up a parliamentary petition calling for a second referendum. By Saturday morning more than one million people had signed, which is more than ten times the figure at which an issue is formally considered for a debate in parliament.   RT reports: Despite being set up hours after the result, the petition quickly reached its goal of over 100,000 signatures and went far beyond it. This means that it must be debated in parliament within a year. By Saturday noon the petition had been signed by one million Brits. Traffic to the site was so intense that it crashed temporarily on Friday. “The site was temporarily down due to exceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion,” a House of Commons spokeswoman said. The UK Government Digital Service resolved the problem and the petition is now accessible. William Oliver Healey was the brainchild of the petition, stating “We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if [...]