[Update:] Aside from the fact that it's incredibly arrogant and disrespectful to have people vote until you like the result. I suspect this line of thinking is partly why people wanted to leave.
But.. 62.5% of British voters did not vote for leaving the EU.
When it is such a massive thing and the vote is 52% vs 48% with a 71% turnout.. it is too close to be definitive as it stands...
Also, this petition was created back in May.. So it isn't as if this was created as a response to the result.
Um no...48% of voters did not vote for leaving the EU. People who were eligible to vote and didn't turn out are not voters.
Therefore, for that referendum - eligible voters that did not vote, still contributed to the vote by inaction, and weighted towards the remain camp.
This is a much more reasonable way to hold a referendum of this sort, as the burden of change is weighted on those trying to break status quo.
Wish we did something similar for this referendum.
And 100% of British voters did not vote for joining the EU.
Ideally the EU would require member states to hold a membership referendum every 15 or 20 years. That would be an honest and democratic way of self-checking the state of the union. As it is, many of the older former-EEC nations have never actually asked their populace whether they want to be in a political union.
This petition was started on May 25th, well before the referendum occurred. The original intent was that these rules would apply before voting started (the deadline is November 25th and all petitions run for 6 months, therefore the petition started on May 25th).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/petition-calling-...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-petitio...
I can't comment on the merits of this petition, but I'd guess that another referendum held today would have a different result.
Pure conjecture, anecdotal evidence and more than a little bit of wishful thinking of course :)