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Personally, it's less about actually expecting an election to be called as a result of the petition and more about publicly announcing our discontent at the current government. The media must address it eventually, and the opposition will use it against them.
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.
There are independent candidates who are getting more votes for them in local elections than the Tory candidate. They knew people don't like them, they don't care.
Then don't sign the petition. No need to stress.
The problem with political activism these days is that people think that making a submission form on a government website is the same as actually doing something.
And I'd prefer it if they just did the thing.
In this case no action is actually required, just don't vote for them whenever the general election comes around, but generally speaking I wish people would stop using this pointless website. It was created to make people think they're taking action in a society they have no agency in.
So no there absolutely is "stress" and it's that morons keep thinking that they're doing something when they're doing f all.