UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
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Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#2Link to petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
Currently... "Petitions is down for maintenance. We know about it and we're working on it. Please try again later."
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#3One of the developers tweeted last night "...nowhere near crashing the site - you all need to try harder tomorrow"
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Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#5These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover...
While the huge number of signings on this petition obviously does reflect _something_, I'm not sure it's actually doing anything meaningful. Likewise the upcoming march this weekend for a Peoples Vote:
https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march
These are now simply ignored. The sheer stubbornness of Theresa May's position as evidenced by her statement last night means we're going to go to the wire on something that's been worked on for years. People calling it a national disgrace are absolutely correct.
I can only hope that the pressure exerted from various angles (petition, march, sane MPs) will result in Parliament revoking Article 50, but I don't see it happening. It would be too prudent for this parody of a political system.
edit: the site's back now. Apparently it runs on Rails with DelayedJob doing most of the grunt work in the background.
edit2: just found the most popular petition on there with over 4m votes and absolutely nothing came of that:
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#6I made a progress bar with React to compare it to the NoDeal petition, for when the JSON endpoints come back up:
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#7will there be a "reinvoke article 50" after this?
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#8Just worked for me. It's clearly intermittent.
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#9This will result in nothing more than a response of
"The Government’s policy is not to revoke Article 50. Instead, we continue to work with Parliament to deliver a deal that ensures we leave the European Union as planned"
I have signed, however. Prove me wrong, UK Govt
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#10will there be a "reinvoke article 50" after this?
When this stage of leaving is complete and discussion turns to the future relationship, I expect the EU will replace article 50 with something fit for purpose.
Article 50 itself is very short and doesn’t explain any ifs and buts of the process. The courts had to interpret it a few times to determine things like how revocation works, how can extensions happen, etc.