Yorkshire woman who started Revoke Article 50 petition 'receiving death threats'
A woman whose petition to revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU gained more than four million signatures in just days says she’s since received three death threats over the phone, as well as a “torrent of abuse on Facebook”. Margaret Georgiadou, who is thought to be from Huddersfield, set up the petition in February. Today she said she would also be closing her Facebook account due to the barrage of messages. “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone,” she wrote on Twitter.
“My Facebook account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my Facebook account.“I am currently visiting Cyprus and last night I had three telephoned death threats. Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?”The former lecturer’s petition, which calls on the Government to revoke Article 50 in order to stay in the EU, was so overwhelmed with signatures it crashed the Parliament.uk website.
Easy to say you've been hacked to gloss over an indiscretion eh ?
Whats wrong with threatening to shoot the Prime Minister?
All of the ERG want to do that.
They don't publicly tweet it though ! And as far as her being scared and threatened , well , sorry but we only have her word for that. Are the police investigating ? Obviously if people threaten your life , you would automatically notify them eh ? Haven't seen any reference to an ongoing police investigation .
Easy to say you've been hacked to gloss over an indiscretion eh ?
Whats wrong with threatening to shoot the Prime Minister?
All of the ERG want to do that.
They don't publicly tweet it though ! And as far as her being scared and threatened , well , sorry but we only have her word for that. Are the police investigating ? Obviously if people threaten your life , you would automatically notify them eh ? Haven't seen any reference to an ongoing police investigation .
If I was recruiting a hit man, I wouldn't necessarily be looking amongst scared, 77 year old retired lecturers. Unlikely to have the skill set.
On the investigation of death threats you will have to check with Cyprus police.
The woman who started the Revoke Article 50 petition says she has had three death threats over the phone and received “torrents of abuse” on social media. Margaret Georgiadou, 77, started the anti-Brexit petition in February, but has now been left scared after being threatened.
Her petition reached 4.4 million signatures on Saturday as “one million people” marched on central London in support of a People’s Vote.
The retired lecturer tweeted: “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone, my FB account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my FB account.
“Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?” She said she was unable to attend the People’s Vote march on Saturday as she was in Cyprus but wished attendees well. Staggering footage shows huge crowds making their way through the capital as demonstrators taking part in the Put it to the People march made their way from Hyde Park Corner towards Parliament.
Mrs Georgiadou told the BBC: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared. "I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical. "Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority.
"I want it to prove Brexit is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people? "People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it.”
Easy to say you've been hacked to gloss over an indiscretion eh ?
Whats wrong with threatening to shoot the Prime Minister?
All of the ERG want to do that.
They don't publicly tweet it though ! And as far as her being scared and threatened , well , sorry but we only have her word for that. Are the police investigating ? Obviously if people threaten your life , you would automatically notify them eh ? Haven't seen any reference to an ongoing police investigation .
If I was recruiting a hit man, I wouldn't necessarily be looking amongst scared, 77 year old retired lecturers. Unlikely to have the skill set.
On the investigation of death threats you will have to check with Cyprus police.
The woman who started the Revoke Article 50 petition says she has had three death threats over the phone and received “torrents of abuse” on social media. Margaret Georgiadou, 77, started the anti-Brexit petition in February, but has now been left scared after being threatened.
Her petition reached 4.4 million signatures on Saturday as “one million people” marched on central London in support of a People’s Vote.
The retired lecturer tweeted: “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone, my FB account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my FB account.
“Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?” She said she was unable to attend the People’s Vote march on Saturday as she was in Cyprus but wished attendees well. Staggering footage shows huge crowds making their way through the capital as demonstrators taking part in the Put it to the People march made their way from Hyde Park Corner towards Parliament.
Mrs Georgiadou told the BBC: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared. "I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical. "Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority.
"I want it to prove Brexit is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people? "People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it.”
The bolded part makes absolutely no sense . Incidentally , this scared woman is still tweeting away today .
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@madgie1941 2h2 hours ago More a metaphorical gun as in 'she is holding a gun to their heads'. The DM quickly dropped the page, and made no further reference to it.
Easy to say you've been hacked to gloss over an indiscretion eh ?
Whats wrong with threatening to shoot the Prime Minister?
All of the ERG want to do that.
They don't publicly tweet it though ! And as far as her being scared and threatened , well , sorry but we only have her word for that. Are the police investigating ? Obviously if people threaten your life , you would automatically notify them eh ? Haven't seen any reference to an ongoing police investigation .
If I was recruiting a hit man, I wouldn't necessarily be looking amongst scared, 77 year old retired lecturers. Unlikely to have the skill set.
On the investigation of death threats you will have to check with Cyprus police.
