Did you sign it, then? And if so, what were your expectations? That Sir Keir Starmer would look at the figures and say – perhaps with a tinge of remorse – ‘Yup, that’s it, I’m bang to rights, we’ll have an election?’. Or were you simply hoping to annoy him? If so, I assume you are disappointed, because Sir Keir doesn’t look very annoyed to me.
It turns out we are no better than those liberal lefties who can’t believe that other people have different views
The petition to demand a general election on the grounds that the people who didn’t vote Labour on 4 July are upset at the result so far has almost 2.7 million signatures. There are many depressing things about this country, including Sir Keir and his inept, flailing, mindless administration and the worst front bench in living memory, but the petition depresses me more than most of them. I had thought we were a little better than that.
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