Call a general election petition data show it’s right wingers moaning

  • Post last modified:November 25, 2024
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The right-wing corporate media are labelling the already infamous ‘call a general election petition’ as Britain’s ‘fastest-ever growing petition’. That is, of course, debatable:

Call a general election petition. Sorry – a what?

The petition states:

I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.

It was started by Michael Westwood, a pub owner from Oldbury. He appeared on TalkTV on Monday 25 November, saying:

I just wanted to give people a voice… Starmer is stubborn and won’t give the people an election!

Now, don’t get the Canary wrong.

We’ve reported consistently on Starmer and his cabinet’s routine U-turns on multiple promises they’ve made since Keir became leader, and since the general election. However, the corporate media has repeatedly made the erroneous statement that it’s the fastest growing petition. Unsurprisingly, it’s just not true.

As one X user pointed out, a previous petition calling on the government to have a threshold on the EU referendum amassed more than 4m signatures. Additionally, a petition calling on the government to revoke article 50 and remain in the European Union had more than 6m. Two-thirds of these signatures were within 48 hours.

Suspicious?

As GET A GRIP also pointed out, the petition is being pushed alongside false claims from a relatively new, and highly suspicious X account. Unsurprisingly, that account has also been amplified by Elon Musk:

Hilariously, right-wingers are crying because they don’t like the result of an official voting process:

Maybe if they just cry a little harder?

Even more hilariously, the nearly 2m signatures are from 141 different countries. How many are actually from the UK? If Space Karen had his way, not many:

Never have I ever… seen a foreign bot try to interfere in a country’s democratic electoral process:

Of course, the rightwing gammonbots would crawl out of the woodwork NOW to make a racket – after Starmer and company have made the minutest tweaks to curb inheritance tax rules benefiting millionaires. Fourteen years of Tory austerity and callousness? Tumbleweed:

Where has fawning Trump fanboy Farage been over the last few years?

Take a wild guess.

It’s not Clacton:

Look up and the definition of ‘hypocrite’ in the dictionary, and you’ll see the smarmy, Farage wing-man, Reform deputy leader and all-round Brexit-mongering muppet Richard Tice:

Call a general election petition. Brought to you by the people who lost the election.

Ultimately, though – all the petition really is is right-and far-right voters moaning about the outcome of an election they didn’t like.

A cursory glance at the map data for the petition shows that the constituencies with both the highest number of signatures, and the highest percentage of constituents who have signed, are nearly all either Tory or Reform-held seats. Those are the darkest colours on the map below:

The whole corporate media fanfare over the petition and the pathetic right-wing foghorns amplifying it on X are extremely rich.

However, it does underscore a crucial point. The fact is that for all this saga’s faults, it is a problem that the only way people have to hold politicians to account is to boot them out after five years at the next general election.

The way the current political process disenfranchises and fails to represent the most marginalised people is the real problem. Not some right-wing cry-babies still throwing their toys out of the pram over losing the last election.

Of course, not that the corporate media wants you to see that

Feature image via the Canary





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