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Petition: Call an immediate general election
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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Have you not seen the opinion polls lately? The government are around 20 points behind and have been for some time.
It's already fairly obvious that people are unhappy with the government.
Opinion polls can be handwaved a lot easier than the government needing to discuss it in Parliament.
But wait a moment - Are you worried about the opposition having another stick to hit the government with? If you don't support having another general election then don't sign the petition.
What? When did I say that I don't support having a general election? 🤔
I'm just not going to sign a useless petition that's the equivalent of virtue-signalling and will achieve nothing.
The people who sign this will obviously not be supporters of the government and a general election called now would likely see them out of power, so why would they listen to it?
Read my first comment.