Okay, so I lied, I’m still up doing more reading about the permissiblity of the 2nd referendum. (but this will positively be my last update for the night), and read this:
Legal blogger Jack of Kent wrote that it is ‘perfectly possible the ‘Article 50 red button is never pressed’ – for example, if there is a second referendum.
Jack of Kent adds that there is ‘a tradition of EU-related referendums being repeated in Member States until there is the ‘correct’ answer’.
Read more: metro.co.uk/…
at 2:00am EDT the signature count on the petition was 595,500
Almost 40,000 more signatures before 7am London time
I wonder if it will make it to 1,000,000 in the next 24 hours.