A PETITION calling on the government not to prorogue parliament has already been signed over three quarters of a million in the space of a day.
And Edinburgh has proven to be the Scottish hotspot for support for the UK Parliament online petition which was gathering 25,000 signatures every twenty minutes on Wednesday evening.
It was launched on Tuesday by Mark Johnston, a pro-EU campaigner from Reigate in Kent, a day before Boris Johnson announced his request to suspend parliament.
And the petition continued to gather momentum on Wednesday evening as Boris Johnson told of his intention to suspend parliament for up to a month in what critics see as a bid to stop MPs from launching legislation to block a no-deal Brexit.
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Some 1250 people every minute were backing the online petition during Wednesday evening, meaning it is destined to reach the 1m mark at the end of the night.
Boris Johnson said a Queen's Speech would take place after the suspension, on October 14, to outline his "very exciting agenda".
But it means the time MPs have to pass laws to stop a no-deal Brexit on October 31 would be cut.
The text of the petition reads: “Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved unless and until the article 50 period has been sufficiently extended or the UK’s intention to withdraw from the EU has been cancelled.”
By early afternoon it had already attracted more than 100,000 signatories, passing the threshold to be considered for a debate in parliament.
At just after 8pm the numbers were had soared over 750,000.
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The biggest supporters in Scotland to the petition at that point was the Edinburgh North and Leith constituency, whose MP is the SNP's Deirdre Brock, with more than 4,000 signatures, with 3.6% of the 112,642 voters backing it. The area is a big remain area with 78.2% wanting to stick with our EU partners in the 2016 referendum.
Edinburgh South, whose MP is Labour's Ian Murray, came second with 3.38% of constituents signing. Some 77.8% voted remain in the EU referendum.
SNP MP Patrick Grady's constituency of Glasgow North attracted 2.6% of constituents so far.
It is believed to be the fastest-growing parliamentary petition since more than 6 million people signed a statement calling for article 50 to be revoked earlier this year.
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