Just over 7 weeks ago I wrote a blog entitled “Significant requests for us to Call a General Election” which was focused on a petition which is called “Call an immediate general election” listed as 641904 and submitted by David Nash. His petition can be obtained from here and the text is below. He submitted it on the 4th August and 12 days later when I spotted it, it had 41 signatures which I also signed and within a couple of more days on the Friday it had reached 50 signatures in the morning. However by the end of that day it reached 170 signatures which involved 99 from one location in Wales that is called Llanelli. Two weeks later at the beginning of September it achieved a total of 350 signatures. The following month at the beginning of this October it had reached 5,000 signatures which was certainly much better. By Wednesday this week, the 4th October it reached about 12,000 signatures so it was certainly growing. However last night it reached 157,000 signatures and this morning at the early stage it had reached 175,000 signatures and this evening it has past 215,000 signatures. It is clearly very significant. It will be very interesting to find out how it has raised that significantly this week and it would be fantastic if some of the other petitions could be endorsed.

There are a number of other petitions that cover a similar theme in the past. On July last year which was entitled Change the law so that UK citizens can call a General election that was submitted by David Simpson and the 618068 unit achieved 1,232 signatures. On 30th January this year one was entitled Call a General Election which was published by Shaun Bacon. It was 631901 and it obtained 2,125 signatures by the end of its time. There was another which published on 5th September last year as 621931 with the headline Hold a General Election within 100 days of the new PM being appointed which was published by Simon Matthew Dodd and it achieved 22,064 signatures by early March this year. Another on last July was submitted by Darrin Charlesworth who created Call an immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government and the 619781 item reached a massive 906,623 signatures which was very significant.

So here is the text of this recent petition

Call an immediate general election

The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025. Consistent opinion polling has shown the British public have lost confidence in the current government. The NHS is in crisis, the asylum system is broken, there are delays at the ports, and institutions are failing. The British people should be given a say on what to do next.