The woman who started the Revoke Article 50 petition says she has had three death threats over the phone and received “torrents of abuse” on social media. Margaret Georgiadou, 77, started the anti-Brexit petition in February, but has now been left scared after being threatened.
Her petition reached 4.4 million signatures on Saturday as “one million people” marched on central London in support of a People’s Vote.
The retired lecturer tweeted: “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone, my FB account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my FB account.
“Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?” She said she was unable to attend the People’s Vote march on Saturday as she was in Cyprus but wished attendees well. Staggering footage shows huge crowds making their way through the capital as demonstrators taking part in the Put it to the People march made their way from Hyde Park Corner towards Parliament.
Mrs Georgiadou told the BBC: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared. "I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical. "Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority.
"I want it to prove Brexit is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people? "People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it.”
The bolded part makes absolutely no sense . Incidentally , this scared woman is still tweeting away today .
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margaret georgiadou
@madgie1941 2h2 hours ago More a metaphorical gun as in 'she is holding a gun to their heads'. The DM quickly dropped the page, and made no further reference to it.
Petition Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's Vote may not happen - so vote now. Sign this petition 6,000,028 signatures
Posting about shooting politicians, metaphorically or otherwise, is in very poor taste and does nothing to help your argument on this subject.
Has the murder of Jo Cox been forgotten so quickly.
+1 I managed a store in Batley for over 3 years and the business relocated just before this tragic incident . Doubt it will ever be forgotten there and nor should it .
And when you consider . the amount of people who have signed it , versus the number of people of voted remain , and then add into the mix how many of those were bot generated sigs..it really does show there really isn't /wasn't very much support for it . It's all a mute point anyway , as it was humoured enough to be given a bit of air time and then cast to one side ...as predicted .
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Yorkshire woman who started Revoke Article 50 petition 'receiving death threats'
A woman whose petition to revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU gained more than four million signatures in just days says she’s since received three death threats over the phone, as well as a “torrent of abuse on Facebook”. Margaret Georgiadou, who is thought to be from Huddersfield, set up the petition in February. Today she said she would also be closing her Facebook account due to the barrage of messages. “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone,” she wrote on Twitter.
“My Facebook account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my Facebook account.“I am currently visiting Cyprus and last night I had three telephoned death threats. Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?”The former lecturer’s petition, which calls on the Government to revoke Article 50 in order to stay in the EU, was so overwhelmed with signatures it crashed the Parliament.uk website.
Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/yorkshire-woman-who-started-revoke-article-50-petition-receiving-death-threats-1-9668373
All of the ERG want to do that.
And as far as her being scared and threatened , well , sorry but we only have her word for that. Are the police investigating ? Obviously if people threaten your life , you would automatically notify them eh ? Haven't seen any reference to an ongoing police investigation .
If I was recruiting a hit man, I wouldn't necessarily be looking amongst scared, 77 year old retired lecturers. Unlikely to have the skill set.
On the investigation of death threats you will have to check with Cyprus police.
The woman who started the Revoke Article 50 petition says she has had three death threats over the phone and received “torrents of abuse” on social media.
Margaret Georgiadou, 77, started the anti-Brexit petition in February, but has now been left scared after being threatened.
Her petition reached 4.4 million signatures on Saturday as “one million people” marched on central London in support of a People’s Vote.
The retired lecturer tweeted: “In the past 10 hours have had three death threats over the phone, my FB account has been hacked and had a torrent of abuse on Facebook. Am closing my FB account.
“Who wants Brexit so much that they are prepared to kill for it?”
She said she was unable to attend the People’s Vote march on Saturday as she was in Cyprus but wished attendees well.
Staggering footage shows huge crowds making their way through the capital as demonstrators taking part in the Put it to the People march made their way from Hyde Park Corner towards Parliament.
Mrs Georgiadou told the BBC: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared.
"I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical.
"Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority.
"I want it to prove Brexit is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people?
"People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/woman-who-started-article-50-petition-receives-death-threats-a4099306.html
Incidentally , this scared woman is still tweeting away today .
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@madgie1941
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a metaphorical gun as in 'she is holding a gun to their heads'. The DM quickly dropped the page, and made no further reference to it.
Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.
The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's Vote may not happen - so vote now.
Sign this petition
6,000,028 signatures
Has the murder of Jo Cox been forgotten so quickly.
I managed a store in Batley for over 3 years and the business relocated just before this tragic incident .
Doubt it will ever be forgotten there and nor should it .
https://qr.ae/TW1OnF
It's all a mute point anyway , as it was humoured enough to be given a bit of air time and then cast to one side ...as predicted .
wolfie smith he,ll sort it all out