OH DEAR, A BIT OF BOTHER – AT 12:33 P.M. ET:  You've seen all the yapping about a Big Petition in Britain to have the Brexit referendum rerun.  Uh, it turns out there's a little detail that's being missed.  From Conservative Treehouse:   

There is a considerable amount of media banter about a petition being submitted to the U.K. Parliament requesting a second EU Referendum.

The petition is being pushed by disgruntled left-wing activists who voted to “REMAIN” in the European Union and lost the original referendum by over 1.3 million votes to the larger majority who wanted to LEAVE.

However, enterprising internet researchers have discovered most of the actual signatures for the second referendum are from people who do not live in the United Kingdom.

When the petition reached 1,194,001 signatures, 840,013 (70%) of those signatures were from outside the United Kingdom.  And only 353,988 (30%) were actually valid signatures within the UK.

Tens of thousands of the signatures are from France, Spain, USA, Australia and Germany as well as 207 other countries. 

COMMENT:  Those asking for a second referendum may be looking for trouble.  I would guess that a second vote might well produce even higher numbers for LEAVE.  People get angry when their elections are tampered with.  And the Brits, when they want to, can get very tough.  Recall 1940.

June 26, 2016