A Petition Calling For An Early General Election Is Signed By 500,000 People

Almost half a million people have signed a petition demanding an early general election in the wake of Liz Truss’ turbulent time in office.

Parliament will now argue the UK government and parliament petition after it passed the 100,000 threshold on September 29, the day Miss Truss pledged to stick by her contentious economic strategy.

Four days on, and the signature count now stands at more than 470,000.

A debate date has yet to be determined.

Petition organiser Darrin Charlesworth said that the chaos engulfing the United Kingdom government was unprecedented. Around 40 ministers quit leaving departments without supervision during the cost of living, energy and climate crises.

Darrin Charlesworth said that war rages in Ukraine, the Northern Ireland Protocol has also damaged relationships with Europe, recession looms, and the United Kingdom itself may cease to exist as Scotland seeks independence, and said that this is the greatest set of challenges we’ve seen in our lifetimes and that we should let the people determine who leads us through this turmoil.

The government shrugged off the petition on September 20, saying that the United Kingdom was a parliamentary democracy and the Conservative Party remains the majority group, and it was said that the prime minister had promised to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and forthcoming generations.

The government said the Tories in charge would remain the case given the party’s triumph in the 2019 general election which saw Boris Johnson elected prime minister.

So unless an earlier one is called, the next election won’t be until January 2025.

It added that a shift in the leader of the governing party doesn’t initiate a general election and that this has been the case under governments of flourishing political colours.

According to digital archives, and it’s fair to say a lot has occurred since then, the petition was made as early as July.

At the time, it had only a dozen or so signatures. But it accumulated thousands of signatures in the weeks leading up to Liz Truss’ instalment as prime minister.

The petition was established months before Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget catapulted the country further into crisis, sending the pound into a tailspin and leading the Bank of England to intervene before it was too late.

Even former culture secretary Nadine Dorries said that Liz Truss should call for a general election, but then this is what occurs when you have ‘it’s my turn to be Prime Minister’ kind of appointments, which was what sort of occurred with Gordon Brown.

To be honest, give it a few months and people will be begging for Boris Johnson to come back.

I thought at least Liz Truss would take a bit longer to mess things up, so congratulations on becoming the fastest Prime Minister to get the worst PM ever title – now she’s defeated all the records.

I’m sure many of my readers will join me in personally thanking all those shortsighted Tory Party members who elected Liz Truss as our Prime Minister without our approval.

I thought at least once they elected a new Prime Minister that we would be able to look forward to at least a short while without some backscratchers running the country with their noses in the trough.