Own Petition
Turns out he’s a “leave”er who started the petition well before the vote, when polls suggested “remain” would prevail. Now he says
This petition was created at a time (over a month ago) when it was looking unlikely that ‘leave’ were going to win, with the intention of making it harder for ‘remain’ to further shackle us to the EU. Due to the result, the petition has been hijacked by the remain campaign. . . . The logistical probability of getting a turnout to be a minimum of 75% and of that, 60% of the vote must be one or the other (leave or remain) is in my opinion next to impossible without a compulsory element to the voting system.
Got that?
He was all for those rules when he thought they would make the outcome he didn’t want “next to impossible”. But now that he unexpectedly got what he wanted, and the rules he petitioned for would overturn it, they have become the most reprehensible and undemocratic thing imaginable! Those hijackers!
You just can’t make this stuff up.
*Well, hilarious until I’m reminded of the 900-pt. 2-day DJIA tumble and it’s roughly proportional impact on my retirement-account pittance. Thanks, morons!