UPDATES: 10am Sunday : signature numbers climbing approximately 1200 every minute
9am Sunday morning North Northumberland now in tied 2nd place with Newark, Lincs, behind Brentwood and Ongar in Essex. Total signatures and continuing to grow – 330,000 plus and rising be hundreds every minute. At a rough calculation at the same rates the total should reach 1 million by 10pm tonight.
Why should N Northumberland be so keen to see a new election?
At almost midnight on Saturday North Northumberland had registered the highest number of signatures on a national petition calling for a new General Election.
0.587% of voters (553 out of 94,200 voters) had voted in the online petition which after just a few hours had reached more than 193,000 signatures.
At 100,000 signatures Westminster is obliged to debate a petition.
What does this mean for the County Council elections in May?
Petition – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143
Petition Map – https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=700143