UK Gov Petitions site crashes after 600k back call to revoke article 50

The UK government’s petitions website crashed on Thursday morning as thousands of people attempted to sign a plea for article 50 to be revoked. The petition calls on the government to revoke article 50 and keep Britain in the EU, continuing: “The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is the will of the people. On Wednesday evening, Andrew White, the CTO of the digital consultancy that built the petitions website, tweeted that the petition was receiving “an average of 1,000 signatures per minute.

Source: www.theguardian.com